One Piece - I Am A Different Luffy! BOOK2!

Chapter 280 - Sabaody Archipelago 16.

[Chapter Size: 1800 Words.]
Third Person POV

Sabaody Archipelago, First Half of Grandline.

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While Luffy and Kizaru continued their battle, a golden light caught Luffy's attention as he moved away from Kizaru for a while. "What is that?" he asked, slightly surprised, sensing a mystical beast in the distance. Even his mythical beast, Ifrit, seemed to be screaming internally, wanting to fight whatever that was.

"It seems Mr. Kong is taking this seriously. Scary," Kizaru spoke, even though he had never witnessed the mystical beast of the former fleet admiral, he had heard many rumors and there were also some reports he was forced to study when he became an admiral.

Luffy heard that and sighed. He looked at Kizaru with a firmer gaze as the latter raised an eyebrow at him. 'It's time to finish this...' he thought internally.

Luffy took the fight more seriously, and before Kizaru could react, he suddenly disappeared and reappeared next to the admiral, who transformed his body into light and dodged the attack. But as soon as he dodged, he quickly found his body in the path of Ace's blade. Kizaru was surprised by this as he made a great effort to dodge.

Luffy was being much more aggressive now, and as he managed to divert a few inches from the sword, Luffy took that moment to explode a large amount of flames in his second form to catch Kizaru off guard.

With flames coming out of Luffy like a bomb, Kizaru was surprised and thrown back. He stabilized in the air shortly after, Luffy didn't give the admiral any room to breathe and soon appeared above him, launching his slash that met Kizaru's sword but he switched his moa moa no mi to strength at that moment and immediately sent him to the ground, exploding the spot and creating a burst of light. Kizaru reappeared again and looked seriously at Luffy, while the latter had already created several purple flame orbs around him and began to barrage him with them descending.

Kizaru had his vision obscured by the flames, but his Haki quickly alerted him to Luffy's location and he had to move quickly before being caught. Luffy reappeared at his side, trying to strike him once more, and he also didn't stop attacking the pirate.

Kizaru moved away and began launching several flashes of light evenly. Luffy ran directly between this attack, even receiving hits, he advanced against Kizaru. The explosions occurred in a straight line as he approached the admiral, who was surprised as Luffy emerged in front of him and punched him in the face with a haki-coated fist, breaking his glasses, sinking his face in a bit as he was thrown back, breaking the ground and tearing a line through the middle of the forest.

Kong, fighting against the Straw Hats using his transformation, looked at it a bit surprised as, "Is he beating Kizaru?" Kong frowned at that.

Amid all that smoke and debris, Kizaru came out injured this time, with a bleeding face, but still far from losing.

Luffy, once again, reappeared in front of him, beginning to throw punches while Kizaru used his sword to defend with a much more serious look than before. The area around began to become chaotic with both moving at their maximum speed.

Despite Kizaru's speed, he only had one disadvantage with it because he could only move in a straight line, while Luffy was more flexible but still fast with his moa moa no mi increasing his speed 90 times for most of the time, and that was his key to beating Kizaru. Because, due to Kizaru's movement, it was easy to predict his movement, enhancing the prediction with Haki.

Then, when Kizaru tried to dodge a blow, Luffy appeared by his side, making Kizaru immediately run backwards but, Luffy had already anticipated this and kicked the air with all the force his geppo could muster, making Kizaru unable to react as he materialized.