A/N: Chapters in advance in Patreòn
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(Finished in Patreòn)
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Chapter 128: Weak
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Kizaru battles his fellow Admiral by using his full power, not taking chances in case I noticed something as the minutes passed.
But it was amusing seeing them fight. The poison had fully been exterminated from my body and I even made sure that there wasn't a second component to the poison.
After all, the World Government had Vegapunk, I wasn't underestimating that man no matter what. He was just too dangerous to do that. Still though, after a dozen or so times of checking and making sure, I breathed a sigh of relief. Just in case, I would have Reiju check me over once again for any poisons.
**
As time passed, Kizaru and fujitora had injured each other quite a bit, though the one who was injured more ended up being Kizaru as the man was completely countered and was forced to fight with just swordsmanship. The Light fruit was essentially useless against Fujitora and sometimes would even lead it to become detrimental to Kizaru.
"Are you two done?" I asked them, a small smirk adorning my face as Kizaru looked at me and his eyes widened. Finally, he had realized that something was wrong here, the poison still hadn't taken effect. By now I should have noticed it naturally and panicked.
Kizaru forms a long, very sharp, and durable sword out of light and solidifies it.
{Ama no Murakumo}
He charged at me, confusing Fujitora. But I was already one step ahead of Kizaru and punched towards the light sword in my Awakened Form.
Clang!
In one punch, my Haki infiltrated the sword and broke it. Clenching my fist, I planted a punch into some droplets of light as Kizaru tried to escape. His body formed mid-air and I had hit him straight in the stomach.
He coughed out a mouthful of blood, he tried to jump back, but it was already too late as I chased after him. Clutching at his stomach painfully, Kizaru by now was heavily injured and the cuts from fujitora had added up too.
Fwish!
Within an instant, I moved to a random place and Kizaru's figure slowly materialized there. Future Sight was working at its highest power and I was even seeing up to 17 seconds ahead of time. Every move he made was within my grasp and his fate had been decided already.
I gathered my Quake power in my hand, and after infusing it with Armament Haki I punched down as hard as I could.
BOOOOOM!!!
Space shattered like glass and Kizaru's body twisted strangely, and unnaturally as while my punch didn't even touch him my attack did. It was devastating as tsunamis rose and the submarine underwater was destroyed by the aftershock of my attack.
Kizaru was already dead and Fujitora's eyes widened, he changed gravity's direction to push us both away and widen the distance between us. But it was futile, as my body morphed into my bear form and my hand enlarged. I pointed my palm at the fleeing Fujitora.
Darkness gathered in my hand and it slowly formed a giant dark whirlpool.
<Dark Hole>
Fujitora's body was unnaturally dragged towards me even though he tried to use his power to push himself away. Gravity had nothing on the suction power of the Dark-Dark Fruit.
"Are you sure this is what you want to do, young man?" asked Fujitora, after he saw that there was no way to stop himself from coming toward me. "Your path is one of damnation, I have seen what you do to others and how you treat them."
"I was taught to think before I act. So if I kill you, rest assured I've thought about it and am confident in my decision." I said to him coldly, not leaving any room for refusal. Suddenly I sensed gravity being used on the submarine that I Had destroyed underwater and hundreds of its missiles had their gravity changed and they would hit me. This time I saw clearly in my Future Sight that I would die from the acidic poison in the missiles.
Now there were two choices in front of me, kill Fujitora and try to dodge the missiles, which would be hard, but not impossible. Or I jump back, abandon killing Fujitora, but that would also leave him with many poison missiles to manipulate with his gravity. So if he decided to do a suicide attack, I would die.
Heh, the tables were turned within a split second. Fujitora wasn't an Admiral for nothing and his mid-fight decision was top notch. I couldn't have done any better in his place, this was a checkmate from him, no matter whether I choose option A or B, it would end up in my death.
In the end, I charged at Fujitora and my clawed hand pierced straight through him. The man still held a smile on his face as he muttered. "It's your loss, Bear D Max."
He touched my chest and with his dying breath, Fujitora had made me the center of gravity for the rockets. His dead body slumped towards the sea, and as expected, even after death, he was a pain in the arse.
Hundreds of acidic poison rockets burst out of the sea and immediately came towards me. Even though there were no flames to boost them toward me, the power of gravity did so and their speed was outrageously fast.
My eyes shone red for a split second as I gazed into the future.
---
"Old man, I choose option C, you die and I live." Gathering some heat in my body I used the Oven-Oven Fruit. My body temperature became so hot that even if steel came in contact with it would melt.
I then created a ball of flames around me by using the Flame-Flame Fruit. My skin hardened into diamond and a wall of molten candy formed a cocoon around my body. Though I could no longer see, I still sensed what was happening outside.
BOOOOM!!
As the rockets exploded, unexpectedly every one of my defenses was blown off as the hundred of rockets got through them all and the left side of my body burned off, leaving me poisoned, after which… I die.
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That was the future I saw because the missiles were made to be unassuming and looked normal. Their damage was unimaginable. I would die if I took them head one and tried to defend myself. Running away was an option, but the missiles would chase, and eventually, I would get tired. From what I saw the explosion range was quite big so even if I used some obstacle to stop them, I would get affected.
With that in mind, I jumped towards the water and as soon as my body touched the ocean I got weaker. But I wasn't afraid at all as the water wasn't a weakness no loner, that was why I dared to fight Fujitora here in a place where he could sink me.
Coldness burst out of my body, and within an instant, all of the sea around me within a wide radius froze.
<Ice Age>
The Ice-Ice Fruit had eliminated my weakness of water.
I used the Swim-Swim fruit that I got from Senior Pink and started swimming through the ice as if it was water and since I was still in my awakened firm, my swimming speed was quite fast.
I went so deep that I touched the bottom of the ocean, but then I went even deeper and started swimming underground. Down there, in the darkness, I waited for a couple of minutes and swam away once more, this time as far as I could from the explosion zone just in case it created a poison radius.
Well, Future Sight saved my life there, today would have been my funeral if I didn't have it. I think that the best decision I ever made was to not go around telling everyone that I had it.
Now both Kizaru and fujitora are dead. It was time I started attacking the World Government, but today showed me that I needed to also get my hands in a couple of life-saving Devil Fruits… this was harder than expected.
But I had to make it work somehow.
***
Things are still dangerous for Max, even though he is strong. He isn't the only one who can use tricks to fight. The stronger he gets, the less people are willing to fight him alone and fairly. Not everyone is like Luffy who would fight an enemy head-on, no matter how much stronger they are.
A/N: Chapters in advance in Patreòn
Pa treon.com/HolyJoker
(Finished on Patreòn)
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Chapter 129: Surgeon
***
Negan killed the CP-0 agent, and the agent was someone I was familiar with too. Rob Lucci, the one who used to be in CP-9, has been promoted now. Though it didn't matter anymore since he was dead now.
I went back to the ship and our journey to Punk Hazard continued. But my mind went into many different thoughts in my head, so I couldn't help but contemplate some things. Today, I would have died if I hadn't been cautious.
I need more power.
There were two Devil Fruits that I wanted right now, but it was quite hard to get my hands on them. Because the seas were big and finding them was very tricky. Even though both Devil Fruit users were in the New World by now. It was still as hard as finding a needle in a haystack.
But without those Devil Fruits, the situation can only get bad and then even worse.
There was a high probability that I would die if I confronted the World Government right now. Why? Because I suspected that those guys probably had some secret weapon in their possession. I don't know for sure since I never read the Manga that far, but it wouldn't be surprising if they did have at least one Ancient Weapon in their possession.
Taking that into account then the situation became way more dangerous than initially thought and that was why I didn't want to push them into a position where they are forced to use it against me. Though eventually they will and this has now become a race against time until I can either get the Devil Fruits I wanted first or the World Government eventually kills me.
Though now that two of their Admirals were dead, the situation had become a little more spacious and there weren't many people out there who could stop me from getting what I wanted.
***
On Mariejois, the Five Elders stood at the meeting table, each of them with an angry expression on their faces as they had lost contact with two Admirals.
"That brat!" Yelled out the bald Elder in anger, the circular glasses dropping out of his eyes and shattering on the ground. "He can take on two Admirals?!"
"Why didn't Kizaru's deception work? The poison should have been unnoticeable and he even warned him about Akainu during the Marineford War. So this should have been easier." Calmly said the tall and thin bearded elder with long white hair.
"He is strong. Beyond what we had imagined, I doubt even Akainu could take him on." The blond-haired and bearded elder concluded. "If only he wasn't so unruly, he would be the perfect Marine."
The big white mustached elder snorted. "It feels like all our problems these days have Max's name attached to it."
"We must take care of him at all costs," the elder with a scar to his eye spoke. By now Max had become too much of a problem for them to handle alone. "What about Shanks? He could help."
"He won't fight with Max, to him, what Max is attempting to do is replace us. Do you think Shanks cares who sits on the throne? No, as long as there is order he won't care. Whether it's us or someone else who keeps the order it doesn't matter to him."
The Five Elders continued talking and trying to get rid of Max now, no matter the cost…
***
-Max POV-
When I arrived in Punk Hazard, the island was nice and had green plants everywhere. Though there still stood a purple miasma around the island, showing that the air was still poisonous.
Akainu and Aokiji hadn't fought here unlike in the original story. But this place wasn't that safe still, as Caesar had some experimental accidents and the air was very poisonous.
I put on a gas mask and went toward the lab alone, and I arrived in front of a huge steel door in one of the mountains. In front of it stood Trafalgar D Water Law, one of the Warlords of the Sea. He had pulled the hundred hearts trick here too, going to Marineford with 100 pirates still-beating hearts. The World Government loved that so much they made him Warlord.
After all, who wouldn't fear a man who does something like that. Not me, obviously. But many Pirates did so and that was perfect for the World Government. Though it gave a bad name to the Marines for putting some butcher like that in a position of power.
Law stared at me before nodding. "Caesar has been waiting for you."
I smiled and walked towards the steel doors that opened. Standing next to Law for a second, I couldn't help but take this chance.
I put Haki on my finger and like a drill, it shot towards Law's unsuspecting head.
<Shigan>
He looked at my attack and his eyes widened.
[Shambles]
Fwish!
He immediately changed positions with a rock, and my finger had pierced straight into the hard stone. I smiled at him while looking a small distance away. "Wow~ you dodged that?"
"What are you trying to pull here?" He asked, trying to act calm but I could sense his nervousness and fear. By now he probably planned to escape.
Sadly, Negan was quite fast and wouldn't let Law get out of the island. Most people when fighting me always assumed that they only needed to escape me to get away. Negan could travel faster than me over long distances.
So at the end of it, escape was next to impossible. Law didn't know that and still held hopes, but sadly for him, I wanted his Devil Fruit.
I transformed into my bear hybrid form and kicked off the ground over a hundred times in a split second, making me dash forward at incredible speeds.
<Soru>
Within an instant, I was in front of him, he was already ready.
[Shambles]
His body was replaced with a log, but with my Future Sight, I foresaw this and had already approached Law in his new position.
<Shigan>
He attempted to dodge again, but my finger imbued with Haki sank in his forehead like a hot knife in butter. His eyes lost the life in them and his body dropped to the ground, dead.
What a shame, I liked him too. As a Manga Character of course. But since this was the real world, I had to act with what was beneficial to me.
Well, the Ope-Ope No Mi will probably reincarnate on this island. I will have my trusted subordinates search for it later. Right now there was another problem I had to deal with.
Walking back into the secret lab, I saw many people come out to greet me. They were all wearing yellow hazmat suits.
"""Hello, Max -sama!!""" They greeted me respectfully.
"Shirorororo~" Caesar came out too, in his usual outfit and cloak made out of gas. "Max, you won't believe what I just got access to. Also, the World Government has requested me to make some poison weapons. I can't say no, but if you increase my funding..."
I stared him in the eyes and smiled. "Of course…"
<Soru>
Within an instant, I was in front of him and I punched straight through his body. Killing him instantly. Compared to the monsters out there, Caesar was nothing in comparison. "Sadly, you outlived your usefulness."
The other people tried to react, but with a burst of my Conqueror's Haki, I knocked them out and everyone else in the facility.
Caesar wasn't someone trustworthy. So he had to die, his Gas-Gas Fruit was best used by someone like Reiju. Plus I knew he also had some backdoor deals with the World Government.
**
After that, I went around and killed everyone unconscious. Ending their lives and also taking all of the research notes lying around.
When I came back to the ship, Negan had a huge smile on his face. He probably sensed what I had done and his bloodlust was clearly visible. "You don't have to tell me Boss-man, I am already searching for where the Devil Fruits will be reincarnated."
This was why I liked Negan, he knew what needed to be done before I even needed to say it.
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I can't say too much now as it might spoil the ending.
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