Chapter 28: Chapter 1
After years of being sure and practicing in real life, I am not lacking in self-confidence.
I first learned the basics of combat from the gang in Doflamingo and since living on this island with Wolf and the others I have perfected my technique and gained sheer strength.
However, these two periods are fundamentally different.
At the time when I was fighting alongside Doflamingo, only the desespor lived in me. I was only moved by the desire to destroy this world before I died.
But now my state of mind is different. Today, I want to defend people. The lives of the people of Pleasure Town and those of my friends are all at stake in combat.
I can't lose, I don't have the right.
To relax, I take a deep breath. Because if the leader that I am seems tense, the others will not be able to launch serenely into the battle and deploy all their forces:
- Let's go, guys! I forbid you to die, freelance ?! The victory belongs to us!
- Yeah!
While gripping the sword Wolf gave me tightly, I look straight ahead. Our enemies are more numerous than in the city. At first glance, I would say a good fifty, or even sixty. They all put on a contemptuous smile, as if they were convinced that their numerical superiority inevitably implies vocitory.
- Avoid underestimating us.
At these words, I give them a hostile look, which says a lot about my murderous intentions. The smile that my enemies used to display suddenly disappears. I scan the crowd, but can't find the two faces I'm looking for: the captain, Artur Bacca, and the sumo player who serves as his right-hand man, Conny Boackenno.
This fight will be simple.
If we manage to cross this group, find Bacca and Boackenno and defeat them, victory is assured. On the other hand, if we get knocked down along the way, defeat awaits us.
- Kids and an old crouton ... Stop igniting yourself! exclaims a pirate.
He swoops down on us with his sword, as if he had suddenly lost patience. At this signal, we too start to run. The four men directly in front of me attack, each in a different direction.
-What they are soft ...
I can see their movements like in a slow motion movie. I sink my foot into the chin of the first opponent who rolls down to the right and my palm of the first opponent that drops to the right and my palm catches the one who arrives in front of me. As for the one that appears on my left, he takes my knee in the pit of my stomach. Finally, I kick back to the guignoi chache in my back.
There they are all four on the ground.
- B ... Damn, he's very strong ...
I can hear one of them say these words perfectly. You should know that in a fight, fear always grabs the loser first.
Five six seven...
I continue to progress by chaining cons in the face of those who attack me. On the side, "yahhh!" and "tchaaa" reach me regularly. I take a look and see Bepo and his mastery of unarmed combat, Penguin who spears his attackers one after the other, and Shachi whose hatchet excels at destroying enemy weaponry.
It goes without saying that Wolf also knocks down everyone in front of him without any harm.
Fourteen, fifteen, sixteen ...
I lengthen them one by one without taking the slightest blow. Until the attacks stop. I then observe the surroundings and see that we five are the only ones still standing.
- The fingers in the nerz! cries Penguin.
- Like what, any training ends up bearing fruit ... adds Shachi who has difficulty in hiding his emotion.
- We continue like that until their boss and we blow his face! concludes Bepo, in whom the tension seems to be at its height.
Tss, these three are immediately overwhelmed by good humor. Wolf, on the other hand, has staring eyes straight ahead and frowning brows. He is right because the hardest part is yet to come. Everything will go wrong in the fights against Bacca and Boackenno.
- We run without stopping to the great hall! They are surely over there! Above all, do not think that they are of the same ilk as the abortions you have just eliminated! Wolf warns loudly.
The recently relaxed faces of Pegnuin, Shachi and Bepo harden.
- Here we go! I exclaimed, pushing open the door in front of me.
At this moment...
- Hakki Yoi! (Shout pushed by the referee during a sump fight, to prompt the wrestlers to act)
With a deafening noise, an immense mass of flesh and muscles gushed out before our eyes.
Conny Boackenno.
The surprise kick of this dark-skinned man, dressed in a mawashi and wearing a bun, instantly splits our group in two. Wolf and I managed to dodge his attack, but Bepo and the others were thrown to the side. As I prepare to help them, Penguin waves his right hand to me not to intervene.
- Law! Wolf and you, settle his account at Bacca! We take care of the sumo wrestler!
I can feel a little hesitation. Sumo is undoubtedly a tough opponent. But I also know that, if Wolf and I rescue them, Bacca will take the opportunity to attack us from behind.
- Law, we continue!
Wolf sees me procrastinating and grabs my shoulder hard.
- Trust them. They haven't pretended to train for all of these years, you know. The role of a leader is also to nod his head.
- Bepo! Shachi! Penguin! I trained you, so you don't have to lose!
- Heard!
Leaving their lively voices behind my back, I come to measure myself against the large door at the back of the valley.
- Hold on. Before entering, put this on your eyes.
- What's this?
- Miniature lenses. The hypnotic ray of Bacca acts on the eyes. These lenses will screen.
- Thank you, they are just right.
- The idea had been trotting in my head for a long time. I knew I would one day have to quit Bacca, so I took the lead and made them.
A fight against his son. I hardly dare imagine Wolf's pain and inner tension ... But now is not the time to bother him with it. I silently apply the lenses he just gave me to my two eyes.
- Here we go, Mister junk!
- I follow you!
We open the door.
- Hi Dad. And ... Oh, who do I see? The kid who took his legs has his neck the other day!
Artur Bacca stands in the middle of a hall dotted with several large pillars of white marble.
Finding myself face to face with him again, I feel the pressure mounting.
- Ghe pa pa! Aah, dear father ... You are not unaware of the range of my powers, however, eh? We are already in the evening, in case you haven't noticed. In a few hours, tomorrow morning to be precise, all the inhabitants touched by my radius will lose their lives. So you two, driven by this ridiculous sense of justice, come to kill me. I am right?
Bacca's provocative tone doesn't seem to trouble Wolf in the least.
- No, you're wrong, my cause is not so noble. I just came to give you a little moral lesson, because I feel responsible for your education.
- Ghe pa! After all, whatever the reason. One thing is certain, I am going to run up against you both here without further delay, and I will then take the time to travel around the island to look for the treasure. It's that simple!