The stay in the cold village was heh at best. Like sure, maybe at first it was nice-ish, but now, shit was like meh. He didn't care much.
Nami was getting healed elsewhere. She would be up and running in no time, so he didn't have to worry much about her—she would be fine in a bit.
If he remembered correctly, even if he knew that Crocodile's power was sand, he currently had no reason why his ass should know that. So, he was planning on asking Vivi about it, and this would be his alibi.
And probably his reason for teaching the Straw Hats about Crocodile.
Anyway, time to put on a play.
"Vivi, from what you have said, Crocodile is the one behind everything going on in your nation, correct?"
She nodded her head along with what he was saying.
"Yes, he is the mastermind behind everything currently going on in Alabasta. Framing my father, and even the resistance. If it wasn't for him, none of this would have happened."
"What's his power?" he questioned.
"He controls and manipulates sand. He can even suck out the moisture in someone's body," she said calmly.
"So he's a sand man, which means..." He turned to face Luffy.
"You cannot beat him."
"Hey, why not?! Why can't I beat him?! He's a bastard and I'll punch him!"
"'Cause he's a logia. Which means unless you have haki, or his logia weakness, you, in fact, cannot hit him."
Luffy tilted his head. Huh? What did he mean by that? What did this have to do with him hitting Crocodile?
Kairo sighed and made a handseal. The snow next to him turned into a clone of himself.
"Luffy, I want you to try and punch that clone."
"Gum-Gum Pistol!" Holy damn, no hesitation at all. Like, damn. As Luffy's fist hit the clone—
"Yeah... got it," he said, sounding quite excited about this.
"Huh!" Confusion spread across Luffy's face as his fist went right through the clone. His rubber-like arm snapped back to him as the clone reformed from the damage dealt to it.
"You see..."
"Gum-Gum Gatling!" Luffy practically shouted as what seemed to be thousands of fists rushed toward the clone, who simply stood still.
Kairo watched as what seemed to be dozens of holes appeared in his clone's body. Oh well, it was simply the basic clone ninjutsu. Shit didn't even have a shadow. But this worked for his example, since the clone wasn't real to begin with—just an illusion.
When the barrage of punches finally ended, Kairo watched as his captain smiled.
"There, see! He's all beat up!" Only for the clone to reform in less than three seconds.
"What?!" The boy was truly confused. The hell? How the fuck did this happen?
"This is what happens when you try to hit a logia without armament. It's like trying to hit water—it's not going to work," Kairo explained. He then cracked his knuckles as he looked at Luffy.
"We have three days before Nami wakes up. You, Zoro, and Sanji better have learned the basics when I'm done."
Yow, why the fuck did he suddenly get so much bigger? Oh well, with his momma-ain't-raise-no-bitch attitude, Luffy was up to it. Even if he got his ass handed to him multiple times. Anytime he was knocked out, beaten unconscious, he would be fed meat, then rinse and repeat. Even Sanji and Zoro got their shit rocked.
The might of the Monster Trio combined was nothing to this heavily suppressed Kairo. Oh well, it didn't matter. The fact still stood that they were getting their shit kicked in—badly. They trained near the ship since, after all, they wouldn't want someone to try and steal that shit.
Kairo knew he was strong—but really, he never knew how strong. This level of smurfing could only be rivaled by Mihawk searching for a bum in the Grand Line. Oh well, they were getting stronger—that was all that mattered. Even if he was beating them within an inch of their lives, the 20 MDs were there for a reason. If they couldn't heal Nami because of some BS plot reason, they could heal his teammates as he beat them senseless.
"Onigiri!" As Zoro launched his attack, Kairo raised his hand and blocked the blade with his bare hand. The attack dealt zero damage. He then tossed Zoro away as Sanji attempted to kick him, only for Kairo to catch the attack—grabbing the simp by the leg.
"Gum-Gum Pistol Shotgun!" The attack started off as an ordinary Gum-Gum Pistol. However, Luffy "twanged" his stretched arm, causing his fist to connect multiple times.
Kairo launched Sanji at Luffy, causing all those blows to land on the poor cook's spine... ouch.
Kairo ducked under another sword slash, tilting his head left and right, avoiding Zoro's blows.
"Can you look where you're throwing your damn punches?!" Sanji was annoyed at Luffy for hitting him.
"Not my fault you ran into my attack." Perfect argument from the future King of the Pirates.
Zoro was then sent flying, hitting the wall nearby and puking blood. The 20 MDs rushed to him and began tending to him.
"Come at me," Kairo said, waving at them to come at him.
Luffy had this fire in his eyes. He was captain, dammit. He refused to fall so far behind. He knew he was way too damn slow to hit Kairo. He needed speed.
A/N Something to keep in mind, Kairo had Wapol eat a bunch of metal, and asked for the resident of Drum village to send those metal somewhere, keep that in mind.
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