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Loguetown, Execution Platform!
"Hahahaha! You can't move, can you?! Monkey D. Luffy!"
Buggy laughed wildly and unrestrained.
"Do you know how much I suffered to get my body parts back?! You damned bastard!"
Buggy showed a ferocious expression.
"Can't pull it out!"
At this moment, Luffy's hands and head were firmly pressed onto the execution platform by shackles.
"Look! My thousands of millions of servants worldwide, the magnificent public execution is about to begin!"
Looking at the crowd left behind by his subordinates in the execution platform square, Buggy laughed loudly.
"Monkey D. Luffy, isn't it glorious?! To die in the same place as the Pirate King! Hahahaha!"
Buggy looked at the struggling Luffy, a gleeful smile flashing across his face.
Luffy didn't hear what Buggy was saying at all. He was still struggling hard, trying to break free from the shackles on his body.
"Monkey D. Luffy, for the crime of boldly angering me, you shall be magnificently executed here! Go wild, my little ones!"
Buggy laughed loudly.
The Buggy Pirates' cronies in front of the execution platform square immediately began to cheer and shriek.
"Wow, this is amazing, it's only my second time seeing an execution."
Luffy looked at the shrieking, cheering, and celebrating Buggy Pirates, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face.
"You're the one who's going to be executed!"
Buggy transformed into his fanged image.
"Me?"
Luffy's smile froze, his eyes staring blankly at himself.
"Huh?! Are you kidding me?!"
Luffy's eyes popped out, and he roared, transforming into his fanged image.
"You're the one who's kidding!"
Buggy roared, transforming into his fanged image.
This dense brat! He still made him so angry!
"Now, the magnificent public execution is about to be carried out!"
Buggy laughed loudly towards the crowd.
"No! Stop it!"
Luffy, belatedly realizing, began to howl continuously.
"Ya hahahaha!"
Buggy laughed loudly upon hearing Luffy's howls.
That's right, this is what a public execution should feel like!
He had suffered so much, coming here to take revenge on this rubber bastard, and this was the sound he wanted to hear. At this moment, Buggy suddenly stopped feeling anxious, wanting to hear more of this wonderful sound.
Finally, Luffy's howls weakened, and he went quiet.
"I'm sorry, I won't do it again, please save me."
Luffy, exhausted, said weakly.
"How could I save you! You idiot!"
Buggy immediately got angry again.
Even at this point, he was still saying such annoying, annoying, annoying, annoying words.
"But in the end, do you have anything you want to say? It's rare to have so many people watching."
Buggy still wanted to hear the rubber bastard's howls.
Luffy 003 looked up at the crowd below.
"Well, forget it. Whether you have anything to say or not, you're going to die."
Seeing Luffy not speak for a long time, Buggy grew a little impatient.
"I..."
Luffy slowly began to speak.
"Oh?"
Buggy became interested.
"I'm the man who's going to be the Pirate King!!!!"
Luffy roared out loud.
The roar was deafening.
The crowd below was filled with horror.
"He, he said Pirate King."
"And in this town, of all places."
"He's truly too bold."
"It's about time you hit the road, you stinking rubber man."
Buggy took out a knife.
"Ugh!!!"
Luffy was still struggling forcefully.
"Hey! Hold on with that execution!"
Two angry shouts came from outside the square.
"Zoro! Sanji! Luen!"
Hearing the voices, Luffy was instantly overjoyed.
"Hey, what's with that pathetic look? There's a limit to joking, Luffy."
Zoro tied his bandana, looking at Luffy on the execution platform.
"If it's an after-show, I'll join in too."
Sanji bit his cigarette.
He had just heard that Luffy was being executed and rushed here, then met Luen. "Buggy, you really don't learn, do you?"
Luen looked at Buggy, a slight smile playing on his lips.
For Buggy, Luen only had one thing to say.
That is, your entry is really useful.
Previously in Orange Town, Luen, who could only use Conqueror's Haki, had no way to deal with Buggy.
It was only by making Luffy work for him that he obtained the 'Born for the Sea' entry from Buggy.
But now, it was completely different.
Luen looked at Buggy, his eyes flashing red and black.
"Luen?! It's been a long time!"
Buggy laughed loudly.
"Luen, Luen?! Is that 'King' Luen?!"
"The Great Pirate with a bounty of 100 million Beri!"
"No, that's right! He looks exactly like on the bounty poster!"
The assembled crowd, hearing Buggy's loud shouts, gasped in fright.
Some citizens took out Luen's wanted poster, and after comparing it, cold sweat streamed down uncontrollably. Some even went weak in the knees and directly collapsed onto the ground.
The Great Pirate with a bounty of 100 million Beri!
"Damn it! Even King Luen has appeared! A Great Pirate with a bounty of 100 million Beri!"
One of the Marine soldiers wearing a Marine Branch Colonel-rank cloak of justice had cold sweat all over his forehead.
Outside the execution platform square, Marine soldiers from Loguetown had surrounded the area.
Before, they had seen Buggy the Clown and Straw Hat Kid Monkey D. Luffy clash, and they planned to wait for them to kill each other before making arrests.
But now, with the appearance of King Luen, a Great Pirate with a bounty of 100 million Beri, things had completely spiraled out of their control.
"Damn it! Still no contact with Captain Smoker?! A Great Pirate with a bounty of 100 million Beri is not something we can handle!"
The Marine Colonel's forehead was drenched in cold sweat as he roared at the nearby messenger.
"Still, still no contact!"
The Marine soldier next to him was also covered in cold sweat, looking at the man who, although on the periphery, seemed to be the center of the entire scene, his eyes filled with horror.
King Luen! This was the demeanor of a Great Pirate with a bounty of 100 million Beri!
So terrifying! Just standing there made him feel powerless, wanting to run away. Save this rubber bastard! Even for you, it's too late! What a pity."
Buggy laughed loudly.
His subordinates couldn't withstand Luen's Conqueror's Haki, but he could!
After dealing with this rubber bastard, the strongest fighter in Luen's group was only Roronoa Zoro.
But a swordsman without Haki was nothing to him, a Chop-Chop Fruit user!
Victory, this time, belonged to Buggy!
"Just eliminate these pirates!"
"Cut down the execution platform!"
Sanji and Zoro rushed towards the execution platform.
The Buggy Pirates' cronies immediately charged forward, blocking Sanji and Zoro.
"Hahahaha! Do you realize that Conqueror's Haki can't stop me, so you're powerless, Luen!"
Seeing Luen not even release Conqueror's Haki, Buggy laughed gleefully.
"Swoosh!"
The next moment,
Buggy's knife slashed towards Luffy.
"Luen! Zoro! Sanji! Nami! Usopp!"
At this moment, Luffy revealed a shocking smile.
"I'm sorry, I'm going to die."
"He, he smiled?!"
The onlookers who had originally fled to avoid being caught in the pirate conflict were completely stunned.
"Buggy!"
"Whoosh! Swoosh!"
Luen's arms transformed into two plumes of smoke, accompanied by a whistling sound, capturing Buggy.
"I didn't give you permission to die, Luffy."
A smile played on Luen's lips.
"Luen! Did you eat a Devil Fruit?!"
Luffy looked at the smoke holding Buggy in surprise.
"White Gale!"
"Whoosh! Swoosh!"
Luen's eyes narrowed, and his Smoke-Smoke Fruit ability continued to activate.
With Luen's smoke-transformed arms as the core, countless smoke chains split off, capturing all of Buggy's cronies.
"Ugh! Ugh!"
The smoke continued to spread, enveloping the faces of all of Buggy's cronies.
Accompanied by painful groans, all the pirates of Buggy's crew suffocated.
Although the Smoke-Smoke Fruit couldn't significantly increase attack power, it could suffocate anyone caught within its smoke!
Without Haki, being caught by the smoke meant certain death.
Even a bottom-tier Logia-type Devil Fruit was invincible in the East Blue.
"What, what is this?!"
Sanji watched everything unfold in disbelief.
"A Logia-type Smoke-Smoke Fruit, an ability Luen obtained here."
Zoro's expression was solemn as he witnessed what was happening before him.
So strong!
He had underestimated the power of this ability when he saw Luen defeat Smoker so easily before.
Without Haki, being caught by this ability would completely strip one of all resistance, leading to direct suffocation within the smoke.
Logia-type, such a powerful ability!
And according to Luen, this Smoke-Smoke Fruit was considered bottom-tier among Logia-types; powerful Logia-types were outright natural disasters.
Zoro's hand tightened around Wado Ichimonji.
He couldn't procrastinate any longer; he had to learn Haki as soon as possible.
"What, what is this?! A Logia-type ability! No! Isn't this the ability of Captain Smoker, the Marine Colonel here?!"
"Why, why do you have this ability?!"
Buggy stared in disbelief at the smoke holding him.
In front of this smoke, there was no pressure at all.
Buggy, who had been an apprentice on the Roger Pirates, naturally understood the power of Logia-type Devil Fruits.
Without Haki, one was merely a lamb to the slaughter in front of a Logia-type user.
But! That wasn't the point!
Buggy's gaze, filled with extreme horror, was fixed on Luen.
This ability! It was very famous in the East Blue!
This ability belonged to Captain Smoker, the Marine Colonel of Loguetown, known as 'White Chase'!
A Logia-type, Smoke-Smoke Fruit!
Why! Why did this ability appear on Luen?!
"Yes, why do you think I have this ability?"
Luen smiled.
That smile, in Buggy's eyes, was utterly terrifying.
Cold sweat covered Buggy's entire body.
The horror in his eyes was almost impossible to conceal. "Can you steal other people's abilities?!"
Buggy swallowed hard.
Only this explanation made sense!
This, such power, he seemed to have heard something similar from Captain Roger and his crew.
Buggy's forehead was slick with cold sweat as he looked at Luen, as if he had seen something truly terrifying.
"Who knows."
Luen wasn't kind enough to answer Buggy's questions, a smirk playing on his lips.
"Capacity increased, Conqueror's Haki has improved."
Indeed, combat power deterrence could also improve Haki!
Luen looked at the immense terror in Buggy's eyes, a domineering curve on his lips.
This feeling was truly great.
"Hmph!"
Immediately, in Buggy's desperate eyes, the smoke enveloped his face, and then he lost consciousness from suffocation.
"Smoke, Smoke-Smoke Fruit! That's Captain Smoker's ability! What, what happened?! What is going on?!"
Outside the square, the Marine Colonels were on the verge of collapse.
They couldn't contact Captain Smoker, and now the Great Pirate with a bounty of 100 million Beri possessed Captain Smoker's ability.
What, exactly, had happened?!
"Captain! What should we do?!"
The Marine soldiers were also on the verge of collapse at this moment.
Captain Smoker's Smoke-Smoke Fruit, their Loguetown Branch's greatest assurance, was now in the hands of King Luen.
A nightmare! This must be a nightmare!
"..."
"Ugh, ugh, ugh, thanks, Luen.
Still alive, that's a profit."
Rescued by Luen and regaining his freedom, Luffy grinned.
"Alright, prepare to set sail. A storm is coming."
Luen said slowly, sensing the abnormal strong winds and rain.
Luen had already obtained the 'Climate Perception' entry from Nami, and with the Logia-type Smoke-Smoke Fruit ability,
Luen could clearly perceive that this storm and rain were 'unnatural'.
This was a Devil Fruit ability, undoubtedly belonging to Luffy's father, the leader of the Revolutionary Army, Monkey D. Dragon.
Dragon not using his ability to save Luffy as he did in the original story could only mean one thing.
That is, Dragon's Observation Haki had been cultivated to the point where he could briefly 'see' the future.
He 'saw' that Luen would save Luffy, which is why he didn't intervene.
Observation Haki cultivated to its extreme, truly a troublesome power.
Once he had enough entries, he would upgrade his Observation Haki to be able to 'see' the future and perform jump-style flight.
Luen's Observation Haki did not detect any trace of Dragon.
Luen was not surprised; after all, with his level of Observation Haki, it was unrealistic to detect a powerful individual who had cultivated Observation Haki to its extreme.
Since Dragon himself didn't show up, Luen couldn't find any trace of him. He couldn't find any trace of him.
He just didn't know if this ability was a Logia-type or a Mythical Zoan-type that could control storms.
Luen had no regrets; anyway, they would meet eventually in the future.
"Let's go, back to the Going Merry. Nami should already be there."
Luen said, these matters had already been arranged by Luen.
"Damn it! Charge! Arrest King Luen, Straw Hat Kid Monkey D. Luffy! No matter what, we are the Marines!"
The Marine Colonel, seeing Luen and the others depart, gritted his teeth and roared.
"Wait!"
A loud shout made the Colonel pause.
"Captain Smoker!"
Seeing the extremely weakened Smoker, and Tashigi beside him, the Colonel seemed to have found his backbone.
"Captain Smoker, that's a 'Great Pirate' with bounties of 45 million and 100 million Beri! We cannot let them enter the Grand Line!"
The Colonel was also very scared, but as a Marine, how could he retreat?
"My ability has been stolen by King Luen! If we continue to fight, it will only lead to unnecessary sacrifices!"
Smoker was unwilling!
He was so unwilling that his teeth were almost shattered!
But for this unwillingness, should he send his subordinates to their deaths?
King Luen! He actually managed to steal his Smoke-Smoke Fruit ability! And, along with his physical strength, it was also taken away!
What a terrifying man!
Smoker's eyes still held a look of horror.
What kind of ability was this?!
Watching Luen and the others leave, Smoker gritted his teeth.
"Arrest all of Buggy's crew!"
Smoker roared unwillingly.
Watching Luen and the others leave, this feeling of powerlessness almost drove Smoker mad.
"Yes, sir!"
All the Marine soldiers of the Loguetown Branch, although they were arresting Buggy's crew, who were now completely helpless, shouted with immense solemnity.
Unwilling! But, in front of that man, they were unmatched!
"Let's go, Tashigi, come with me, back to Headquarters."
Smoker looked at the silent Tashigi, then raised his head, letting the rain fall on his face.
"Mhm." Tashigi lowered her head.
"You're unwilling, aren't you? Remember this unwillingness, and then become stronger. I apologize for not respecting your identity as a swordswoman before, Tashigi."
It was Luen who understood Tashigi so well.
How ironic.
Smoker closed his eyes.
Tashigi bit her lip fiercely, tears mixing with the rain, falling continuously.
The man who truly recognized her dream, treated her as an equal, and respected her identity as a swordswoman for the first time, Luen!
He made her realize that wasting her years here would not fulfill her dream.
She had to become stronger!
Then, she would catch him! And finally tell Luen, thank you.
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