Are you an idiot?

There was a reason why the current CP9 was so ignorant. When Jabra was sent back, he wasn't being truthful; since he was a spy for the Straw Hats themselves, he spoke very little of the Straw Hats and declared that it was the Straw Hats who revealed his secrets to the rebels, and thus all the rebels were suddenly against him.

It was believable because Vivi had ultimately joined the Straw Hats, and Koza was her best friend. Though Jabra was a CP9 agent and could massacre a bunch of people along with the devil fruit, the rebel army was also very large, and he knew that he would suffer a bit. Plus, there were straw hats again, which had a good amount of bounty.

Of course, when Jabra came back, he dialed down the importance of straw hats to a very limited extent deliberately. It was for this reason that the Straw Hats, even after taking care of CP9 and Smoker, didn't get an update in their bounties.

It remained the same. After reading the report, Sengoku didn't bother to pay too much attention to it. It was only Aokiji who took note that Vivi and Robin had vanished when the straw hats disappeared. So he went on a search quest, as he already knew what islands the Straw Hats might go through.

After Aokiji was hurled to almost the other side of the planet, the CP9 didn't get updated. They were spies to begin with, so they didn't get regular updates. And now that Blueno was here, Ken smiled.

Blueno, after whispering and side-eyeing Ken, stepped to the side and walked on, expecting Robin to look for him later, but as he took a few more steps, he was stopped by someone.

Rather, someone had caught him on the shoulder.

'When did someone appear near me?' Blueno thought, as he had been avoiding people around but didn't notice that someone had come so close to him. He turned his head around to look at him, but somehow his body didn't react the way it should.

His body was stiff in his feet, and he couldn't turn it to look at the person more closely. The person who had put his hand on his shoulder had applied such a fine amount of pressure that he didn't feel pain but still couldn't move his body.

But Blueno's head turn was enough to see the face of the culprit. The Punisher Ken.

"Tekkai."

Blueno's body instantly became like something made out of steel. If it were any other person touching the body of Blueno at the moment, he or she would feel that they were touching some kind of tough metal plate. But all of this didn't matter to Ken. He had used Haki to hold on to the shoulder of Blueno, and he hadn't trained until that point as of yet.

"Buddy, it's very rude to introduce only yourself to one of my crew members and then just leave. Why didn't you introduce yourself to us? We can be friends too." Ken said while putting his mouth near his ears, while Blueno was actively trying to get away from his grip and use Tekkai to the maximum possible for him.

"Punisher Ken!!" Blueno gritted his teeth and said He even tried to use his soru to get away from Ken but was failing miserably.

"You see, that was easy. Why didn't you introduce yourself before? Seems like you know me too." Ken said, still putting an innocent smile in his face.

"Do you know who we are?" Blueno asked, still actively trying ways. He wanted to use his door and leave, but he wasn't even allowed to step his foot an inch to the side.

"CP9. Yeah, we know. We have faced you before, too. Didn't Nero vanish? And you still came after us? You have quite the courage, I must say." Ken replied, and now his smile was slowly fading. Both Blueno and Ken didn't want to make a scene in the plaza itself, and thus both of them didn't shout out loud or make scenes in the same capacity.

Ken's words made Blueno remember that Nero did vanish altogether from the face of the earth. Even Jabra didn't know what had happened to him. He was still suffering in the deep dungeons of Alabasta, where he could never see the light of day.

"If you know what we are, then you shouldn't come between us and our mission. You don't have any idea who you are fighting against."

"Yes, we know. With the World Government, you don't have to wear their knickers and dance around to let others know of your affiliations. And I will tell you right here. We don't care. We don't care if the Celestial Dragons sponsor you; we don't care if the Admirals are behind you. We will bring you down soon." Ken said as he finally let go of his hand from his shoulder.

Seeing this, Blueno instantly used Soru and appeared a few yards away from Ken. He was a bit traumatized by the way he was held and thus needed to keep his distance.

"Punisher Ken, do you know what you are talking about? Do you even understand the meaning of your own words?" Blueno asked while still keeping his volume down.

"Are you an idiot? I let you go in order for you to escape. Do you want me to hold you down again?" Ken got irritated seeing this guy trying to get the moral and status high ground. No wonder this guy was the first to go down, even in Enies lobby.

Blueno didn't expect that he was being looked down upon by Punisher Ken. He wanted to have a one-on-one fight, but here there were too many people, and if his face mask fell off, it would be problematic for their grand plans.

No, he needed to really escape and talk to his colleagues. Maybe, just maybe, the Straw Hats weren't as chickens as they thought they were. But having Lucci on their team was a safety net for them.

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