Pirates: Martial Arts Masters on the Straw Hat Ship

"Whoosh!"

Luffy tilted his head slightly and leaned his body back at an incredible angle.

Two huge puffs of smoke, almost grazing his nose and chest, slammed into empty air, kicking up a cloud of mist.

"What?!" Smoker was startled; the discomfort of his attack missing made him pause.

Just as his old strength was exhausted, Luffy suddenly straightened up, his dark eyes flashing with a sharp light.

"Hehe, not bad speed, smoke man!"

Luffy stretches his right arm back, in the classic Gum-Gum Pistol starting stance.

But this time, his fist didn't have that rubbery texture; instead, it was covered with a layer of dark, deep color, like steel.

That's Armament Haki - Hardening!

Smoker watched Luffy's chaotic counterattack, a disdainful sneer curling his lips. Instead of using his elemental powers to dodge, he straightened his chest, ready to take the hit head-on.

"Foolish! Don't think you can attack a Logia-type user with your fists..."

Smoker's sarcastic words were abruptly cut off before he could finish them.

"Bang--!!!"

A dull, explosive sound erupted in his abdomen!

It wasn't the emptiness of hitting smoke, but a real, sharp pain, like being hit head-on by a battering ram!

Luffy's iron fist, imbued with Armament Haki, ignored the elemental defense of the Smoke-Smoke Fruit and slammed solidly into Smoker's stomach!

"Puhaha—!!"

Smoker's eyes bulged out instantly, his eyeballs becoming bloodshot.

He opened his mouth wide and spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with stomach acid, which splashed into the rain.

In that instant, the arrogant mockery on his face turned into extreme existential doubt and utter horror.

"Whoosh—Boom!!"

Smoker was sent flying like a cannonball for more than ten meters, crashing heavily into the stone wall at the edge of the square.

The impact smashed a large crater in the solid wall, and rubble tumbled down, burying half of his body in it.

"Cough cough...cough..."

Smoker struggled to crawl out of the rubble, clutching his aching abdomen, and stared in disbelief at the straw-hatted boy in the distance who was swinging his wrist.

"That's... Armament Haki?!"

Smoker's voice was hoarse with shock: "In the weakest of the East Blue... how could anyone possess such power?!"

Luffy shook the rain off his hands, grinned, and revealed a set of bright white teeth:

"If I didn't have mastered Armament Haki, dealing with someone like you who's as fast as smoke would be quite a challenge!"

"Don't get too cocky, Straw Hat Boy!"

Smoker wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his eyes turning unusually fierce.

He grabbed the specially made weapon that had fallen to the ground—the jitte.

The top of this jitte is inlaid with seastone, which is the nemesis of all Devil Fruit users.

With just a touch, the ability user will instantly lose their strength.

"Don't think you've already won!"

Smoker straightened up, his justice coat billowing in the wind and rain: "Trying to defeat me... you're still a long way off!!"

He no longer uses his Devil Fruit ability for wide-range attacks because he knows that against Armament Haki, he would be a sitting duck.

He placed all his hopes on physical skills and the Sea Stone.

"shave!"

As a colonel, Smoker may not possess Haki, but he is still somewhat familiar with the Six Powers of the Navy.

He stomped his foot hard on the ground, and his figure disappeared into the rain in an instant.

The next second, he appeared behind Luffy's side, and his ten-handed sword, with a whooshing sound, stabbed fiercely towards Luffy's waist!

"Die!"

However, Luffy didn't even turn around.

"There."

Luffy's eyes narrowed, and his body slid to the left like an eel.

"brush!"

Ten hands pierced the void.

Smoker gritted his teeth, flipped his wrist, and swept his ten hands across.

Luffy lowers his head, jumps, and turns to the side.

"Swish! Swish! Swish!"

In the rainy night, Smoker's jigsaws became afterimages, his attacks becoming faster and more cunning, each strike deadly.

However, Luffy is like a petrel in a storm; no matter how big the waves are, they can't touch a single feather on him.

Each time, he managed to dodge with the smallest, most precise movement just before the ten hands were about to strike.

"Damn it! Why can't I hit them?!"

Smoker grew increasingly fearful and desperate as the fight progressed.

He felt as if his every move was being seen through, and that sense of powerlessness drove him almost mad.

Suddenly, a chilling thought popped into his mind.

"Predict...perceive..."

Smoker's eyes widened, and he exclaimed in disbelief, "Observation Haki?!"

"How is this possible?! Armament Haki is one thing, but he even knows Observation Haki?! That's a high-level technique that even a Major General in Headquarters struggles to fully master!!"

At this moment, Smoker's worldview was greatly shaken.

His pride in his elite colonel-level skills seemed utterly laughable in the face of this newcomer from the East China Sea.

"I don't have time to waste here..."

Luffy ignored Smoker's shock.

He glanced at his companions who were waiting for him, and then at the increasingly heavy rain.

"It's time to end this."

Luffy stopped dodging. He abruptly stopped, facing the Jitte attack that came at him again. This time, instead of retreating, he advanced!

"Armament Haki - Harden!!!"

Luffy's right arm instantly turned as black as ink, and the concentrated Armament Haki caused the surrounding rain to shun it.

Facing the Jutsu, which is inlaid with Seastone, Luffy directly punched the metal shaft of the Jutsu!

"Rubber, rubber—bullet!!!"

"Snap—!!!"

A crisp, piercing sound of metal breaking rang out in the square, even drowning out the thunder.

To Smoker's horror, the incredibly sturdy Seastone Jitte that had been with him for years was broken in two by Luffy's punch, which was covered in Armament Haki!

The broken jigama spun and flew into the air.

Luffy's punch, undiminished, pierced through the broken weapon and slammed into Smoker's defenseless chest!

"boom!!!"

Smoker felt as if he had been hit by a speeding train, his sternum cracking under the strain.

He was sent flying backward again, this time dozens of meters away, crashing hard into the wall of a shop, causing the entire wall to collapse and burying him in the ruins.

For a long time, there was no movement from the ruins.

Smoker, the White Hunter, was defeated.