6 chapter 6

Mrs. Bakkin flew from one end to the other like a cannonball fired at high speed, some 10 meters or more crossed her in an instant.

Smoker reacted quickly and struck hard with his weapon.

The Nanashaku Jitte, hit Mrs. Bakkin's face hard.

Mrs. Bakkin's face was distorted by the blow and her sunglasses broke.

With what willpower she had left, before flying away, she shot an angry look at Mugen that contained all her accumulated resentment for this short period of time.

Sometimes he wondered what he had done wrong.

She thought and thought about it and finally came to the conclusion that it had been a fatal mistake to have saved the ungrateful Mugen that day.

Though she was also partly to blame for being so greedy for the power displayed by Mugen.

"The rare talent of a king. What a fool I was to even think I could control that kind of person."

"I should have known better, but perhaps it was my age or also because of my greed that blurred my vision and I couldn't open my eyes in time."

"If only I had hesitated for a second, I wouldn't be suffering this humiliation now."

The emotional swings in that small moment when Mrs. Bakkin was receiving the blow to the face while her cheek wrinkles rippled like waves, were too much.

Mugen seemed to notice and from his lips murmured a message that only Mrs. Bakkin understood.

"Out of my way." Smoker didn't hold back and sent the little old lady flying to where his subordinates were.

"You guys take care of that person while I take care of this guy."

"Yes sir." The marines quickly approached Mrs. Bakkin who had fallen to the ground making a hole with her body finished with the top half buried in the ground, only her small feet remained in sight.

Smoker shook his weapon removing the blood and saliva on it, his hands clenched and he used the powers of his fruit to burst into a curtain of smoke.

The environment filled with smoke that began to surround Mugen on all sides, enclosing him in the middle.

Mugen put his hands in his pockets and just waited.

The smoke moved like snakes to the surroundings, as if waiting for its prey to show some weakness to attack effectively.

Smoker hid in the smoke, where he had the view of Mugen's every move, no angle escaped his sight.

"Damn this guy has no opening, it would seem he's just standing there doing nothing, but when I want to make an attack I have a feeling he'll know very well where I'll attack from."

Smoker didn't attack blindly or pounce immediately, he was evaluating and thinking of countermeasures, his figure moved with the smoke and circled around trying to find flaws.

"Are you done, or haven't you started yet, I'm getting bored, if you just surround me and don't attack you'd better not obstruct my view." Mugen took his hands out of his pockets and commented, smoker heard him and scoffed.

"Hmp, let's see if you'll still be able to have that calm when I defeat you and catch you."

Smoker appeared from above, half of his body returned to normal and he held his weapon with two hands, with an aggressive move trying to finish everything in one blow, he struck downward with force, his target was Mugen's head.

Mugen had no emotion in his eyes and raised his hand, he caught the blow holding smoker's weapon and with his other hand he grabbed his face.

That whole process happened in an instant, not even five seconds passed and smoker was already in his hands.

"Good. That's it. That was kind of disappointing." Mugen held smoker in the air and spoke with his hoarse voice, smoker kicked trying to free himself from the iron clutches that imprisoned him.

"How... How is this possible, I shouldn't be able to touch my smoker body."

Through the slit in Mugen's fingers you could see smoker's eyes were wide open, disbelief written all over his face, the dilated pupils confirmed it. 

The Marines who had just begun to pull Mrs. Bakkin off the ground stood stunned with their eyes and mouths wide open in surprise and shock.

Tashigi's throat rose and fell with the repeated saliva she swallowed, her throat was dry and fear glistened in her eyes.

She was left with one foot in the air as she tried to support smoker in the fight, she didn't get a chance to participate, as it was all over before it started.

Her direct boss lost in an instant, caught in the hands of the enemy.

"If I remember correctly, this is a weapon made in a special way, isn't it." Mugen snatched the weapon from smoker's hands and looked at the tip of it carefully. "This is Kairōseki." (sea stone)

Playing with the weapon between his fingers he suddenly got an idea, but before he could get it started he tilted his head slightly where smoker's kick grazed his face.

"You're like a rabid dog, hold still for a moment will you."

Smoker was about to throw another kick, but Mugen anticipated it, with his iron hand still on smoker's face, he shook it in a violent and powerful way back and forth.

The movement of his arm was so fast that hardly a movement was noticed.

Smoker fell slumped.

Arms hung at his side and his eyes rolled back, smoker blacked out.

What happened when Mugen shook smoker's head, was that the brain hit the walls of the skull over and over again until his consciousness shut down and all was darkness.

The weaknesses of the human body are still there, although they almost never take advantage of that.

For two years fighting, Mugen has experienced all kinds of blows and has realized one thing, and that is that no one uses the body's weak points when striking an opponent.

Attacks to the body hurt and nothing else.

It is for that very reason that fights can go on for days and weeks with no result.

It's because when they fight they only hit where they think it hurts the opponent the most, and where they think they will draw the most blood.

Mugen shook smoker and it moved like a toy doll, the limbs seemed to have no bones and it moved from side to side, the sight seemed both amusing and frightening.

Mugen found it amusing and the marines looked on with horrified faces.

They didn't know what had happened, but they were watching as their captain, who was once full of energy and seemed to struggle trying to free himself, stopped moving from one moment to the next.

Their fear reached such an extreme that they wanted to throw down their weapons and run for their lives when they saw how the man dressed in black seemed to be having fun with smoker's body.

Mugen stopped shaking smoker and remembered something. "That's right, I almost forgot."

Taking the tip of smoker's special weapon between his fingers, Mugen cut like scissors and the weapon split in two, he repeated in the same process and cut off a smaller piece, right at the tip, which was made of Kairōseki.

In his hand he held a small piece the size of a fingernail.

"Let me have some fun with you."

Opening his smoker's mouth he shoved the small piece down his throat, forcing the Kairōseki stone down his throat.

"You've finally arrived. Come, I welcome you." Mugen looked off into the distance where with his haki he sensed the other protagonist of this event.

Luffy ran through the desert when he sensed the smell of food.

"Food, wait food, I'm coming."

Mugen withdrew his gaze and noticed smoker in his hand. With a leap he jumped down from the roof and dropped like a feather to the ground.

"Let's see, what shall I do with you, oh, I remember that wonderful technique I once used a few times, I've never done it again since then, it was completely gone, you'll be the first to try it after a long time."

Mugen lifted smoker into the air and as his body rose he grabbed his leg.

He pulled his leg and his arm moved up again, like shaking a wet towel, smoker's body was like a doll that could be handled at will without any resistance.

Smoker's body was on Mugen's back, while Mugen with his left hand grabbed smoker's hand that appeared under his right armpit.

Mugen began to wield smoker's body as a weapon, like a nunchaku.

Mugen's face was concentrated and focused on smoker's movement, at the same time he felt with his observation haki the person he was waiting for.

At some point the wind began to blow from the center of Mugen, it was caused by smoker's body that every second increased the speed at which it moved.

(If you have seen the series or read the manga, it is the same trick that Hanma Yujiro used against Baki).

The marines who were frightened before were awakened when Mugen came down and prepared to try to rescue smoker.

However, they stopped a few meters away when they noticed the violent movement the man in black made with smoker's body.

"At last, what is this, what is he trying to do with Captain smoker.!"

"Somebody stop him!"

"That's dangerous, if you move him like that!"

"Be careful I'll hit you, don't get close.!"

Tashigi looked nervous and didn't know what to do, her face showed helplessness and unwillingness.

"Finally what is this."

It was a question in the air, not waiting for anyone to answer her, but at that moment a voice came from behind her and said.

"That's a human nunchaku."

Tashigi was startled and immediately distanced herself, looking back, she saw the little old woman being treated standing shaking the dust off her clothes.

The two marines guarding her were on the ground with wide eyes and a look of fear, necks were twisted back and crushed.

"Guys!" Tashigi shouted.

"Calm down little girl, don't scream stupidly, they are dead, so no matter how much you call out, dead people don't respond."

Mrs. Bakkin picked up her cane and took out a spare pair of glasses and put it on. She wiped the blood from her lips and then spat on the ground.

"Damn, I bit my tongue."

"You, why did you do such a cruel thing?" Tashigi asked, her teeth clenched tightly, she hadn't heard anything that was going on behind her.

If she wasn't so confused she could have found out earlier and those two soldiers wouldn't have died like that.

"Cruel. Girl, what are you talking about, they died peacefully without feeling pain, at least I didn't torture them and that's already being kind of me."

Mrs. Bakkin looked behind tashigi. "If you have time to worry about the dead it is better not to do so and better to see what happens to your fellow humitos."

"He is the one you have to show the most concern for, he has fallen into the hands of Mugen and compared to me whom you call cruel, he is the one who is truly cruel and merciless to his enemies, at least as far as I know no one has died peacefully when they are within reach of his hands."

"It is true, captain smoker." Tashigi remembered and turned her body without hesitation, she has completely forgotten that there is still an enemy at her back.

Mrs. Bakkin was speechless, this girl is a bit stupid. Well, it is none of her business.

Mrs. Bakkin shook her head and sighed, she looked at Mugen and still marveled at that technique that he only used in war camps where many people are concentrated.

Looking at tashigi, the stupid girl, her formed a mischievous smile and explained.

"People who are used by that technique as a human weapon get the worst of it, that smoke guy is lucky that he fainted or else he would be suffering a lot."

Tashigi perked her ears up and looked sideways at Mrs. Bakkin.

Mrs. Bakkin continued speaking. "Which side is up and which side is down, if the guy was awake he would observe his surroundings, I wouldn't know how to explain it in words to understand."

"His body moves at great speed and what he would see if he were awake would be that everything before his eyes was passing quickly, as if the world had accelerated, his mind would become confused and in a short time the damage to his body due to that movement would show."

"Mugen, that boy explained it to me like this."

Mugen? Tashigi picked up some information.

Mrs. Bakkin put a hand to her chin and tried to remember what it was that Mugen called what happened when those who suffered that technique experimented.

"That's what he called centrifugal force, I don't understand it much, but soon the high speed movement that marine is going through will suffer the results. That is, the blood in his body will soon seek a way out of his body. Nose, mouth, ears and eyes."

"From every hole in his body blood will gush out, that's the terrible thing about being a human nunchaku."

"And the worst comes later, it's a great luck that the environment around us is only wood and houses, I've seen that movement in action on the battlefield and I have to say it's not a very pretty thing to witness."

Mrs. Bakkin continued to explain what she had seen and experienced on past occasions, while Mugen continued to warm up.

Soon he went from holding smoker with his hands to grabbing them with four fingers, then three, and then only one finger.

Smoker was like a rag doll that went around Mugen's whole body, giving the illusion that Mugen was covered by a semi-transparent blanket.

After a few seconds of warming up mugen smiled and braced himself, with his haki observation, he saw and heard what he expected.

Gomu gomu no.... Rocket!!!

Luffy stretched his arms that acted like springs, he propelled himself at great speed and soon entered the village in front of him.

He had a big smile on his face and his eyes were wide with excitement.

But soon, that changed.

His face went from happy to confusion, and then he was frightened by what he saw.

Mugen waited and as soon as he saw a shadow go in his direction, he pulled smoker behind his back and grabbed him with two hands.

His stance was like that of a batter waiting for the ball to come.

When it was time, Mugen swung smoker and hit the incoming target with force.

A loud noise like an explosion was heard, smoker's head collided with luffy's head.