One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

With Kiku in his left hand and Hawkeye's black sword Yoru in his right, Law, who was considering whether to switch to a Supreme Grade Sword as his weapon, glanced at Yamato beside him and said.

Yamato's eyes lit up, and she turned to look at him with surprise and delight. "Really? Why? Tell me quickly!"

"Because you're stupid."

"Do you want to die? I'll smash you to death with this stick!"

Yamato clenched the big stick in his hand, angered by Luo's bluntness.

Luo coughed, thinking to himself, "How did I accidentally blurt out what was on my mind?"

Seeing Yamato's unfriendly gaze, he quickly added, "Rob Lucci was able to develop his Devil Fruit powers to awaken so quickly because he's a genius. He's known as the strongest genius in CP9 in eight hundred years, and his natural talent is already quite good. The reason he didn't progress quickly before was because he was blinded by his own false strength, indulging in the pleasure of crushing weaker opponents. But after being roused by Rorschach a few times, he worked hard and finally caught up, successfully awakening his Devil Fruit power. Although his power is a common Zoan type, this guy's strength is enough to make him an Admiral candidate."

At first, Yamato nodded repeatedly as he listened, but later his expression changed.

She raised the spiked club she was holding, approached Luo, and glared at him angrily, "You bastard, aren't you still saying I'm stupid?"

“No, I mean, you’re not proud enough, not arrogant enough,” Luo quickly explained.

"Huh? Not arrogant enough?" Yamato didn't understand and scratched his head in confusion. "Are you praising me?"

Luo curled his lip and shrugged. "No, you didn't understand what I meant. What I meant was that the reason Rob Lucci was able to work so hard and catch up was because he's a very arrogant and proud person. So after being repeatedly defeated by Rorschach, he trained desperately, which led to his Devil Fruit awakening. You see, although this guy's strength is far inferior to Rorschach's, he's not afraid of Rorschach at all when facing him. Unlike you... you used to be very defiant towards Rorschach, but now you've chickened out. You've lost the will to catch up with Rorschach, so of course your Devil Fruit awakening progress has slowed down."

"You...! Who...who chickened out! I...I didn't! I'm not afraid of him at all!"

Yamato blushed at Luo's explanation and stammered in rebuttal.

Hibari, standing next to her, was suppressing a laugh.

Seeing Qilin return, she smiled indulgently, squatted down, took a lollipop out of her pocket, peeled off the coating, and handed it to him.

"Want some candy, Qilin?"

A happy smile appeared on Qilin's little face. She reached out and took it, sweetly saying "Thank you, Mom." This immediately made Yun Que's face flush with two intoxicating blushes, as if she had been drinking.

"There are still a few wounded civilians on the battlefield in the lower city. Law, move them over here." Enel, who was standing with his arms crossed, looking down at the battlefield below, suddenly spoke up.

Following his gaze, Luo unleashed his Observation Haki and quickly locked onto the shipwrights' tavern on the abandoned ship island.

Immediately, he spread his fingers, and the air waves at his fingertips spun, instantly expanding the surgical space and spreading it over a kilometer, enveloping the Boatman's Tavern.

"ROOM, baton."

With a flick of his finger, the Franky family, who had been defeated by Lucci and the others, instantly appeared out of thin air on the flat ground behind him.

Not only that, but even Asie, Olga, Franky, Iceberg, and others who were in the Navy branch suddenly appeared.

When Franky saw his underlings suddenly appear before him, worry immediately flashed in his eyes, and he quickly ran over.

Seeing Luo treating their injuries, he became nervous again, fearing that Luo might take the opportunity to take away their hearts.

But when he noticed his underlings covered in blood and unconscious, Franky's eyes instantly reddened, tears welled up in his eyes, and he sobbed uncontrollably.

"Zanbai! Kiwi! Moz! You absolutely can't be hurt! I'll do anything for you if you survive. I'll quit drinking, I'll give up my dreams of being a pirate, I'll stay in Water Seven and work as a shipwright with you guys, sob sob, my little brothers..."

"Shut up! If you keep making noise, I won't treat them anymore." Luo, who was treating Zambai, frowned and scolded.

Franky, who was crying and sobbing, immediately shut up and sat obediently on the ground.

At this moment, Iceberg had roughly learned what had happened from Franky. He frowned and looked at Kaku and the others who had come with him. He didn't say anything, but walked up to Franky's family and began to help treat their injuries.

"Lucci!" Kaku rushed to the wall of the high platform and looked down with worry in his heart. Sure enough, he saw the scene he expected.

Lucci is getting utterly thrashed by Rorschach.

The kind of beating a father inflicts on his son, leaving him completely defenseless.

Luo Xia didn't even use his own Qilin form before he overwhelmed Lucci, who had entered his awakened form, and gave him a sound beating.

On the abandoned ship island, Lucci, who was thrown into a pile of wrecked ships by Rorschach's underwater descent, was not seriously injured. He quickly jumped out of the crater, which was tens of meters deep, and kicked out a slash over a hundred meters wide, like the flapping of a giant bird's wings, with his right foot, which stirred up the vacuum air.

"Storm Kick! Kaito!"

Without transforming, Rorschach's right foot also stirred up the vacuum airflow, kicking out a Tempest Kick towards the huge slash that was flying towards him.

"Shh!"

The air in front of him swirled, compressed, and converged, forming a massive slash hundreds of meters long and tens of meters wide in Lucci's vision.

This powerful slash, like a city wall and enveloped in a dazzling deep blue aura, swept down from the sky, easily shattering Lucci's kick and continuing its relentless onslaught towards him.

Lucci's face darkened. "Damn it, this isn't the Tempest Kick at all."

Whether it was the Tempest Kick or not was no longer important; what mattered was that he could feel the immense power contained within that slash.

Even for someone with awakened Devil Fruit powers, blocking it wouldn't be an easy task.

Therefore, Lucci chose to avoid the situation for the time being.

"Super speed shave!"

Lucci unleashed a shockwave beneath his feet, employing an advanced version of the Navy's Six Powers technique, Shave, which propelled him to his maximum speed, allowing him to narrowly dodge the massive slash from Rorschach's kick.

The deep blue slash cut into the abandoned ship island, chasing after Lucci as he fled, slicing through the island like a plow, pulverizing the abandoned ships on the ground.

“Lucci, you’re like one of those disobedient brats who need a good beating. And you need to be severely beaten every few days before you learn your lesson.”

As he retreated, Lucci suddenly heard Rorschach's voice behind him, causing all the muscles in his body to tense up.

Just as he was about to look in the direction of the sound, he was kicked in the lower back by a large foot, and his whole body flew into the air, crashing headfirst into the huge slashing attack coming from the front.

That posture was like a moth drawn to a flame, fearlessly throwing itself into it.

"Damn it!" Lucci exclaimed in shock and anger, channeling his Armament Haki to the fullest extent, covering his entire body.

With a crisp "bang!", he was completely engulfed by a large amount of dazzling deep blue light. The next moment, like a badminton shuttlecock hit by a racket, he flew back at a speed faster than his forward momentum.

then……

"Oh!"

His vision went black as a leg, like a falling guillotine, slammed heavily into his face, splattering Lucci's tears and blood together. He spun around like a windmill in mid-air a dozen times before crashing into the ground with a thud, leaving a dark hole in the ground.

Hundreds of meters underground, Lu Qi gritted his teeth, clutching his nose, which had been broken by Rorschach, his heart filled with rage.

Lucci had no idea when Rorschach had gotten closer.

Why didn't he sense Rorschach's arrival, even though he was constantly using Observation Haki?

and……

"Why is this bastard so strong? It doesn't make sense! He hasn't even transformed yet, so how come his normal strength is stronger than mine in my awakened Devil Fruit state?"

Lu Qi wiped the blood off his face, gritted his teeth, and sprang up from the ground, staring at Rorschach, who was standing leisurely on a wrecked ship not far away, with his bloodshot eyes.

"I don't believe you're that much stronger than me! Use your Devil Fruit power, Rorschach!"

Lucci roared, his speed exploding, a whirlwind of energy swirling around him. He roared again, his speed unleashed, his body surging forward with incredible speed and power.

"A pistol! Coptis chinensis!"

"Whoosh whoosh!"

The air exploded, and Lucci's hands turned into afterimages, slicing through the sky like arrows shot straight at Rorschach's face.

Luo Xia relaxed, stretched his muscles, clenched his right fist, and swung it out suddenly.

Lucci unleashed dozens, even hundreds, of armed finger guns at him in an instant, but Rorschach's counterattack consisted of only one punch.

Deep blue light flowed over that fist, its savage and unmatched power blasting away Lucci's thrusting palms. Before Lucci's incredulous eyes, it easily slammed into his abdomen once more.

"boom!"

Lucci arched his back, ending up like Franky before him. His white suit had a large hole torn in his back, and his entire spine bulged out, like a centipede crawling on his back, about to burst out of his body.

His mouth gaped open, his eyes bulged, and he gagged, coughing up blood. Luo Xia slammed him against his fist and flung him away, sending him crashing like a meteor to the ground hundreds of meters away. He tumbled and rolled, smashing through countless rubble and wrecked ships before finally coming to a stop like a dead dog.

Before he could stand up, a foot came down from the sky and stepped on his face, stomping Lu Qi into the ground.

“Lucci, let me tell you, even among those who have awakened their Devil Fruits, there are differences. Not to mention, your Devil Fruit ability is just a common Zoan-type ability, not even an Ancient Zoan. My ability, on the other hand, is a Mythical Zoan, and a top-tier Mythical Zoan ability that allows me to control two natural elements.”

"We're worlds apart in terms of fundamentals, what makes you think you can compare to me?"

Rorschach stepped on Lucci's head, who was about to faint from shame and indignation, and spoke rudely.

"So, next time you see me, please be a little more polite. You're only spared because you met me, out of consideration for the time we fought side by side. You're so arrogant without any strength. If you had challenged Kaido, you would be dead by now."

"Even Huang Mu has to address me respectfully as 'Big Brother,' so what are you? Believe me, I could kill you with one punch right now and the Five Elders wouldn't bother me."

Chapter 784 Warring States Period, Luo

On Shipwreck Island, Hibari watched Lucci, who remained silent and expressionless, boarding the black World Government ship carrying Kaku, Jabra, and the others, and then curiously looked at Rorschach standing beside him. He leaned closer and whispered, "..."

"Brother Rorschach, what did you say to him? Why did Rob Lucci just leave like that? That was pure gold, he just gave it up like that?"

“Pure gold? Where did you get pure gold?” Rorschach’s lips curled up slightly. “He admitted he had mistaken someone for someone else. There’s no Dr. Asie here who can create pure gold, just an ordinary father and daughter who run a tavern. How could an ordinary human live for over two hundred years?”

"Brother Rorschach, you don't even believe what you're saying, do you? Rob Lucci is an incredibly shrewd CP agent. If he wasn't prepared, how could he have found Asie and his daughter so easily? Okay, stop beating around the bush and just tell me." Lark gave Rorschach a reproachful look.

Luo Xia's heart skipped a beat when he was swept by her charming gaze. He thought to himself that Yun Que was becoming more and more charming and beautiful every day.

Especially now, ever since she met Qilin and was called "Mom" by him a few times, the girl has suddenly developed a maternal tenderness, as if she has suddenly grown from a naive and immature girl into a gentle and virtuous wife.

Rorschach admitted that he was starting to lose control.

Looking at the smiling lark, who was tilting her fair neck and looking at him, Luo Xia suddenly had a thought.

'Should I find some time to hold a wedding ceremony? After all, we already have a child. If I don't get married soon, the child will be grown up in a few years. If word gets out that Hibari had a child out of wedlock, Uncle Sakazuki will probably blow my head off with a cannibalistic attack.'

Lost in his fantasies, Luo Xia was poked in the waist by Yun Que.

"Brother Luo Xia, what are you thinking about? You seem so engrossed."

"Huh? No...it's nothing."

Rorschach snapped out of his reverie, his face flushing red. He quickly changed the subject, explaining to Lark why Robluch had retreated empty-handed.

The reason is simple: Rob Lucci didn't want to die.

Rorschach told him that if he insisted on taking Asie and his daughter away, he would kill him afterward unless he stayed in the Holy Land forever.

Yes, Rorschach threatened Lucci.

The reason his threat was successful was that the current Lucci was different from the cold-blooded killer Rob Lucci on Enies Lobby.

Lucci is now the strongest shield under the World Government, the highest-ranking officer of CP0, and wields power no less than that of a Marine Admiral. He has achieved great success.