"Eee..."
To Pica, whose feelings were easily hurt, Lucci's words were like a knife driven straight into his heart. His eyes went bloodshot with rage, and his teeth ground together. "You dare laugh at me?"
Lucci rolled his eyes and gave him a cold look. "Are you an idiot? You've been alive for decades. Don't you know how awful your voice sounds?"
"Eee..."
Pica was too furious to speak. He plunged underground. This was an Island, covered in rock, giving him plenty of room to use his powers as he pleased.
After all, he had eaten the Stone-Stone Fruit.
Dancing Stone!
The ground beneath Lucci suddenly heaved and shook as though a massive earthquake had struck. Gravel sprayed and dust billowed into the air.
Before the tremors had stopped, huge stone pillars burst from the ground around Lucci. Their sharp, pointed tips gleamed coldly as they stabbed at him like dancing barbs.
Lucci leaped aside, but the pillars did not stop. When the first strike missed, they attacked again, relentless and densely packed. Like a vast net, they covered the ground for miles around him. No matter which way he dodged, the pillars followed and struck.
"Hmph..."
Lucci gave a scornful smile. His feet accelerated, popping against the air. "Geppo!"
Leaving a faint Afterimages behind, Lucci vanished from Pica's sight in the blink of an eye.
"Where did he go?"
Pica's enormous stone head had barely emerged from underground when Lucci suddenly accelerated. Before Pica could react, Lucci's foot slammed into his head.
Crack...
Pica shrieked in pain under Lucci's furious kick. His stone head shattered into pieces.
Terrified, Pica burrowed underground again and did not dare show himself for a long while.
Lucci stood still, then suddenly widened his eyes. He sprang into the air and plummeted toward a