{Shave}
Lucci tried to get past Luffy. However—
{Gum-Gum Pistol}
Noticing the fist coming toward him, Lucci could tell he wouldn't have time to dodge. What he could do was—
{Iron Body}
As the man's body hardened, Luffy's fist landed straight in his gut.
Lucci's eyes rolled white as he was sent flying, crashing against a nearby wall. Blood spilled from his mouth—the punch was so strong that even through Iron Body, he felt like his insides were being destroyed.
He wasn't wrong. Luffy was using Ryou to damage him. Not that Luffy couldn't hurt him without Ryou; his ass was currently as strong—actually way stronger—than his canon self during Sabaody. Like way stronger. Strong enough to take a Pacifista by himself, and that's excluding his transformations...and the fact he still had his sea-prism shackles on.
He was wearing them—not cuffs, just bracelets—that drained him. But Luffy could handle it.
That was the only way this was a fair fight; otherwise Lucci would need a fucking awakening just to deal with Luffy. And that's no disrespect—it's just that Luffy got buffed a lot.
Unlike the others, Kairo had made sure Luffy's ass focused on Haki more, even giving him metal to practice punching—metal he couldn't break without Ryou.
So yeah. There was that.
And also the fact that he could now apply Gear 2 to one of his arms while having Gear 3 activated on another part of his body.
Luffy didn't even know he could do that until Kairo told him—something about not letting himself put limits on his power.
Luffy wouldn't get to test this new ability until the next arc, though. For now, he would only focus on beating the brakes off this assassin.
"Straw Hat Luffy. Wanted dead or alive. Current bounty: 1.5 billion berries." Lucci stared at Luffy. And he knew for a fact—this fucker was NOT worth that much.
Berry inflation was crazy work.
"That's me," Luffy said.
"Get out of my way." Lucci had a mission, and Luffy wasn't part of it. Helping a Celestial Dragon slime out a minority was something anyone in his position would do.
Like, come on—even Garp with his Minority Impact helped them, and no, the "I'm protecting the Marines" bullshit doesn't work. Hell, even a Nazi could say that. Who would protect Hitler?
That was the type of timing his ass was on. But enough about that.
"You're the perfect guy to practice my new move on," Luffy said with a grin.
Lucci stared, as if making sure this little shit actually said what he heard.
"You will consider me practice?"
The man began to transform into a leopard.
"I'll show you that we CP9 are not to be messed with."
As he took his full hybrid beast form, Luffy smiled.
This would be fun.
{Soru}
Luffy tilted his head to the side before punching the man straight in the gut—so hard he imprinted his fist into the man's abdomen.
"...Is that it?" Luffy sounded disappointed. The man talked all that shit, but all it took was one punch.
Lucci gritted his teeth.
{Tempest Kick}
Luffy's hand hardened before he casually smacked the wind-shaped attack away. This was starting to look a bit one-sided.
{Finger Pistol}
Luffy swayed to the side, dodging every single attempt of the beast trying to poke holes in his body. Honestly, it was great training for his Observation Haki.
{Gum-Gum Bullet}
Once more, Lucci was slammed into a wall. The beast gritted his teeth. Okay—so maybe this boy was a bit strong. He'd need better tricks to beat him.
{Body Flicker}
Luffy's brow furrowed. Wait... where the fuck did he go?
Luffy barely managed to turn before he was kicked full force from behind, sending him skidding across the pavement.
Turning his head, he saw Lucci—claws covered in blood, but wearing a smug smile.
"I can see that you're fully aware of the CP9 fighting style..." The man licked the blood off his claw.
"Ew. Gross." Luffy wrinkled his nose. That earned a tick mark on Lucci's brow—who the fuck did this kid think he was?
"However, we CP9 no longer use the basic moves... Six years ago, new techniques were added to our repertoire."
As those words left his mouth, three other copies of Lucci appeared alongside him.
Luffy recognized the technique. It wasn't Shadow Clone Jutsu—it was Clone Jutsu. Unlike the shadow clones, Clone Jutsu produced mere illusions; they couldn't attack, plus they lacked intent.
However, that wasn't what caught Luffy's attention.
It was the fact that Lucci was using that technique as if it was his birthright.
Something about that annoyed Luffy greatly.
While Luffy was distracted Lucci would take a pill, a red pill to be exact, his heartbeat would increase a bit, he would inhale more air, his muscle would expend then contract, his body seem to be filling with power as the cp agent Doriki would double, then tripple, then quadruple, than get boosted 10x time over his base strenght.
A/N...I feel like if the marine did do a raid, they would infact steal that shit, so yeah, Cp agent know some techniques know...don't be suprised if in the future Akainu pull a shadow clone, or water walking.
Yes this is being used since I don't want the plot point of a village like Kairo only being used for his backstories and have no impact on the story.