Since its founding, the island that never slept had never been breached. Today, Enies Lobby faced an unprecedented Disaster! With Tony and his group joining the fight, the Straw Hat Pirates' alliance had reached the island's heart, the Tower of Justice, with hardly any effort.
Or what had once been the Tower of Justice!
Now the building that symbolized Enies Lobby and the supreme authority of the World Government was such a wreck that calling it unsafe was an understatement!
On the top floor of that battered tower, Luffy was locked in a fight to the death with the strongest enemy he had faced since setting sail: Rob Lucci, P9's "greatest prodigy in eight hundred years"!
Neither would back down!
They both had their reasons!
The Haki Luffy had suddenly awakened was Armament Haki, though the faint beginnings of Conqueror's Haki were there too. It was too weak for Rob Lucci to sense, so he assumed the threat came entirely from Luffy's Armament Haki.
Luffy had only just awakened it, and his control was unreliable. When he finally caught an opening in Rob Lucci's defense, he swung a vicious punch, only for Lucci to knock it aside with Iron Body.
They traded blows, pitting stamina against technique.
A Zoan Devil Fruit user's greatest strength was endurance!
And the Seastone on Smash countered every Devil Fruit user. Rob Lucci was confident he would be the last one standing!
No—he was certain of it!
Bang!
Whoosh!
The two dark figures collided and sprang apart, coming to rest at opposite ends of a diagonal. Rob Lucci was wary of Luffy's Haki; even with Iron Body and his Devil Fruit transformation, those blows were hard to take! Luffy was equally wary of the Seastone on that mechanical arm. If it caught him, he would