"Hahahahaha! I don't know what's going on, but my heartbeat feels so fun! I keep thinking that right now, I can do absolutely anything!"
Luffy landed in front of BIG MOM and Kaido, laughing so hard he could barely stop. He looked like a child who couldn't contain his laughter, and even the way he ran had turned into pure slapstick.
But BIG MOM and Kaido didn't take Luffy standing before them very seriously.
After all, he was someone they'd taken down in a single blow before. So what if he looked a little different now?
"Thunder Bagua!"
Kaido looked at Luffy and didn't even bother with a particularly powerful move. He figured an ordinary Thunder Bagua would be more than enough to settle things.
But just as Kaido gripped his spiked club, coated it in Armament Haki, and prepared to smash Luffy's head open, his swing struck Luffy like he was a lump of jelly. It didn't hurt him at all.
"What's with this guy? His body seems to be coated not only in Armament Haki, but Conqueror's Haki too. And his movements are bizarre—completely unpredictable, like he's moving freely on a whim."
Kaido's club had failed to do any real damage to Luffy. The guy kept yelling, "That hurts! That hurts!" but his legs continued running like propellers.
"Boom—!"
As Luffy ran past BIG MOM, she slashed at him too. But Luffy gave a light hop, and his body bounced into the air like a rubber ball.
As he sprang skyward, Luffy even yanked the ground up with him as if it were a lump of putty, then flung it back down.
The awakening of a non-Zoan Devil Fruit could affect the surrounding environment, much like Doflamingo's Line-Line Fruit. Luffy's awakened Rubber Fruit had clearly turned the ground