Jabra

And then followed a load of men falling down on the sandy desert with a thud. Luffy had just used the Conqueror's haki. This actually surprised everyone, including Ken himself. In the story, the first time Luffy used Conqueror's Haki was in his fight with the fighting bull Motobaro, before he reached the Sabody which was at least 6 months away from now. Though the One Piece anime or manga wasn't exactly clear of the time taken by Luffy to cross the first half of the Grand Line, he could already speculate how much time it would take for them to reach Sabody.

Now seeing Luffy performing a controlled Conqueror's Haki gave him a scare. Luffy had learnt this trick at least one and a half yearly. But that was good. it meant that their time in the New World would be less treacherous.

While Ken was having those thoughts, the other crew members also were shocked. Though Ken had explained them the theory long ago, it was still hard for them to decipher that their Captain was such a badass.

While the crew were shocked, the rebel army got scared out of their wits. They realized that this was something done by the Straw Hat thin kid but they couldn't explain what just happened. This invoked more fear after seeing the unconscious men around. Instead of backing down, the men started running towards Straw hat with more ferocity. They refused to believe that this kid who looked half their age was more powerful and dangerous than them.

"Gomu Gomu no - Storm."

"Flanchet Shoot"

"Roku no kata: Dengō Raigō"

"Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu"

In response to the incoming rebel army, all the 4 men in the group proceeded to use some of their signature moves. Luffy used a barrage of punches in quick succession while jumping in the air. It felt like some kind of hellish storm was directed towards the rebel army, only the storm consisted of punches which stretched from high up in the air.

Sanji made a sweeping kick in their direction which made his feet spew out flames that instantly lit a section of the army in fire. The immediate people had to run away in order to get rid of the fire and thus making the small army catch more fire in their clothes, thanks to dry weather and windy desert.

Zoro used a series of lightning strikes at them. He wanted to use Sun breathing but he knew that if he used that, these people would die, so he chose the less lethal one. And Ken used the signature Uchiha move.

Both Ken and Sanji's fire burnt almost 1/3rd of the coming men. Luffy had already taken down half of the men with his Conqueror's Haki, and now with Sanji, Zoro and Ken attacks only a few hundreds were left and that too they survived because they were in the back. Only a few lucky ones in the front were safe. Koza was one of them.

He gulped hard when he saw this. At first he was super scared when he saw that his own men were not listening to his orders and someone even shot at Vivi. He already knew that something was wrong when that happened. He was in fear that something might happen to Vivi.

Now looking at the half men around, he was grateful that he was even alive. The men from behind watched with horror. They couldn't believe what they saw. So many men were half dead in just a minute or so. They hadn't even reached the Capital yet. Koza then proceeded to shout.

"Everyone.. Stop.. This is a misunderstanding.. Stop now." Koza had to take advantage and hope that his men would stop. But instead of listening to his orders one of his men shouted instead.

"Did you see? Did you see how the royal family is treating us? They have sent hired thugs to silence us. Our own countrymen are now lying in the desert. We need to get our own country back. Who is with me?"

The other men got easily riled up by the words of this one man and started shouting.

"We want our country back."

"We want our rain back."

"Give us the rain that you stole from us."

"Nothing can stop us."

Ken opened his sharingan and looked at the man who just gave a shout to rally his countrymen to the jaws of death. And when he looked closely at the man, Ken had a smile on his face. He has finally found his man. The one he had been actively searching for.

Actually he had struck the jackpot here. At first he thought that the CP organisation might have been CP8, CP6 or some other CP numbers but no. They actually sent a member of CP9. One of the members who were actually revealed later at the Enies Lobby. And got beaten by Sanji at the end. It was with this guy that Sanji had first shown his fiery leg.

Jabra.

The one with a Fu Manchu moustache and had a long face. The one who ate the Inu Inu no Mi Model : Wolf. Sadly this was just a normal Zoan fruit and not like the Yamato's Model : Okuchi no Makami, the one who was supposed to be the Guardian Deity of Wano.

Ken didn't waste a second and pulled out his Stormbreaker. The moment he did so thick clouds started forming above in the sky and his hands buzzed with lightning. He made a jump and reached near Jabra within a second.

Jabra, who was busy rallying his 'fellow countrymen' , had to step back. He actually wanted to hit back at Ken but stopped himself at the end. He needed the help of these men and he could only do so if he acted weak.

"Jabra.. I am surprised that they sent you. Who came with you? Nero? Fukurou? Kumadori?" Ken asked with a wide smile on his face. But the words of Ken struck Jabra like a train. He couldn't believe what he just heard.

Those were the names of his fellow agents. And their names had always been secret, and not revealed to anyone.

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