Chapter 238: The Tournament par 4
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Chapter 238: The Tournament par 4
The battle royale started.
Vivi spotted some of the most interesting ones.
Some of the fighters had allied around one man in the center. That man was the fighting King Elizabello who is supposed to have the strongest punch in the world. But he needs one hour to charge his attack so he is always surrounded by his most trusted men to protect him in the meantime.
There was a very skillful gladiator taking down one oponent after the next.
'That must be the former king, Riku. Or should I say the rightfully King?, since Doflamingo is just an usurper.'
An old fishman wearing a karate gi was punching people all around him.
Then it was Bartolomeo, lying down in a corner of the arena.
"They are just going to leave him be?" Vivi asked to one in particular while glancing at the scene from the balcony.
"Is more like no one can get close to him. That man Bartolomeo is not all bark... He has the ability to back his big mouth." Cavendish walked to her side.
"I see. He looks like a troublesome guy…" Vivi noticed a big stack of wanted posters on his hands.
"What's that about?, I thought you were a pirate, not a bounty hunter."
"I am a pirate. I carry these around to remember the faces of the men I want to kill. " Cavendish said.
"Oh… I'm going to need new ones, these are so filled with knife holes that is becoming difficult to discern their faces."
"Why do you want to kill these pirates so badly. Wait, are those the Strawhats?". Among other crews of the so-called 'Worst Generation', he had several posters of Luffy and her other crew mates.
"Yes, Strawhat is probably the worst of them all!. When I and my crew arrived at Grand Line, all that people could talk about was Strawhat this and the Hearth Pirates that…no matter what I did, I was always one step behind. And I'll tell you what.."
She let him ramble for a few minutes while she watched the fight down below.
"And finally, I was able to earn a 330 million beri bounty!" Cavendish continued.
" 30 million more than Strawhat!. I thought that I finally had surpassed him. People would talk about me now!, But what does that bastard do?! He goes and attacks Impel Down!"
He smashed a wanted poster on the rails of the balcony.
Vivi glanced at it. It was Luffy's poster. The reward read…
"500 millions?!" She was not expecting that.
They haven't seen their wanted posters in a while but it made sense for them to go up after the events at the prison, just not this much.
'Well, Luffy is going to be so happy when he sees this.' Though Vivi.
"Ho Ho! ,500 million. It looks like Garp's grandson is doing quite well."
Cavendish was startled when someone got behind him to speak.
A big old man with a bald head and white beard was standing behind and looking down at the poster.
"What?!, don't get behind me old man!. Do you wanna get hurt?" Cavendish had a hand on the pommel of his sword.
"Hoho!, youngsters these days are very daring. But we better leave that for the arena." The old man walked away while laughing.
Cavendish sighed.
"This place is filled with weirdos…but anyways…I thought that with such a big price, I would be seeing at least one them here so I would get my chance…but alas…"
Vivi looked at the depressed blonde man without saying a word.
"But!" He suddenly exclaimed loudly.
" By winning this tournament, I can gain a lot of fame!. Everyone in the new world will know my name!" he shouted.
"And what is your name?, You never introduced yourself." Of course, she did know his name but just wanted to tease him a bit.
"What?!, You don't know?". He was in shock.
"I am Cavendish, Captain of the Beautiful Pirates?!"
"The Beautiful Pirates…" she did not know what to comment about that.
"Of course!, Not only I am the strongest but also the most beautiful man in all New World. You must have been living under a rock to know about me…poor thing."
'Okay, you are getting rude now…' Vivi frowned.
"And what's your name, my lady? I surely have never seen you before but you showed a bit of skill when you defeated that brute."
"I'm Lucy." She knew he wanted more information than that but didn't feel like coming up with an entire fake background for her fake persona.
"I see…Lucy. You seem to be very resistant to my charm. I admire that in a woman." He winked at her.
"You aren't really my type." She turned her attention back to the arena. There were only a few fighters remaining now.
Cavendish did not seem to take offense with her attitude and thought she was just playing 'hard to get'.
"Captain Lepanto went down!. Only thirty fighters are left standing!" The commentator said.
"Seriously?" Vivi raised an eyebrow.
"How can he be so disgusting?!" Yelled Cavendish.
"Hey, what is that guy doing?"
"Are you serious?!"
"Kyaaaa!, gross!"
The audience screamed in horror.
Bartolomeo was taking a piss on the water that surrounded the arena.
"Unbelievable!, in front of the whole audience!. This man has no shame whatsoever!" Shouted the commentator.
"You know…there are people trying to take this seriously."
The old fisherman karateka stood behind Bartolomeo.
"Normally, I would not resort to attacking a man on his back, but you don't leave me any other choice."
The offender in question turned his head around while he continued with his 'business'.
"Hey come on. You don't attack a man while is holding his d-"
"4000 tiles!" The karateka rushed at him.
The audience cheered.
"Out hero!"
"Go get him!"
"I hope the fishes eat your di-"
"Seiken!" the karateka fist impacted against an invisible wall right behind Bartolomeo and the impact was so violent that his wrist broke in several parts, forcing the fisherman onto the ground, screaming in agony.
"Just kidding!" Bartolomeo started to laugh.
The spectators were left in silence.
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