Chapter 185: The Invisible Man with Nowhere to Hide! Lightning Execution on the Turf
In order to figure out the current situation and find a way to leave...
The Straw Hat Pirates decided to send out a "Reconnaissance Squad" first.
After an extremely "fair" drawing of lots, finally...
Nami, Clay, Lassoo, along with Usopp and Chopper, formed this zoo advance team.
They boarded the "Mini Merry II," a small steam-powered paddle wheeler meticulously built by Franky, and headed down the dark waterway to scout the path.
However, it wasn't long before...
"Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!"
"Help!!! There's a ghost!!!!!"
From deep within the eerie forest shrouded in thick fog, the shrill, pig-slaughtering screams of the three came through crystal clear.
Hearing the distant screams...
Luffy, instead of being worried in the slightest, leaned over the railing of the lion-headed bow, clutching his stomach with both hands and laughing out loud.
"Hahaha! Listen to them!"
"It sounds like they've encountered something really fun and exciting!!"
"Why didn't I draw the winning lot! Damn it!!
"I want to go too!!"
On the turf deck behind Luffy, Zoro was sitting cross-legged.
Holding a piece of pure white cotton cloth, he was focused on wiping the Wado Ichimonji.
Hearing Luffy's complaints and the distant screams, Zoro didn't even lift an eyelid:
"What's the rush. We'll step in when they really can't handle it, and not a moment sooner.
"Before stepping into the New World, they also need to learn to grow on their own in this sea."
Over by the kitchen, Sanji was standing by the open window.
His blonde bangs covered half of his eyes.
With a burning cigarette dangling from his mouth, his slender fingers were expertly slicing vegetables on the cutting board.
On the other side, Franky was hunched over at the bow of the ship.
Wearing goggles and holding various strange measuring tools.
He was very seriously inspecting the giant spider web that had forcibly entangled the thousand sunny earlier.
Trying to analyze exactly what components the thing was made of.
On the entire ship, everything seemed so peaceful and routine.
However, while this group of seemingly defenseless pirates were busy with their own tasks...
A figure completely invisible to the naked eye had already silently slipped onto the spacious turf deck of the Thousand Sunny.
The Clear-Clear Fruit user—Absalom, one of the "Mysterious Three" of Thriller Bark.
Standing in the center of the deck, his greedy and sinister gaze swept over the unsuspecting Straw Hat crew.
He let out a perverted sneer in his heart:
"Are these the Straw Hat Pirates who defeated Enies Lobby?
"They don't seem like much.
"Before handing them over to Master Moriah, let me have some fun teasing them first!"
Absalom tiptoed toward the kitchen window.
Inside the kitchen, Sanji had just finished slicing the vegetables in his hand.
Feeling that the cigarette in his mouth was about to go out, he naturally reached into his suit pocket and pulled out his lighter.
Click.
Sanji was just about to flick the lighter.
Suddenly, the heavy solid gold lighter in his hand seemed to have grown wings, weirdly flying up into thin air.
With a "plop," it fell accurately into the nearby sink filled with dirty water.
"Huh?!" Sanji, with the half-extinguished cigarette in his mouth, was completely petrified. "What the hell?!"
This invisible prank was just beginning.
On the deck, Zoro was resting with his eyes closed.
Clang—
An extremely subtle sound of metal friction rang in his ears.
Zoro's ultra-sensitive swordsman intuition instantly sounded the alarm.
He felt that the cursed blade he had placed beside him had actually been drawn an inch out of its scabbard in a bizarre fashion.
Zoro snapped his sharp eyes open, his chilling killing intent instantly released without reservation.
"Who's there?!! Show yourself!!"
His hands instantly gripped the hilt of his sword, his eyes scanning the surroundings like blade edges, but looking around, there was nothing.
The empty air seemed to mock his vigilance.
Next, Luffy, leaning on the railing, was thoroughly enjoying gnawing on a piece of meat-on-the-bone.
Whoosh!
The half-eaten meat-on-the-bone in Luffy's hand actually flew up into the air.
It spun a few times weirdly in mid-air and then floated away into the distance.
"My meat!!!!!"
Luffy roared at the air in extreme anger.
"Which bastard did that!! Do even ghosts have to steal meat to eat!!"
Three consecutive bizarre phenomena finally made the men of the Straw Hat crew realize the seriousness of the situation.
The group quickly gathered, standing back-to-back in vigilance.
They realized that an invisible enemy was currently lurking on this ship.
Standing to the side, Absalom was extremely satisfied with the reaction of these men as if they were facing a great enemy.
Then, a lewd smile appeared on his lion-mouthed face.
He slowly turned his gaze toward the open-air lawn area on the other side of the deck.
There, Robin was sitting elegantly on a beach lounge chair.
Her deep eyes were quietly focused on the ancient book in her hands.
"Hehehe... a top-tier black-haired beauty."
Absalom licked his thick, dry lips, drool almost leaking out.
"Before giving these idiots' shadows to Master Moriah...
"Let me first have a good taste of this mature lady!"
The invisible Absalom completely threw the vigilance of those men to the back of his mind.
He tiptoed, step by step, approaching Robin who was reading.
Standing by Robin's lounge chair, he pervertedly stuck out his long, barbed lion tongue.
Preparing to give Robin's fair, flawless cheek a hard lick.
At the same time, his rough, calloused hand reached straight for Robin's full and tempting chest.
However, how keen was Robin's alertness.
The moment Absalom approached.
Robin sharply felt an abnormal airflow fluctuation and a nauseating, heavy breath.
Robin's eyes instantly turned icy cold, her slender hands crossing in front of her chest.
But, before Robin could activate her ability.
Smack!
A dull thud accompanied by the friction of bones rang in Robin's ear.
A hand, like an unshakable iron plier, accurately grabbed an invisible wrist in mid-air.
Robin turned her head in surprise.
She saw Tatsuya, who at some point had appeared beside her like a ghost.
Tatsuya lowered his head slightly.
Viewed from the side, that always-cold face had no extra expression.
His eyes, at some point, had completely turned into an eerie crimson.
Before these Sharingan, the invisibility of the Clear-Clear Fruit was practically non-existent.
"What a naughty fellow..."
Tatsuya's fingers tightened bit by bit:
"Do you really think you're transparent?"
Tatsuya had no interest in wasting words with him at all.
For this kind of pervert who dared to reach his hands toward his crew members, there was only one way to handle it.
His left hand instantly rose.
Zzzzzzt——!!
A violent burst of blue lightning suddenly coalesced in Tatsuya's palm without warning, letting out an ear-piercing shriek.
"Chidori!!!"
Tatsuya's arm, flickering with terrifying lightning, was like a spear of divine punishment, slamming into Absalom's body without reservation.
"Aaaaaaaahhhh———!!!"
Accompanied by a shrill, inhuman scream.
Under the frantic rampage of the terrifying ultra-high voltage current.
Absalom's nervous system instantly collapsed, and the Devil Fruit ability maintaining his invisibility also failed instantly.
His lion-mouthed body, charred black by the lightning, abruptly appeared in the air.
"Bang!!!"
His massive body fell heavily onto the soft, high-grade turf deck of the thousand sunny.
His whole body twitched frantically, his eyes rolled back, and white foam kept spewing from his mouth.
Hearing the scream, Zoro and Sanji immediately gathered around.
When Sanji saw the charred lion face on the ground, he understood everything instantly.
"Bastard!!"
Sanji was furious, his leg igniting with the scorching flames of Diable Jambe.
"So it's a perverted invisible man! Let me kick him to pieces!"
Although Absalom was heavily injured by that "Chidori," he was still struggling in his death throes with great difficulty.
He coughed up a large mouthful of blood and stared at Tatsuya with extremely venomous eyes, uttering curses intermittently:
"Cough cough... you... damn pirates...
"Master Moriah... will not let you off..."
Tatsuya looked at the spots of blood splattered on the turf and frowned in extreme disgust.
"Tsk."
Tatsuya's tone was extremely cold and dissatisfied.
"This is high-grade turf, how filthy."
Then, as if he were carrying a bag of trash.
He grabbed Absalom's already tattered collar with one hand and lifted him up effortlessly.
Tatsuya carried the despairing Absalom and strode to the edge of the thousand sunny's railing.
Below was the cold, bottomless inland sea of the Florian Triangle.
"Since you are an ability user..."
Tatsuya looked at the dying enemy in his hand, his mouth curling into a cruel sneer.
"Then go back to where you belong."
"No... don't!"
Tatsuya let go.
Plop!!!
Accompanied by a dull sound of water splashing.
Absalom's charred body was thrown directly into the pitch-black, cold seawater.
The moment a Devil Fruit user comes into contact with seawater, they lose all strength.
In his heavily injured state, Absalom couldn't even manage a few struggles.
Like a heavy stone, he sank "glug glug" into the bottomless, terrifying deep sea.
The sea surface quickly returned to calm.
Tatsuya leaned elegantly against the railing, quietly watching the sea surface that was no longer bubbling.
A moment after Absalom sank to the bottom of the sea.
In Tatsuya's ear, the crisp system notification sound rang right on time:
[Ding! Successfully killed one of the Mysterious Three of Thriller Bark: Absalom]
[Successfully erased the Clear-Clear Fruit user, significantly changing the plot direction]
[Reward obtained: Ninja Points + 2500]
Robin walked elegantly to Tatsuya's side, standing beside him at the railing, looking at the bottomless seawater.
A charming smile curled at the corner of her mouth:
"My, what a brutal Vice Captain."
Then, Robin naturally leaned closer to Tatsuya and whispered in a soft voice that only the two of them could hear:
"But I don't hate it."
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