Chapter 853: Chapter 522: People with Status (Part 2)
"Ah... is it really that difficult?"
Sipher scratched his head, "I want to give up, so let’s leave it to fate."
He pulled out a coin, tossed it, and caught it with his hand, discovering it was heads when he opened his palm.
"Well, heads means no, tails means yes... but the moment I tossed the coin, my heart already made the choice by fate, so I have to go!"
Sipher chuckled and looked at Gin and the Seven Stars with a hint of battle spirit in his eyes, saying in a deep voice: "Because I really want to find out whether there’s a gap between us or I’ve already surpassed you!"
"Similarly, I want to know how powerful one of the Chief Security Officers of O’hara is. You were defeated by Master Hawkins and Master Urouge back in the day. If you haven’t improved, that would be embarrassing," Gin said.
Sipher merely chuckled lightly at these words.
"Charge ahead!"
Right at this moment, among the pirates heading towards the summit, a group came charging backward. "We won’t join the Disaster Corps, we’re part of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet!"
Some agreed, but others did not, and besides those heading to the center, a faction of pirates didn’t want to join here and tried to charge straight out.
Leading the group was a man riding a white horse with golden curls, holding a rose in his mouth, extraordinarily handsome.
The other had a green mohawk with sharp teeth, his fingers intertwined to form a special barrier protecting those behind him, crashing through the pirates charging from the front.
"Oh? Those two people..."
Sipher remarked softly, focusing on the person on the white horse, "If they weren’t so flashy, they might resemble..."
Before he could finish speaking, everyone else turned their gaze toward him, making Sipher shiver inexplicably, "No, I prefixed it, and even if they do resemble, it’s an insult. I didn’t finish speaking, no need to look at me like that."
"Bartolomeo and Cavendish."
Bellamy squeezed his fist, took two steps forward, placed his fists on the ground, and turned all his limbs into springs covered with a layer of Haki.
"These two guys actually came and want to rebel against Master Sage..."
Bang!
The airwave burst forth, Bellamy shot out, compressing his spring-loaded fists powerfully and suddenly punched right in front of Bartolomeo.
"Don’t be too excessive!"
Thud!
With a muffled sound, Bellamy was bounced high into the air by Bartolomeo’s barrier.
"Eh? What’s that thing?"
Bartolomeo was just taken aback when three shadows appeared in front of him.
Thud, thud, thud!
Three arrows shot towards the barrier, likewise being repelled by the sturdy barrier, bouncing to the surroundings, causing a few unlucky pirates to be hit in the knees.
"An air barrier?"
Holding a bow and arrow, Misty was slightly stunned, with red spots flashing in her eyes. Under Observation Haki, she could clearly see the semi-circular barrier enveloping the area.
"The defense is really formidable..."
Sipher laughed lightly, suddenly stomping on the ground, causing the firm ground ahead to turn into undulating waves, soft as satin, making the pirates standing on it lose balance and fall.
Cavendish’s horse also couldn’t steady itself, collapsing to the ground, causing him to fall forward and crash into the barrier, his face nearly flattened against it.
"Hey! Be careful!" Cavendish shouted at Bartolomeo, "If my handsome face gets hurt, I’ll kill you first!"
"It’s not me, you vain guy!" Bartolomeo shouted back.
"That’s useless; it’s not a terrain-based ability," Sipher looked at Pearl beside him, saying:
"Hey, Pearl, this seems tougher than your turtle shell."
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
Pearl clashed his iron shields together, puffed his chest, and glared at Bartolomeo hostilely, "No barrier can match my defense! Also, I’m not a turtle shell! I’m the original turtle crocodile, at least I’m a turtle!"
"But Master Sage called you a turtle..."
"Shut up!" Pearl rolled his eyes, "Are you itching for a fight now?!"
In the current Martial Arts Tournament, they also had competition, after all, even if they wanted to challenge Gin, they needed to have the qualifications to do so.
"So they’re from the Disaster Pirates."
Bartolomeo maintained the barrier and laughed, "Give up. You can’t break through my defense, even the Four Emperors are nothing. Luffy is the strongest!"
"Shut up! Negative Ghost!"
At this moment, several ghosts passed through the so-called invincible defense barrier and through Bartolomeo’s body, causing his expression to immediately deteriorate and his limbs to fall to the ground, gloomily shouting:
"I’m so sorry, mohawk non-mainstream!"
Perona supported her umbrella, hovering above the ground, disdainfully flicking her head, "Is it so difficult to deal with this kind of guy?"
There exists restraint between abilities.
Perona’s ghosts can penetrate any barrier, the so-called Absolute Defense barrier can only block physical entities, not special ghosts.
Only Haki can resist all abilities effective against humans.
Bartolomeo fell into negativity, his clenched fingers naturally loosened, and the protective barrier disappeared.
"Damn it! This is not graceful at all!"
Cavendish staggered for a few steps, immediately launching into a dive, drawing Durandal from his waist, and attacked the umbrella girl swiftly like a hurricane.
This guy being able to break through Bartolomeo’s defense, he must defeat her first!
Additionally, he couldn’t allow anyone to outshine him!
"Pretty Sword - Azure Bird!"
The rapid thrust even made his sword create a powerful airflow as it pierced forward strongly towards Perona.
But such speed is relative.
A wisp of ghost emerged from in front of Perona, swept over the blade covered in Haki, but passed through Cavendish who lacked self-defense.
This caused his stylish thrusting stance to suddenly stumble, kneeling and weeping:
"I’m sorry for losing my sparkle!"
"What a terrifying ability."
Sipher clicked his tongue, "If hit, it’d be a big humiliation."
"How absurd!"
Just as he spoke, another person in the crowd fell to their knees, pounding the ground and crying:
"I want to cut off my nose..."
That was Buggy, who came from the other side, originally blending in with the crowd to see if he could sneak away, but inexplicably struck by a ghost falling into despondency.
But this despondency didn’t last long; he stiffened for a moment, quickly standing upright, looking at the people staring at him, taking a deep breath, and becoming serious.
"That’s right, I am Buggy! One of the Seven Warlords of the Sea! Also, your Captain’s brother! I was just fishing with him..."
He said in a deep voice, "I don’t want brothers to fight each other. Sage has his own path. What I can do is leave, so make way, let me out! Otherwise..."
Swoosh!
His loosely wrapped cloak abruptly expanded, enlarging Buggy’s physique, and he flailed around shouting:
"You shall suffer the wrath of the Seven Warlords of the Sea!"
Click.
But this careless movement seemed to trigger a mechanism, and a small red ball fell from his toe, painted with a skull.
"Ah!!"
Buggy’s eyes nearly bulged out, he stared at the little ball below, then looked at the confused crowd, squeezing out a dry smile:
"Let me explain, this thing, it’s called a Buggy Bomb. I recently combined it with your special shells. A standard shell can blow up half a town; this mini one..."
Boom!!!
The explosion below erupted with flashing brilliance, blasted the surrounding pirates far away, and in this gleam, Buggy was catapulted spinning through the air.
"I’m being blown away!!"
He shouted out a phrase like leaving a shooting star, flying from the island’s edge to the central area, landing headfirst and sliding for a considerable distance like a high-speed brake, just falling into the circle surrounding Sage, joining the assembly.
All the notable figures were gathered.
