68 Chapter 68 | I callange you!

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Luffy's grin widened. "So, you want to be strong?"

The boy nodded again. If Coby wanted to follow his own justice there was no other way.

Luffy grinned and held his hand high, an odd-shaped fruit was caught by it. "Then you can have it… it might be a tight decision, and you might not be able to swim, but it should grant you enough power to defeat Gin. The rest is up to you."

Coby didn't even hesitate, and took the fruit and chowed on it, till there was nothing left. The boy's face was a shade of green though… "Uh… it tastes like shit mixed with rotten eggs."

"Hey, what did you do to my captain," Gin asked as he stood up, trying to jump on Luffy, only to be tackled again by Coby.

"Your fight is with me," Coby shouted. And this time, he was pushing Gin back. "Yes, I can feel the fruit's power…. In me."

Luffy frowned, it seemed his the newest member of his crew was getting an episode of Eighth-grade syndrome. Or a placebo effect. Nah… it was definitely Eighth-grade syndrome.

"Yeah, you haven't even activated the fruit's powers." Luffy corrected, trying to push your claws out of your fists.

"Huh?" Coby questioned, but did what he asked, and suddenly three bony claws popped out of Coby's knuckles. "Uhhhh!" the boy screamed as they popped out with new wounds, but was quickly was shut off like it was never there.

"That's the claw-claw fruit, other than the ability to give you claws from your body it also gifts you with super senses, along with regeneration. Now, you are almost unkillable." Luffy said, "Almost because, I did kill the previous user to get it… so you might not only rely on that part of your ability."

"What is that… a devil fruit ability?" Gin asked, and he was able to pick up his tonfas while Coby was distracted. He was also able to wash of the hot sauce from his face. "It won't save you…"

"We will see about that… I can feel its power in me." Coby shouted, and got a hit in the face by Gin's tonfa.

Even Luffy winched at the crunching sound as Coby was flown back. But the pink-haired boy quickly got up, and growled like a wild animal. With claws out, it charged at Gin like a wild animal.

'Okay, I officially changed the fruit's name to Human Human fruit: Modle Wolverine. Even he is acting like one. Now he just needs a beard… the pink hair might even work.' Luffy mused as Gin and Coby fought. Now even without Usopp's help, —Luffy had signaled the sniper not to— Coby was fairly equal to Gin.

With each attack, Gin was breaking one or several of Coby's bones, but the boy had enough pain tolerance to fight through it, as they regenerated a new one. But the same couldn't be said for Gin, as was getting small to deep cuts all around his body from Coby.

Coby was still getting used to his new heightened senses, his eyesight had recovered, now he didn't need his glasses and his hearing was superhuman, all the senses were quite overwhelming. But his fight let him tune them down and use them to guess where Gin will hit. While he misjudged many, he was still able to improve in fight, more so, now that his animalistic senses were taking over.

The battle continued for a few minutes, and both fighters were locked against each other. "I won't let you win."

"And I won't let Don loose," Gin said as both of them struggled. They were now practically in the center of the restaurant, the tables were cleared beforehand, if not they would have been broken everything around.

The area around them was a pool of blood, mostly from Coby and Gin. And the unconscious or dead bodies of a hundred pirates from Don's group lay littered around.

"Hey, what are you doing?" said Patty, pointing in a certain direction. All heads moved towards there, to see Don Krieg with a bazooka in his hands.

"Gin, hold the boy there," Krieg ordered, as he aimed the bazooka towards Gin and Coby, where they were locked with each other. "If I can't have the restaurant, then no one can have it."

"But Don? Our crewmates will die?" the man flabbergasted, with wide eye.

"Like I fucking cared! You are Fired!" the man shot a rocket toward them. While he was at the edge of the restaurant, near a small boat. His plan was to flee with the boat to his ship and go from there.

But the shot never reached Gin or Coby, as a giant hand caught the bazooka like a fly, crushing it. The bomb exploded in the giant hand only some smoke coming out between his fingers.

And the source of the giant hand was Luffy, who was looking at Krieg seriously. All of them suspected that Luffy was pissed with Krieg, but the rubber boy could care less about him.

"Sparky take out the trash, we have company," Luffy said as his hand returned to his side normally.

The giant ship that was of Krige's suddenly got cut in half right in the middle as it parted in two ways. All of the people were surprised, the strawhats for a different reason.

"Wait?" Nami looked at Luffy, he still had both his naginata's on his back. "If you didn't, who cut the ship?" He asked the question that most of Luffy's friends were thinking.

"Him." Luffy pointed past Krieg, It was a small boat, where a man with a large blade strapped to his back was casually riding in between the parts of the two halves of Krieg's ship.

"You… what did you do to my ship?" Krieg shouted as he shot another bazooka, or at least tried to shoot, but was beheaded as Mihawk appeared right behind him, a handkerchief wiping the blood from his small blade that was even smaller than a butter knife.

"C-Captain?" Gin fell helplessly like the body of the Krige fell in the ocean. He couldn't even see the man move…

"Warlord of the Sea… Hawkeyes Dracule Mihawk." Kuina said with wide eyes as she gripped her sword. He looked to his side, Zoro was already in front, drawing his three swords at Mihawk.

"You are Hawk-eye Mihawk, are you not? My name is Roranoa Zoro and I challenge you to a duel."