41 Chapter 41

Arlong was walking slowly toward Lucas, his steps were strong and sturdy, as for his shark eyes, it showed a flaming rage.

Lucas was still standing there with a provoking smirk. The bodies of the fishmen around him and along with his smile, it gave Arlong a strong urge to kill him.

Lucas wasn't worried about the fact that Arlong has a huge physical strength even compared to him, also, he still knows that he isn't made of rubber and any hit can be deadly to him.

He is confident about the victory the moment he withdraws his sword. After all, according to the show, anyone in the level of swordmaster has high power in the first half of the grand line.

"Come, let me see what a fish can do," Lucas said provoking Arlong who was approaching him. As soon as Arlong got close to Lucas, he bent down and opened his huge mouth trying to bite him.

Lucas kicked the ground, using feather footwork, Lucas was able to create an afterimage while dodging. Arlong's mouth bit the empty air. As soon he realized that he saw a fist flying toward his chest. Arlong took the jab in his chest and took some steps back, however, it seems that this isn't going to take him down as he still standing. But Lucas could see that Arlong took some damage in the area that got hit, it just not enough to take him down.

[Boxing +500 XP]

"with such amount of strength and you dare to act cocky " Arlong calmed down a bit and glared at Lucas. His face didn't show any hint of pain since he has a high tolerance, strong physique even among his kind, and as any shark, he has an armor under his skin that is made of teeth that can bend the steel easily.

"You only took one punch on the chest, yet you think it is amazing to do that " Lucas replied to Arlong.

Arlong squatted down on his four limbs, then he aimed with his sword nose to Lucas. The next second he flew toward Lucas like a spear.

Lucas quickly reacted and used Stealth footwork dodging Arlong's nose. As soon he appeared somewhere else, Arlong dashed toward him again and started slamming with his fists. Lucas's feet were moving none stop as he was avoiding the bites and the punches while creating afterimages.

*Argh*

Arlong like a mad dog bite toward Lucas's head. One bite is all that he needs to kill this human. Lucas saw this as an opening. He quickly used his left hand to punch Arlong's ribs with bullet Jab, Arlong closed one eye in pain, however, his head still moving toward Lucas. Lucas then took his left fist back and prepared to KO Arlong with the last jab on the face.

'Wait ' As Lucas was about to hit Arlong's head, Arlong lowered his sword nose. If Lucas punched Arlong's nose, then his fist would get cut. Luckily Lucas's feet were fast, before his jab lands, he used stealth footwork to appear ten meters behind.

[Boxing +600 XP]

[Stealth footwork +500 XP]

As Lucas appeared, he looked to Arlong with a deadly gaze.

Arlong looked at Lucas with a mocking smirk, he didn't forget to satisfy his own ego by talking how his race is mighty " fool, you are lucky because your legs are fast, other, wise you would lose a hand. you are just Lowly creature, upon birth we are already ten times stronger than you and when we are in the water our strength double while yours halt to half "

"Let me tell you a short story" Lucas inhaled a large amount of air, he got pissed off after seeing Arlong mocking him. he put his hand on his sword and didn't know if he should beat him badly or slice him to pieces. If it wasn't for the fact that he has some plans for Arlong and his crew, he would kill them from the start and his consciousness wouldn't stop him since killing is only bad for the first time.

Lucas took his rapier and pointed to heaven with it. At that moment, Arlong stopped. His instinct gave him a sense of danger, the moment Lucas took his rapier, his aura changed. ' I must be careful, his sword mastery seems to be high '

Lucas started telling his story. He decided he won't mess around anymore. First drive Arlong crazy which would make him full of flaws, then destroy him:" a year ago I visited the fishmen Island where the mermaids and your kind lives "

Arlong seemed to get shocked after hearing that he knows about his hometown. Seems that this teen is from the grand line, no wonder he is strong.

"On that island, I saw your kind, but I kept just moving and didn't do anything since I only minded my business, then I entered some coffee shop, I guess, it was a coffee shop ran by a huge mermaid " Lucas continued telling his story.

" she was a fortune teller, she was a beautiful mermaid with short black hair and blue eyes, she was extra large but still beautiful. The moment I entered, she glared at her crystal "

Arlong eyes got tight, no one knows, but that big mermaid is his sister. This proved that Lucas actually visited Arlong's country.

"After she finished reading the future, she came to me and begged me not to kill some shark, in price, she offered her body, even though she was quite big, we made it " Lucas was provoking Arlong to the heart content, he made a smirk and said:

" Since she was good, I will give you a choice to run away "

Arlong was mind blown, he was already in a bad mood and angry. But hearing that guy saying that he slept with his sister after she begged not to kill him made him blow with anger.

"AAAAA"

*Roar*

Arlong roared as his eyes turned red from rage, he lost his sanity. Arlong quickly dashed toward Lucas as a spear. Lucas used feather footwork and left an afterimage and went one meter to the side. As soon as Arlong hit his afterimage, Lucas quickly waved his sword and slashed with his rapier.

*Spshh* Blood sprayed out of Arlong's left ribs, even though that his skin is hard as armor, the sword tip cut him like tofu.

[Ding, swordsmanship up to level 10 (0/100.000)]

[Ding, entering a high-level master realm.

+ subskills.]

[Ding, sword aura unlocked in the next level.

Sword aura: After choosing a path, the host can use his soul to create an illusion that can affect reality.

(similar to Zoro's demon aura: Ashura, But it is different from a sword user to another )]

Lucas didn't read the notification since he is focused on the battle, however, he felt his swordsmanship has been improved.

As soon as Arlong stopped and stood with hard on his feet. Lucas didn't give him a chance to catch his breaths and appeared next Arlong while being above a small lake.

Arlong was caught by surprise seeing Lucas in front of him before his mind could come with a reaction. Lucas started waving his rapier.

*Spsh* *Spsh*...

Cuts were appearing none stop on Arlong's skin, the lake they were standing above started to turn red from blood. Arlong punched as his instinct told him to do so. But soon as his fist got closer to Lucas's face, Lucas jumped back slightly and changed his sword direction to Arlong's arm.

"Damn it," Arlong said seeing his hand flying out. The blood started to get out of his body at a faster rate. Damn it, if they fought in his park, things wouldn't go this bad, now, even if he wanted to escape, there is no near sea.

Finally, Arlong fell down after losing so much blood.

[Ding, defeating Arlong +30.000 accumulated XP]

[Swordsmanship +5000 XP (5000/100.000)]

Somewhere else, not so far away from the Village where Arlong park is.

A blue-haired tanned girl entered a wooden house next to an orange farm. As soon she entered, she saw the stuff of the house broken and thrown to the ground.

next to the table, Nami was sitting, her head was on the table, her mood didn't seems to be good and seems she is daydreaming. Nojiko didn't find this weird as Nami would do this some times.

"Nami, Hurry up and bring the shovel" this was an emergency.

"Huh" Nami woke up from her daydream where she was remembering the good days. She looked to her sister and gave her a weird gaze.

"It's not a time for daze, Arlong is sending the marines to take your money away," Nojiko said in hurry. Obviously, Arlong would just pretend to be innocent and force Nami to work for him again and again.

"When and how " Nami eyes widened, it seems Arlong is up to no good. She just realized Arlong's intent and knew why he refused uncashed gold.

"Just hurry up," Nojiko said as she brought two shovels, this situation was urgent that she forgot to tell her about the blondie.

Nami reacted quickly as well, she won't allow Arlong to have his way, she quickly took the shovel and started to take the money she buried under the orange farm.

Soon, after an hour or so, all of the money was moved to somewhere else. Nami suddenly thought of something and made a fire next to the orange farm, then she threw some berries inside mixed with papers.

"Look" Nojiko next her pointed to the sea, there a marine ship that was approaching their location.

"True" Nami looked at Nojiko, how did she know what Arlong was planning to do " how did you know about the marines "

Nojiko seemed to remember now: "some blond bounty hunter who said that you threw him to the sea... Oy Nami why is your face pale "

Nami's face became pale as her jaw dropped a bit "Pinch me"

"… "Nojiko.

Back to the rice farm.

Lucas looked coldly at the unconscious Arlong, then he went and put his hand on the wounds. According to Lucas's memory, when massage hands were level 4 or 5, he could heal Lilia's injury.

Massage hands were a medical skill in the first place.

Now it is level 13, his hand can make miracles.

Using his hands on Arlong's wound, the wounds and the skin started closing and were healed. Lucas just did what necessary to stop him from dying but he didn't heal him completely, after all, he had to make him do one more thing for him.

Lucas then took the rest of the fishmen and hanged them on pillars after closing their wounds.

After some time, Lucas threw some water from the water bucket om Arlong's face making him wake up.

As soon as Arlong opened his eyes, he felt a huge pain from his wounds. He looked in front of him to see all of his crew hanged and injured. Behind them, Lucas stood up.

Lucas started talking "Arlong, Since our fight is over, I have a deal with you to complete. Before you say anything and bluff, I want you to know that I'm an honest person and a man of my word. If I say I will kill a fish, I will do"

Then without hesitating, Lucas waved his sword to a Fishman next to him and killed him on the spot.

Arlong got shocked. Then he got angry and was about to dash, however, he was slow because of his injuries.

"Don't think about what you just lost, think about what has left and if you want to lose it or not" Lucas stabbed the air with his blade making a compressed sharp blade like a bullet fly out of his sword, and Arlong got a wound on his stomach which made him stop.

"What do you want, " Arlong asked as he found it hard to stand up, he may hate human and treat them badly, however, Lucas now is holding his crew member as a hostage, his crew members are his friends that he grew up together.

He may be a racist, but there is no way he would be the same with his own kind as he did to the humans.

" Just two things, if you do them for me then I won't kill your crew" Lucas lifted two fingers in the air. Arlong kept glaring at Lucas, if it is not for the fact that he is injured and the other party was stronger, he would dash and fight again.

Now, Arlong found that he has no choice but to play along if he wants to keep his crew alive.

"first thing, I want you to kill the rat marine that is working with you" Lucas demanded, he simply want to appear as a hero who captured a marine killer. He is doing this to collect some reputation for himself, killing a marine then taking the glory of his heroic death would only benefit Lucas. Even if it is not true, who cares, dead men tell no tales.

The first demand seems to be tolerable. Arlong nodded.

"Second, You always say that every Fishman is valuable and worth more than ten times than human, I agree with that. Here I have 3 officers and about 45 fishmen. So I will be honest. I want 50 billion berries for them to live, see, If they were humans I would only demand 100 million for each " In fact, Lucas would be lying if he said that he went after Arlong for Nami's sake. From the start, he was going to do this for himself and only himself whether he met that girl or not.

"I don't have that much "Arlong almost cough his internal organs out, 50 billion, this is a wealth that he has yet to gather from all of the Villagers those years. Let alone the fact that he used a lot of money to bribe the marines. He only has a bit more or less than 40 billion.

"you are a fish, go down the sea, I believe there is a lot of treasure down there, and if you don't bring me my money in two days, your crew would be killed. Each day you take, two fishmen would die. And remember, If you bluff or brag, someone will die " Lucas said as he pointed his rapier to Hachi's neck, some blood started dripping making arlong shack from anger.

" Do I need to make my self clear?" Lucas asked.

"No need" Arlong stood up slowly while covering his stomach.

"three days Arlong, and all of them will die " Lucas reminded Arlong.

As soon as Arlong left, Lucas took a cigarette and lit it up. He took a Den Den Mushi and called someone.

Hi, Calorina, Long time... Yes Yes, I will come back the next week... anyway, Do you know the closest Marine base to this Island… so it is smoker's base, I need you to do me a favor and tell him to come in a max of one day, some fishmen pirates are here"