I Can See...

Chapter 23

(A/N: Sorry for the late updates lately, I was fixing a deal with my college dean and it went pretty well. But I was dropped a bomb today by an ex of mine two years ago. Everything will return back to normal tomorrow again.)

Title: I Can See...

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As the water hits Big Mom, I rejoice inside my heart, but then my eyes widen when I see the dark Haki coated mochi surrounding her. I clench my shark-like teeth in anger at this. Damn it… I was so close, for a split second, I thought that I hit her.

Fu*k… this… 

Ok, I need to be calm, so I just take a deep breath and think back on everything I know. I don't have any right-hand man, no one who can stand by my side and have my back. My kids are too young to do that and the minks that I have on my side are not good for combat that I plan to have. They can't fight good under-water, and my fighting tactics until now have been to use my strengths against Big Mom's pirate's weaknesses or else I wouldn't even be able to compete against Big Mom. 

Anyway, it doesn't matter now, I can see Big Mom just get up and start eating the mochi around her. It seems like another loss for me… fu*k… I can't continue like this. I haven't been able to win any confrontation with her, her kids always get on the way when I am about to soften her up a bit. 

As I am using Geppo to jump on air. I take out a Dendenmushi and talk into it. "Retreat away from here. Go far away, return to Fishman Island."

As I say that, the fishman who has the Dendenmushi understands what I mean, they mustn't return to the base, or they will put my children in danger… and also the enemies mustn't discover where our base is. But the base can be rebuilt again even if found, but putting my children in danger is unacceptable. I will kill them all if they dare to do something stupid like that.

Anyway, as I tell them to retreat I have to dodge some flying sword slashes, bullets, and canon-balls. I easily dodge them all, even some people who can use <Geppo> to get close to me, I just give them one look.

<Shigan>

Pew! Pew! Pew!...

I use my finger to push a fast bullet-like projectile of air that goes towards them, and it hits them all on the chest, close to their hearts. They were some random mooks, in no way they had the speed to dodge my attacks.

[Mochi Crusher]

I sense a donut appears above me and a giant fist coated in Haki punches towards me.  I immediately dodge to the back but…

Fwosh!

I feel a large cut appear on my back as a Flying Sword Slash hits me in the back and even though I immediately use Tekkai (Iron Body) by tightening my muscles as much as I can, sadly that is not enough as my back is all bloodied. Thankfully I can keep up my concentration even due to the pain, this pain is nothing in comparison to lightning running through your body.

[Ikkoku Sovereign]

I see a giant blast coming towards me from Big Mom's direction. I just jump to the side.

BOOOM!

And when the attack lands on the water it creates a gaping hole in the ocean...

Purlup!

Slowly the 'hole' in the ocean fills up with water again. I just look at her… strangely… my concentration is at full power. It's so strange, all of my thoughts of running away... just disappear. Big Mom seems to be saying something but I can't even hear her. 

Or more correctly, I don't care what she has to say. What I am concentrating on is my Observation Haki, dodging all of the countless attacks sent towards me. I know where their projectiles will go, I can sense them all. It is truly a strange situation, I know that if I stay here anymore I will die. I know that… but… I wanna see… I want to see the way he (Katakuri) sees. I want to see how seeing the future feels like. If I can't even reach the stage where I can see the future, then my dreams mean nothing to me, a man is only as big as his ambition. 

I want to be the greatest, it doesn't matter what. I don't care enough to become the King of the Pirates, nor do I care about some Void Century. Looking at the past is useless to me, I would rather see the future…

I close my eyes and can 'see' everyone's auras. Their movements and what they will do… I can see that Katakuri will throw a bean towards me. So I make preparations by coating my abdomen, the place where that will hit with Haki… what? Why hasn't the bean reached me yet?

Pew! 

I hear Katakuri throw his bean and I immediately understand what is going on as I open my eyes. I feel the bean hit my abdomen…

Ping!

A metallic sound rings out as it hits my Haki. Hm? Big Mom is behind me… no not yet, in the future a giant mirror carried by a genie and Big Mom will come out of it, cutting one of my arms off as I defend myself.

Is this it??? As soon as I notice the genie carrying the mirror at my place and Big Mom disappears in another mirror. I also notice that the water below me is boiling hot, with sticky candy in it. So I am trapped in here, I see, so I took too long and there are only two options, I will actually die or I will win this battle. There are only two options. And I would win if Big Mom is outside of the picture for the moment.

<Shark Arrow>

I gather the water in the air and throw some small shark-like water arrows towards the mirror that is getting close to me. 

Big Mom can chill in the Mirror Dimension for a while now. I immediately dodge the cannonballs coming towards me and that is when…

Pew!

Some candy beans pierce all of my Shark Arrows going towards the mirror. Damn that Katakuri is annoying. He probably saw on his future vision what I would do.

Well, it doesn't matter anyway, since I wasn't caught by surprise. Big Mom won't cut my arm anyway. I sense dozens of more slash's coming towards and Big Mom comes out of the giant mirror, she looks around and doesn't see me where I was supposed to be. 

She resorted to sneak attacks even with her power. Well, she is a pirate after all so it isn't that strange. She uses Zeus (Cloud) to fly on as Prometheus (Sun) blows fire towards me. I wince a little at this as my skin drys up a little, making my Fishman Karate weaker.

Sh*t… and with the water down below being boiling hot and with hot candy in the water. There is no way I am going in there or I am pretty much guaranteed to die. Damn… endangering myself like this isn't my style at all. But I needed to get future vision… now that I got it… I just gotta… run away.

I smile at Big Mom and get closer to her as she slashes at me. No cannon-balls are coming towards me anymore. After all, there is a high chance of hitting Big Mom if they do so. By using my future vision, I easily dodge Big Mom's attack and go for her neck. Sadly I also sense Katakuri throw one of his sword-using sisters towards me. I believe her name is Amanda or something like that. She is also a long neck tribe. 

Clang!

And my sword is stopped and our swords clash. I just look at her and…

<Shigan Barrage>

My finger, like a blurry, pierces her body countless times.

*Cough*

She coughs out blood as her body is riddled with holes, I just grab her by her long neck and throw her towards Katakuri, this should distract him enough to stop his calm mind and temporarily stop his future sight.

Suddenly Big Mom is surrounded by fire. And as my sword goes towards her neck…

Fwish!!!

It melts down… the fire is Prometheus protecting her. I throw the handle of my sword away and…

Baam!

I punch Big Mom on her big nose with full power. I can feel the heat but by using my Haki, I can protect my body. Sadly my sword couldn't survive since I am also using Haki to protect my body so I didn't use it all on my sword and would only use it when my sword made contact with her skin.

Big Mom flies back by my punch as my Haki entered inside of her and wrecked her nose. But surprisingly she seems to have talked more damage than anticipated as she also bleeds out of her mouth a little. Is it because the recent pregnancy might have weakened her?

But as soon as Big Mom flies away, again countless ranged attacks come towards me. Two giant donuts appear at my sides, I immediately use Armament Haki all over my body. 

Bang!

Two giant mochi fists covered in Haki hit me as I let them hit me. I wince a little at their hardness, due to the fire Big Mom used on me, it dried my skin and I can't use Fishman Karate anymore to weaken Katakuri's mochi. 

Immediately countless attacks me, and during that split second, my 1.5 seconds future sight was in a split second pause so I could get a new vision. But that is when I can sense Katakuri appear in front of me. His hands covered in a white aura as countless mochi droughts appeared behind him. He has an angry look on his face as he looks at me.

[Mochi Machine Gun]

Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!...

I am hit countless times and even with my Advanced Armament Haki, I start feeling some small internal pain.

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AUTHOR NOTE:

We see that this is how a One Piece fight is, the MC could hold his ground against Big Mom and even defeat her because she was just out of her pregnancy. He has really shamed her, the first time he injured her and the 2nd time they confronted he almost killed her. This would all sound good on paper, but in both instances we know how he only won by cheating. Also Katakuri can now shine as he will fight the MC, he isn't weakened by the Fishman Karate as the MC can't use it temporarily due to having access to water and his skin is dried up. This is how one piece fights are, just because the MC could defeat someone during a situation to his advantage. He could the same way be defeated in a situation to his disadvantage.

P.S: When we see from the MC's point of view, some of his assumptions might be wrong.🤣

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