"Oh..."
The pirate agreed and they both jumped onto the Isel, went to Catherine's side, and prepared to help her up and take her back to the pirate ship.
boom...
Just then, an extremely terrifying, almost tangible pressure descended upon everyone, causing their bodies to tremble. Unable to withstand it, they knelt on the ground, shivering uncontrollably.
Bang...
Immediately afterwards, a figure rushed out of the pirate ship's cabin, staring expressionlessly at Lucas and his companions.
"Hmm! I didn't expect you to still be awake. I thought you had already passed out!! It seems the Navy's bounty posters aren't issued lightly. Pirate Luo Chen..."
As the only person present unaffected by his oppressive aura, Lucas seemed completely oblivious to the terrifying pressure emanating from him as he spoke to Luo Chen, who appeared before him.
"You did all of this, didn't you?"
After staring at him for a while, Luo Chen asked in a calm tone, but he was more like the calm before Storm. No one knew just how intense the anger simmering in the man's heart was.
"What? What do you mean?"
Lucas didn't understand what Luo Chen was referring to—was it the matter of his companion being injured, or the matter of the people he had enslaved in the dungeon?
"Hehehe, don't you understand? Fine, then I'll let you taste the pain of being a slave... Shave!!"
call out...
After speaking, Luo Chen vanished from everyone's sight in One Flash flash.
" Six Powers? I know that too, no need to show off... Get out here now! Didn't you say you wanted me to experience the pain of being a slave? Then come on!! I'll stand here and let you attack me!!"
Lucas's eyes blurred, and he lost sight of Luo Chen's whereabouts, so he spoke up in an attempt to provoke him out.
Swoosh...
"Where are you looking?! I'm right behind you!! Shigan: Rapid Fire!!"
As Luo Chen spoke, he appeared behind Lucas, his right index finger shooting across Lucas's back like a bullet.
Bang... Bang... Bang...
"Um..."
Lucas was in the storage room when he heard Luo Chen's voice just as it sounded behind him, only to be met with a barrage of bullet-like fingers.
"Pfft... Sponge-Sponge Absorption!!"
At first, Lucas couldn't defend against the attacks and was blasted into a mouthful of blood, spitting it onto the ground. Only then did he realize what was happening and use his ability to absorb all the power of the attacks into his body.
"Um..."
call out...
After firing over a hundred Shigan, Luo Chen saw that Lucas was no longer injured and instead looked quite pleased with himself. He immediately used Shave to move away from Lucas and watched him from a distance with a puzzled expression.
"What's wrong? Not going to continue? I can still take it!!"
Lucas looked at Luo Chen with an expression of enjoyment and spoke.
"This is the Sponge-Sponge Fruit ability you mentioned that can absorb attacks, right? It sounds pretty interesting!!"
Luo Chen stared at him for a moment before remembering what he had said about his abilities, and then asked him to confirm.
"Hahaha, you caught me? Not bad, this is the absorption ability of the Sponge-Sponge Fruit that I was talking about, and..."
Lucas drawled out his words, then strode up to Luo Chen, his right hand waving at him.
"Shave..."
call out...
Although unsure of what he was planning to do, Luo Chen instinctively avoided him. Then he saw Lucas place his hand on the railing, and a loud Blast rang out as a whole piece of iron railing was blasted apart by the Impact.
"Hehehehe, did you see that? That's the release of the Cotton-Cotton Fruit. It can turn any attack that hits you into Impact."
That was the attack that just caught you off guard and sent you flying. How about that? Isn't it an incredibly powerful ability? With it, I could escape even from Admiral- level expert. That's godlike power!!
"Thief, hahaha..."
After Lucas finished speaking, he became completely absorbed in his own abilities.
"God?!"
Hearing him boast that his abilities were divine power, Luo Chen stepped forward again, his calm and collected demeanor making it impossible to guess his thoughts, and asked him a question in return.
"Every ability has its flaws, even the powerful Logia is no exception, let alone your mere ordinary Paramecia Sponge-Sponge Fruit, which dares to boast of being a god?!"
Is it because you haven't encountered any opponents during your voyage that you're so blindly boastful, losing even the basic caution of a strong person? Or is it that you simply lack the heart of a strong person?
Luo Chen had seen people who became self-absorbed because of their 'invincible' abilities before, like Enel from Sky Island, who almost became a god because of the invincible power of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
Upon hearing Lucas boast about his abilities, Luo Chen simply shook his head, intending to bring him back to reality.
"Hahaha, you bastard! I don't have the heart of a strongman? Why don't you come and verify it? See if I've truly lost the mindset of a strongman, Pirate Luo Chen!"
And just now, your companion tried to teach me a lesson like you did, and now he's lying there, unable to move!
"Thief, hahaha..."
Lucas ignored Luo Chen's taunts. As a pirate who could lord it over the seas, he was willing to forgo the opportunity to enter the New World and stay here to continue his carefree life for ten years.
For him now, as long as he can live, everything else is secondary. It is because of this mindset that he hides every time a lieutenant Headquarters Vice Admiral leads a team to wipe them out, and then reappears after they leave. Some ordinary Rear Admiral are no match for him, which has shaped his mentality.
"By the way, you must have seen what happened in the dungeon down there, right? Let me tell you, I've done many things like that before!
During my decades-long career as a pirate, I was involved in the slave trade, and to date, at least tens of thousands of people have been bought and sold by slave traders through my dealings.
Hearing this, aren't you furious? Want to kill me even more? Come on, I'm right here, I'm not leaving. If you want to kill me, then come on!
Lucas was still thinking about how to provoke Luo Chen, make him lose his composure, and let him do as he pleased.
"Hehehe, very good... Pirate Captain Lucas, I admit you have successfully angered me. With me here today, your pirate career will come to a complete end."
Upon hearing this, Luo Chen could no longer suppress his anger. He gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and said, word by word.
"Hahaha, anyone can talk big! I can even say I'll put an end to Marine Admiral Akainu's naval career!!"
Lucas didn't believe Luo Chen's words at all, and after hearing them, he burst into laughter and said with a smile.
"I'll make you understand, I promise... shave!!"
Luo Chen did not refute, but said with a very firm attitude, and then disappeared from everyone's sight once again using the Shave technique.
"Hahaha, it's this again. Can't you come up with something else? Aren't you tired of it? I'm sick of it..."
Swoosh...
As Lucas spoke, he also used the Shave technique to leap rapidly across the deck of his ship, trying to make it impossible for Luo Chen to guess where he would appear next.