123- Lucy VS Smoker

a hole opened up in the clouds and through that hole, a beam of sunlight shone down on to the platform and Lucy.

Lucy was standing there with her arms spread out wide, looking up at the sky with a smile while a beam of light came through the clouds and shone down upon her.

It was like a spotlight from heaven shining down onto Lucy right after she made her declaration.

It was as though she was the chosen one, chosen by the heavens to become the next Pirates Queen.

Everyone who saw this opened their mouths wide in utter shock.

Smoker, who had just arrived at the arena, saw this scene and was also surprised. Smoker's cigarette even fell out of his mouth as he stared at the sight before him.

While everyone was still in shock, Lucy jumped off the platform and onto the floor. She wrapped her hand around Alvida's waist and then started running away, "Alvida, we have to escape, Marines are surrounding this place."

As they were running away, hundreds upon hundreds of Marines stormed the plaza surrounding Lucy and all the other pirates there. When the Marines showed up the civilians who were still there staring at the platform were knocked out of their stupor.

"There have to be at least 1000 of these marines." Alvida said as she stared at them.

"No matter how many they are, they will not be able to defeat us." Lucy smiled widely.

"You don't need to waste your time fighting weak people." At this moment Ethan and Bartolomeo appeared behind Lucy and Alvida.

"Ethan!" Lucy smiled and wrapped her arms and legs around Ethan while hugging him tightly.

Ethan was completely wrapped using Lucy's rubber arms and legs.

Lucy smiled as she asked, "Then how are we going to break through the enemy's ranks if we don't fight them?"

"Just watch." Ethan smiled.

Lucy pulled away from Ethan, allowing him to move freely. Ethan walked in front of the two girls and looked at the marines, then smiled widely and began to impose his will on the will of all the marines in front of him.

Ethan used the Haoshoku Haki and his strong will fired into the Marines and began to overcome their will.

Moments later, in front of Lucy and Alvida's eyes, the Marines begin to lose consciousness and then fall to the ground with foam coming out of their mouths.

Ethan didn't have complete control over Haoshoku Haki so even Bartolomeo and the two girls were targeted with this attack but they had great willpower so they didn't lose consciousness.

"Wow, how could you do that?" Lucy's eyes twinkled when she saw this. Previously, Ethan only told the girls about two types of Haki and did not tell them about the third type, Haoshoku Haki.

"I'll explain about this later, let's go for now." Ethan started running, followed by Bartolomeo and the two girls.

"Bartolomeo, drive the way to your childhood friend's residence, we're going there." When Ethan spoke to Bartolomeo, the two girls noticed this man for the first time, previously they had been completely ignoring his presence.

"Who is it?" Lucy pointed to Bartolomeo, who was looking at her as his eyes turned to stars in unparalleled admiration.

"I'm Bartolomeo, I'm a follower of Ethan-senpai from now on, nice to meet you Lucy-senpai." Tears streamed from Bartolomeo's eyes as he shook hands with Lucy.

'What is wrong with this guy, he's so weird.' Alvida raised an eyebrow while looking at Bartolomeo's strange behavior.

"Alvida, what is this thing you're holding in your hand?" Ethan looked at the thing in Alvida's hand and felt strangely familiar.

'Is this Buggy?'

"I forgot to throw this guy after I beat him." Alvida said while throwing Buggy to the ground.

At this moment white smoke flowed towards them and tried to catch them but Ethan noticed this and opened his mouth and let out a sea of ​​flames to repel the attack.

After the flames and smoke dissipated, Ethan saw the person who attacked them and is also the only Marine who didn't lose consciousness after Ethan used the Haoshoku Haki.

"Captain Smoker." Ethan said as he turned to face him.

"So you've heard of me, I suppose I should be flattered," Smoker sneered, "considering the pair of you have the two highest bounties in the east blue."

"Anyway, you two are not going anywhere, I will arrest you here." At this moment, Smoker was very serious because he was currently up against two pirates who had a bounty of 100 million on their heads and also both of them could use Haki which meant they could hit him even though he was a Logia user.

But he doesn't know that Alvida can also use Haki.

"Ethan, I'm the one who's going to fight him." Lucy smiled.

Ethan: "But you fought the person called Kaizen on the previous island, which means it's my turn to fight."

Lucy: "But that person attacked me earlier which means he chose me as his opponent."

Lucy: "Also, you beat 1,000 people before and you didn't let me fight, which means it's my turn to fight now."

Smoker was offended when he saw that the two of them had ignored him and began arguing among themselves to decide who would fight him.

*White Blow*

Smoker shoots a cloud of dense smoke from his arms to try to blow Ethan and Lucy.

Both Ethan and Lucy sensed the attack and could easily dodge it.

"Okay, you can fight him." Ethan sighed and gave up. It's impossible to convince Lucy to take her opponent after the last time Ethan stole her opponent (Arlong).

Lucy grinned, "Good, I'm your opponent. Fight me."

she said before drawing her fist back and throwing a punch, 'Gomu-gomu pistol' she yelled as her arm stretched.

Seeing the fist coming at him Smoker immediately avoided the attack. He knows she can use Haki so it would be foolish to let her hit him.

"I see so you ate a devil fruit." he said before rushing at Lucy and thrust his Nanashaku Jitte forward towards Lucy.

Lucy raised her arm to block the attack, But her eyes widened as the jitte hit her arm and she felt her energy dissipate and pain shot down her arm from the impact.

Lucy immediately back peddled to make room using the impact to force her further away.

"What just happened?" Lucy frowned.

"Careful Lucy, his Jitte has a sea stone in it and if you touch it your strength will be dissipated and you will lose your abilities" Ethan called out in warning.

Lucy gritted her teeth and nodded while Smoker looked pissed off.

'This guy knows too much' Smoker thought to himself before launching an attack.

*White blow*

His arms shot out in large pillars of smoke towards Lucy, trying to hit and tie her up.

Lucy watched the attack and quickly turned away from the road and grabbed a building pole to pull herself out of range.

"I think I'm going to get more serious." Lucy used her leg as a pump and quickly pumped the blood inside her body.

*Gear Second*

steam is rising from Lucy's body and her skin had turned red.

Lucy moved too fast and disappeared from her place and appeared on the right side of Smoker and then sent a quick punch to his face.

*Gomu Gomu no Jet Pistol*

Smoker did not have time to respond to Lucy's attack and was punched.

Smoker was thrown away by the force of the attack and crashed into a nearby building. After a while, Smoker stood on his feet as blood spurted out from the corner of his lips and felt his ears ring and he felt pain for the first time in a long time. 'That's bad, she's faster and stronger than I thought, and this blow caused a lot of damage. I'm not sure I'll beat her let alone the possibility of the Black Dragon entering the fight.'

But what everyone didn't notice was that Ethan was no longer among them, he disappeared after warning Lucy.

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Earlier, right after Ethan had warned Lucy, someone moved very quickly and grabbed Ethan by the shoulder and threw him to a secluded spot far from where Lucy was fighting.

This person's movements were very graceful and even though he attacked Ethan, no one noticed him.

Ethan looked at this person and saw that he is dressed in a long green cloak.