Luck / Rat Talisman

Luck

"Hey! Captain, what did you see?"

The navigator saw Clyst's face turn deathly pale, and his heart sank. A bad feeling crept over him.

Sure enough—

The pirate ship, which had just come to a stop, suddenly began to shake.

The world spun before Clyst and the others. Sea and sky seemed to switch places as a powerful sense of weightlessness struck them.

Had someone... lifted the ship?!!

Only then did Clyst remember what he had just seen. They hadn't run aground at all!

They had struck a bare-chested man!

What terrified him most was that the man was completely unharmed—and had punched a huge hole through the bottom of the ship with his body!!

His pirate ship was, after all, large enough to pass for a medium-sized sailing vessel. Given its speed, Clyst couldn't imagine anyone surviving a head-on collision without a scratch.

And since the man could move freely in seawater, he clearly wasn't relying on a Devil Fruit Ability!

"Hey, hey, hey! Captain, what did you see back there?!"

Stan drove all ten fingers deep into the deck. Blood stained the wood around them, but he held on through the pain to keep himself in place.

"...A man."

A man? What was so shocking about a man?

Stan stared blankly, then his expression changed. "You're saying we hit a person just now?!!"

Before he finished speaking, the entire ship was wrenched clear of the sea, its bow pointing down and its stern toward the blue sky.

Spray glittered in the sunlight.

"Is that... a person?!"

"One person lifted our whole ship?!"

"Captain, use your Devil Fruit Ability!"

The other crewmen looked down along the deck and saw a man with bulging muscles and a lean, powerful build.

His veined arms gripped the hull tightly, his feet