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Chapter 1275: Steel Fruit and an Unknown Logia!
[Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh.]
Behind the castle gate was a somewhat narrow, straight corridor.
At the end of the corridor was a yard, and beyond the yard was the main hall where the king and ministers held discussions.
When Smoker reverted to smoke and surged in through the hole, the air immediately filled with dense whooshing sounds.
Streaks of slender afterimages were seen sweeping across mid-air at high speed, piercing through the smoke in the blink of an eye and embedding themselves one after another into the city gate.
Smoker noticed that they were actually yellowed tree leaves!
"How is this possible? Even a Logia user should be injured when facing an attack imbued with Haki!"
Smoker reverted to human form and saw two figures standing at the other end of the corridor.
One was a slender man with pointed ears, wearing a ghost face mask on his face, and a rapier hanging at his waist.
His neck was covered in countless yellow leaves, looking as lush as a male lion's mane.
The other was a voluptuous, hot, and sexy blonde woman, also wearing a ghost face mask on her face.
"They must have dodged using Observation Haki. How enviable, I wish I could awaken that too~"
The woman's tone was full of envy.
For Logia users, Observation Haki is actually more useful than Armament Haki.
After all, no matter how strong Armament Haki is, it's useless if you can't hit the person.
"So that's it!"
The man beside the woman suddenly understood.
However, this made the former unable to help but retort, "There you go again, Plum Blossom Clown, always with the 'So that's how it is'."
"Uh, you don't need to remind me!" The man retorted angrily.
The woman waved her hand helplessly, "Alright, alright, let's deal with this guy first."
"I really didn't expect General Spade to be defeated. What should we do now? I can't lift him."
Smoker watched the two of them chatting unrestrainedly with a blank expression.
The man on the right should be a swordsman, skilled in throwing hidden weapons. Looking at his slender physique, he's probably a speed type.
The woman on the left was holding a whip in her hand.
But judging from the exposed muscle condition, she didn't seem to be a martial arts expert?
Also, the collar she wore around her neck looked a bit strange.
Besides this, Smoker noticed that both the guards the man wore on his ankles and the whip in the woman's hand looked familiar.
Thinking carefully, they seemed to be the Ministerial Arms 'You Zhi Pants' and 'Rattlesnake' from the Imperial Arms World.
Speaking of which, the previous General Spade also had something on his wrist, which should be 'Crushing King' that grants monster strength.
These Ministerial Arms can now be mass-produced in Famous Sword Town on Wano Island.
Although it's stipulated that they can only be supplied internally within the World Government, it's unavoidable that a small amount leaks out.
For example, dignitaries can buy them from certain soldiers.
And these soldiers can also use military merit to exchange for one for their own use.
The main reason is that there is currently no rule prohibiting transferring the exchanged secret treasures to others.
"Shave!"
Smoker didn't wait for the opponent, taking the initiative to attack. He instantly appeared in front of the man and threw a punch fiercely.
In an instant, a sonic boom exploded, and fierce Qi energy erupted.
This punch caused a strong sense of danger to surge in Plum Blossom Clown's heart.
He immediately used the 'You Zhi Pants' on his ankles to quickly leap backward and retreat, while simultaneously shooting out streaks of afterimages from between his fingers again.
However, the result was still the same. Although they seemed to pass through Smoker's body and create numerous gaps in the smoke, they actually didn't touch anything.
Smoker's legs turned into smoke, erupting with speed faster than 'Shave'.
He directly approached Plum Blossom Clown, who was still in the process of retreating.
In this instant, the distance between the two was less than two meters.
Smoker intended to deal with this guy first.
On the other side, Plum Blossom Clown was very anxious and regretted not having his sword in hand earlier.
Now it was too late to grab his sword to block. Smoker's speed far exceeded his expectations.
Just in the nick of time, the blonde woman immediately took action.
She knew that facing an opponent who could defeat Kuma, she couldn't do it alone.
"Pulp..."
Queen Red Heart instinctively wanted to shout it out but was immediately stopped by rationality.
Because her ability was indeed somewhat easy to identify.
But this did not prevent her hands from releasing large amounts of viscous white liquid.
However, Smoker's Observation Haki detected her movement in time.
His entire body immediately turned into smoke and scattered, dodging the unknown liquid, and then re-condensed behind Plum Blossom Clown, delivering a black fist to his back.
[Bang!!!]
In an instant.
Plum Blossom Clown flew forward at an even faster speed, smashing heavily into the city gate on the other side like a cannonball.
The powerful force caused him to spit out blood on the spot.
The intense severe pain made his pupils tremble. He felt as if all the bones in his body were shattered by this punch.
On the other side.
After dealing with Plum Blossom Clown, Smoker immediately rushed towards Queen Red Heart.
The opponent's attack just now had confirmed that she was an ability user.
It was just unclear whether it was a Paramecia system or a Logia system.
However, one thing was certain: the liquid the opponent manufactured had strong viscosity, so it was best not to touch it.
Because his Smoke-Smoke Fruit ability was not essentially a gas, but tiny particles.
So, rather than calling it smoke, it was more like smoke and dust. From this perspective, this woman's ability was quite a counter to him.
Fortunately, the power system of the world was not only based on Devil Fruits.
The counter between abilities would not have too much impact as long as Haki and martial arts were strong enough.
"Get lost!"
Queen Red Heart roared in anger. The whip in her hand quickly turned black with Haki, turning into streaks of afterimages that struck towards Smoker.
The Breathing Style she learned was Water Breathing, but she didn't know the corresponding sword form, so there was no water flow special effect in the air.
However, Total Concentration Breathing still brought her physical improvement.
But compared to these, the ability of 'Rattlesnake' itself caused some trouble for Smoker.
This Ministerial Arm would move according to the user's will.
This meant that even after being swung out, the whip could constantly change direction mid-way without weakening the power of the strike.
This allowed it to continuously track Smoker's movements, while Smoker continuously dodged using Observation Haki.
The two were somewhat like a contest between automatic tracking and automatic dodging.
Smoker had actually considered not dodging and grabbing the whip body to pull the opponent over.
But the sticky liquid on the whip made him unwilling to try easily.
However, if he couldn't get close, there was a fighting style for not getting close. Black Arm Punch had techniques to deal with this situation.
Smoker immediately pulled back a few meters distance.
Then, under Queen Red Heart's attention, he performed a movement similar to Fish-Man Karate.
"Hah————"
Smoker let out a roar from his mouth, stomped his foot fiercely, his entire body swelled, his tendons and bones and muscles vibrated violently.
Suddenly, he unleashed this punch, condensing the strength of his entire body, towards Queen Red Heart in the corridor and Plum Blossom Clown who was getting up while leaning on the main gate behind her.
"White Snake. Black Arm Straight Punch!"
[Boom!]
White smoke erupted fiercely from his elbow. The surging fist force poured into the air in front of him, immediately forming visible layers of air pressure.
Finally, a wave of overwhelming shockwave scraped away the cement ground along the way and completely poured into the somewhat narrow corridor passage.
"What!"
"No————"
Queen Red Heart and Plum Blossom Clown's screams came to an abrupt halt, or rather, were drowned out by the deafening rumble.
But Smoker's attack combo was not over.
He took a deep breath and exhaled a large amount of smoke.
When the white smoke in the corridor passage became so thick that he couldn't see his hand in front of his face.
Smoker took out a lighter from his coat pocket, lit it, and casually threw it into the thick smoke.
Soon, a bright light burst forth from the smoke.
[Boom!!!]
Instantly, an earth-shattering great explosion formed in front of Smoker.
The next moment.
Everyone in the entire Goa Kingdom subconsciously looked up at the light and smoke and dust rising from the Royal Palace.
"Is that..."
In front of the Police Station, Kamado Tanjiro, who had just knocked out the last Royal Army soldier with the back of his blade, immediately had Smoker's appearance came to mind.
"Could it be that he's in trouble?"
Thinking of this, Tanjiro immediately set off, running at full speed towards the Royal Palace.
(End of this chapter)
[Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh.]
Behind the castle gate was a somewhat narrow, straight corridor.
At the end of the corridor was a yard, and beyond the yard was the main hall where the king and ministers held discussions.
When Smoker reverted to smoke and surged in through the hole, the air immediately filled with dense whooshing sounds.
Streaks of slender afterimages were seen sweeping across mid-air at high speed, piercing through the smoke in the blink of an eye and embedding themselves one after another into the city gate.
Smoker noticed that they were actually yellowed tree leaves!
"How is this possible? Even a Logia user should be injured when facing an attack imbued with Haki!"
Smoker reverted to human form and saw two figures standing at the other end of the corridor.
One was a slender man with pointed ears, wearing a ghost face mask on his face, and a rapier hanging at his waist.
His neck was covered in countless yellow leaves, looking as lush as a male lion's mane.
The other was a voluptuous, hot, and sexy blonde woman, also wearing a ghost face mask on her face.
"They must have dodged using Observation Haki. How enviable, I wish I could awaken that too~"
The woman's tone was full of envy.
For Logia users, Observation Haki is actually more useful than Armament Haki.
After all, no matter how strong Armament Haki is, it's useless if you can't hit the person.
"So that's it!"
The man beside the woman suddenly understood.
However, this made the former unable to help but retort, "There you go again, Plum Blossom Clown, always with the 'So that's how it is'."
"Uh, you don't need to remind me!" The man retorted angrily.
The woman waved her hand helplessly, "Alright, alright, let's deal with this guy first."
"I really didn't expect General Spade to be defeated. What should we do now? I can't lift him."
Smoker watched the two of them chatting unrestrainedly with a blank expression.
The man on the right should be a swordsman, skilled in throwing hidden weapons. Looking at his slender physique, he's probably a speed type.
The woman on the left was holding a whip in her hand.
But judging from the exposed muscle condition, she didn't seem to be a martial arts expert?
Also, the collar she wore around her neck looked a bit strange.
Besides this, Smoker noticed that both the guards the man wore on his ankles and the whip in the woman's hand looked familiar.
Thinking carefully, they seemed to be the Ministerial Arms 'You Zhi Pants' and 'Rattlesnake' from the Imperial Arms World.
Speaking of which, the previous General Spade also had something on his wrist, which should be 'Crushing King' that grants monster strength.
These Ministerial Arms can now be mass-produced in Famous Sword Town on Wano Island.
Although it's stipulated that they can only be supplied internally within the World Government, it's unavoidable that a small amount leaks out.
For example, dignitaries can buy them from certain soldiers.
And these soldiers can also use military merit to exchange for one for their own use.
The main reason is that there is currently no rule prohibiting transferring the exchanged secret treasures to others.
"Shave!"
Smoker didn't wait for the opponent, taking the initiative to attack. He instantly appeared in front of the man and threw a punch fiercely.
In an instant, a sonic boom exploded, and fierce Qi energy erupted.
This punch caused a strong sense of danger to surge in Plum Blossom Clown's heart.
He immediately used the 'You Zhi Pants' on his ankles to quickly leap backward and retreat, while simultaneously shooting out streaks of afterimages from between his fingers again.
However, the result was still the same. Although they seemed to pass through Smoker's body and create numerous gaps in the smoke, they actually didn't touch anything.
Smoker's legs turned into smoke, erupting with speed faster than 'Shave'.
He directly approached Plum Blossom Clown, who was still in the process of retreating.
In this instant, the distance between the two was less than two meters.
Smoker intended to deal with this guy first.
On the other side, Plum Blossom Clown was very anxious and regretted not having his sword in hand earlier.
Now it was too late to grab his sword to block. Smoker's speed far exceeded his expectations.
Just in the nick of time, the blonde woman immediately took action.
She knew that facing an opponent who could defeat Kuma, she couldn't do it alone.
"Pulp..."
Queen Red Heart instinctively wanted to shout it out but was immediately stopped by rationality.
Because her ability was indeed somewhat easy to identify.
But this did not prevent her hands from releasing large amounts of viscous white liquid.
However, Smoker's Observation Haki detected her movement in time.
His entire body immediately turned into smoke and scattered, dodging the unknown liquid, and then re-condensed behind Plum Blossom Clown, delivering a black fist to his back.
[Bang!!!]
In an instant.
Plum Blossom Clown flew forward at an even faster speed, smashing heavily into the city gate on the other side like a cannonball.
The powerful force caused him to spit out blood on the spot.
The intense severe pain made his pupils tremble. He felt as if all the bones in his body were shattered by this punch.
On the other side.
After dealing with Plum Blossom Clown, Smoker immediately rushed towards Queen Red Heart.
The opponent's attack just now had confirmed that she was an ability user.
It was just unclear whether it was a Paramecia system or a Logia system.
However, one thing was certain: the liquid the opponent manufactured had strong viscosity, so it was best not to touch it.
Because his Smoke-Smoke Fruit ability was not essentially a gas, but tiny particles.
So, rather than calling it smoke, it was more like smoke and dust. From this perspective, this woman's ability was quite a counter to him.
Fortunately, the power system of the world was not only based on Devil Fruits.
The counter between abilities would not have too much impact as long as Haki and martial arts were strong enough.
"Get lost!"
Queen Red Heart roared in anger. The whip in her hand quickly turned black with Haki, turning into streaks of afterimages that struck towards Smoker.
The Breathing Style she learned was Water Breathing, but she didn't know the corresponding sword form, so there was no water flow special effect in the air.
However, Total Concentration Breathing still brought her physical improvement.
But compared to these, the ability of 'Rattlesnake' itself caused some trouble for Smoker.
This Ministerial Arm would move according to the user's will.
This meant that even after being swung out, the whip could constantly change direction mid-way without weakening the power of the strike.
This allowed it to continuously track Smoker's movements, while Smoker continuously dodged using Observation Haki.
The two were somewhat like a contest between automatic tracking and automatic dodging.
Smoker had actually considered not dodging and grabbing the whip body to pull the opponent over.
But the sticky liquid on the whip made him unwilling to try easily.
However, if he couldn't get close, there was a fighting style for not getting close. Black Arm Punch had techniques to deal with this situation.
Smoker immediately pulled back a few meters distance.
Then, under Queen Red Heart's attention, he performed a movement similar to Fish-Man Karate.
"Hah————"
Smoker let out a roar from his mouth, stomped his foot fiercely, his entire body swelled, his tendons and bones and muscles vibrated violently.
Suddenly, he unleashed this punch, condensing the strength of his entire body, towards Queen Red Heart in the corridor and Plum Blossom Clown who was getting up while leaning on the main gate behind her.
"White Snake. Black Arm Straight Punch!"
[Boom!]
White smoke erupted fiercely from his elbow. The surging fist force poured into the air in front of him, immediately forming visible layers of air pressure.
Finally, a wave of overwhelming shockwave scraped away the cement ground along the way and completely poured into the somewhat narrow corridor passage.
"What!"
"No————"
Queen Red Heart and Plum Blossom Clown's screams came to an abrupt halt, or rather, were drowned out by the deafening rumble.
But Smoker's attack combo was not over.
He took a deep breath and exhaled a large amount of smoke.
When the white smoke in the corridor passage became so thick that he couldn't see his hand in front of his face.
Smoker took out a lighter from his coat pocket, lit it, and casually threw it into the thick smoke.
Soon, a bright light burst forth from the smoke.
[Boom!!!]
Instantly, an earth-shattering great explosion formed in front of Smoker.
The next moment.
Everyone in the entire Goa Kingdom subconsciously looked up at the light and smoke and dust rising from the Royal Palace.
"Is that..."
In front of the Police Station, Kamado Tanjiro, who had just knocked out the last Royal Army soldier with the back of his blade, immediately had Smoker's appearance came to mind.
"Could it be that he's in trouble?"
Thinking of this, Tanjiro immediately set off, running at full speed towards the Royal Palace.
(End of this chapter)
