Chapter 216: Luffy Vs Fukurou
The Moving Crab stopped, its eight legs that were about to run out of the illusion halting before this discarded village, looking at the desolate and dilapidated village with fearful eyes.
The beast’s intuition warned it to stop.
As a member of the Moving Crab Club, the Moving Crab named ‘Scissors’ wisely did not charge ahead recklessly; it was just a porter, not the vanguard, and such a dangerous matter as fighting could not be casually gotten involved in.
“Luffy, it says they’ve arrived at the destination.” Chopper relayed the Moving Crab’s words.
The captain tilted his head up to survey the village in front of him, “Is this the place?”
Probably because it had been discarded, many parts of this village had been buried by wind and sand, and quite a few buildings had collapsed due to wind erosion, but perhaps because the time since it was discarded wasn’t too long, most of the buildings were still standing, showing the past prosperity here.
“It doesn’t look like anything special!”
Usopp raised the telescope, looked around and found nothing, just an ordinary discarded village.
“If the map is correct, it should be here······ It looks like we didn’t go to the wrong place!” Robin used ‘Eye Blossom’ and saw the figure at the end of the street in the center of the village, with attire and demeanor just like Bruno’s, proving that this was indeed the target marked on the map.
“Luffy, this is definitely the place.” Robin said affirmatively.
The next second,
“Nami!!! Hold on, we’re coming to save you right now!!!”
Luffy’s emotions were already excited, regardless of whether Nami was really here or could hear him, he shouted at the top of his lungs anyway.
That loud shout echoed in the sky above the desert.
He stood on the Moving Crab’s back, his arm suddenly stretching long to grab the eaves of a ruined building at the village entrance ahead, and his whole body shot into the village like a cannonball.
“Luffy!!”
Zoro also rushed into the village right after.
“Hey, mosshead, don’t run around, you······” Sanji reached out to stop him, but found it was already too late; Zoro had just entered the village the previous second and was gone the next, even though Luffy’s back was still visible!
“This lost idiot!!!”
Sanji sighed helplessly.
Then in the blink of an eye, he put Zoro out of his mind, knelt on one knee in front of Robin, and gentlemanly extended his hand in invitation, “Miss Robin, shall we go in too!”
“Sure!”
Robin agreed with a smile.
The historian miss put away the document in her hand and returned it to her backpack, “Usopp, Chopper, you two be careful too! This discarded village is quite large; I scanned a small area and didn’t find Nami, so to find Nami as quickly as possible, it’s best to split up!”
“Huh? Split up? Isn’t that too, too dangerous? Of course I’m not scared at all, it just feels too unsafe······” Usopp was still struggling.
But Robin had already turned back to Sanji, “Sanji, we should split up too!”
After saying that, she picked up her backpack and jumped down from the Moving Crab’s back, quickly heading toward the discarded village ahead.
“Miss Robin!! Wait for me!”
Sanji chased after her like a whirlwind.
On the Moving Crab’s back, only Usopp and Chopper were left!
Usopp looked at the dilapidated and old village in front of him, swallowed, mustered all his courage, and looked at the reindeer ship doctor beside him, “Chopper, let’s go together!”
“Yeah!”
Chopper nodded vigorously.
He was quite scared too.
Moreover, unlike Usopp and the others, in the strict sense, as the first member to join on the Grand Line, he hadn’t even seen Nami yet! He couldn’t be as excited and thrilled as Luffy and Zoro, just traveling with Usopp like this.
As for the Moving Crab······ When Chopper and Usopp got off its back, this lecherous crab immediately ran off without a trace.
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“Nami!!”
Luffy ran along the village’s main street, shouting Nami’s name while running.
“Nami, where are you?”
It had to be said that as a village near the kingdom capital Alabarna, though already discarded, the ruins showed the past prosperity of this village; its size was not much inferior to Loguetown, at least Luffy had run quite far without seeing the end.
Before he found Nami, a round, ball-like man wearing a black suit blocked his path.
“Hey, tell me quickly where you hid Nami?” Luffy shouted; the enemy’s appearance didn’t make him fearful at all, but rather like seeing a shortcut to finding Nami; compared to flying around like a headless fly, catching the enemy and asking directly about Nami’s whereabouts was undoubtedly faster.
“You want to know your companion’s whereabouts? I won’t tell you that woman is in the former police station at the center of the village! Zip-zip-zip!!” Fukurou unzipped his mouth and leaked the intelligence just like that.
“The center of the village?”
Luffy’s eyes lit up, ignoring Fukurou; his rubber arm stretched long to grab the eaves of a nearby building, catapulting into the air······ Before he landed on the rooftop, Fukurou suddenly blocked his path forward, and the two collided head-on.
“Damn guy, you dared to trick me, but no matter, even if you know your companion’s whereabouts, I won’t let you have a chance to leave here, zip-zip-zip!”
Fukurou stood on the rooftop using Geppo.
Luffy directly crashed into the opposite unstable building, billowing smoke and dust rising into the sky, announcing the outbreak of combat here.
“So hard! Did you put iron plates on your body?”
Luffy climbed out from the ruins; as a rubber human, he wasn’t afraid of ordinary physical attacks, but he could still feel that when the two collided in the air just now, Fukurou’s body was as hard as steel.
“Ignorant brat, this is one of the Rokushiki, Iron Body!” Fukurou proudly raised his head, looking down at Luffy below with contempt, but his expression changed immediately, and he raged: “You tricked me again! Damn! You little brat, I’ll definitely teach you a good lesson!”
“Iron Body: Jade!”
Fukurou jumped up, his body spinning rapidly in the air like a drill, shooting fiercely toward Luffy standing in the ruins below.
This move was a special Iron Body that Fukurou had mastered.
Combining Iron Body and Shaving of the Rokushiki, it gathered all the body’s attack power into one point, and Shaving greatly increased the speed and thus the attack power of this move, plus the force of the high-speed rotation······ Luffy didn’t dodge in time and was sent flying backward again, with a series of broken walls and debris behind him destroyed even more thoroughly.
