One Piece: SSS-Rank Haki at Age Seventeen Chapter 57 57: The Decisive Battle at Enies Lobby (Part 2)

Beneath Enies Lobby, the sea roared with violent waves.

A massive bridge stretched across the ocean.

At the far end of the bridge stood a colossal Gate of Justice, engraved with the emblem of the World Governnt.

At the end of the bridge, Sanji slowly smoked a cigarette.

Around his feet lay a large number of unconscious Marines—the crew of the transport ship Spandam had contacted.

"Oh? So you've arrived."

Sanji looked up.

An extrely ugly man dragged Franky toward the bridge, while not far behind them walked Rob Lucci, his expression grim.

"Marines! Start the ship!"

Spandam roared the order.

But the scene before him stunned him.

"Start the ship? You an ?"

Before he finished speaking—

A kick smashed across Spandam's head.

Splash!

Spandam fell straight into the sea.

"S-Save… …! Hel—!"

Within seconds, he sank beneath the waves.

Sanji glanced at the bound Franky.

"H-Hey! Hurry and untie , brother!"

Franky excitedly started wiggling his hips.

"Tch."

Sanji looked at the chains binding him.

Coating his leg with Armant Haki, he kicked.

CRACK!

The chains snapped—and Franky was sent flying.

Sanji then looked toward Lucci.

Lucci stood there coldly in a combat stance.

"I'm not the sa as before."

His body transford into a towering leopard-man.

"Tempest Kick!"

A white air blade flew forward.

"Razor!"

Lucci imdiately followed behind it, moving so fast that his position was impossible to track with the naked eye.

Sanji kept both hands in his pockets. Sliding backward, his right foot scraped the ground, sparks flying.

"Diable Jambe — Extra Hachis!"

His leg erupted with blazing heat and light.

With a lightning-fast kick he shattered the air blade, then continued upward and struck Lucci.

SIZZLE!

The sll of roasted flesh spread through the air.

Yet Lucci showed no reaction to the pain.

He raised both hands and pointed at Sanji.

"Flying Finger Pistol!"

Air bullets fired from his fingertips—hundreds of compressed air shots aid straight at Sanji.

"Too slow."

Sanji comnted casually.

He rushed forward at high speed, weaving left and right, easily avoiding the air bullets.

The flas around his leg burned even hotter.

"Diable Jambe — Flambage Shot!"

Sanji leapt high into the air.

The crimson flas intensified further.

At the critical mont—

He spun and kicked downward.

BOOM!

Leopard-form Lucci was blasted hundreds of ters away, crashing heavily onto the ground.

"Cough…!"

Lucci spat blood, supporting himself with his hands.

His eyes filled with disbelief.

He could feel so of his internal organs beginning to burn.

Gritting his teeth against the pain, Lucci slowly stood up.

All his life, as the most talented mber of CP9 in eight hundred years, he had been proud.

He believed that one day he would reach the pinnacle of Cipher Pol—becoming the strongest shield of the Celestial Dragons, comparable to a Marine Admiral.

But the sudden rise of these two n had beco the greatest demon in his heart.

Lucci's eyes turned blood-red.

An invisible power surged throughout his body.

"This…!"

Lucci was shocked.

At this mont, he had surpassed his own limits.

"Hm? A Zoan awakening?"

Sanji imdiately noticed the change.

Lucci's ntal state had shifted, dramatically boosting his Devil Fruit power.

In simple terms—

He had powered up.

"Blond brat… die!"

Lucci no longer looked cold and composed.

Instead, he beca ferocious and bloodthirsty.

His sharp claws were proof enough.

Sanji kept his hands in his pockets and lightly tapped the ground, leaning backward.

A claw slamd down where he had been standing, shattering the bridge and sending rubble flying.

Lucci crouched low like a predator and pounced toward Sanji.

Sanji didn't dodge.

Just as Lucci reached him—

Sanji kicked upward from below, striking Lucci square in the chin.

Using the montum, he rose into the sky, spinning rapidly.

The flas on his leg intensified to their absolute limit.

Then—

Sanji stepped on the air with his left foot, accelerating downward at terrifying speed.

And as he fell—

He spun continuously, 360 degrees, becoming a blazing wheel of fire crashing toward Lucci.

"This… impossible!"

Lucci's eyes widened.

He could only watch as the towering flas descended upon him.

"Diable Jambe — Extra Hachis: Concassé!"

The kick fell from the sky.

In less than 0.1 seconds, it smashed directly into Lucci's head.

BOOM!

The bridge shattered within a hundred-ter radius.

Lucci plunged into the ocean—his life or death unknown.

Sanji lit another cigarette.

"Forcing to use that move… you should be proud."

Suddenly—

A sharp pain surged through his right leg.

"Ugh!"

Sanji dropped to one knee on the bridge.

"Just that… and I'm already reaching my limit…?"

Thus, all mbers of CP9 were defeated.

anwhile

BOOM!

A loud crash echoed.

The final building of Enies Lobby collapsed.

Several figures walked across the bridge from the opposite side.

Zoro, Nami, Chopper, Robin, and Usopp.

Everyone except Usopp had defeated their opponents—

and had grown stronger.

"Nami-swan! Robin-chan! I took down that Rob Lucci with just one kick! What do you think? Are you falling in love with yet?"

Sanji shalessly started flirting again.

"Where's Luffy?" Nami asked.

Her Observation Haki couldn't cover such a wide area—only Zoro and Sanji could sense part of the battlefield.

The mont she said that—

Sanji turned into a statue.

And shattered.

"We need to leave this island quickly. The Buster Call is coming."

Robin looked worried.

The Buster Call had always been her nightmare—and it still was.

Objectively speaking, if Luffy were removed from the equation, the Straw Hats couldn't withstand a Buster Call.

"But… we don't have a ship."

Hundreds of Miles Away

Ding!

Mission Completed: Partner Trial

Rewards permanently granted.

Several ice spears pierced through Luffy's body.

He casually hurled several lightning spears in return.

"Looks like my crew won."

Luffy smiled as if everything had gone exactly as expected.

Aokiji was shattered by the lightning spears—but imdiately reford.

The two of them were practically playing a javelin-throwing ga.

No Armant Haki.

No dodging.

Only the elental bodies of Logia users.

"Ahh… how scary."

Aokiji spoke lazily.

But his inner shock was far greater.

The first ti they t, aside from Luffy, the Straw Hat crew had been no match for CP9.

But how much ti had passed?

Three days? Two?

And now they could crush—or even instantly defeat—CP9.

Such terrifying growth shocked even a Marine Admiral.

As another "monster" himself, Aokiji could tell—

Those two possessed the potential of Admirals.

Aokiji hesitated.

Should I really let them leave?

A Three Emperors-level pirate crew would undoubtedly shake the entire world.

He sighed heavily.

"Sorry… Vice Admiral Garp."

Their potential is simply… too great.

The laziness vanished from Aokiji's eyes.

In its place appeared a chilling cold capable of freezing the sea itself.

One of the Navy Headquarters' greatest military powers—

Admiral Aokiji, one of the closest n to invincibility on the sea—

was finally getting serious.

◇ BONUS & SUPPORT ◇

◇ 1 bonus chapter for every 10 reviews — drop a comnt!

◇ 1 bonus chapter for every 100 Power Stones.

◇ Read 70 chapters ahead on P@treon → patreon/Chakraflow789