Chapter 394: The Displaced CP0
"Blueno!"
Stussy cried out in alarm. Looking at the suddenly appearing Reiner, her expression was a little disbelieving.
S-Bear had been lent out by them to carry out a mission. She had personally witnessed its abilities and methods. Relying on the Paw-Paw Fruit to repel its body for high-speed movement was comparable to teleportation. Coupled with its already steel-like, tough physical body and the lineage factor of the Lunarian race, its defensive power was second to none.
She had thought that with S-Bear, she could at least hold Reiner off for a while, but she had never expected the other to be able to shake it off in an instant!
Reiner looked down at Blueno, and with a forceful stomp on Lucci, a cracking sound of bone was heard.
"Kugh, ah—"
The unconscious Lucci coughed up blood without realizing it, his eyes tightly closed, his brow furrowed, his expression extremely pained.
Blueno's eyes were bloodshot, almost popping out. He covered himself with Armament Haki and, extending his index finger, he roared as he stabbed at Reiner!
"Let him go!!"
"Stop it, Blueno! Run...!"
Seeing this, Stussy cried out in alarm.
However, Blueno, who was in a rage, was already finding it difficult to think rationally. His finger was as swift as a bullet as he thrust it out with all his might, without reservation.
"Shigan!"
Faced with the attack that was rapidly stabbing at his chest, Reiner didn't dodge at all. He surged his blood to tense his muscles to resist head-on, and his Armament Haki was fully concentrated to protect his chest.
Ding!
His finger stabbed into his chest as if hitting a thick steel wall. His joints 'cracked', and that one finger was instantly twisted out of shape and squeezed together!
"Hiss, ah—!"
An intense pain traveled from his finger to his entire arm. Even a burly man like Blueno couldn't help but throw his head back and wail at the sky.
"...This guy is a monster."
Stussy gritted her teeth and rushed up, stepping on the air with Moonwalk.
At the same time, in the distance, S-Bear scanned the entire battlefield and finally locked onto the suddenly disappeared Reiner again. A ring of green blood in its arm boiled, and it repelled its own body, teleporting out.
"Tobu Shigan: Hibari!!"
Stussy stabbed rapidly with her fingers, and a large number of beak-shaped attacks flew from her fingertips, like a flock of canaries, rapidly attacking Reiner.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
The storm-like attack struck his body. Sparks flew densely from various parts of his body, but they could only leave white dots on his skin and could not shake him in the slightest.
A faint, playful smile hung on Reiner's face.
"If it's just a move of this level, quantity cannot make up for the gap in strength."
"Then let's see you take this one!"
Stussy let out a娇喝 and dived down. Two purple bat wings grew from her back, and with a flap, her speed surged again. She left an afterimage in the air and, in the blink of an eye, she was in front of Reiner.
"Rankyaku: Guillotine!!"
Using the force of her acceleration, Stussy kicked out in a spin. Her heel, sharper than a razor, cut towards his throat.
Reiner leaned to the side and bent his waist, at the same time raising his leg in a high whip kick. He dodged the attack and at the same time, viciously lashed out at Stussy's body.
Bang!!
A full force exploded in her abdomen. Stussy's petite body was sent flying like a rubber ball.
At the same time, the Seraphim's figure instantly appeared behind Reiner!
Its tall and sturdy body had a severely mismatched, tender face. S-Bear's face was expressionless as it pushed down with the compressed air cannon in its palm!
Reiner's body sank, and instead of retreating, he advanced. His shoulder brushed past the other's palm and he got in close, raising his hand in an elbow strike to the chest.
S-Bear bent its other hand, revealing the paw pad in its palm to protect its chest. Reiner's heavy elbow strike on it was like a mud ox entering the sea, without any ripple. The force was instead all repelled back.
Reiner was pushed back two steps by the heavy, repelled force. He backhanded and grabbed the Seraphim's arm, pulled it to his shoulder, turned, and directly swung the other up, smashing him to the ground in a suplex!
Bang!!
S-Bear's head smashed onto the ground and then bounced up high. Reiner spun and delivered a back kick, his Armament-Haki-covered foot heavily striking its chest and sending it flying.
Hiss—!!
Flames burned fiercely on S-Bear's back. Its two feet plowed the ground as it flew backward at high speed. At the same time, it quickly raised its other hand and aimed at Reiner. A golden light bloomed from its palm.
Even after taking a direct hit from Reiner's Haki-infused heavy blow, its movements were not deformed in the slightest. The laser beam began to gather.
A hint of impatience flashed in Reiner's eyes. Although he could easily suppress the other, it was still quite troublesome to take him down quickly.
Possessing the lineage factor of the Lunarian race, the Seraphim's defense was already ridiculously high in its flame-burning state. And to make matters worse, this S-Bear before him also had the ability to repel all attacks.
Coupled with its high-speed movement ability and the extremely high-damage laser weapon it was equipped with, it was even more of a hassle to deal with than Lucci.
The laser beam had finished charging and was about to be fired.
However, at this moment.
"S-Bear! Don't get entangled with him! Send that long-nosed guy and Nico Robin flying!!"
Stussy suddenly shouted at S-Bear, raising her hand and pointing at Usopp in the distance.
Hearing her voice, Reiner couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
Beep, beep, beep~
Recognizing the new command, S-Bear turned its head and followed her gaze, quickly locking onto the target.
The laser aimed at Reiner quickly dissipated, and instead, it activated its ability and flew towards Usopp.
"So that's how it is."
Coming back to his senses, Reiner quickly understood the other's intention.
To defeat Usopp or Robin, even a Seraphim couldn't do it instantly.
But to just send him flying... for S-Bear, all it needed was a single touch of its palm.
Nami was too fast. Even S-Bear might not be able to do it. But Usopp and Robin probably couldn't defend against such a move.
Either let go of Lucci and chase S-Bear, or let S-Bear attack Usopp and Robin.
Stussy's gaze was fixed on Reiner. Based on the other's actions of causing a great commotion on Enies Lobby two years ago, she was certain that Reiner would definitely choose the latter.
"It would be a pain if you guys really sent them flying. I wouldn't know where to find them even if I flew for three days and three nights."
Reiner looked at Stussy with great interest. This woman's mind and reaction were indeed not bad.
"Unfortunately..."
He unhurriedly grabbed the Lucci on the ground. The bone ring on his hand touched the other in an instant, and a strange power enveloped both their bodies.
Reiner looked at Stussy, his expression teasing:
"The Door-Door Fruit can take people with it. How do you know my teleportation can't?"
"Could it be!"
Hearing this, Stussy's pupils constricted into a pinprick. A bad premonition suddenly arose in her heart.
"Teleport."
As expected, Reiner's light and airy voice fell, and along with Lucci's figure, the two of them disappeared from the spot with a 'swish'!
Stussy whipped her head around to look at another spot!
Swish!
S-Bear suddenly appeared behind him. Usopp, who was in the middle of a fight, paused. As if sensing something, he quickly raised his gun and turned his body.
"Who is it!"
"Target, locked."
S-Bear raised its hand and said coldly.
Usopp had just seen the newcomer's figure clearly when the other's palm was already whistling towards him!
Bang! Bang!
In his urgency, Usopp quickly fired two shots. The bullets hit the other's chest and exploded.
Boom!
The firelight and thick smoke engulfed S-Bear. Although an explosion of this level could not cause him any damage, it still managed to block him for a moment.
And using this one moment, Usopp immediately jumped back.
He had just jumped away from his original spot when a hand with a paw pad immediately broke through the smoke and gunpowder and slapped out. At the same time, Reiner, holding Lucci, appeared out of thin air in front of that hand.
Boing—!
With the crisp sound of a bubble popping, S-Bear's palm mercilessly slapped down.
Reiner's hands were also suddenly empty. The figure he was holding had instantly disappeared. He then grabbed S-Bear's wrist and kicked him in the chest, sending him flying.
"Lucci!!"
Stussy, seeing this, subconsciously shouted. Her heart, which had been anxious, was now completely filled with despair.
Lucci... has been sent flying.
Kaku stood there in a daze, his pupils trembling nonstop. He seemed to have a hard time accepting this fact.
"Alright. Game over."
Reiner patted his hands nonchalantly, turned his head to look at Usopp, and said,
"You're not bad. Your Observation Haki has been trained well."
"Heh heh. Of course! Don't underestimate this great me."
Usopp put one hand on his hip, puffed out his chest, and with a thumb, he wiped his nose and said proudly.
Even though his heart was still pounding with fear, it didn't stop him from pretending to be calm and cool for a couple of seconds.
Then, Reiner shifted his gaze to Kaku.
Kaku gritted his teeth and clenched his fists. Even though he was unwilling, he also knew that it was futile to do anything more.
At this point, the key was to find out where Lucci had been sent as soon as possible.
As a fellow awakened Zoan user, he knew how strong Lucci's life force was. He wouldn't die so easily.
"Everyone, retreat!"
Kaku waved his hand and shouted at Stussy and the others.
Blueno was the first to activate his ability and came to his and Kalifa's side. His movements didn't stop as he opened another space door. The Seraphim received the command and quickly moved over.
Reiner didn't intend to stop them either.
CP0's mission had failed miserably. These people, in the eyes of the Five Elders, were practically on death row. From now on, they would probably be on a displaced journey to find Lucci.
However.
Just as Kaku and the others had all jumped into the space door, and only Stussy was left to go, and Blueno could directly close the space door...
Unexpectedly, Stussy suddenly erupted at this moment, flying towards Reiner with an angry face!
"Come back, Stussy!!"
Blueno, with half his body out of the space door, shouted at her in a panic. However, the other seemed as if she hadn't heard.
As if she had made up her mind to take revenge for Lucci even if it meant mutual destruction, Stussy's eyes were full of murderous intent as she stared at Reiner.
"I'll never forgive you!!"
"I told you the game is over. I'm not in the mood to play with you anymore."
Reiner's tone was faint as he sighed. He casually raised his hand, and a wisp of black spread from his wrist to his palm. He opened his five fingers and aimed at her.
"Kurouzu."
The power of darkness gushed out from his palm. As the black mist began to spin, Reiner's hand, like a black hole, released a terrifying gravitational pull.
"This is...!"
The flying Stussy's eyes widened in shock. Her figure immediately lost its balance and flew uncontrollably towards his hand.
"Since you don't want to live, it's just a casual matter to grant your wish."
Reiner's five fingers choked Stussy's throat, and he lifted her petite body directly, forcefully squeezing.
"Umm—!"
A strong sense of suffocation immediately came over her. Stussy gripped Reiner's thick arm tightly with both hands, and blood squeezed out from the corners of her gritted teeth.
Blueno's eyes looked as if they would split as he roared.
"Stussy!!"
"D-don't... worry about me..."
Stussy's expression was extremely pained. Her hoarse throat forcefully squeezed out a sound.
"Quick, take them and go, Blueno... you must find Lucci..."
"You really care about your companions. How about you all just die here?"
Reiner glanced at Blueno with a teasing expression.
"What if the lucky Lucci survives and hears this news? I wonder if he'll be in pain for the rest of his life."
"You bastard—!"
Blueno's fists trembled with anger. He gritted his teeth and stared at Reiner.
"Go quickly! Cough—!"
Stussy used the last of her strength to shout anxiously. The moment her voice fell, she couldn't help but cough up a large mouthful of blood, as if her throat could be crushed at any moment.
Blueno was still hesitating. Inside the space door, the angry Kaku was already on the verge of rushing out.
"Let me out!"
"Don't be rash, Kaku!"
"Don't stop me! Even if I die here, I can't leave her behind!"
"Damn it!!"
At this moment, Blueno finally gritted his teeth and made up his mind. He quickly closed the space door, stopping Kaku.
As the space door closed, this place finally returned to its former tranquility, leaving only a mess on the ground, and Stussy, who was on the verge of suffocating and fainting.
"Heh. You're quite the actress."
Reiner released his fingers and let Stussy fall from his hand onto the island cloud.
"Cough—cough—!"
Stussy propped herself up with one hand, clutched her throat, and coughed a few times. She greedily took large gulps of fresh air. After she had recovered, she looked up at Reiner.
"No matter how well I act, I didn't fool you. You bastard... when did you see through it?"
"My move can only seal your ability, not your strength. Lucci isn't dead. A foolish thing like fighting to the death for revenge doesn't suit a smart woman like you."
Reiner gave her a faint, sidelong glance.
Not to mention, he had known her identity long ago.
"I see. I didn't expect that the man with the title of the World's Strongest would also have such a meticulous mind."
"You're a real handful. No wonder the World Government is going to such lengths to annihilate you here."
Stussy spoke without any restraint, while at the same time, she slowly stood up. She rubbed her still-aching neck and looked at Reiner with a hint of resentment.
"Since you knew I was being captured on purpose, you were still so heavy-handed. What an ungentlemanly man."
"Heh. You threatened my companion. You're lucky to be alive."
Reiner's tone was not at all polite.
"Tch."
The two gave each other a disgusted look.
"Reiner."
Just then, Nami and the others finally gathered. After landing beside him, they looked at Stussy with vigilance.
"I'm not your enemy. Let me see Vegapunk. I'm here to help him."
Faced with several pairs of hostile eyes, Stussy took the initiative to raise her hands in a gesture of surrender and suggested:
"There isn't much time to explain to you now. If you don't trust me, you can also put Seastone handcuffs on me."
(End of chapter)
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