124 124- Lucy's victory.

"Who are you, why did you attack me?" Although Ethan knows who the person in front of him is, he pretends to be ignorant.

'Damn, I forgot that Dragon is in Loguetown at this point in time.' Ethan looked at the person in front of him seriously.

Dragon is a tall middle-aged man with spiky black hair with a widow's peak and a tattoo on the left side of his face, which is colored dark red. He has a bit of stubble on his chin. He is dressed in a long green cloak.

"The reason for attacking you is very simple, because you deceived my daughter." Dragon moved quickly and kicked Ethan's chest but Ethan crossed his hands to block the attack and then took a few steps back.

Although Ethan's body was as stiff as steel, he felt that his arms were about to break. "I haven't deceived anyone, and who is your daughter?"

"It's the girl who wears a straw hat." Dragon started sending punches and kicks at Ethan while gradually increasing their power.

'Is he trying to test my strength?' Ethan fends off or dodges Dragon's attacks, Ethan thinks Dragon hasn't used his full strength because apparently he's trying to test the strength of the man who would become his son-in-law.

"Are you talking about Lucy? I've been in a relationship with her for a long time and have a daughter with her." Suddenly, right after Ethan said this, Dragon sent a very powerful punch imbued with haki.

Ethan couldn't dodge or hold back and was punched in the stomach, causing him to spit blood.

Ethan felt that his internal organs had been damaged by the force of the punch and felt a strong pain reaching his soul but he gritted his teeth and did not scream as he looked at Dragon in anger.

"Sorry, my hands slipped from the shock I felt. I didn't know you had been in a relationship with Lucy for years." Dragon apologized, but Ethan knew that Dragon's hand didn't slip and deliberately attacked him aggressively.

"Do you think I'm an idiot for believing you? You seem mad that Lucy and I are in a relationship, but I don't care what you think as long as Lucy wants to stay with me, you have nothing to do with it." Ethan looking at Dragon's eyes angrily.

"And also, are you really Lucy's father? I've never heard her talk about you." Ethan laughed.

After Ethan finished his words, black scales began to cover his entire body, then two large horns appeared on his head, wings and a long tail appeared from his back, and Ethan also increased in height to three and a half meters.

'Freya, I want to use my status points'

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*White Launcher*

Smoker transforms himself into smoke and launches himself at Lucy, then tries to re-solidifies and pins Lucy down with the Nanashaku Jitte.

Lucy kicked Jitte using the bottom of her sandal and didn't make him directly touch her body and then moved very quickly and appeared behind Smoker.

*Gomu Gomu no Jet Bazooka*

Lucy stretches both her arms far back, and then hurls them forward, striking Smoker with both instantaneously with a double open palm strike with both her hands.

Unlike Gomu Gomu no Bazooka, Gomu Gomu no Jet Bazooka is incredibly fast and strong.

Smoker was sent far away to crash into a building, the building was smashed and rubble fell on Smoker.

After this blow, Smoker did not get up again and remained lying under the rubble of the building.

In this fight, Lucy defeated Smoker.

The reason for his defeat was very simple that he hadn't learned Haki yet while Lucy could use two types of Haki.

After this defeat, Smoker will train hard to become stronger.

Lucy looked around and then asked Alvida, "Where did Ethan go?"

Alvida and Bartolomeo also looked around and marveled when they didn't see Ethan, "I didn't notice him leaving."

"I'm here." Ethan appeared with Buggy in his hand.

"Why are you wearing a mask? and where were you?" She didn't understand why Ethan was wearing a mask at this moment.

"For some reasons I have to wear a mask now, and I also caught Buggy who tried to escape." Of course everything Ethan said was a lie.

He's wearing the mask in order not to show the bruises he got from fighting Dragon, also Buggy didn't try to escape and was unconscious the whole time, he was just used as an excuse for Ethan to disappear while fighting Dragon.

He was beaten by Dragon and his current face was swollen, he put all his effort into the fight but he still got defeated by Dragon.

Even though he used all the points he had he still got defeated.

'I must remember this well, in the future when I get stronger I will slap that idiot's face until it swells up his entire face.' Ethan will remember this day and never forget it.

"Let's go." Ethan gestures to Bartolomeo to show them the way again, after all Ethan doesn't know the way to Desire's residence.

"Ethan, why did you bring Red-Nosed with us?" Lucy's reference to Buggy.

"This person has more luck than you can imagine, I will make him my subordinate." Ethan plans to make Kaya manipulate Buggy a little so that he becomes his subordinate, and after he signs a contract to join his pirate fleet, even if he comes out of Kaya's hypnosis, Buggy will not be able to disobey his orders because of the contract.

Fortunately, Buggy's body parts are still in the ship and Ethan has not thrown them into the sea or buried them.

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After following Bartolomeo for a quarter of an hour, the five arrived at Desire's residence.

What Ethan saw when they arrived made him feel shocked, he had expected this place to be ruined because the girls had to fight to get the ship back but what he saw now was a raucous party.

'Freya, what's going on, and where are you?'

[Ethan, we're inside Desire's residence.]

'Have you been defeated and arrested?' This was Ethan's first thought upon hearing Freya's words.

This is because Bari Bari no Mi is a very powerful Devil Fruit in terms of defense, Kurozumi Semimaru, the former user of this fruit, demonstrated that the barrier can withstand an extremely powerful slash from Kozuki Oden, whose swordmanship could cut the gigantic Mountain God in half and even damage the near-invincible Kaido!

And that there was only one way to break through the barriers made by the devil fruit, and that method was to use Doa Doa no Mi.

The Doa Doa no Mi is a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows the user to create doors through anything they touch.

[Ethan you are wrong. We haven't been caught, Desire is throwing a party for us.]

'What? Didn't she steal our ship? Why is she throwing a party for us, and why do you agree to that?'