The End of CP9

"Not good!" With his beastlike instincts, Lucci sensed danger approaching.

"Iron Body!"

Iron Body was a defensive technique of the navy's Six Powers. By tensing a rigorously trained body, the user could make it as hard as iron. Ordinary bullets and blades could not pierce it.

Faced with danger, Lucci used it without hesitation.

Rob Lucci's entire body went rigid, and his blood surged through his veins!

Slash!

In a single exchange, a wound opened across Lucci's abdomen. Blood gushed from it.

A young man in white stood behind Lucci, sword in hand.

It was Ryan!

"Too weak!" Ryan shook his head as he looked at Lucci, whom he had gravely wounded with a single strike.

In Pirate King, the battle between Wang Luffy and Rob Lucci was one of the most thrilling fights in the entire series. Every punch had landed with brutal force!

With his mastery of the Six Powers, Lucci had dominated Luffy throughout the fight. Luffy had even burned through his life force before he finally brought Lucci down.

But now Ryan found that Lucci was nowhere near as powerful as he had imagined. In fact, he was weak.

Ryan had simply grown that strong. The formidable fighters he had once watched on television and read about in comics could no longer withstand a single blow from him.

"Ready to die, Rob Lucci?" Ryan pointed his sword forward, his voice calm.

"Weak?" Lucci clutched the wound in his abdomen, breathing hard.

Five years ago, at thirteen, he had been sent on a mission to a World Government Member State under attack by pirates. Five hundred soldiers of the kingdom had been defeated and captured, and the pirates used them to threaten the king. Lucci infiltrated the warehouse where they were being held and killed all five