Chapter 280 - Sabaody Archipelago 16.

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Third Person POV

Sabaody Archipelago, First Half of Grandline.

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While Luffy and Kizaru continued their battle, a golden light caught Luffy's attention as he moved away from Kizaru for a while. "What is that?" he asked, slightly surprised, sensing a mystical beast in the distance. Even his mythical beast, Ifrit, seemed to be screaming internally, wanting to fight whatever that was.

"It seems Mr. Kong is taking this seriously. Scary," Kizaru spoke, even though he had never witnessed the mystical beast of the former fleet admiral, he had heard many rumors and there were also some reports he was forced to study when he became an admiral.

Luffy heard that and sighed. He looked at Kizaru with a firmer gaze as the latter raised an eyebrow at him. 'It's time to finish this...' he thought internally.

Luffy took the fight more seriously, and before Kizaru could react, he suddenly disappeared and reappeared next to the admiral, who transformed his body into light and dodged the attack. But as soon as he dodged, he quickly found his body in the path of Ace's blade. Kizaru was surprised by this as he made a great effort to dodge.

Luffy was being much more aggressive now, and as he managed to divert a few inches from the sword, Luffy took that moment to explode a large amount of flames in his second form to catch Kizaru off guard.

With flames coming out of Luffy like a bomb, Kizaru was surprised and thrown back. He stabilized in the air shortly after, Luffy didn't give the admiral any room to breathe and soon appeared above him, launching his slash that met Kizaru's sword but he switched his moa moa no mi to strength at that moment and immediately sent him to the ground, exploding the spot and creating a burst of light. Kizaru reappeared again and looked seriously at Luffy, while the latter had already created several purple flame orbs around him and began to barrage him with them descending.

Kizaru had his vision obscured by the flames, but his Haki quickly alerted him to Luffy's location and he had to move quickly before being caught. Luffy reappeared at his side, trying to strike him once more, and he also didn't stop attacking the pirate.

Kizaru moved away and began launching several flashes of light evenly. Luffy ran directly between this attack, even receiving hits, he advanced against Kizaru. The explosions occurred in a straight line as he approached the admiral, who was surprised as Luffy emerged in front of him and punched him in the face with a haki-coated fist, breaking his glasses, sinking his face in a bit as he was thrown back, breaking the ground and tearing a line through the middle of the forest.

Kong, fighting against the Straw Hats using his transformation, looked at it a bit surprised as, "Is he beating Kizaru?" Kong frowned at that.

Amid all that smoke and debris, Kizaru came out injured this time, with a bleeding face, but still far from losing.

Luffy, once again, reappeared in front of him, beginning to throw punches while Kizaru used his sword to defend with a much more serious look than before. The area around began to become chaotic with both moving at their maximum speed.

Despite Kizaru's speed, he only had one disadvantage with it because he could only move in a straight line, while Luffy was more flexible but still fast with his moa moa no mi increasing his speed 90 times for most of the time, and that was his key to beating Kizaru. Because, due to Kizaru's movement, it was easy to predict his movement, enhancing the prediction with Haki.

Then, when Kizaru tried to dodge a blow, Luffy appeared by his side, making Kizaru immediately run backwards but, Luffy had already anticipated this and kicked the air with all the force his geppo could muster, making Kizaru unable to react as he materialized.

Luffy brought down his sword, hitting the admiral's chest and cutting it. Kizaru had time not to have a very deep cut while he quickly moved away. Luffy did not pursue him waiting for him to reappear, while at a distance, Kizaru rematerialized with his chest and face bleeding, he looked angrily this time at Luffy, while the latter, still a bit hurt from the battle, with his skin scorched by Kizaru's blows, just smiled at the man.

"Sorry, admiral, but I have to finish this fight quickly. I'd also like to fight a former fleet admiral who is also a mystical beast," Luffy commented. He wouldn't give Kizaru an easy time until he could get rid of him once and for all to move on to the next fight, as he launched himself at the admiral again.

Meanwhile, Kong, who looked quite worried, was in a frantic battle and found the woman with the ope ope no mi fruit very problematic, after all, she switched places every time he tried to catch someone and made people appear in the right places while they managed to hit him, making the fight troublesome for him, even with his mythical beast activated. Rayleigh, despite his advanced age, was also giving him a lot of trouble, with the strength of an admiral on his side.

He quickly parried the swords of Zoro and Rayleigh with his staff, while he received attacks from others, making his staff grow and shrink the entire time, but once again when he thought he would hit one of them to knock out and reduce their numbers, he was swapped with a stone by Lami using her powers.

But even with all the disadvantages, he was holding up well and putting pressure on the group too. Kong jumped into the air and wrapped his staff with haki as soon as it returned to its proper size for his current form, and struck again against the swords of Zoro and Rayleigh, while Alvida and Yamato appeared with her club at his side and Shirahoshi with her trident trying to hit him from above.

After dispatching the two swordsmen, he spun his staff and quickly counter-attacked the enemy weapons, making them all retreat while Reiju's flames prevented him from approaching the pirates' companions.

Something happened at that moment, making Kong himself stop looking at the pirates and frown, as in the middle of the fight, an explosion happened next to him while the ground was dug up by Kizaru himself until he finally stopped.

All the Straw Hats stopped with Kong as they watched Luffy emerge, exploding the ground near the end of that new destruction.

The smoke finally dissipated as the place fell silent for a moment, Kizaru appeared on the ground, fallen while bleeding with a broken nose and a shallow cut on his chest, but still leaving a large mark of blood spread across his clothes.

Kizaru, the admiral known to be the fastest man in the navy, lay there unconscious while Luffy remained a few meters from him while standing in his hybrid form, with some blood spread over his body, because the fight against the admiral was not easy and he was quite damaged after becoming more aggressive.

After having a fixed look at Kizaru, Luffy finally turned and looked at Kong at that moment, opening a small smile. "Looks like it's the first time we've met..." Luffy said.

"He defeated Kizaru..." Rayleigh had a certain gleam in his eyes at a distance as Luffy approached Kong.

"..." Kong did not respond to him, frowning as he analyzed the situation while suspended with his own staff.

"What is this beast...?" Luffy could not help but ask. He hadn't heard Rayleigh speak, because he was in the middle of a fight, but he became curious to see the golden monkey holding a staff that could expand... "It reminds me of a legend... about the journey to the west... You're the Monkey King, aren't you?" He asked with a small curious smile.

"Yes..." Kong decided to answer him. "I ate the Saru Saru no mi, model: Sun Wukong." He said calmly continuing to analyze Luffy.

"I see... that's quite unexpected..." Luffy was happy to find someone with special powers and whom he did not know from the original work. "It suits you, former Fleet Admiral Kong," Luffy's voice sounded friendly as his companions waited for their captain's order.

"You gave the admiral a good beating this time, Luffy..." Reiju said approaching Luffy.

"This guy is quite troublesome, but yes, I managed to do it since I wanted to come here too," Luffy told the woman with a smile.

"What will we do now, Captain?" Zoro asked.

"I know the fight is yours... but I want to fight this one, if you don't mind." Luffy asked. He usually wouldn't ask their permission, but since it was about a fight, after all battles are sacred to Luffy. If any of them claimed this fight, then no one should interfere.

"You can have the fight." Yamato shrugged.

"Tsk... he's not a swordsman, despite using that staff, but you can fight him if you want," Zoro admitted and became disinterested.

"All yours..." Lami commented.

"Go for it, Luffy-Sama!!" Shirahoshi cheered excitedly.

"Try to get some money off him, Luffy." Nami immediately requested.

The others made no further comments, just nodding. Even some still wanting to fight, they stayed silent with Enel and Chouchou.

Luffy nodded in acceptance of the crew's agreement and tossed a pair of seastone handcuffs to Reiju, who was closest. "Handcuff the admiral." Luffy asked, and the woman nodded.

"That's not going to happen!" Kong frowned and immediately rushed to prevent it from happening.

However, Luffy appeared in front of him at that moment, clashing with Ace against the Ruyi Jingu Bang, the legendary weapon of the beast. Both exploded in armament Haki.

"Sorry, but Kong... now this fight is between you and me..." Luffy spoke as his strength increased, matching the man in front of him in a direct confrontation.

"Tsk... You're troublesome... Fine, I'll deal with you before I take Kizaru again," Kong declared, after all he couldn't do anything now, he would have to beat Garp's grandson thoroughly before capturing him and taking Kizaru again, especially since the navy was in a delicate moment, a defeat to a rookie pirate would already destroy the navy's morale in the next war, let alone the scandal of being captured.

"Anyway..." Kong looked at Luffy's weapon. "Let's see if you're really worthy of holding this weapon," he declared, with both having their battle flame more alive than ever, as their beasts were eager to fight each other.

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