Chapter 159: The Collapse of CP9
"Chief Spandam... was actually killed?!"
Kumadori and Fukurou stared wide-eyed, looking in disbelief at Spandam's corpse on the ground. Blood stained the deck, freezing his foolish expression forever in death.
"Yo-yoi—Unforgivable!!!"
"RAGE!!!"
Fury ignited their senses. Kumadori roared, whipping his long hair, activating Life Return: Lion Finger Pistol!
"Life Return (Seimei Kikan)" turned his hair into many hand-like appendages, attacking simultaneously. Countless Shigan strikes erupted from his hair strands, crisscrossing like lotus petals, rushing straight at Law with a piercing howl of wind!
Fukurou curled his entire body into a ball, using "Six Powers: Spinning Iron Body" to hurtle toward Law's midsection like a cannonball!
However, facing this sudden combined assault, Law simply uttered a single word: "ROOM."
"SWISH—!"
A blue spherical space expanded, bringing the area instantly under his complete control.
The fluffy long hair Kumadori had whipped out suddenly twisted into a dead knot in mid-air, snapping back to bind his own limbs, deflecting the entire attack trajectory!
Fukurou's high-speed spinning path also skewed abruptly within the space. His uncontrolled body veered off target like a stray bullet, smashing directly into Kumadori!
"BANG—!!!"
The two collided, bouncing away like ragdolls, rolling dizzily into the ruins!
Law raised his right hand gently, his scalpel tracing two precise trajectories. "Mes (Scalpel)."
"SPLAT—!"
Two shockwaves silently hit the backs of their necks. Kumadori and Fukurou didn't even have time to grunt before they completely lost consciousness, collapsing to the ground.
"Tsk. A bunch of small fry." Law frowned slightly, his gaze already shifting to another battlefield.
On the Other Side of the Battlefield
Kalifa's high heels tapped the floorboards, the "clack-clack-clack" rhythm tight and fast. Her thorny whip danced like a snake, slicing the air!
"Six Powers: Thorn Queen!!!"
The whip shadow swept in like a whirlwind of thorns, creating countless afterimages!
Ain blocked with her daggers, retreating nimbly. Her steps seemed chaotic but followed a hidden rhythm like flowing water, maintaining the optimal distance from Kalifa.
Not far away, Blueno was struggling amidst the vines. Binz, controlling the Mosa Mosa Fruit (Grow-Grow Fruit), unleashed a sea of rolling vines, constantly forcing Blueno back.
"Air Door: Open!"
Blueno struggled to open a door in the air for a surprise attack, but every exit was instantly blockaded by vines. His stamina was draining rapidly!
"Blueno! Watch out for their formation!" Kalifa suddenly sensed something wrong. Just as she was about to shout a warning—
"Now!" Ain shouted low.
Binz immediately unleashed his killer move. "Mosa Mosa: Strangling Vines!"
"BOOM—!"
Thick vines burst from the ground beneath Blueno, instantly wrapping tightly around his calves!
"Damn it!" Blueno's face changed drastically. He tried to open an Air Door to escape again—
"Too late."
Ain appeared beside him like a ghost, her palm covered in blue-green flames blasting out. "Retrograde: Twelve Years!"
"HUM—!!!"
A blue wave passed over him like electricity. Blueno's body changed rapidly—muscles atrophied, height decreased. In an instant, he turned into a teenage boy!
His strength plummeted instantly, making it impossible to condense Armament Haki!
"Mosa Mosa: Heavy Whip!"
"SMACK!!!"
Binz seized the opportunity, sweeping a heavy vine whip across. It struck Blueno, making him spit blood and fly back over ten meters, smashing heavily into the wreckage of a ship, incapacitated!
"Blueno!" Kalifa's pupils constricted, her face pale, rage flooding her heart.
"DIE!!!"
Her thorny whip lashed out like lightning, aiming straight for Ain's heart!
"I was waiting for that."
Binz sneered, pressing both palms to the ground. "Mosa Mosa: Vine Net!"
"SWISH-SWISH-SWISH—!"
Vines erupted from the ground, precisely entangling her whip and wrists, locking her movement!
"Your turn." Ain turned around, the blue light reappearing in her hand—
"Retrograde: Ten Years."
"Ah—NO!!!"
Before Kalifa's scream could finish, her body rapidly regressed. Her voluptuous figure shrank instantly into a little girl wearing glasses, her face full of panic as she fell to her knees, unbalanced.
"How is this possible..."
She whispered tremblingly, looking at her tiny hands, her eyes filled with shock and humiliation.
Ain sheathed her daggers and stood tall, her gaze cold as frost. "The battlefield leaves no room for words."
Binz stepped forward, waving a vine to bind the child-form Kalifa. "It's over."
At the edge of the battlefield, Franky and the Franky Family leaned against a collapsed hull, their eyes filled with shock and confusion.
Their bodies were covered in wounds, clothes tattered, unable to even stand steadily, supporting each other just to sit up.
Minutes ago—
They were fighting CP9 to the death, only to be crushed effortlessly, without any ability to resist.
That gap in power was like an impassable abyss, deeply branded into their memories.
But now—
Before their eyes, the tide of the battle had completely reversed.
"Ah... what is happening..."
The square-haired sisters supported a fallen comrade, their voices trembling. "Those monsters... were all... suppressed?"
Franky's eyes were wide, cold sweat on his forehead, his throat dry as sand. "If... if we had this kind of power back then..."
"Would Tom-san... have not died..."
He gritted his teeth, trembling fingers curling into a fist, unwilling regret welling up in his eyes.
They once thought the World Government was a god-like existence, a monster that could never be defeated no matter how they resisted.
But now, they watched helplessly as these young Marines, with overwhelming force, crushed their nightmares one by one!
In this moment, everyone in the Franky Family fell silent.
In their hearts, there was not only shock but also a long-lost emotion slowly growing—something called "Hope."
In the center of the battlefield, thick smoke and firelight intertwined. On the scorched earth, battle lust surged like a tide.
Rob Lucci and Kaku were still fighting hard, but the calm on their faces had long vanished, replaced by gravity and unease.
"Lucci!" Kaku's voice came from the circle of battle, his tone laced with anxiety. "We—"
Before he could finish, his massive giraffe body shook violently. Zoro slashed down from the air, Haki and sword intent woven together!
"Tekkai (Iron Body)!"
"GUH-AAAHHH!!!"
A shocking bloody gash was torn across Kaku's chest. His massive body was blasted backward, blood spraying onto the broken deck!
He scrambled up in a sorry state. The playfulness was gone from his face, leaving only trembling anger.
"Impossible... I used 'Six Powers: Iron Body' for defense!"
And Lucci, in his Leopard Form, clenched his fangs. His eyes were like knives, staring fixedly at the CP9 members lying scattered in the distance—
Fukurou unconscious, Kumadori fallen, Kalifa turned into a child, Blueno unconscious. Even that idiot Spandam had been killed...
"In just a few minutes... wiped out?"
"Except for me and Kaku... everyone else..."
"Lost all combat capability?!"
He never imagined that CP9 would be completely annihilated in a single battle.
Just then—
Tap.
A steady, light footstep landed on the charred deck.
Tap. Tap.
Under the moonlight, a slender yet incredibly sharp figure walked over slowly. The pace was unhurried, yet it felt as heavy as a thousand tons.
It was Kuina.
Her expression was cold, sword unsheathed, aura still burning!
Lucci snapped his head around, meeting those eyes cold as frost. His chest tightened inexplicably.
"You..."
She didn't speak. She simply stopped in the center of the battlefield, her gaze sweeping over the fallen CP9 members, then landing on Lucci and Kaku. Her eyes held neither joy nor sorrow, as if she had expected all of this.
In that instant, Lucci, known as the strongest in CP9's 800-year history, felt something rise in his heart for the first time:
A chill.
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