102 Chapter 102

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Smoker clicked his tongue, he took out a small transponder snail. "This is Captain Smoker speaking… I will be engaging a bounty hunter by the name of Aramaki, who is running wild and creating problems. In case I was found injured or dead, you would know what happened."

With that, he cut the connection off before putting the snail back in his pocket. The fight needed to be stopped, the green flames were already spreading into the forest, and half of it was already scorched, soon it might even reach the port city.

"Hey," Zoro called, making Smoker stop and look at the green-haired swordsman. "Captain ordered anyone from going there... and that includes you."

Sanji, and Kuina also nodded, if needed they would stop him

Smoker's face twitched but before he could say anything an explosion occurred, bringing all of their attention to the fight.

The fire in the forest stopped along with all of the noise. It seemed the battle was over.

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Luffy flew onto the ground winching from the pain in his gut, that punch hit like a truck. He was more so affected from the green liquid that was around his body.

He could feel it eating away at his flesh. That bastard suddenly blew himself up in close range. Even though Luffy could react to most of his opponent's attacks, he was getting exhausted from playing the running game.

Luffy had a few wounds but most of them weren't serious. Still, he had to keep up his observation haki at all times along with his gears… it was quite stamina-draining. The man was too experienced for Luffy to land a blow.

Luffy stood up, but suddenly he started feeling dizzy.

"Rahaha… already feeling the effects of my powers. Let me tell you, now that you are going to die." Aramaki said, before jabbing his thumb to himself. "I have eaten the Kemi Kemi no Mi (Chemical Chemical Fruit)... I can produce any kind of chemical… that substance on your body is a chemical that I was inspired by the green viper back in my hometown, now you won't be able to survive for long."

Luffy was not only feeling dizzy but also feeling nauseous, and yet he was calm. Why? Because the man might be strong, he was in fact quite stupid.

Who the fuck reveals their powers. And so what if the man had some Chemical powers. He could tell it wasn't anything radioactive, only a strong poison, which Luffy was easily dealing with Seimei Kikan. But he was acting weak and wobbly on the outside.

Sparky was already around the area, and was waiting for an opportunity… sparky might be strong, but being an animal, it already had a god-given talent for hiding his aura.

Observation haki users could still sense him, but to them, it would appear as if it was just another animal in the forest… not something to worry about. That's why he was trying to make Aramaki let his guard down.

Aramaki attacked again, this time Luffy was playing the defensive game. Waiting for an opportunity.

The fight continued, but even without acting, Luffy was losing badly. Even with all efforts he wasn't able to hold him off for long. Deep wounds started appearing more on Luffy, Horn's edge's blade was broken and tossed to his side. Even his nameless naginata was on the floor, away from Luffy's reach.

Even Luffy was back to his base state.

"I'm surprised you survived this long… Any last words?" Aramaki asked grinning while he held Luffy by the throat, dangling him in air. His sword was pointed at Luffy's chest to stab him… "Heh, like I cared…" he said as pushed the sword in.

But suddenly things slowed down, and a grin appeared on Luffy's face. A savage grin, "Gotcha Bitch." he said, quickly, cuffing the man with sea prism stone in both hands at the same time.

Aramaki's eyes almost popped out of his socket, –but slowly– as he lost his devil fruit powers. He was even more surprised when sea stone bullets, a total of six shots dug inside his back.

Luffy grabbed the man's face with both his arms being in a well-familiar motion. "This might mess up your face, so brace yourself," Luffy said, dangerously, his forearms starting to fold as if it was a spring, before turning black from haki. "Gomu Gomu no… face-buster Rokuogan!"

And like that a dangerous amount of wind pressure was released from the technique. Creating a deep gash on the ground that dragged till the end of the island. Throwing the man off as he flew of the island itself. And into the sea.

With that Luffy dropped onto the ground panting, that last attack, he put every ounce of strength in it.

The last thing Luffy saw was Sparky coming towards him.

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A/N: I forget to mention that Luffy doesn't have his gear forth yet. Because of only having armament haki for a few months. Anyway, this doesn't change anything.

Luffy didn't win fairly, he just caught the Aramaki off guard. And it's not something out of the ordinary in the one-piece world.

Like how Apoo caught both Luffy and Zoro off guard even though being much weaker than Luffy. Same with the clone-clone fruit guy who stabbed Odin. And not to mention how Yamato held of Kido even though she was weaker then him.

Even in the wacky world of One Piece, people get caught off guard.

Aramaki Ryokugyu is still stronger than Luffy. Not around admiral level just yet, but above your vice-admiral level, that's for sure. That's why there was no use of advanced forms of haki.

So hope you understand the power ranking of Luffy and the other characters.