"Ahhh!"
"It hurts, it hurts!"
Luffy clutched his head and fled in a panic, screaming nonstop.
How could this guy's fists be even harder than Grandpa's?!
Zoro tightened his grip on his wooden sword, noticing the strange, flowing black substance on Sarutobi Hiruzen's hand.
Could this thing make Devil Fruit abilities disappear?
Normally, blunt force was unlikely to hurt Luffy, the Rubber Man.
Just as everyone braced themselves, Luffy recovered and spoke up.
"It was him!"
"That guy..."
"And that Spider Woman who sent our pirate crew here!"
Luffy pointed at Sarutobi Hiruzen, glaring at him furiously, though with a trace of wariness too. Sarutobi Hiruzen had shown himself to be far too powerful.
Even though Luffy had spent some time training in the level between the floors of Impel Down and had improved quite a bit, he'd still been beaten without a chance to fight back.
"Monkey D. Luffy."
"He's an Admiral candidate, not some Spider Woman."
At that, Luffy cried out in pain as he shouted his correction.
"I don't know what an Admiral candidate is!"
"And I'm Luffy, not Monkey D. Luffy!"
Sarutobi Hiruzen smiled. He naturally didn't explain where the name Monkey D. Luffy had come from. Instead, he looked around and confirmed that they were in the level between the floors of Impel Down.
It was the secret level between the fifth and sixth floors, pushed out by a Revolutionary Army officer using the Push-Push Fruit.
His decision to plant a [Dimensional Formation] spatial mark on Luffy earlier hadn't been in vain.
And the heavily made-up men around them were presumably Okama.
Ivankov's expression grew even darker. Someone who could be called an Admiral candidate would be difficult to deal with...
And how had that man appeared just now?
Some kind of spatial Devil Fruit