Swain vs CP0

Swain was utterly stunned!

Looking at this attire and comparing it to his memories, he immediately identified it.

Why would CP0 appear in a place like this?

In his view, CP0 was simply too prominent! This spy organization, which stood above the Marines and reported directly to the Celestial Dragons, was extremely mysterious.

Swain still remembered that in the future, during the battle of Onigashima against Kaido, Luffy had been hindered by one of them, causing Luffy to suffer a devastating blow from Teacher Kaido, though fortunately, he awakened Gear 5 Nika and managed to survive in the nick of time!

In the subsequent Egghead, Lucci, who had been promoted to CP0, also fought Gear 5 Luffy for a while; although he was beaten to a pulp, it was still enough to prove their strength.

Lucci isn't the leader of CP0 at this time yet, so this person in front of me is probably a current CP0 member!

Swain hid in the shadows, rapidly analyzing the current situation.

In that case, Woli probably hasn't noticed that an external enemy has broken in, after all, he broke in so suddenly.

If I fight him with my current strength, I can probably only hold out for a few minutes.

He carefully calculated these things.

Do not think that CP0 was all that easy to deal with; they could be matched against Luffy and Zoro, who had become Four Emperors, which showed the strength of their power. However, the Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji he encountered possessed even more formidable strength, which made them seem slightly weaker by comparison.

It was not to say that Swain was all that weak, but rather that he was far too young, and he had not fully mastered the Three Haki.

Like Gaban, one of Roger's crew members, who possessed the strength of Rayleigh in his prime when he was young, this was also a one-in-a-million figure.

Meanwhile, the masked person who had been standing there under the moonlight slowly moved, holding something resembling a compass in his hand.

If one looked closer, one could even see the statue of a mermaid carved onto the edge of the compass.

The masked person abruptly turned around, looking toward a certain spot, his gaze narrowing while his Observation Haki gradually swept toward that area.

Oh no! I'm about to be discovered! Swain thought to himself.

Because the spot the masked person was staring at intently was precisely his hiding place.

Shigan! Suddenly, the masked person teleported in front of Swain, unleashing a fierce, lethal strike.

However, to the masked person's disappointment, Swain had sensed beforehand that the masked person was going to strike that exact spot, and he elementalized in advance.

"Hm? This ability... As expected, you ate it!"

The masked person was evidently somewhat angered, moving sideways to block Swain's escape route, intending to unleash another lethal strike.

Shock Gun! Fortunately, he reacted in time, using the shockwave between the two of them to forcefully separate.

Seeing Swain retreat a hundred paces back, the masked person said darkly:

"Kid, I'll give you a chance. Kill yourself right now, and I can still give you a painless death!"

Swain replied after hearing this: "You at least have to give me a reason, right? Why do you want to kill me?"

"We seem to have no grievances or enmities."

As he spoke, he fumbled for something in his left pocket.

Seeing this, the masked person couldn't help but smile, but his voice made anyone who heard it feel not like a spring breeze, but like needles pricking their back.

"This surrounding ten-mile area was scouted out by me long ago; there is no one who can save you."

As a professional spy, he naturally had to do what was conducive to completing the mission.

"Did the Five Elders send you?" Swain probed.

At the same time, he was carefully observing whether the masked person had any emotional changes.

Sure enough!

Upon mentioning the three words "Five Elders", the masked person tilted his head slightly, appearing somewhat surprised.

Yet the very next second!

He closed in on Swain, sweeping a solid right whip kick across.

At the same time, he said sinisterly: "You know a bit too much."

Swain failed to react in time in his haste, because the speed gap between them was simply too vast.

Bang-boom-rumble-rumble-rumble!!

Like a cannonball, Swain was kicked flying several hundred meters away, kicking up several meters of dust on the ground.

The masked person stood in the distance, quietly looking over there.

His brow furrowed: "Not dead yet?"

The moment his voice fell, a flash of light surged into the sky from within the dust.

"There's backup?" the masked person immediately grew vigilant.

"I need to make this quick!"

At the same time, a stumbling figure flickered within the dust.

So painful!

This was Swain's initial feeling upon getting up.

Still, the old man is definitely stronger than him, right? As long as I can hold out for a few more minutes!

He was still thinking about how to buy time, but his opponent refused to give him that opportunity and instantly killed over.

Without a shred of hesitation!

Rankyaku!

Sea: Tentacles!

The voices of the two rang out one after the other.

Another loud crash! It was like two bombs colliding.

The masked person stood unmoving in place, while Swain was blasted back several meters, fortunately not as battered as the previous time.

"So strong... But it's still within the tolerable range," Swain said, wiping the blood from the corners of his mouth with his sleeve.

The masked person, however, was not at peace inside: This brat...

As the flare shot into the sky, Woli in the second district also spotted this streak of red light, which stood out far too clearly against the backdrop of the night!

Little Swain is in danger?! Woli's expression changed drastically in an instant.

"I need to get over there fast!"

Before the sound of his voice seemed to echo back, his figure was already hundreds of meters away, sprinting at full speed toward the flare.

On the main battlefield, Swain had already exchanged dozens of blows with the masked person.

Although he was the one taking color every time, he had managed to stabilize the situation.

Sea Bind!

Several black sea chains infused with Armament Haki lunged toward the masked person, all of which the latter dodged one by one.

Yet it widened the distance between them.

Good opportunity!

Swain crossed his hands with his ten fingers curled slightly backward, and ten blue wave rings appeared behind him.

Shock Gun!

Bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang!

Tekkai! The masked person had no choice but to defend, because the damage from these moves was enough to cause him injury.

Swain hovered in the air, his mind rapidly calculating how he could break away.

Running away was definitely out of the question, as he couldn't outrun him, but fighting seemed equally unviable.

Attack in place of defense! He made this decision.

Then he once again unleashed attacks all over the ground like a landslide.

"Have you made enough of a racket!" the masked person said with an icy voice.

Afterward, his aura suddenly surged!

It's Haki! Swain thought inwardly, a bad feeling rising.

Because Swain had been able to trade blows evenly with the masked person, most of it relied on his Devil Fruit ability.

Once Haki was brought out, it was not good news for him.

Yet it was already too late; even if the masked person's Haki was not exceptionally strong, it was more than enough to deal with a greenhorn.

Throwing a punch from a distance, Swain had no time to dodge at all and took the punch squarely.

Instantly, his throat turned sweet as he spat out blood.

In a crisis, one could not simply sit and wait for death. He first unleashed a wave of Sea Waves, but the blue wave rings behind him were also gradually dimming. He attempted to stall for time, waiting for Woli's arrival.

"At the end of your rope?" The masked person approached him, looking down from above with a whip kick that swept Swain to the ground, where he crashed through three or four trees before finally coming to a halt.

"I told you long ago, suicide might just be the easiest way to die."

The masked person stepped on Swain's head.

Like an arbiter, he coldly declared: "Time to hit the road!"

Feeling the intense murderous intent pressing down upon his head, Swain wanted to counterattack, but his body was completely spent.

Perhaps he was about to die.

He felt an extreme sense of reluctance in his heart: Why?!

He continuously questioned frantically in his mind.

Is this lifetime going to end in such a hasty mess too?

He was filled with fury, feeling that the heavens were treating him unfairly.

Even though his head had already been pressed into the dirt, he still spoke word by word, as if swearing his two-lifetime unwillingness to the heavens!

"I... Refuse... To... Accept... This!!!"

Just as the masked person's foot was about to crush Swain's head.

A massive aura erupted, radiating outward from around Swain in an arc, accompanied by black lightning.

Conqueror's Haki!!

Even the masked person couldn't help but be moved, blasted flying several meters away.

Such intense Haki!

"I'm going to kill you today!" the masked person snapped fiercely.

"Who did you say you were going to kill, you bastard!" A deep, resounding voice suddenly rang out.