Elementalization was one of the "always-on" abilities granted by a Logia Devil Fruit.
Basically, any Logia Devil Fruit user possessed this utterly broken ability to dodge attacks with a hundred percent certainty. Since most attacks in the One Piece world involved fists, kicks, blades, and swords, a method that could ignore physical attacks was absurdly overpowered.
Unless it was seawater, Seastone, Haki, or a specifically "countering" attack, nothing could harm someone using Elementalization. Otherwise, when ordinary "minor experts" faced an opponent capable of Elementalization, only two words remained:
Despair!
"Hmph, you want to turn Nami and the others into artworks?"
Then I'll turn you into an artwork—
Crash!
At that moment, amid a deafening crash, three people... no, two people and a land-running duck flew into the battlefield along with broken branches and fallen leaves. One look was enough to tell they had used Luffy's classic travel method: the Human Cannonball.
Luffy,
And Nami...
Wouldn't it be bad to kill someone in front of them?
No matter what, Luffy usually just punched enemies flying; Nami was, at heart, a kind girl too...
Whoosh—
Just as Roman hesitated, Mr. 3, whose face Roman had been gripping and twisting in midair, spread his palm. White wax surged out and swiftly formed a longsword, which he swung at Roman's arm.
?!
Rustle...
Roman's arm, seemingly "cut clean in two," did not spill a single drop of blood. Instead, it turned into sheets of white paper and reassembled itself. Though completely unharmed, he had allowed the man called Mr. 3 to break free.
This...
"Roman, behind you!"
Hearing Nami's shout from behind, Roman had a thought, and the clothes across his entire back immediately transformed into a huge sheet of white paper that drifted before his eyes, making his expression turn grim.
There was