Law's other tattooed hand was hovering on an empty space.
"Room."
Then the whole world became his operating table.
Smoker rushed in immediately. But then Smoker had to avoid a sweeping strike from the blade. Law's blade positioned and attacked vertically. The strike sliced the crust apart and headed towards the ship. The ship split into two pieces because of Law's strike. There goes their escape. Oh, I can't let them contact their base. Law thought. Law scanned the soldiers and teleported the Transponder snails behind him. The snails slept soundly while a boulder teleported on top of them and crushed them to mush. Smoker cursed that his battleship was nothing more than two pieces now, his own soldiers could not contact for help because Law had crushed their own methods of communication. Now, what are you going to do now Smo-yan? Law smirked.
Smoker and the others were stranded just like that. but he had to stop Law from doing anything else. This man had the highest bounty across the worst generation. Even if the Straw Hat was considered more dangerous in terms of violence, the Straw Hat did not make waves in the New world to guarantee a higher bounty than he already had. Law was different. Law had been raising hell ever since he arrived in the New World two years ago and relentlessly attacked the Navy after being rejected for the position of Warlord. It almost made the Navy regret not giving him the title, but it had already been a done deal.
Smoke arrived and tried to strike Law with his Seastone jitte and almost succeeded in pinning him to the ground. But the man before being even hit teleported and replaced himself with snow. He was now 500 meters away and just pointed his hands up and the ship that was already sunken was immediately lifted with his powers and then dropped on top of the soldiers. However, it did not succeed in crushing them because of Smoker again. Tashigi also helped the soldiers get out of this alive despite being scared by the powers of the Worst generation. However, she felt angry about all of this. Why did they get to decide which people lived or died? Pirates were always stepping on their pride and no matter how hard the marines worked, people like Law always worked to undermine their efforts.
"You're persistent… That's why no one likes you, Smo-yan."
"Don't get too full of yourself, pirate!" Smoker used armament on his hand and then on his weapon and thrust with his powers over smoke. An attack that could no doubt destroy any pirate who consumed a devil fruit. However Law had other plans, he smiled and he wasn't there anymore, what was there was…
"Smoker-san?!"
One of his subordinates was right in front of him. That damn Law had teleported his own subordinate into the path of his attack. Smoker released this armament last second before the weapon hit his subordinate. However, Smoker was much stronger than a normal marine. He crushed his own subordinate's arm and at least a dozen ribs before stopping.
"Damn you Law!"
Smoker tended to his subordinate however it was not the time for that. Law had switched place with his subordinates and was now in the middle of them, with free reign to murder them all while Smoker was tending to one subordinate.
"Either let that one die because of your attack and save all the others. Or tend to him while I slaughter all your troops. Those are the choices presented."
Law mercilessly presented those two choices to the Vice-Admiral who was cradling his injured subordinate. Law was in the middle of all of them, away from Smoker, and primed to murder them all.
Smoker had a venomous glare.
"Don't look at me like that. It's you that came to sniff in places where you don't belong, you old smoky dog." Law smirked.
Smoker had no time left to choose. However, he couldn't let a subordinate die because of his own attack.
"So that's your choice."
Law raised his sword in the middle of all the G-5 crew as they pointed their rifles against him. One more move and they would die while Smoker was occupied with just one life. In the end, Smoker chose the purity of his own justice instead of the lives of his men. The man couldn't live with the fact that he would be personally responsible for murdering his own comrade while he would greedily turn his lethal attacks on pirates. Therefore in the heat of the moment, he chose to prioritize one life instead of the many. That was no justice, that was just pride. And prideful was all that Smoker would ever be.
"If that's how you want to play it, so be it pirate!" Someone yelled while charging at Law. It was the woman wearing a pink coat with red glasses and a green hilt sword. While Smoker was occupied, could the second-in-command stop Law before he murdered the G-5?
That would be great except, the swordswoman was completely pathetic. Both in her reckless charge and in her Haki. No better than a marine captain. Her skills with a sword were pretty good. However, those skills of hers were better practiced in a dojo than in a real fight. Almost as if she practiced sword skills for the art itself instead of practicing to kill an opponent. The art of the sword was a noble goal but mistaken. If you wanted to show artistry and prettiness in skill then show it in a dojo, become a dojo master, or something else. People that did pretty things for the sake of art did not belong on the battlefield.
True swordsmen knew that true artistry when it came to swordsmanship was something far simpler. True art was the skill that dominates others in battle and enforces your will onto others. The skill to control the narrative with your power and your sword. That was art and that was true strength with the sword.
A marine captain that got too much pride in her little "art" could not possibly beat a pirate with a bounty of over 900 million.
She got sliced vertically over twenty times before she even thought of swinging her blade with her foolish skill.
That was reality.
Her pieces all scattered in the snow to the horror of the G-5 marines that all liked her because she was a pretty woman on their boat. The woman just breathed hard on the snow with her face horrified that she had been cut but not had been slain. She felt her face wet. Law had shattered her pride by just one single attack. Her blade that she adored was sliced off with her as well and was weeping in the snow, possibly from being wielded by such a lukewarm woman. Quite the pathetic little marine, always looking at the wrong things and being concerned with things that did not matter. Talent wasted by being so caught up in her own sense of pride. Stubborn and weak, talented but wasteful, the worst combination of all. She checked all the wrong boxes and that pissed him off.
Even while cut to pieces her parts could still talk as if she was still whole.
"Where are you going? Come back here and finish me. This is a disgrace!"
Tashigi was trying to protect her fellow marines by putting all the attention on her. Law was a man that did things methodically. He would slaughter every marine before thinking of killing her. He came across as a man who would grimly let her live so she could just watch her men die.
"The weak do not have the right to choose how they die. Only the strong can control the narrative. Right now I am the strongest one here. That's all there is."
"Wanna say that again, this time to my face Law!" Smoker yelled.
Again, Smoker arrived and tried to strike him with his stupid smoke and his jitte. Logias were fine and all but Smoker really drew the short end of the stick with his powers over smoke. Or maybe Smoker did not know how to properly use his power and developed his combat powers into the most basic thing imaginable. Whatever the case, it seems that a number of the soldiers were now treating the subordinate that Smoker almost killed.
Law teleported to the sky. "Already back old mangy dog? Yeah, I am stronger than you are. There is no need to try so hard, you're only wasting your breath."
"The one wasting your breath is you, Pirate." Smoker said that word with derision as he protected his men, as well as Tashigi. She was getting help from the G-5 marines, they were gathering her pieces and trying to stick them together.
Law slashed toward Smoker's direction. The crust was cut apart revealing black stone underneath the snow. Smoker evaded it only to be speared by teleporting spikes of stone. Then Law slashed again and Smoker lost an arm this time. Thankfully, it was still recoverable and could be reattached. And that's what Smoker did, picking up his own arm and attaching the appendage to the end of the stump. Law's attacks were all filled with Haki and were extremely dangerous. Both his spikes of stone were also dangerous because every single point was coated with armament.
"We'll help ya Smoky!" The marines of G-5 all pointed their weapons and unleashed their fury with a hail of bullets towards the man who was currently standing on air. Their rage came about because of the disrespect shown to their beautiful and hard-working captain Tashigi. Smoker looked at them and chastised them for doing such a dangerous thing. The marine soldiers didn't know why Smoker was so angry with them, getting supportive fire from rifles was a good thing when fighting, right? The enemy was not a Logia, it was a Paramecia. So the man could die of bullets if they hit him, right?
However, Law just smirked at the G-5's plans again. Law raised his hand and all the bullets instantaneously teleported around Smoker's body, all of them coated with armament. Smoker just paled and his sweat covered his eyes as his world slowed and saw the countless bullets surrounding him, only one centimeter from hitting his skin. All of them were coated with Law's armament and were completely black. A Logia like him would be hit by normal bullets and die from normal bullets. Anything inside the circle of Law's would be just a toy on his operating table. And the circle was so big it extended way past this island. Right now, the entire Punk Hazard where two titans once fought was being used as the operating table of the surgeon of death, Trafalgar Law.
Smoker shot up, being boosted by smoke. Smoker tried evading the hundreds of bullets almost nicking his skin. However, Smoker was still unlucky. Two bullets penetrated his abdomen and scattered around, rippling across his liver. One on his legs as well.
Law had made Smoker hurt his own soldier.
And now his soldiers were used in hurting him.
Smoker glared as he saw the man with the black coat and white fluffy hat. Law was smiling as Smoker pressed his palms against the two bullet wounds on his abdomen. Being hurt by normal bullets was a blow to Smoker's pride. However there was no way to avoid it entirely, the bullets were all instantaneously teleported to one centimeter off his skin. Even with his observation, he still reacted a bit late.
"Those who rely solely on their logia powers when those powers are not overwhelming are doomed to fail in the New World. Those who train Haki to only be 'good enough' will always be eaten by the bigger predators of this sea. Your fruit is not overwhelming and your Haki is barely passable."
Law criticized him. Smoker's fruit was a Logia and by default was superior to many fruits in the world. But to bigger predators who were masters of Haki, someone that can turn to smoke and could do nothing else was easy prey. The only ones that could survive this sea by relying solely on their devil fruits were the ones with power so overwhelming they could blast islands apart. Law had one such power, the fruit of operations in his hands could cut islands apart and destroy whole kingdoms if need be. In the end, even with a weak devil fruit, someone could become strong by exploring the limits of its power. Smoker did not do that, being content on only developing his powers so he could put down opponents in submission, and that was the style of fighting he developed.
"If you were better at Haki, you could have avoided those bullets one way or the other. You couldn't perceive my intention with your observation so you did not predict where the bullets would go. You couldn't even coat your skin to protect yourself in time, so my bullets passed right through you. Both in observation and in armament, you are only just good enough. It's time you learned that Smo-yan."
Lack of talent was not an excuse, if you wanted to play in the big leagues you had to excel in something. Be it your fruit, be it in your strength, be it your Haki.
Those in the upper stratum always had something they excelled at. Some monsters traveled the path of Haki to the extremes and developed latent Haki abilities not seen in anyone else. Some monsters traveled the path of their fruit's power to discover secrets and a new world of possibilities. Some monsters traveled the path of absolute strength, honing their body into a world breaking level.
And the biggest monsters of all excelled in two of those aspects.
Law had consumed both an overwhelming fruit that could carry him and was also extremely proficient in Haki. Law was not the strongest predator, but he could play in the big leagues. Smoker could not.
"It seems I'm being underestimated." Smoker grabbed his cigars and puffed hard.
A storm of smoke surrounded Law. Smoker had made a tornado out of smoke and he was traveling through the walls of the tornado, disguised as smoke. When he was above Law, he rained down thousands of fists coated in armament as fast as he could swing his arms. They rained down like small meteorites.
People like him never learn, do they? Law sighed. The lessons weren't being learned here. Perhaps you can't teach new tricks to an old dog.
What was the point surrounding him with a tornado of smoke when he could just teleport outside?
Law did so, he had escaped the tornado by teleporting outside but he knew that Smoker liked his diversions. Smoker made that tornado as a feint attack. To counteract this Law then teleported a man to his hand and put the man between him and Smoker who was attacking him after he teleported out. Smoker flinched backward so he could not attack his own men again. However, what happened next was a flurry of teleportation from Law each time he would thrust his blade across the field and Smoker tried to avoid losing limbs in the process. In the end, Smoker got tired of avoiding and made a fatal mistake.
Smoker let Law teleport behind him.
"When you don't change your perspectives, there are some things you'll never grasp. The world is moving on and you are staying behind. And that's why you'll die here, Smo-yan."
Law geared his hand like a spear. Law thrust his fingers on Smoker's back and plucked his heart right out of his chest.
Yes. This is right, I should just do this. Soon enough, the world is going to go up in flames. Soon enough, the world itself is going to chew up people like you. I will spare you the suffering of going through that. Law thought.
The heart was encased in a challenging like substance and it fell on the ground bouncing a bit until it stopped deep buried within the snow with its top still shown. The soldiers and Tashigi were in disbelief that Smoker had lost a battle. Smoker was always superior in a fight against pirates until now, he was able to capture and kill so many pirates whose bounty surpassed 100 million berries. Smoker had even hunted pirates whose bounty was 500 million or more and still was the overall victor even though 500 million men and above were hard to capture and Smoker never could. But to have their vice-admiral so easily defeated.
Were the monsters above 800 million so strong that a vice-admiral could no longer beat them. Or was Trafalgar Law's power was misrepresented by his bounty and was a much bigger threat than realized?
In any case, without his heart, Smoker fainted out of the shock of having one of the most important organs removed from him.
X❖X
Nami had made an earlier decision of saving these children from their situation. They had left the playroom behind. That creepy room was built to confine these children into a closed-off space while some sort of mastermind experimented on their bodies for something. Nami couldn't live with herself if she at least didn't try to save these children from their poor fate. Their parents were there in the world, still alone and without their children. These children were forgotten by the world and lived here on this island for years. Because of that Nami wasn't hopeful the authorities were going to do something for them. This was an old governmental facility and if they couldn't even save children kidnapped under their noses then the pirates needed to step up and do the Navy's job for them this time.
Nami, Chopper, and Franky were headed for another exit from the lab. Unfortunately, the Sunny was now swarming with guards and it was best for them to meet with the rest of the crew before taking the dangers inside of this laboratory under the mountains. Right now Nami wanted to find a safe spot for these children and Sunny wasn't safe at any rate.
As they ran across the Laboratory, the children spoke more about their situation. They were conned into thinking that they had an incurable disease. That they needed to be treated in this lab to find a cure. That their parents had agreed to this kind of treatment and they were carted off without ever saying goodbyes. Nami was smarter than this though. This was all an elaborate kidnapping plot. They kidnapped children to this lab to experiment on them.
I was also in a comparable situation, forced to be under Arlong's rule, making maps and making money to pay my village off. Before that I was an orphan in a war-torn land and was saved by Bellemere-san, Nojiko took care of me during that time also. I'm sick of children being torn away from their parents, I'm sick of this type of suffering. Something that happens so commonly. These children have no one on their side.
Franky was already sympathetic with their story, so he was quite sad and angry for these children. Not to mention Chopper, the little reindeer was a doctor, and innocent children had their trust abused and were taken from their parents to do god knows what.
"Hmm, what's this metal door?" Nami asked as they ran towards a steel door. The door seemed heavily locked. However, Chopper transformed into another form of his. This time it was a bipedal form that specialized in martial arts. Chopper called it kung-fu point. He looked quite the raccoon now in this form. He just kicked the door and it opened up, not quite as strong as Sora or Luffy's kicks but enough to blast through a steel door like nothing.
"Wow, way to go raccoon." The children all were excited by Chopper's moves.
"Hey, I'm not happy about your compliments, stupid. Hey, I'm not a raccoon!"
The children all laughed at Chopper's antics, but there was no denying it, this form looked like some sort of bipedal raccoon or a red bear. He was also quite cute and fluffy.
Even Chopper is a lot more powerful these days. The crew has definitely changed.
Nami thought with a smile, the crew has changed, and they would keep changing in the future. She was surprised by the godlike strength of Luffy, Zoro, and Sora that she did not appreciate that the other members also had grown considerably powerful since then. In her eyes, everyone was moving forward while she remained the same. But that could be said for all of them. Robin might have said the same thing, 'everyone has changed, and I remained the same.'
Even people like Luffy or Sora who changed the most might say the same thing. Many things have changed but the core values that made them remained. The world seemed much darker now, but that's because their outlook has changed, The world has always been this cruel. It's just that the Straw Hats were seeing things they didn't want to see two years ago. And the Straw Hats did things they didn't want to do two years ago.
The crew could not close their eyes anymore. Their perspective has shifted and now nobody wanted to go back. Luffy, who wanted to be freer than any man alive, finally understood what that meant. 'The truth shall set you free,' was a common idiom but to Luffy, it was his whole dream.
Luffy needed to face the truth of himself and the world. He could not close his eyes anymore.
And with that revelation came the strength of spirit and an indomitable will.
A will that manifested into a Supreme King's Haki able to even kill people if Luffy wanted it to. A God's Haki.
"Hu—Huh? What's this?!" Franky yelled in surprise taking Nami out of her thoughts. Chopper looked astonished as well.
The place was dark and as cold as a refrigerator, The children were also very scared of walking in this place. Franky activated his lights to see the place better and the sight almost made Nami's heart pop out. Frozen walls and a frozen floor. Almost as if they were walking inside of an iceberg and at all sides were frozen ships, Frozen flags, frozen treasure, and frozen corpses.
Corpses of Giants frozen inside of an iceberg-like hall.
The children said this was the place they first saw on their first day here. The soldiers and master led them through here and it was so scary. Corpses above and below all frozen in this dark hall. However, the Straw Hats needed to go forward. The yellow jumpsuit soldiers would be on their trail soon enough and fighting someone with all these children here would be extremely bad.
With Nami, Chopper and Franky all trying to cheer up the frightened children they continued through the frozen hall and away from the creepy playroom the children were kept in. Nami needed to find Luffy, Zoro, or Sora as soon as possible. This island was certainly odd and there were a lot of mysteries and dangers here. Nami was hesitant to go on this island in the first place but now Nami knew the situation of these children, she wanted to help them by any means necessary.
X❖X
Law had defeated Smoker completely.
After his heart had been lobbed out from his body, Smoker fell unconscious. The heart was buried in the snow for one instant and was teleported to Law's hands in the next. He grabbed the heart that was encased in a gelatin barrier and squeezed it a bit, making Smoker gasp and yelp, even while being asleep. The heart was in danger of being crushed by Law. Tashigi was on the ground, she ordered her men to gather her pieces and put them back into place. However, she could barely stand up to witness Smoker getting executed.
I don't want Smoker to die. Please stop.
Tashigi stumbled on the snow, while her men cried. They were seeing Smoker defeated. Someone who they thought was virtually invincible was defeated without any effort. They couldn't even call for reinforcement as their transponder snails were all taken from them and crushed beneath the weight of a boulder. The G-5 was almost at the edge. They couldn't leave this island as their ship was wrecked by Law's power. Was this it, dying at the hands of a pirate on a deserted island? This was the result of confronting a pirate from the worst generation, they were all freaks who did not abide by any rules and just sewed chaos whenever they went. And Law had the biggest bounty if you did not count Blackbeard, who came from the same generation and was already an Emperor.
Law opened his hand and the heart floated. This time he wielded his sword in a manner to not cut it while still alive, but to slice the heart with all the blood and gore gushing out. Law was intent on killing Smoker by piercing his heart with his blade, without using his powers of manipulation this time. This was a sword that would cut, and it would kill. So long Smo-yan, you wouldn't survive the conflict that's to come either. So dying by my hands won't be as bad as you think. With this, you won't have to see your subordinates all die later on. You won't get to witness your friends dying from the inevitable war coming our way.
However, before he could even try to kill Smoker, the Straw Hats had busted from the door. They came from inside of the lab, with the children in tow. Law was frankly surprised at their entrance, from what Smoker told him. The Straw Hats were on the island, but he did not expect they were already infiltrated in the lab. Honestly, that was a complete shock. Tashigi watched them happily lead some random children to the snowy outside. The children were varied in size and some looked to be children from Giants because of their size, but something was wrong with this picture here. Three Straw Hats separated from the rest of the group. Where were the others?
No, Tashigi was mostly concerned with someone else, someone in the Straw Hat crew.
That someone she had a rivalry and a tense relationship since they met. Where is he? Where is the Pirate Hunter Zoro?
Some said Zoro was the vice-captain of the Straw Hats and he was the strongest after the Captain. Zoro was recently in the Navy's sights because Zoro had slaughtered one of their Vice Admirals. Vice-Admiral Momonga was one of the most celebrated warriors in the Navy, he was stern and commanding, and served as an example for Navy men and even served as a mentor for them. Momonga did not deserve to die like that and as such. Zoro's singular bounty was to be increased by 400 million berries in today's paper. And the Straw Hats were going to have an increased bounty of 50 million per head of the crew. Zoro has killed a Vice Admiral, that could not be forgiven. And the Straw Hats had killed two Rear Admirals in just a week. Zoro was stated to have defeated a vice-admiral in single combat, from start to finish, Zoro had killed Vice-Admiral Momonga alone, and that alone meant one thing. Tashigi was still so far away from even matching him, and that made her grit her teeth even more.
This was a complete failure, the marines, along with Smoker and her came here to be humiliated. They were humiliated like this.
This couldn't be more damaging. It was a blow to her pride. I can't see him, but he must be here.
Tashigi needed to see what became of him after two years.
X❖X
Law was torn. On one turn, not dealing with them would make Caesar and in turn, Joker to be suspicious of his real plans on this island. On the other hand, this might be his chance of getting an alliance and finishing off his true objective under the panes. His true motive for being here in Punk Hazard was to strike at the core production of SAD, an ingredient used in the production of SMILE. Without those products, the operation would halt and one of the most profitable products Joker sold on the black market would be gone overnight. If he could destroy both this factory and the factory in Dressrosa covertly, then Joker would have no recourse, he would have a furious Emperor on his back in the form of Kaido, the strongest creature in the world.
What is more advantageous here. Do I betray Joker now or do I stay 'obedient' until later? Can I manipulate the Straw Hats well, is the question. Straw Hat-ya was quite the overbearing man from what I remember. However, he has grown considerably strong since we last met, if the papers are to be believed.
For now, he would deal with them, not permanently but Law would capture these three. The lady thief, the raccoon dog, and the robot. They remembered him from two years back at the auction house. Quite the memory they had, from their point of view, he was just a passing pirate captain with a much lower bounty than their captain at the time. Perhaps it was because of the traumatic fight against the Navy afterward that really drove it in. In any case, the happenings of Sabaody were history already, most of the worst generation saw that event as a learning experience, a step to understand the world they were in. If not for that experience they would have a much harder time in the New World. The three Straw hats here were plenty powerful, but they were no match for him.
This would be quick.
Law pocketed Smoker's heart on his black fuzzy coat. Law raised the hand to attack the Straw Hats, he would disable them for now by cutting their legs off and apprehending them. They looked quite scared of his blade and what it could do. "Don't be so scared, I'm just going to cut your legs a bit for now. I can't have you people wandering around here."
"Oh no, he's going to cut us." Both the lady thief and the raccoon dog were almost crying and hugging each other. The robot placed himself between them as a form of protection. Law was apologetic that he was going to show this to innocent children who were being experimented on by Caesar. However, he had to deal with the Straw Hats sooner or later. And having some leverage while going against another member of the Worst generation was basic courtesy in these times.
Law swung his sword in the direction of the Straw Hats.
However, Law almost recoiled as another sword blocked his attack completely. This time by a much more competent fighter than even Smoker. Green hair and dark green coat with a red sash. There is no mistaking it, he's Straw Hat-ya's vice-captain. The guy that killed the Vice-Admiral recently, Pirate Hunter Roronoa-ya. Law was surprised that he was here. And was surprised that the green-haired swordsman had sliced off a whole tower of the lab and arrived just in time to protect his crew. Law breathed in and reigned his surprise. In front of him was another member of the worst generation. Zoro was also one of them, despite not being the Captain.
"If you really want to attack them, you gotta go through me first," Zoro smirked with his white teeth as he made Law take a step back due to Zoro's strength. The snow was trudging along with both Law's feet making a backward path.
Law groaned. Law jumped back to gather some distance. "Why are you here…?" Law meant the island, there was nothing here worth of value. Nothing to pirates like them to have. Why were they here of all places?
"I thought pirates didn't have to knock. We don't care where we go and we don't need permission to do anything. We're pirates at the end of the day." Zoro pulled his bandanna off his arm with his own teeth. And wrapped it around. He pulled out two of the swords that were in the sheath. And placed them accordingly. After the Vice-Admiral fight, another exciting battle was coming his way. Zoro felt truly blessed for being in the New World, this ocean was giving him exactly what he craved.
"That on your waist…" Law was caught by surprise again by what was in Zoro's waist.
"Why is there a decapitated head on your waist Zoro!"
Nami screamed from way back at the door. Chopper was scared of it and Franky thought it looked cool. Nami saw that and thought there was no more return from this crew. They all were going to be punished heavily in the afterlife, Zoro was now carrying a woman's head as a trophy. Oh please god. Please at least forgive me! Nami prayed while trying to unsuccessfully turn the children away from the fight. However children were children, they were all hyped up for the fight happening in front of them. Even pacifists like Mocha were neutral since this was the first time they saw the outside in a long time.
There was a head dangling from Zoro's waist. The head of a woman with a purple ponytail and a stern look. Strangely the decapitated head looked alive and then it talked.
"I finally found you. It's a displeasure to meet you again, man with a fluffy hat. If my shameful self had my body back, you would be cut. You would be dead at my feet for what you've done, knave." The head moved and it frowned its eyebrows. The lips were moving, and she was speaking.
Nami and the others freaked out, the head was speaking. The Straw Hats were introduced to Law's power back two years ago in the Auction House. However, some of the crewmembers barely remembered anything, and the interaction between them was so brief. The G-5 was already used to Law's powers now, so they weren't surprised, but they were now tending to their wounded along with captain Smoker and Tashigi.
So they got Smoker's heart in the confusion, crafty little bastards. Law thought as he saw the marines put the heart back. Smoker had a rectangular hole in his chest, but now it was filled with his heart again thanks to the distraction of the Straw Hats arrival. Damn, I don't have time to deal with all of this. Law teleported towards the G-5's location. However, Zoro blocked him from ever getting close. How can he be so fast? Law teleported behind the swordsman. However, Zoro blocked him again with a simple sword covered in Haki. Law was forced to realize a few simple truths. Zoro wasn't fast as he thought, he was just predicting where he would teleport by analyzing his gaze and confirming it with observation. Law's power over operations wasn't cutting Zoro's swords because the swordsman Haki was equivalent or even better than Law's. Zoro was also a top-tier predator on this sea. And he was just a member of the Straw Hats.
That was an unpleasant thought.
Law pointed a finger, and a spike of rock was suddenly impaling Zoro. However it only impaled the after image, and before the rock could even fall to the ground, it was cut to pieces. Law was forced to realize that a member of the Straw Hats was making him actually try in a fight, which was upsetting and worrying. Law had gathered power in these two years to match Joker in a fight and have a chance at beating him. Law was so strong it earned him a bounty of over 900 million, and this swordsman was matching him, this was extremely upsetting.
If their swordsman was at this level, what's to say about the captain?
Law was now extremely worried. Had he saved a monster after the war?
Who the hell was Monkey D. Luffy?
The battle between Law and Zoro continued on, while the Straw Hats and the children cheered from the sidelines.
X❖X
Tashigi was crying inside.
She could not even match one pirate captain and her old enemy Zoro the Pirate Hunter matched Law blow for blow. This was insulting. This was incredibly insulting to all the hard work she put in herself for the past two years. What was the difference between her and the Pirate Hunter? Why couldn't she even get to their stage? And even her own boss had fallen. Vice-Admiral Smoker had fallen beneath the feet of the 900 million man. What happened in the two years for the Straw Hats to become so unbelievably powerful?
With her teeth biting her lips and her face becoming hot with humiliation Tashigi acted. Tashigi gathered Smoker under her arms and she ordered a retreat. Marines never retreated in the face of evil but she had ordered them to do so. Tashigi and the G-5 could not face Law and they could not face the Straw Hats. It was a completely losing battle without Smoker here to aid them. Right now, Smoker was unconscious and defeated by Law. They need to retreat and regroup.
With shame and her pride shattered into pieces. Tashigi ran away from watching the battle unfold between Zoro the Pirate Hunter and Trafalgar Law the Surgeon of Death.
She lowered her head as she trudged through the snow carrying Smoker on her back. While the G-5 followed her lead, they were a courageous and reckless bunch, but they were not suicidal as to remain and fight for justice. Tashigi bit her lips so hard it bled.
Nothing has changed even now.
X❖X
Luffy's group was situated on the flaming island.
They had encountered a dragon and their battle spanned for the whole island as they fought the dragon in the air. The dragon had gutlessly escaped from them as soon as Luffy showed a bit of excitement. Quite rude in Luffy's mind. However, the dragon had witnessed his own predator in Luffy and ran away from him. It was unquestioned who the most powerful man on this island was. There was nothing quite like a God in human form that controlled the heavens. A beast of pure physical strength. And to top it off, a man who held power over exponentials.
Sora was quite helpful in pursuing the dragon in mid-air as it frantically escaped. Both Robin and Usopp were vital to taking down the beast and the fight turned into a group effort with Luffy making the final blow by throwing a piece of concrete rubble with its durability exponentially increased. He threw it as a spear, and it ripped off a chunk of the dragon's neck. Irreparably killing the great beast in the middle of the flaming town. However, the mystery only increased after killing the dragon. For in the back of the dragon were the legs of a woman. A lady samurai to be more precise. And the legs were alive and very prone to kicking people. Luffy had calmed it down. This lady samurai was definitely the one they heard killing the men in the S.O.S call.
Sora cooked the dragon's meat and Luffy partook in the feast.
Luffy, Sora Usopp, and Robin had partaken in its meat and in its blood. They had consumed the dragon's flesh and blood. Normally in some fantasy scenario, they would become immortal, like in some stories. But this wasn't the case, the meat felt like lizard's meat. It was amazing in its taste and was widely praised by both Usopp and Robin. However Sea King meat cooked by dear Sora was still better in Luffy's opinion, that was the best meat he'd ever eaten up until now. Luffy wasn't a picky eater at any rate and consumed more than 90% of its body in half an hour. The others had consumed the rest and were still full.
Luffy had spotted something strange before the whole leg fiasco.
Someone was watching them from afar during the confrontation with the dragon. A green-haired lady with wings and talons. In the stories, a woman with those features would be called a harpy. Having said that Luffy needed to calm the legs first. The legs belonged to a woman and this woman was most likely the samurai. That has been agreed upon by the parties here. Robin and Sora were the ones to point it out due to the characteristic clothing she was wearing and the armor that was quite unique.
Luffy calmed the legs down by holding them tight.
It realized that it was in the presence of a grand warrior and calmed down submissively.
Luffy realized the lady samurai had some form of observation and that extended to the legs as well. However, the legs couldn't use it very well.
It also talked without needing a mouth but became silent a few moments after.
Most likely there was another body part speaking elsewhere.
"But what should we do? She was killing people, wasn't she?" Usopp asked.
"Eh, I never cared about that. I just wanted something on this island to pique my curiosity and this has. Who cut her? Why is she still alive? Why is she so far from her land? Those questions are worth investigating."
Luffy posed these questions while putting his naked foot on top of her navel to stop her from moving, she was quite submissive to him now. The speech of hers has completely stopped and she was not talking anymore. This woman was as tall as Otohime was and that golden mermaid Queen was quite tall. Luffy also told them about the flying harpy woman that has left them. Luffy looked at her and she had retreated. To the snowy island that was on the other side. Usopp was incredulous when he looked at the vista.
This island was burning and the other half of it was snowing.
All while being separated by a massive lake with two rivers on each side.
More interesting things kept popping up.
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Luffy's group was suddenly attacked by centaurs.
Luffy was trying to pursue the woman with the body of a harpy to the other side, however more and more half-humans and half animals showed up. Robin wondered if this was a Zoan type or these people truly were another race of humans. Robin made her thoughts known as Luffy and Sora expertly, calmly, and serenely murdered the centaur ambush, one by one. Usopp was by Robin's side as he used his weapon to shoot at anyone who got close. Luffy and Sora are quite scary now, aren't they? Thank god Zoro isn't here, he makes much more of a mess than these two. On the other hand, the scariest member of the crew is by my side and taking things so slowly. Usopp thought. Usopp squinted at Robin and she smirked. Two hands sprouted on a centaur approaching and broke his spine on the back of his neck. Then they excavated the man's tongue. The two hands held the dead man's tongue like a trophy.
I spoke too soon. Usopp squinted more.
"Arrh, you killed them. My friends, you killed them!"
Sora avoided the centaur's blade as he cried and yelled. Then she kicked him in the chest, making a chunk of meat from his torso fall off from behind. Then she kicked the horse part and the body contorted itself around her foot. Making all of his organs implode.
All around him were his dead comrades. These centaur people had been lying in wait for them and then had the nerve to make an ambush. Luffy wondered who was behind all this. The dragon, The samurai. The harpy. These centaurs. There was a lot that went unexplained and there must have been someone behind it all.
Robin blossomed flower petals that formed two arms that grabbed the last centaur by his hind legs and then another pair of arms that grabbed both his eyes and pulled them from their sockets. The centaur crashed and then a massive smooth leg stomped on him. Then that leg turned into flower petals. All that was left was a flattened bug with splashes of blood all around his body.
Usopp strained his vision. "There's some more centaurs on the shore of the other side. There's plenty of them, more than 300 centaurs."
"So we only fought a small group that came to ambush us," Sora said while approaching. She had discarded her black leggings in this heat.
"Seems like it. Well, we're not going to get our answers if we don't go to the other side. So shall we?" Luffy smiled.
"Ufufu~ this is getting a bit exciting," Robin said.
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Luffy went to get the Mini-Merry from the shore of the flaming sea. He saw that nobody was waiting for them in the flaming sea. The Sunny was now gone and no traces of it remained. There was basically no way that they were abandoned here, so something must have happened.
"Oh, this is getting even more curious."
Luffy was very tall and his arms very long and thick. He could carry the ship with only one hand above his head. He carried the ship back to the icy lake where his group was waiting. Sora was grabbing the samurai's legs. She was groping her butt. Sora was still quite the horny lady when It came to women. She was a gender-wide disaster for the female gender. Luffy loved her all the same. Luffy put the Mini-Merry on the icy lake and they boarded it.
Destination towards the snowy island on the other side.
While they were traveling by water towards the other side Luffy commented on the crew disappearing from the flaming sea. Robin and Sora were worried about the crew. Usopp was quite frightened by it. With the samurai's legs strapped on the Mini-Merry, they crossed the icy lake. They soon realized that the icy lake was quite cold and started putting on the clothes they had taken off during the travels in the flaming sea. The climate was getting quite cool now. It made Luffy remember his adventures in the Calm Belt island of Ruskaina, that place changed seasons every week. From hot to cold, this Punk Hazard island was getting even more amusing.
When they approached the midpoint, they were attacked by the centaurs on the other side.
Luffy was quite angry about that. Luffy did not like that, cannonballs hailing across his face. He did not like the idea of Mini-Merry getting hit by these savages. And so he and Sora jumped through the air and made platforms with their legs. Breaking the air part with their leg's strength. Luffy excavated their faces off from their cranium. Ripping off the skin and part of the frontal bone structure. His nails dug into their eyes as he killed them. He grabbed some of them by their animal legs and cracked their spines. He smiled at the cruelty he produced.
A centaur went with his ax and tried chopping Luffy's head from his shoulder.
Luffy did not even give the centaur a passing glance.
A shot arrived at the centaur's head and it blew a home in his head as tentacles of a green fruit expanded inside of the enemy. Courtesy of Usopp's sniping. His plants were quite deadly when the sniper wanted them to be. Sora had already arrived at the forefront of the fight as she danced through the group as she avoided the arrows fired from their bows. Her long legs struck them like spears. Launching chunks of their body parts like some sort of bloody meat dropping on fluffy snow.
Sora's legs were so powerful it was scary.
"You cannot continue slaughtering my men. I'll kill you. Hear my name and it's Brownbeard."
A scruffy man 22-feet-tall approached with his giant meat cleaver. He had an alligator bottom half. The man held quite a desperate facial expression. A man that cared a lot about his subordinates it seemed. The half-man half-alligator swiped his lizard's tail in Luffy's direction. As for Luffy. He was holding a centaur by the neck at the moment he was attacked. He saw the man's lizard tail with bored eyes. Then the tail was stopped by a large hand sprouting from the fluffy snow. It held onto the man firmly and the hand sprouted because of Robin. Robin's power was now in effect. Usopp gulped again.
"W—What is?"
The half-man half-alligator had no more recourse. He would die. He would die at the hands of the most sadistic member of the Straw Hats, Robin.
Flower petals sprouted four giant hands that pushed his eyelids up while the other pushed his eyes down. Bursting open both eyeballs out as the alligator centaur leader cried out. The sprouted hands grabbed the cleaver and like butchers started chopping his limbs off as he flailed on the ground without eyes. The four hands carefully dismantled the man in a gory fashion as his blood was spilled along with his terrified screams.
Robin's smile was the harshest of the Straw Hats.
The hands were dispelled as flower petals amidst the bloody snow.
The Straw Hats were divided into the ones who actively sought out violence like Robin, Zoro, and Luffy. They were really sadistic. They enjoyed the act of killing people.
The ones who were uncaring about violence like Franky, Brook, and Sora. They killed enemies fast and efficiently, uncaring either way.
Then the ones who actively disliked killing but went along with the crew's antics like Usopp, Nami, and Chopper.
"Let's explore the mountains. Something's wrong about this mountain range."
Luffy said as they walked over the corpses of their fallen enemies. First the dragon and a harpy lady and now centaurs. A burning island and a snowy island. A samurai woman coming from the land of Wano with her body parts chopped up, yet she was still alive and kicking. The disappearance of the sun and the other Straw Hats. Things were getting very very interesting.
"Brr! This island is frigid cold, even with a coat, things get very very cold."
Usopp complained as he sneezed.
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Luffy was carrying the weight of the Mini-Merry as they ascended up the mountain range. The blizzard was getting stronger and stronger for some reason. Luffy did not like the weather one bit. Something was really really wrong here. Robin was commenting on it as well with a worried face.
Sora saw something in the distance as well. A lab underneath the frigid mountains but it was so far away. She was worried that they wouldn't be able to reach it during the snow. It was due West from where they were so it would be a while before they were able to reach it. Understandably they were quite far away but they started the walk there. Luffy and Sora were naturally strong monsters that could handle the cold. But Robin and Usopp needed more protection from the elements as their bodies grew colder during the snowstorm.
Something reached Luffy and Sora's ears, a warning of something bad, an avalanche of snow was running down towards them for some reason.
Luffy launched the ship above the avalanche and grabbed Robin in a hurry.
Luffy evaded towards the eastern side. Sora grabbed the samurai's legs and Usopp by the nose and evaded west.
They essentially split up after the avalanche and the avalanche continued on like some sort of river falling from the peaks with no signs of stopping. The amount of snow was also worrying. This was not a naturally occurring avalanche, something else was at play here. Whatever the case Robin was quite cold, Luffy had to take care of her before she got hurt by it. As much as he wanted to go on adventuring, Robin's needs came first. With snow coming in giant chunks and raining down on their position as the footing became more and more unstable, Luffy had no other option. And secretly, he wanted some alone time with Robin because he was quite needy.
Before they were completely separated Luffy spoke his orders towards Sora, his crew was strong enough to handle any problems on this island, at least he hoped. He could take it easy with Robin.
"We will meet each other later on. I'll stay with Robin and you'll go onwards towards that lab. We will meet there. The crew is probably already there. Something is happening on this island go resolve it."
"Understood. Captain." Sora said as she dragged Usopp and the lady samurai's legs that got released when Luffy threw the ship over the avalanche. They were now completely split up. Sora could not see her captain any more but she dragged Usopp down towards the lake again.
"Come on Usopp, let's go get the Merry."
The captain had thrown the ship over the avalanche and it swam down with the snow until it reached the icy lake, they needed to backtrack to get the Mini-Merry again.
Sora was worried about Robin but she was with the captain. He would protect dear Robin. The main mission right now was exploring the lab she saw underneath the western mountains and get to the bottom of the samurai mystery.
She dived into the icy lake. With one hand, she carried the Mini-Merry as her captain had done previously.
"I—Isn't it hard to carry such a literal ship with one hand?"
They were walking towards the western mountains with Sora using her hand to carry the ship as her captain had done.
"Want to try it, Usopp?" Sora smiled evilly and dumped the ship on Usopp's arms.
Usopp carried the mini-ship for 5m before giving up. Usopp was panting on the cold snow as he almost had a heart attack.
"Honestly what kind of workout do you do to carry such a heavy thing with one hand?!"
Usopp complained while Sora laughed. Usopp remembered that she carried the Kraken underneath the sea 7000 meters down while swimming underwater. The Kraken was unbelievably heavy on the land and even more so on severe pressure in the deep sea.
Usopp was reminded that Sora was a physical beast that matched the captain in that department.
"Umm, this is just a question, but can you kick a mountain?"
"What do you think?"
"Hahaha, no wonder you're in the monster trio."
The ship's cook was an unbelievable monster in her own right. Black Leg Sora. Her long legs were like spears that penetrated flesh, rock, and metal alike. Take too long to wonder how strong Luffy became in two years and you'll forget the unbelievable monsters underneath him like Zoro and Sora.
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The snow piled on top of Luffy and Robin. Relentlessly attacking them. This avalanche was too intense. Sometimes it felt the whole mountain of snow was being moved against them.
This is weird. Luffy could feel an ice cave nearby and he made the decision of going in for now. The snow obscured the entrance as Luffy carried dear Robin in his muscular arms.
The snow wouldn't hit them here. This ice cave was massive. But walking more inside Luffy could see dark smooth rock and granite. Crystals and more littered the place, making it quite beautiful to look at. With the crystals reflecting light this place was mildly dark but no more than a normal night in the open.
Luffy rested his body on the dark rock in the giant hall of ice crystals. This would give Robin time to sort herself out.
"Huff… Huff… Luffy." Robin breathed on his muscular chest as her body trembled. She wasn't wearing the best clothes for staying on this wintery island, especially in an ice cave surrounded by snow from all sides. I didn't even see the avalanche coming when it did. Luffy is amazing. Robin smiled as she embraced him more, he was a constant heat source in this cave. Luffy put her in a position where she was sitting on his lap and he hugged her from behind. His massive body smothered her tiny back and his massive arms circled around her waist. He breathed in hot air from his.
LEMON WARNING
Robin felt his hands snake around and lift her dress up, showing her underwear from below. He's quite bold wanting to have sex right when we're locked underground in an ice cave. Ufufu~ Robin wasn't complaining though, she was already all excited from his hand touching her and playing around with her tummy. He was caressing her in all the right places and it made her chuckle a bit. She felt his hot hardness under his clothes as he pressed it against her ass. She felt his hot cock on the crevasses of her ass, so she kept rubbing it with her lower cheeks.
"I'm going to make you cum so hard. I'm going to heat you up so much you won't be complaining about the cold."
He whispered in her ear as she shivered by him speaking. He whispered about what he was going to do. He was going to screw her little hole with his massive cock and draw out orgasms after orgasm, breaking her little mind. It was times like these where Luffy turned into someone else, a carnivorous beast intending on devouring the women in his life. Only two years back Luffy had no interest in romance and sexual relationships and now after all that he was a needy little beast always asking for more. Robin was certainly blushing this time. She felt excited by having sex here, deep within the enemy lines. Honestly, Luffy had no sense of time and place, but he was such a lovable man that she couldn't say no to him. She faced him with lust in her eyes and a blush of need on her cheeks. Her body was already slick with anticipation as his arm grabbed her massive breasts and kneaded them again.
Both started kissing as his hand pressed on the back of her head. His other hand pressed on her underwear, right on her pussy, and played around with it. Since she was sitting on his lap she felt his cock pressing against her. She opened her legs and opened his pants and his cock sprung from her front and hit her belly. It was a huge thing, almost reaching her big breasts. It was spurting large amounts of pre-cum from it and it looked quite excited to see her. She grabbed his hot cock with both her hands and started playing with it. The cock spurted out semen from the slit and kept staining her hands as she moved up and down. Hands sprouted and massaged his balls. She used her power to make sex better for each of them.
Luffy was kissing her pretty neck and he felt her soft skin with his tongue and lips.
He explored her breasts with his fingers, going up and down. He played with her erect nipples and pressed his own chest against her small back to offer support and heat in this cold cave. Her breasts were big and plump, he could feel the skin giving in as his fingers groped her with care. She moaned a bit after a soft pinch to her nipples. Robin's tits were bouncing up and down as he was just entranced by her soft breasts. He released Robin's breasts from the clothing confines, exposed to the cold air, her skin got goosebumps all over, and he could feel the little bumps as he passed his fingers. His palm was hot and was heating up her chest and then her navel. She felt herself start sweating. Despite the cold, his ministrations were making her hot. Her back was protected by him and was heated up and was quite cozy.
Robin was tenderly massaging his cock, her breasts were right above the tip of his cock and they were bouncing magnificently and hitting his tip as he played with her breasts. The stimulation got too intense and he had to play with his own cock for a little bit. He put his hands on his monster cock and started jacking off. Now four hands were playing with his cock and two hands massaging his balls with care. Her pussy was above his pubic hair and she was grinding her folds on the mast of his cock. Finally, after a bit of tender care, he edged out and came. His cock spurted hot cum all over her breasts and tummy, staining her with pearly cum. The white semen was so hot it was eating her cold skin up. Just as he planned.
She looked at her body, stained by his seed, and started slurping on a bit of cum on her palm. It was so tasty and still steaming hot, so it heated up her insides pretty well.
She positioned her ass on top of his cock and lined up with her anus. She felt the tip caressing her entrance and then slowly went down. She felt his cock entering her asshole and it felt pretty big. Her walls were expanding to accommodate his large size and she felt him reach deep inside. His hot cock was like a furnace, giving her more comfort. They fucked like this, with Robin on his lap until an hour passed. With only the sound of wind on this ice cave to keep them company, and the sounds of moans and grunts to fill their ears. Luffy felt unbelievable pleasure, he felt her walls massaging him like no other woman could, perhaps it was because of her powers, she could change her body in little ways like these. Robin was a special lady, and very dear to his heart. Even when in a position where she couldn't take advantage, she took the lead and did whatever the hell she wanted.
Robin felt his cock expand inside of her, she felt his cock prepare to unleash a jet of cum, and after a large groan from his deep voice, she felt the jets start filling up the insides of her asshole. There was a time where she lived without this pleasure, not anymore. Robin felt incredibly happy in leading him on and having sex with her Captain, her favorite person on this entire planet. There was no one like Luffy. Robin loved Luffy and wasn't afraid to express her physical love by dominating him. Luffy was all the happier to let her take the lead and do her things. She was quite the domineering woman and that was hot in of itself. Robin smiled as the last spurts of cum were felt by her insides. Her asshole was filled up with his seed and she felt a lot happier now.
Luffy realized something about himself, he loved strong women. Hancock, Otohime, Shirahoshi, Nami, Robin.
Hancock, despite being a slave, rose up and now led an empire, with strength and charisma. Otohime, a woman that never died, no matter what, her ideals and her trident were things of legends. Shirahoshi, born with the power to destroy the world, a world destroyer, just like him. Shirahoshi had a strength of spirit like no other. Nami, despite being a child, braved the oceans to save her own village. Robin, being hunted since young by the world itself, and never giving up, almost sacrificed her life for her friends.
All of them were so incredibly powerful and willful in their own ways and that attracted Luffy to them like a moth to a flame.
Luffy then realized how lucky of a man he was to have their love.
The young god had a lot to do left. Luffy was just now starting.
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Sora carried the Mini-Merry while Usopp carried the samurai legs. However, he was beaten black and blue by it. The owner of the legs was quite frantic because Luffy wasn't here to calm it. Usopp was complaining all the way through it but he was able to find a position to carry it so he wouldn't be kicked as much. Sora felt pity for him. But then again, Usopp could not carry the Mini-Merry for long distances.
"Hm? Isn't that Brook?" Sora zeroed on his position with her observation and diverted her way towards the mountains a bit farther away from the lab. He was running through the blizzard with a torso chasing him around like crazy. And the torso swung off and sliced off parts of the ground and lifted the snow every time. Quite the warrior this lady samurai was. Sora was definitely impressed.
"Sora-san please save me!"
"I won't hit a woman, save yourself." Sora turned her head, completely ignoring the skeleton as he ran past her. Sora sighed and deposited the Mini-Merry on the snow. She grasped the legs that were in Usopp's hand and then waited for the torso to arrive.
The torso was wielding a weapon with one hand while the other propped its body up from the ground. The blade was huge in length. Almost two times the size of the Mosshead's swords combined in length. Then again, the lady samurai using that weapon was twice the size of a normal person by using the legs and torso as a comparison.
The torso stopped as it sensed its own legs struggling in the snow. Both sets of body parts walked closer together, being guided by something more than sight. So the lady samurai knows observation and is quite strong.
"We're leaving, now!" Sora picked up the Mini-Merry and rushed off as fast as she could.
"Sora-san!"
"He—Hey Sora!"
Usopp yelled and couldn't even take a breather after being kicked so many times in the face. Then he saw the torso approaching the legs, the two body parts were distracted now but when they joined together, what would happen?
Usopp and Brook gawked for one more second and felt dread as they realized why Sora left like there was no tomorrow. This would be incredibly bad. Usopp and Brook rushed their legs and sprinted like it was a race worth more than ten billion berries.
The lady samurai had both body parts joined together. With a body reaching almost 10 feet tall. The lady samurai was now only missing her head. And now the headless lady samurai was upright and wielding a sword now. Then the body fell on the ground in a seiza position. It tried detecting enemies with the limited observation it had but only found faint traces. The body slowly disappeared in the snowstorm. Heading for the lab beneath the mountains.
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Law and Zoro were now tired of fighting. They kept attacking each other for a few minutes but to no avail. Neither side could get the better of the other.
"Hey! Are you the one that kept these children locked up in here?" Nami asked with a serious look.
Law looked at her and both he and Zoro stopped fighting entirely. The children were now wearing coats that Franky had sewed, from whatever time he had he already hunted a few wolves and bears for the fur coats they were now using. Zoro was also interested, despite the lady samurai still wanting Law's blood. Zoro didn't really care about it before, but this was certainly strange. Children kept in a laboratory on a deserted island without any foreign contact, if that didn't raise warning bells, nothing else would. The only one with the answers to those questions would be the man wearing a fluffy back coat and a fluffy white hat with spots. That's to say, Trafalgar Law.
Law sighed; he was also thinking about his idea of getting the Straw Hat on his side. However, the moment he did, that damn Caesar would know, Monet would know and then Joker would be aware of it. However, Law was confident enough that he was strong to contend with Joker alone. And if the Straw Hats had this much strength in their members then taking out Joker would be easier than expected. The hard part was getting on their side. They got on the wrong foot from the very beginning.
"The one keeping these children here is a man named Caesar Clown. He was a researcher of the government. However, he was expelled from their ranks after the incident four years ago."
What followed was a lengthy explanation of what was happening. The best bet to get the Straw Hats on his side was, to tell the truth. Caesar already dug his hole really deep into evil when he kidnapped those children. There was no need to embellish the truth. The fact that Zoro had taken off his bandanna and they were comfortable listening to his story meant that he was already halfway there. It was a shame that the Navy had runoff. However, the Straw Hat was here on this island. The man's anger towards the marines was now being widely known by the most informed types in the New World. People work fast in this sea, and the journalist relentlessly pursues the most famous names to know their quirks, personality, and goals. Monkey D. Luffy was a huge name, everyone wanted to know what made the man tick.