Journey to One Piece

52. Transparent World

The navy ship that had appeared out of nowhere was between the Restaurant and Merry Go.

"This looks bad." Usopp was already panicking thinking that the navy had appeared after searching for their ship and now the ship had finally caught up to them.

"Luffy do something." Usopp shook the neck of Luffy as he could only ask their captain to be their savior. Luffy was just looking at the navy ship in an emotionless manner. Luffy was a little angry at this moment actually.

They were about to reach the restaurant and he was dreaming about food. And this ship out of nowhere destroyed his dream of food by coming in the middle.

"Who the hell are you?" Luffy shouted at the man who had just appeared. He had a cut on his face, brass knuckles on his fist and weird sakura colored hair. It seemed like he was trying to be masculine but his body was screaming of femininity.

"I am a navy Lieutenant Fullbody.. Who are you? Seems like a new group of pirates. Wait.. Why does that face seem familiar?" Fullbody was trying hard to remember where he had seen that face before.

The other marines who were on the ship also got to see Luffy and others as they pointed their guns at the pirate ship. But one particular soldier was trembling in his knees, because he remembered seeing the person before on the bounty posters.

He had even seen the other guy which was on another bounty poster. It was rumored that a new pirate group had emerged in the East Blue and it was said to be the most powerful pirate group to come out from East Blue since the era of Roger.

In East Blue itself they had a combined bounty of 240 million. Even Roger didn't have that notoriety when he started. And now their ship had come across that legendary group. It was suffice to say he was praying.

As the realization dawned on the marine, the same thing happened to Fullbody too as he finally remembered where he had seen the guy. Like the soldier he too felt shiver in his spines. He didn't know how to react to these supposed vicious group of pirate.

"I am Monkey D. Luffy. And the Captain of the Straw Hats pirates. Did you come to catch us?" Luffy shouted. Fullbody was now sure that this person was the one he had seen in the poster. The other marines also now realized who they were facing.

"No.. No.. We are just passing by.. Please!! you can go ahead." Fullbody somehow spoke those words as he was still shivering in fright.

"Yosh... Great.. Now we can eat." Luffy said as Merry Go went for the Baratie restaurant. The navy ship gave away space to let the Merry Go pass.

But there would always be idiots who thought too much of themselves sometimes. Fullbody had a girl partner in his ship and in order to show his manliness he had already decided to backstab this pirate group which honestly seemed like an idiot.

He had seen the poster but after seeing the people in reality he thought that these pirates were harmless. Any other pirate group would have attacked the single navy ship, especially someone who had such a high bounty. It made no sense that this Straw Hat Luffy didn't even bother to take down the navy ship and earn more bounty. His clean face made him look like an idiot.

He had been leading a very good life until this point and he wanted more. And this 'idiot' pirate group might just prove to be a heaven sent ladder to climb upon.

Fullbody saw it as a chance. If he could take down this pirate group, he would be famous. Even in Marineford. Thus when Merry Go left, he asked his subordinates to bring all the canons and shoot at Merry and sink it.

The other marines could only gulp and carry out the orders.

Zoro, who had been sleeping, opened his eyes slowly and looked at the navy ship which was pointing their cannons at them. Nobody had bothered to look at the navy ship. Even Ken.

Seeing that everyone was busy he got up from his sleep and looked at the naval ship. Fullbody released three cannonballs at Merry Go. Zoro breathed slowly from his lungs as lightning coursed through his body. He held the sword from the other side of the hilt and mumbled

'Sixth Form : Rumble and Flash'

Zoro released a series of powerful long ranged lightning slices that traveled through the air and intercepted the canons. This attack was enough to blow the canons mid air. A huge flash and sound covered the area. Nami, who was busy drawing maps, had to come out and see what the commotion was about.

Ken, who had been ignoring Fullbody's small antics, smiled when he saw Zoro taking the lead and dealing with the enemies. Zoro was progressing fast. He could already smell emotions and people by now just like Tanjiro. Ken didn't remember if Yoriichi could do that but Yoriichi had a strong sense of people's emotions. The ability of the transparent world which was mastered by Yoriichi allowed him to see the inner workings of the people around, find their weakness and defeat the enemy. This ability was the one which made Yoriichi sure that he was destined to be the one to kill Muzan.

And Zoro was finally starting to get a hold of this Transparent World. This made him wake up from his sleep and take action. This ability would easily propel Zoro towards Observation Haki and it could be said that he would master it in a very fast manner.

As Zoro sliced at the cannonballs one of the slices travelled and hit right at the place where Fullbody was standing. He was blasted away. He could have died if the lightning attack landed on his body.

This small attack was enough to make Fullbody unconscious. The marines around were lucky to evade the blast. Seeing the leader had become unconscious, they immediately changed the rudder of the ship.

They needed to get out of this place as soon as possible.