Chapter 26 - 26

In the beach of Syrup village, two persons were standing facing each other, one had a sword hanged on his wrist, while the other was wearing two gloves, each one of them had 5 blades with Katana's length.

In the left corner, standing at the height of 176 cm with a muscled yet not very buffed body, the blond teen, currently a pirate hunter, Lucas.

Facing him in the right corner, with height how 206 cm and thin building, the captain of the black cat pirates, known by his intelligence and super speed, Kuro.

"So, 007, were you looking after my trails," Kuro said as he appeared in another spot, he wanted to know where he made a mistake, after all, he was a strategize that his plans never fail.

"Not really, you have done a good job" Lucas shook his head as he followed Kuro with his eyes, back then, he wasn't really using Den Den Mushi to talk to the marines, but he was just pretending to talk so Kuro would show his colors to Kaya.

*Woosh*

Directing his Killing intent on Lucas, Kuro was disappearing and reappearing in different spots, he wanted to kill this teen as fast as possible, however, there was something holding him back from attacking. Earlier, when he attacked Lucas, he was able to block his move while sitting on the sofa. So he isn't to be underestimated.

Kuro has a special movement technique called the " Silent foot", it's a technique that allows him to cross 100 meters in 2-4 seconds, using this technique, Kuro was able to kill 50 skilled assassins without them realizing how they died. However, this teen was able to see through him and block his attack. As for why Kuro is changing his location, he wanted to know that if what happened earlier was a flick or if the blond is skilled enough.

'he is moving fast for sure, but he needs to make some proper legs movement before vanishing' thought seeing Kuro's leg would make some small movement before vanishing.

", I can use you to train" Lucas didn't take his sword, but instead, he took a boxing stance, since he needs to capture him alive, he would use him as a training partner, after all, Lucas believed that the fighting experience is necessary.

"you should have never come to this island" Kuro stopped, he touched his glasses, then he vanished from the sight. Lucas depending on his instinct used his boxing footwork «feather footwork: footwork that allows to dodge attacks and create false images» and kicked the ground with a fast yet invisible movement.

*woosh* Kuro appeared in front of Lucas and slammed with his claws toward Lucas's head, but the blades suddenly passed through his face.

"afterimage" Kuro eyes widened as he saw a fist heading toward him, he quickly dodged and appeared ten meters away.

[boxing +100 XP]

"useless," Lucas said to Kuro if Kuro footwork is very effective in large rang, then Lucas's boxing footwork is the best for small range and close combat, and this combat was a close-range one.

"Humph, I'm only warming up" Kuro touched his glasses, he vanished and appeared behind Lucas and slammed again with his claws, but it only hit an afterimage that was next to the real Lucas.

«bullet Jab» Lucas used his left hand to use bullet jab to hit Kuro, bullet Jab was a skill that allows him to use all of his mass and strength in one point in his hand, and that means that this jab hold the power of both his arms legs and other muscles of his body, which make this jab able to unleash multi folds Lucas's original punch's strength.

His left hand vanished and went to Kuro, Kuro tried to escape with his super-speed, but the Jab was so fast that even if it did miss his chest, it didn't miss his arm.

*Bam* Kuro flipped back and appeared in another spot, the jab was so strong that every bone and the flesh in his left arm got shattered.

"I have to say, you know how to take a punch" Lucas said while trying to hide how much he was happy with the power of the bullet jab.

"Bastard" Kuro swore as he held his arm, it became disabled because of a moment of carelessness, he should have moved away the moment he saw that the kid turned to an after image, but too bad, because of staying without combat for almost three years, his senses weren't able to keep up with his speed.

"well, time to end this" Lucas said as his heart started beating faster. His senses, speed, and power, brain and reaction speed has increased to become three folds than it used to be, to Lucas, the time seemed to get very slow «adrenaline boost +200».

"DON'T UNDERESTIMATE ME BECAUSE I LOWERED MY DEFENSE" Kuro yelled seeing that Lucas was mocking him.

*Woosh* Lucas vanished from the sight, he too has a super speed during adrenaline mode, but unlike Kuro, Lucas's senses speed would increase as well even surpassing his current speed.

'fast' Kuro felt the danger, he didn't want to risk as well, so he vanished and appeared in another spot.

"where" Kuro couldn't see Lucas so he turned his head left and right. He didn't relax and again appeared in another spot.

"behind you" Kuro heard a voice coming from behind, before he turns his head completely, a right-hand punch hit his chest and sent him flying until he hit the cliff.

*Bam* Kuro hit the rocks in the cliff then fell down on the beach, blood was covering him from head to toe as several bones were broken. Lucas's punches aren't to underestimate especially when he is using his boost skill.

[Boxing, +5000 Xp]

[Boxing up to level 9 ]

[ + sub-skill:

100 crack fist: unleashed a barrage of fists that each one holds the full strength and mass of the user]

[Ding, defeating pirate Captain, Kuro

+27.000 Acc.u.mulated XP]

[Ding, Skill dropped: Silent footwork

Do you wish to learn (y/n)]

Lucas chose yes, and suddenly he got the skill of Kuro, the silent footwork, with this, he would have super speed, not only so, since his legs are stronger than Kuro then his speed would increase as well.

[silent footwork (0/100)],

one of the best things about the strongest system that it allowed the skill to level up more than it supposed to be, making it more perfect.

Lucas decided to use 25,500 acc.u.mulated XP to raise this skill.

[Ding, silent footwork up to level 9 (0/25,000)].

Lucas wanted to focus more leveling up this skill, but for the moment, Kuro is still here, and he has one more thing to do.

*woosh* Lucas using Kuro's footwork, he vanished and appeared next Kuro. but with this new level up of the skill, Lucas's legs weren't visible like Kuro, not only so, but his speed was many times fold than it should be, and it would increase with each level up or each time his body get stronger.

"how did my plans fail," Kuro said looking to Lucas's face with lifeless eyes, he couldn't even get up to stand on his legs.

"how your plans failed"

" you wanted to kill my future wife who treated you like a part of her family" Lucas looked down at him with cold eyes, as Kuro wasn't 2d character but an alive serial killer standing front of him, it gave him a different feeling when he faced him,

"The fact that I had to live under the same roof with you for days had pissed me off"

Then Lucas without waiting, lifted Kuro from his neck, he took his hand back and before Kuro fall to the ground, Lucas started throwing a barrage of punches on Kuro breaking every bone in his body, after all, Lucas was a human and have feeling such anger and so he needs to venture them, as he finished punching him, Kuro flew back and hit the cliff. Then he fell down unconscious.

after one hour, Lucas walked to Kuro while lifting a water bucket, then he threw the water on the unconscious Kuro making him wake up.

"Wha... Do... Want", Kuro said with a weak voice, he couldn't move a muscle of his body, and truly he was scared.

"if you want to live then do as I tell you"

Lucas lifted Kuro from his hair, then he gave a den den Mushi "call your crew to come here,"

Seeing the cold eyes, Kuro didn't think him bluffing and did exactly as Lucas told him, his crew would come here two days later by the dawn time, after this, Lucas knocked him off and put him inside the system's storage.

After this, Lucas decided to get back to Kaya, so using the new footwork, he was able to reach the mansion in less than a minute.