Chapter 132: Hard Battles

Chapter 132: Hard Battles

While Buggy releases the slaves, his crewmates are fighting the Iron Shovel executives. They fight on different spots on Iron Shovel's ship. All of them except for Deon & Manba have a one on one battles.

Deon & Manba fight with Rodan the long-arm tribe man who wields a pair of cutlasses. Both Manba & Deon attack Rodan from 2 sides, but the long-armed man can defend very well. His moves are strange and make Deon & Manba confused.

With longer arms and more joints, Rodan can make unpredictable moves with his cutlasses. He also has longer range because of his long arms. His moves confused Manba & Deon who never faced a long-arm tribe man before.

"Now I know why Cricket told us to fight him together," says Manba.

"Yeah, this guy is very tricky, and it will be very difficult to fight him alone," says Deon.

Manba attacks with his spear again and still doesn't use the bazooka. He acts as the main attacker while Deon is the secondary attacker. It's because Manba has a weapon so he can block Rodan's cutlasses while Deon can't.

Both Manba & Deon still can't use armament haki, so they need to be careful in their battle. They need to use their Observation Haki to the max and evade every attack from Rodan. But that's not an easy thing to do as they get cut a few times.

Deon is in his hybrid form already and attacks Rodan when there's an opening. He mostly uses his fists and also his long tongue to attack from afar. Manba & Deon have good cooperation in their fight even though it's the first time they do it.

But Rodan seems to be good at Observation Haki and can always block their attacks. He is also more experienced than both of them in battle. His moves are refined and he doesn't make many mistakes. So this battle is difficult for Manba & Deon.

On another side, Palu is also having a tough battle against Muto the swordsman. Muto can move fast & agilely with his katana while Palu's movements are slower. Their weapons' weights affect their movements, after all.

Palu needs to use his Warhammer's handle many times to block Muto's sword because he doesn't have time to move the head as Muto's sword is too fast. His attacks are stronger & heavier, but Muto can always dodge them because Muto is faster.

None of them can hit each other's bodies so far and just clash with their weapons. Palu always blocks Muto's attacks, while Muto's always evade Palu's attacks. So it makes Muto realize that Palu can use Observation Haki.

"You can use Observation Haki, aren't you?" asks Muto.

"Observation Haki?" asks Palu as if he doesn't know it.

"Don't try to fool me, rookie. There's no way you could read my attacks beforehand and block all of them without using Observation Haki," says Muto.

He just needs to read Enel's movements using his Observation Haki and counter them. That way, he can counter Enel's attacks and save his energy. Bon is a smart man, very different from his current opponent.

Enel gets angrier as time passed because his injuries keep increasing. He has attacked many times from long and short-range, but none of them worked. Bon can deflect the long-range lightning attacks like Buggy and when he gets closer, Bon always hits him.

"Damn, what should I do?" ponders Enel while holding his stomach that has just got hit.

"It's useless no matter what you'll do. Our level is just too different. You might be a logia while I don't have any devil fruit. But weakling will still be weakling no matter what weapon that they have," says Bon while smirking.

"What'd you say?" asks Enel angrily.

Bon smirks seeing Enel gets angry after hearing the provocation. Enel starts to attack Bon blindly after getting provoked. He is too hot-headed and very easy to manipulate in mind games.

Mantis sees it and clicks her tongue, "Tsk, that idiot. It seems we need to put his head in a fridge later so it can become cool."

"Don't worry about that. You will keep his head in the fridge after it gets cut. No, we will keep all your heads in the fridge after we cut them off," says the bald monk, Tong, sadistically as he swings his bo-staff at Mantis.

"Ugh, dude, that's just a parable. And you're a monk, so talk like one," says Mantis as she blocks the staff.

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