Commander Crohn, in civilian clothing, watched from the sidelines while evacuating the civilians. He knew full well of Talma Pippings Devil fruit's incredible damage potential, although he didn't have a bounty, after some research and discussion in the Navy branch, He had determined that if he were to ever become a pirate, his bounty would at least be 40 million Berri, and that was for his strength alone!
As he watched the ongoing fight he only had one thought in his head
'Kids these days aren't afraid of death'
Wrapped in raging Aura, Pippings massive fist slammed towards Victor like a 5 Ton battering ram.
"Game over, Boss"
Yet it was Victor that smiled, Pipping could only watch as he raised his left index finger towards the sky and swiped down sharply.
"Golden Zipper: Sticky fingers!"
With the flicking gesture, the tip of Victors index finger a golden Zipper stretched out infinitely, and then violently lashed towards Pippings fists with sharp winds like a metal whip.
The thing zipper did not immediately collapse upon making contact with his fist as pipping had expected, instead with a strange buzzing sound, the whip blade cut Pipping fist into 2, blood came gushing like a waterfall and the broken bones underneath were fully visible.
"Ahhh! Hand…My Hand! You bastard!" The huge Tauren clutched his hand as he roared in pain. He couldn't believe..he wouldn't! A 17 year old kid only needed 3 minutes with a useless Devil fruit to defeat me!? Monster..he could only be a monster!
The crowd watching had already been evacuated by the Navy stationed there, but Commander Crohn stood rooted, a trace of cold sweat visible on his forehead. Of course he'd known about the Zipper fruit and it's disgraceful nature, as neither the previous owner nor the fruit had been looked at positively.
For someone so young to use it so effectively, had the previous Lutenient-commander been so utterly incompetent or had the fruit just fell into the perfect person?
Commander Crohn had a thoughtful expression on his face. If he'd read that right then Victor had just separated the Zipper on the tip of finger, leaving a single sided sprocket, and the humming coming from the high speed movement of the Zipper teeth, giving it a chainsaw like destructive ability.
'Creative, impressive..' The commander thought to himself. What he didn't know was that Victor had gotten the fruit less than 5 minutes ago and this was the work of a rookie. Pipping was not incorrect ,such talent could no longer be called 'genius' but now bordered on 'monster'.
'Caldwell Victor, if such a talent is for used Evil, the results could be devastating, a man that by all means necessary should not be allowed to become a pirate' Crohn thought to himself, not realizing that he had already started subconsciously referring to Victor as a 'man'
On the battlefield, Pipping, who was losing blood every second and now gasping for breath, stared down Victor and instead of losing his fighting spirit only became more agitated to kill him.
"Victor..you've been aiming for that Zipper fruit this entire time, right?" Pippings eyes were bloodshot but his body enlarged nonetheless, the black leather jacket now completely torn by the swoll body.
"But you've made a mistake, even the king of beasts won't near a raging bull, and standing before you I am invincible!"
Victor let out a small frown as he hooked his index and the zipper retracted back to his finger before it returned to its original shape.
"Too small.." Looking at the beast that was now thrice his size, Victor sighed: "Mr. Pipping you are too small"
"There are countless strong men in the vast sea, and you, who has holed himself up in a small corner without any ambition, dare call yourself 'invincible'? You must be joking!"
Victors eyes became more serious than ever: "Pipping Talma, I won't just be confined to west blue, so come one! Head to head no running, I'll show you the power of ambition!" Victor spread his arms wide, as if inviting an attack.
"Hahaha…Brazen bastard!" Pipping body and now swelled to a full 7 meters, and the large amount of white mist spraying from his nostrils blurred his face, leaving only the bloodshot scarlet red eyes.
The two no longer engaged in verbal combat, fully focused on each other, veins appeared on Pippings grinder-plate like fist and a faint metallics glow appeared on Victors right fist.
harmoniously the ground beneath them shattered in a burst of force, The two figures one small one large connected with a Bang!
"War Bull: Horned devastation!"
"Golden Zipper: Chainsaw fist guard!"
The instant the two collided a cannonball-like explosion erupted, a violent shockwave rapidly spread, shattering surrounding windows and a dull explosion followed, kicking up dust and smoke.
Drops of blood Slowly trickled to the ground, and Pipping who had returned to human hisform swayed slightly before he dropped to the ground, his left arm now bloody and wounded was missing completely from the elbow down.
Victor moved his shoulder around, compared to Pipping, besides his pale face he seemed to lack any injuries.
Commander Crohn Took a few steps towards the battlefield and stared at Victors fist which was now covered in a metal glove made of zippers, on the surface the metal teeth were still vibrating at high speed.
Was the attack potency of the fruit always so great? No it was Victor that made it scary. Not only had he used it intuitively, but he had also physically overwhelmed the 'War Bull' Talma Pipping.
'Should I take care of the potential danger now? For justice?' The commander scratched his head as he thought but before he could come to a conclusion, he heard hurried footsteps behind him.
Two men in black quickly approached the battlefield. In Front was a tall middle-aged man with a long green hair tied in a ponytail, he had golden eyes and a musket tied to his waist, besides him was a short fat and not so good looking man. He walked on the left side of the green haired man not too far and not too close, he had a cold almost sinister glint eyes.
"Victor Caldwell, I hope I'm not interrupting something important" The green haired said with a smile but he had malicious intent written all over his face. Wasting no time he drew the musket from his waist and ended at Victor, who was still standing still.
" Who knew the legendary waste of a fruit could be developed so far. You really must be the one who defeated 6 cadres of my family"
Victor stood still he had been looking at his right hand thoughtfully since defeating Talma Pipping. It was not until the green haired man started babbling uselessly that he looked up at the newly appeared men.
"Shawn 'The Snake' Suleymam and Bege Capone, pleasure to meet you." Victor took out a handkerchief and gently wiped his right hand as if greeting a house guest
"Please forgive us but Coral has some important business to deal with currently, if you wait shortly, I'll be with you after finishing affairs here"
Commander Crohn immediately started going through the library in his mind when he heard the names, The green haired, pony-tailed man was Shawn Suleyman, leader of the gang the Suleyman family, A family inherited gang that controls a large majority of the underground trade in the surrounding towns.
His nickname 'The snake' came not only from his personality but also his devil fruit, that gave him excellent marksmanship and snake like abilities. And the other guy must be Capone Bege, leader of the emerging Capone gang, The Navy currently knew little about his abilities. He was not a good person either with a hobby of beheading his defeated enemies and collecting them as trophies.
it wasn't difficult to see that the two gangs had joined up to take advantage of Corals infighting, but for it to be such perfect timing would mean…
"Hey hey hey…don't be so pretentious!" Shawn Suleyman thin, fork shaped tongue stuck out from the corner of his mouth, like a poisonous snake: "Since we've both come here today, you should know you won't be leaving here alive, you and Coral will both become nutrition for our growth!"
Capone Bege next to him lit a cigar, took two puffs and exhaled a smoke cloud, a cold smile on his face: "Since it's not in my garden I'll have to nip the root at the bud hahaha! But I do thank you for taking care of Pipping, he can be hard to deal with he gets crazy!"
Victor shook his head with a smile, threw the handkerchief away and turned to face the two uninvited guest
"It seems the new comers aren't good..don't you think so, Perona!"
The Two stiffened up, looked up… and roared
"Hoo Haa Hoo Haa…is this it!?" Capone and Suleyman both couldn't hold their laughter as a petite figure holding an umbrella floated above their heads.
Round Two! 2V2!