As A GAMER In One Piece
Chapter 62: CH-61 - LUFFY PIECE - II

Chapter 62: CH-61 - LUFFY PIECE - II

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AN: AGAIN, SORRY FOR NOT UPLOADING A Chapter FOR 10 DAYS. I WAS BUSY. YOU GUYS KNOW THE REASON. ANYWAYS, HOPE YOU GUYS ENJOY Chapter 61.

[PREVIOUSLY ON GAMER PIECE]

I disappear once again, amused that I somehow hopped into the original timeline. But I get an idea. Since I am to cause chaos, why not do it here? I appear in front of Zoro, grabbing onto his sword Enma as I kick him with Armament Haki - EMISSION. Zoro is surprised at me appearing in front of him, and then I immediately disappear—

"My sword—"

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"

Luffy grins as he looks at us before bending a little, his legs compressing. He shoots toward us with speeds that almost make him invisible, but I can react much faster than before.

*CLAP*

I clap my fingers, immediately switching places with Luffy.

*BOOM*

Right as Sanji, who has his leg on fire, kicks where I was, hitting Luffy instead. A blue explosion occurs as Sanji expels his blue flame outward, making Luffy wince in pain, a grin still fixed on his face.

*CLAP*

I clap once again, this time switching myself with Luffy as Nami gathers a huge amount of lightning into the tip of her staff, which is golden. I gave Nami Enel’s golden staff, which she uses to point at Luffy, firing a compressed blast of lightning at him. While lightning doesn’t affect him, Luffy winces once again as the heat generated from the Lightning Beam stings him, burning his skin a little.

But in front of all of our eyes, the burn mends itself, skin reattaching. The same thing happened when Sanji kicked him with Ifrit Jambe. Luffy can heal his body thanks to his Zoan regeneration, and maybe his own control over his rubbery nature allows him to mend his body however he wants.

Zoro grips his three swords (which include my old Seven-Star Sword) as he infuses his Conqueror’s Haki through them, making Luffy look surprised. Luffy’s grin falters for a second as recognition flashes through his eyes before—

*CLAP*

I clap once again, using Amenotejikara to switch positions with Zoro this time. This isn’t just one switch but two, as I switch Nami with Luffy, who is nearer to Zoro. Zoro swings his swords where Nami was supposed to be, but Luffy appears right there. Luffy immediately ducks as his Observation Haki warns him about the threat, quickly wobbling his body, spinning, and shooting toward Zoro’s abdomen.

Dante’s Inferno appears in the same position Zoro was, getting hit by the punch. The punch doesn’t even push the ship/Franky backward, who immediately retaliates. From the middle of the armor-like ship, a small hole appears, and from it, a small sound is heard—

*BOOM*

Before a compressed force of kinetic energy mixed with lightning erupts from the small hole, slamming into Luffy. While neither of these attacks would harm Luffy individually, the boost that lightning gets from the kinetic energy causes Luffy to suffer burns all across his body—

Before his body starts regenerating. I notice Wyper getting ready to swing, so I switch him with a rock near Luffy as Wyper immediately punches Luffy in the back, releasing a huge blast of kinetic energy combined with fire that comes out of cannons, sending Luffy flying. Luffy turns mid-air, facing me. Luffy is adapting; his Observation Haki is adapting, and if it adapts fast enough, he will overpower us.

"Mark 3, Activate!" Franky whispers, making us all hear it. He jumps using the ship, taking it into the air. Luffy looks up, and I use it as the right chance to switch with one of Luffy’s blood, which was spit out when he was sent flying by Wyper. Luffy’s eyes widen as he turns, but he’s too slow as I already use the move I wanted to since the start—

I use a combination of Fire, <ISLAND SHATTERING>, <ARMAMENT HAKI- EMISSION>, and a new skill, <KINETIC INPUT>, an ability that allows me to expel kinetic energy from my body consciously, controlling the amount. The impact slams into Luffy, making him scream in pain as he is sent flying from the island, his body smoking.

Physical impacts won’t work on Luffy’s rubbery body, slashes will be healed, so it’s only fire that works. The plan is to exhaust him by overworking his regeneration, as Gear 5’s biggest weakness is Luffy’s stamina in this form. But that’s Plan A, anyway. Luffy slams into the water—

Which bends around him like rubber. The sea bends like a cushion before spitting Luffy out like he’s bungee jumping with the water, making all of our eyes go wide. While I know that the ocean doesn’t nullify Devil Fruit powers, only somehow causing loss of muscle control and swimming ability, Luffy somehow made water rubbery in nature just by touching it, which, in hindsight, isn’t really that surprising in theory. Hell, when brainstorming how to defeat Luffy, I questioned his ability to turn things into rubber and manipulate them.

Luffy flies toward me, grinning, his wounds regenerated. Luffy raises his arm in front of his face, adopting a Superman pose mid-air, before shooting his fists toward me without even swinging. I duck, letting the fist go above me, but Luffy extends his hands, somehow grabbing onto the air itself before pulling himself through it, his speed increasing. I cross my arms as Luffy body-slams into me, releasing all the kinetic energy he absorbed into his body from all the attacks and the friction created when flying.

I don’t even get sent flying, even though I’m in the air, as I absorb all the kinetic energy. My mana regenerates fully as I disappear once again, appearing near Chopper. Seeing the opportunity, Usopp fires a huge shot made of fire, propelled by Reject Dials. Aisa follows this up by firing an exploding arrow enhanced by an Impact Dial, both slamming into Luffy and creating an explosion on him. Merry feels Luffy’s life force being reduced for a second before increasing due to his regeneration. She decides to implement Plan B.

As the smoke clears, all of us see Luffy pushing his entire body into himself, ready to attack us all at once. Robin crosses her hands, sprouting hands around Luffy and opening his mouth, pouring petals into it. Luffy’s eyes widen in surprise before Robin clenches.

Arms sprout inside Luffy’s body, grabbing onto the organs with Armament Haki and squeezing them, making all of Luffy’s limbs pop out from his chest as he screams in pain. Luffy clenches his entire body, destroying all the arms inside. Zoro fires out rapid wind slashes as Sanji jumps into the air, kicking the air as a platform. He rushes toward Luffy, who grabs onto the flying slashes Zoro sent toward him, making them rubbery before throwing them at the remaining wind slashes, destroying them. Sanji arrives near Luffy, but Luffy grabs onto the air—

And pulls it, making Sanji be pulled with the air. Sanji’s eyes widen at this, right as Luffy, who is still grabbing the "air," pushes even more. Sanji’s balance is destroyed as he is pulled toward Luffy without Luffy even doing anything. But Sanji was ready for Luffy doing something this wacky, as he thrusts his leg toward Luffy while nearing him, pushing his blue flames out of his body right at Luffy, whose eyes widen as he feels the heat. I switch Sanji with a rock as the flames slam into Luffy, making him scream in pain. I switch the rock with Wyper as Luffy wiggles in pain, making Wyper kick the air, rushing toward Luffy and readying his punch. Luffy senses this and immediately uses his legs as a whip toward Wyper’s face, but Wyper is switched with Aisa, whose body size is smaller than Wyper’s, letting the attack go past her head. Aisa was already ready with an arrow, which she shoots at Luffy before being switched with a small rock.

The arrow slams into Luffy’s head, blowing up as Luffy’s vision is blurred by the smoke. The nock of the arrow is switched with Merry, who has her hand reached out. Merry touches Luffy, who is surprised at someone NOT attacking him, but it turns into panic as he feels very bad. Merry starts absorbing Luffy’s life force at great speed, making Luffy lose his muscles, getting scrawny. Luffy, through instinct, blows himself up—

*BOOM*

I swapped Merry with a small rubble just in the nick of time, all of us looking at the huge explosion in shock. Even I can’t understand what happened, but from what all of us can sense, Luffy just exploded. I try to understand how, panicking at the fact that Luffy can’t be sensed. I notice something, and right after me, Nami and Aisa notice it too—

Body parts.

All of our eyes widen in horror, realizing whose body parts those belong to—

"Lu—" Usopp tries to speak up, but his voice cracks. All of us stare at the body parts—fingers, eyeballs, tongues, nails—all falling. My mind calms itself down from the horror, immediately trying to find proof that Luffy didn’t die, and if he did, I try to find a way to revive him. If I use <BODILY MANIPULATIONS> to fix his body and have Merry give that body life force, we could revive him. But the tricky part is his mind, his sense of self. Souls exist in this world, but what guarantee is there that Luffy’s soul would be stuck in the afterlife, if that even exists here?

My eyes catch something... growing out of the falling body parts. As I narrow my eyes, blood erupts from all the body parts, joining with each other as skin starts rapidly multiplying, connecting to one another. My eyes widen in shock as the skin fully reattaches, showing Luffy’s grin—

Which seems to have widened. All of us are in shock, not moving as Luffy somehow comes back right in front of us. Luffy reaches into the air before—

Opening the Inventory?? What the fuck?? Luffy picks up HP potions and—

Stamina Potions?? Shi—

Luffy drinks all of them before turning to look at us, his sides starting to be manipulated, skin growing, muscles forming, and eventually, two new arms pop up. All of the hands are compressed into the arms as Luffy grins at us.

I react first, removing my NEW sword, Enma. Luffy shoots his fists toward us with speeds half the crew can’t react to, even with Observation Haki. This snaps everyone, but I’ve already jumped upward, letting Haki flow into the sword I stole—

I mean, it was given as a gift by Zoro. My mind is full of questions, but I decide to think later as white-ish flames come out of the sword, Enma trying to suck all of my Haki out, but me easily controlling it. I grip it hard as the punches rain down on me and the others. I slash, creating a huge wind blade made of Armament Haki, slamming into the raining fists. A huge explosion happens, which stops the fists—

For a second, before Luffy pulls his fists back and shoots them again, this time bouncing off the air like a snake’s movement. Wyper, Sanji, and Zoro immediately move, Sanji igniting his legs again as Zoro coats his swords with both Armament Haki and Conqueror’s Haki, swinging toward an incoming fist. Sanji kicks the fist coming toward him as Wyper slams his fists with Luffy’s, creating a shockwave. The two people who weren’t battling all this time, Chopper and Bentham, finally move.

Chopper goes into his Monster Point before cupping his hands, generating lightning. Bentham, who looks similar to Gear 5 Luffy, kicks the air and flies toward Luffy. Luffy notices his look-alike coming toward him and compresses his legs, shooting toward B-Luffy like a spear. B-Luffy "grabs" onto the air before pulling to the side, making the legs miss their target, but they bounce from the air, coming back toward B-Luffy, who hardens his head before shooting toward Luffy. Luffy doesn’t have a defense as he is slammed in the chest, and B-Luffy pulls his body toward his head, body-slamming into Luffy and stopping his continuous attack.

B-Luffy kicks Luffy and uses him as a springboard to jump higher, remembering something I told him. B-Luffy T-poses for a second before his fingers start becoming longer and bigger. The arms follow as B-Luffy becomes a huge giant in a second. Luffy turns his full focus on B-Luffy, grabbing the air with all four limbs as he "pulls," this time with a different intent. Rather than "air," Luffy targets "space" unconsciously.

B-Luffy compresses his huge fists before shooting them toward Luffy, who starts spinning his hands like a pinwheel, still holding onto the air. The space spins, and soon, a small hole forms in the middle of it, getting bigger. The hole is pure black, and my eyes widen as I realize what that is. B-Luffy’s fists impact the hole, but he realizes there’s been no impact other than his hand going inside, which is becoming bigger. Bentham tries to pull his hands back but quickly realizes he can’t. Instead, he’s getting pulled inside this small hole. I immediately switch B-Luffy with a stone, which is sucked into the hole—

Not just any hole, a fucking black hole, which is getting bigger by the second. Luffy somehow grabs the fucking black hole and—

"THE FUCK!!??" I scream in shock as Luffy throws the fucking black hole at us, the hole becoming bigger as the pull becomes MUCH stronger. I try to think of a way to stop it, but Luffy takes advantage of this small delay to sprout two more limbs. My mind idly notes the similarities between Luffy and Ashura from Asura’s Wrath right now, with three arms and all.

Chopper shoots a beam of lightning toward Luffy, who tilts his head, letting the lightning beam go past his face. Luffy turns to look at Chopper but tilts his head again as Nami fires a lightning beam as well. Chopper, who has his hands stretched out, clenches them as he manipulates the lightning that has reached the air before pulling it down. The lightning gathers electrons from the clouds, getting bigger before being pulled down as a HUGE thunderbolt, still being compressed. Luffy feels the heat, so he dodges to the side. He senses someone up in the clouds and looks upward—

Seeing lightning cracking from clouds. All of the lightning forms together to create a lightning dragon, filled to the brim with lightning itself. At the head of the dragon is Nami, who traveled to the clouds using the lightning beam she shot at Luffy before. Nami goes full throttle, creating more and more lightning as the entire area is covered by clouds. Nami’s expertise in weather and climate allows her to control the Devil Fruit to a point Enel couldn’t even dream of.

The lightning dragon contains over 1 BILLION volts, the heat radiating from it burning the oxygen near Nami before she raises her hands and directs the huge lightning dragon toward Luffy, who looks mildly surprised. Luffy decides to do something other than dodge, grabbing the air before pulling it up and down, creating huge ripples in space that LITERALLY dissipate the lightning dragon, making Nami surprised. Nami fires a small lightning beam, traveling through it to not be near Luffy, as Luffy is her direct counter.

Franky, who landed on the ground, is different than before. The entire ship has been condensed into a suit of armor wrapped around his body. He looks like Iron Man, but instead of having an Arc Reactor to provide energy, Franky has nothing. The entire suit is powered by kinetic energy, which can be turned into electricity, light beams, and even used in its original form.

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Franky aims his chest toward Luffy, also pointing his hands. He starts gathering light particles in his suit, powered by both kinetic energy and his own creation, which generates tangible light. Franky condenses it before shooting it toward Luffy, who dodges the light beam, feeling that it will damage him a lot—

But the light beam turns mid-air, reaching Luffy’s back and tearing through his skin, coming out the other side of his abdomen. Luffy is pierced by the light beam, which can turn mid-air, all thanks to me and Franky creating this suit FOR Franky. Not only did we use Iron Man as inspiration (copying, more like), we also found out how to create lightning particles and manipulate them in the suit. Franky did that by absorbing my mana turning into light particles and my own experience manipulating it.

Luffy immediately heals the damage while I try to think of a way to stop the black hole from pulling all of us into it—

"What the hell is that?" Zoro pushes himself down as he feels the pull of the black hole.

"That’s a black hole, which has the capability to destroy this planet with the power of its gravity pulling everything that exists." Robin shakily explains, making everyone’s eyes go wide. I still brainstorm, trying to think of a way to stop it. I won’t be able to send it toward a different dimension like my Dungeon, as this isn’t a solid object for me to touch and bring. And if I did "touch" it, I’d be pulled toward the event horizon, which might kill me—

My eyes widen as I realize something. I only die when my HP goes to zero—no wounds, no "spaghettification" or anything like that. If I use potions the entire time I’m in it, I might gain a resistance skill from the experience of being stuck in a black hole—

"So now Luffy can create planet-ending attacks? What else, he’s gonna summon the sun on us?" Sanji cracks a joke, trying to calm his nerves as he realizes the threat.

"How the hell did he even do this?" Wyper asks, panicking as he doesn’t know what to do. Nobody asks me as I’m in my "brainstorming mode," as Sanji once put it, where my face is devoid of any emotions, including my eyes not having any life.

"H-he twisted space by making it rubbery, which created the black hole." Chopper explains, his voice shaky as he realizes there’s nothing anyone can do to stop it. Even I have only one option and—

"W-what if we just twisted space back to its original f-form?" Aisa, ever the naive one, gives an answer that wouldn’t work—

...

Everyone turns toward me, noting my blinking expression. They then turn toward Aisa before turning toward Bentham. Bentham, still in his Luffy transformation, points toward himself. I look at him as well, making him look uneasy. Bentham doesn’t know if he can do this, as his own logic and experiences tell him he can’t, even if he FEELS he can. As I open my mouth to motivate him—

"Ahhhhh!!" Aisa screams in horror and fear as she is pulled by the gravitational force of the black hole, which is around 10 ft in length and height. I summon a mana rope and tie it around Aisa, pulling her back toward me. Bentham looks at that in horror before his expression changes into determination.

"Okay-YO!" B-Luffy jumps, using his foot to stabilize himself before running in the air toward the black hole, which has stopped falling. The pull of the black hole allows him to reach it, and he remembers how Luffy made the black hole by twisting space. So, he extends his hands above the black hole, grabbing onto "space" as he saw Luffy do, before pulling toward the side—the opposite of what he thinks Luffy pulled. But unfortunately, that just buffs up the black hole as Bentham spun it clockwise, the same direction as Luffy did.

The buffed-up black hole pulls Bentham in, making him panic. His torso submerges inside the black hole right as I switch places with him—

"ANTI-CLOCKWISE, MOTHERFUCKER—" I scream at Bentham right as I’m sucked inside the black hole, my vision turning black as I feel the pull that I can’t resist. I surround myself with mana, but the barrier is broken before it can even take place properly, making me grit my teeth as I’m pulled from all directions.

My HP drops drastically, and my own regeneration doesn’t heal me fast enough. Thanks to the Gamer’s Body, I’m not pulled like spaghetti, as I resist the pull that manipulates my body, meaning I can move. I remove HP potions from my inventory, drinking them and discarding them. I continue this process while using <PLOT ARMOR> so my HP doesn’t drop to zero immediately.

I want to use <PLOT MANIPULATION>, but I haven’t even used it till now since the training arc we had for 6 months isn’t part of the "plot," as it was done in an alternate dimension rather than the main one. I grit my teeth again as I use <PLOT MANIPULATION>—

A screen appears in front of my face, and time just... stops. The pull stops, the entire black hole stops, and even I stop. I can’t move my body, can’t move my eyes, and can’t even sense anything—except for my brain. I look at the screen and notice that it’s... interesting, to say the least.

MANIPULATION POINTS - 1 (i)

SCENARIOS:

- LIVE OR DIE (i)

- ANTI-CLOCKWISE (i)

I mentally click on all of the options (i) to understand what each means.

MANIPULATION POINTS ARE CREATED DEPENDING ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES. POINTS CAN BE USED IN SCENARIOS THAT ARE SUITABLE FOR THE CURRENT LEVEL OF THE SKILL. MORE SCENARIOS ARE CREATED AS THE LEVEL OF THE SKILL INCREASES.

- LIVE OR DIE SCENARIO ALLOWS YOU TO MANIPULATE THE PLOT OF THE WORLD IN ORDER TO EITHER SAVE YOUR OWN LIFE OR WANT TO DIE.

- ANTI-CLOCKWISE SCENARIO ALLOWS YOU TO MANIPULATE THE PLOT OF THE WORLD IN ORDER TO MAKE BENTHAM HEAR WHAT YOU SAID BEFORE BEING ABSORBED BY THE BLACK HOLE, WHICH HE DID NOT HEAR PREVIOUSLY.

I blink before being annoyed. One option is me being saved, but I doom the others as Bentham didn’t hear what I said. There might be a chance someone else figured it out, but that’s just a CHANCE. The second option is to save the others while dooming myself. And I don’t know how LONG it’ll take for Bentham to realize my words, and I don’t know if I can hold on that long.

Plot Armor can save me from being killed, but not forever. I’m annoyed that I don’t have a scenario where I get a resistance skill from this situation, so all I can do is get pulled from all sides and hope I get it in time before Bentham saves me.

I mentally click the second option, making the screen disappear and my hell resume. I continuously heal myself with my regeneration and HP potions (which I’ve stocked up a LOT of), but the pull is reducing my HP faster than I can fill it back. Plot Armor has its level increased due to the current situation, protecting me from dying.

*DING*

I grin even in this dire situation, as the secondary effect of Plot Armor comes in clutch.

GRAVITY RESISTANCE - PASSIVE - (Lv1) (EXP - 0%)

DESCRIPTION:

This skill allows the user to prevent gravity damage if it falls below 50% of your Max HP. If the attack is not below 50% of your Max HP, the damage will be halved.

The best skill I could’ve gotten right now. While I hoped for Gravity Manipulation, this works too. The reduction of HP is massively decreased, allowing my regeneration to match the damage being done to me. I drink HP potions to have full HP, finally having time to move without being pulled to death every second. I look around, seeing nothing but black.

I don’t know how long it’ll take for Bentham to remember, so I decide to figure out how to get Gravity Manipulation as a skill. My regeneration isn’t mana-based, so I push my mana outward, immediately realizing it gets destroyed by the black hole’s pull. I assume it’s getting bigger, as seeing no one else has been pulled in yet.

I push my mana outward again, letting it get destroyed. I get an idea, mostly about my Manipulation Ability, which focuses on my mana changing into an element. If my mana gets destroyed by gravity, it might adapt to it, somehow gaining the ability for itself. I expel my mana, again and again, letting it get destroyed repeatedly. My mana regen easily keeps up, and after several destructions, my mana starts resisting the pull for a few seconds before being destroyed. After my mana has been destroyed 69 times (believe me, I counted), a mana shield surrounds my body, protecting me from the pull for 30 seconds. I use these 30 seconds wisely, thinking of ways to develop the Gravity Skill before realizing something.

I can stack <PLOT ARMOR> with the mana shield—and that’s what I do.

*DING*

The entire pull is reduced significantly. I open the screen—

Right as the entire black hole just... stops. I appear in the real world, noticing the light, the island, and even my friends. I see B-Luffy near me as I start free-falling. I turn toward the ground but sense something, so I look upward. Luffy stands in the air with his six arms, which he stretches toward the clouds. I feel something coming right as Luffy pulls his hands back—

With each arm grabbing lightning. Luffy throws each one toward us, and surprisingly, every lightning bolt splits into two, as if multiplying. I understand what happened—Luffy made the lightning rubbery, and his ability to control rubber lets him manipulate it. I twist my body, summoning Enma as I let my Haki flow into it, slashing at a lightning bolt heading toward me.

But the lightning bolt splits into two, going past me toward the ground. I realize something as I turn—

12 lightning bolts had divided into 24, 24 into 48, and it kept dividing as a rain of lightning bolts starts falling toward the ground like God’s judgment. B-Luffy extends his arms around me, grabbing onto me as he runs toward the ground, trying to kick and punch any lightning he comes across. Sanji kicks the air, sending a blue-flamed wind slash; Zoro slashes the air as well. Both wind slashes clash with the lightning, dissipating it. Wyper raises his hands, letting five lightning bolts hit his body before slamming his fists into the ground, using himself as a conductor to transfer lightning to the ground. He used Armament Haki to defend himself from the shock. Chopper gets hit by 10 lightning bolts, but his own bio-electricity absorbs all of it, crackling through his body.

Nami gets hit by lightning bolts but isn’t affected at all. Merry creates a shield made of life force, protecting herself and Aisa. Franky gets hit by lightning but shrugs it off like the chad he is, while Usopp runs around in fear, successfully dodging all the lightning bolts. I turn toward Luffy, who has all his fists toward the ground, making me realize what he’s doing.

"Franky!" I call Franky through the Party system, and Franky immediately understands. He does a W-pose as holes appear under the armor’s hands and legs. Franky uses kinetic energy to blast himself toward where Luffy is pointing—the middle of the island. Right as he arrives, Luffy releases a HUGE amount of kinetic energy using Rokougan. The kinetic energy slams into Franky, who had spread his hands to take all of it, sending him flying toward the ground. I switch myself with Franky, as Franky is held by B-Luffy, who absorbs his fall’s kinetic energy due to his rubbery body, while I flip backward, landing on the ground.

B-Luffy lands with Franky, who is crackling with energy. He nods at me as he gathers all the kinetic energy he absorbed and converts it into light particles. From his chest, the Straw Hat skeleton opens, forming a hole that glows bright from the charged light particles. It’ll take a few seconds, and we need Luffy in the perfect position. Zoro slashes upward, firing a wind slash that Luffy ducks, deciding to fight on the ground. Luffy rushes toward the ground, shooting his fist at Sanji, who jumps to dodge. Usopp and Aisa fire their attacks as Robin creates a huge hand, hardened with Armament Haki, trying to grab Luffy, who grabs the hand itself and rips it from the surface before rubberizing it and using it as a bat to swipe at all of us.

Wyper tanks the attack before firing flames from his arms, boosted by kinetic energy, making Luffy use the huge hand as cover, making Robin wince as she feels the burn. I fire a light beam at Luffy, who grabs it as it comes toward him, using its momentum to spin and throw it toward Usopp—right as I switch with him and grab the rubberized light beam, throwing it back at Luffy. Luffy goes to grab it, but I switch it with Merry, who fires a huge ball of life force at Luffy, who instinctively remembers what happened last time he touched Merry, so he kicks the air, dodging to the side and free-falling right as I switch the huge ball of life force with Sanji, who kicks a stone at Luffy. As Sanji expected, Luffy tilts his head to dodge, still free-falling.

The stone is switched with the huge ball of life force, and Luffy free-falls right into it, screaming in pain as the ball starts exploding, including his own life force. Luffy, in desperation, opens his mouth as big as the ball before swallowing it. The ball goes through Luffy’s throat (great throat game, ngl) into his stomach before exploding. Luffy’s stomach bulges but stretches back to normal as he exhales smoke from his mouth—

Before his eyes turn lively. His grin widens as he pulls his two sprouted arms back into his back, landing on the ground. I immediately appear next to him, slamming him with a combo of Fire, <ISLAND SHATTERING>, <ARMAMENT HAKI- EMISSION>, and <KINETIC INPUT>—

You know what? I’ll call it Stack Attack for simplicity. Luffy’s chest stretches as the impact pushes his body, but Luffy absorbs all of it as he throws his own punch—

Hardened with Armament Haki. I duck, sweeping his leg—

Or at least I try to, but his rubbery body doesn’t bend as I want. Luffy hardens his face with Armament Haki and slams into me, which I counter by summoning Enma, trying to slash his neck, knowing he can revive himself now. Luffy’s body moves like a snake, slipping through the sword as he hits my face—

My face jerks back, and for the first time in Round 2, I take direct damage from Luffy. I slam my head into Luffy’s, jumping back as Zoro arrives, slashing at Luffy, who opens his mouth, hardening his teeth with Armament Haki before biting the sword, stopping it. Luffy is using Armament Haki more, meaning his experience with the skill is rising.

Luffy’s instincts can somehow use all the skills he has in the system, including the system itself. He can use Inventory, meaning if we don’t take him out soon, he’ll drink all the HP and Stamina Potions. Unfortunately, I can’t take potions from the Party inventory since it’s useless—I already gave all Party members their own Personal Inventories through the system.

I switch with Franky, who finally charges all the kinetic energy into light particles and aims at Luffy. Luffy opens his mouth to move, but Zoro takes this chance to infuse his swords with Conqueror’s Haki, thrusting them into Luffy’s mouth, whose eyes widen in shock as he’s heavily damaged—

*BOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM*

I switch Zoro with a poor rock that’s instantly vaporized as Franky fires a huge light beam straight at Luffy, ripping through his chest and sending him upward from the push. The beam goes into the sky, taking Luffy with it as he spits out blood, a huge hole in his chest. Luffy grits his teeth, his grin finally falling as he somehow regenerates from this wound too. I notice his regeneration is MUCH faster now and realize something crucial.

Luffy’s base regeneration is his Zoan ability, but his ability to come back from the dead is him transferring his consciousness/will to his remaining body parts, growing skin, muscles, and bones since his entire body is rubber, and he can manipulate it. This is Reiner-level bullshit, and that’s saying something when we’re talking about Luffy, who already has huge plot armor.

Now, he’s absorbed all the life force from Merry’s bomb since it had no space to explode—it was absorbed instead. Rather than harming him, we’re empowering him. We need something to put him down, but he’s gaining experience as the fight goes on, and with his OWN wacky powers, this is getting out of hand.

Luffy raises his hands and shoots them toward the sky, and we brace for another lightning rain—but this is worse, MUCH worse. My eyes widen as I see a shadow in the clouds and immediately understand what’s happening. The shadow grows bigger before emerging from the sky—

A HUGE fist, hardened with Armament Haki, LARGER than the entire island. Hell, it’s at least 3x the island’s size, and my breath leaves me as I realize the shit about to happen.

"Bajrang Gun. Of course, it’s fucking Bajrang Gun!"

THE END

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AN:- WELL, A BIG ASS Chapter THIS IS, SO ENJOY IT. I MIGHT BE BACK TO SCHEDULE AS WE HAVE DECIDED TO KEEP THE BABY. MY GF IS TAKING A GAP YEAR TO BIRTH THE BABY, AND AFTER THAT, BOTH OF OUR PARENTS WILL TAKE CARE OF THE BABY WHILE ME AND HER COMPLETE EDUCATION. AND, ABOUT MARRIAGE-

I AM ENGAGED BABYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!