One Piece: From Picking Up Red Hair's Broken Arm

Chapter 146 Lu Qi thought for a moment, and Xia Nuo laughed.

"Miscellaneous fish, miscellaneous fish..."

Nami's voice, like a devil's whisper, kept echoing in his ears.

But Bruno, a member of CP9 and accustomed to arrogance, was powerless to refute.

Just a few minutes!

Kaku and Kalifa fell into a coma and were unable to fight.

In contrast, the two girls were completely unharmed.

Now, all by myself...

We can't beat them, there's absolutely no way we can beat them!

Got to escape!
He endured the excruciating pain in his chest, struggled to his feet, and initiated "Shave".

Swish!
In a flash, he appeared in front of Kaku and Kalifa on the ground, reaching out his arms to grab them.

But at this moment.

A figure blurred before her eyes, and the blue-haired girl appeared before her with a smile, seemingly out of nowhere.

It's a shave!

Bruno's expression turned even uglier. This girl was also proficient in the Six Styles?!

"Hey."

Nojiko was right in front of him, grinning. "At a time like this, you still want to rescue your comrades? Aren't you... being a little too delusional?"

boom!
Another punch came flying in!
In a split second, Bruno was sent flying backward, his back slamming heavily against the wall. The punch had aggravated his injuries, and he lay on the ground, the world spinning before his eyes, nearly losing consciousness.

There was absolutely no chance of saving them.

If I get punched again, I'll be done for.

Bruno gritted his teeth in resentment.

I'm so sorry, Kaku! Kalifa!
He shakily opened his right hand, pressed it to the ground, and activated the Door-Door Fruit's power.

Air door opening!
hum!
Suddenly, a square door was pushed open, revealing a strange, greenish space inside. Bruno's body fell into it instantly due to gravity and disappeared without a trace the next moment.

The door was slammed shut in the next instant, and the ground returned to its original state.

"Huh?!" Nami, who was sitting on the wall with her legs crossed, widened her eyes in surprise. "Where did they go?"

"It's gone."

Nojiko chased after Bruno to the spot where he disappeared, looked left and right, and frowned. "There's no trace at all. How did he do that? Was it a Devil Fruit ability?"

"It's the Paramecia-type Door-Door Fruit."

Robin frowned slightly. "The user of this fruit can open doors anywhere, including in the air, walls, and the ground, creating interdimensional passages that people can freely enter and exit. It's incredibly difficult to defend against... It's a very troublesome ability."

"What? There's such a shameless fruit?"

Nami jumped down from the wall, kicking Kaku's long nose with some annoyance: "Honestly, I wanted to let him taste my Devil Fruit power too, but he's such a coward..."

"It doesn't matter, these two are enough."

Nojiko looked down at the ground. "Take them away and meet up with Kuina. Although these CP9 agents aren't very capable, they're in the shadows while we're in the open, so we still need to be careful. Let's get them all together first. Once these two wake up, let's see if we can pry any information out of them about whether there are any other accomplices on this island."

"Hey!"

Suddenly, the window upstairs was pushed open, and a plump middle-aged woman stuck her head out, complaining, "What's going on? Don't you have any public manners? It's so noisy!"

She suddenly saw the cracked wall below and was immediately stunned: "My wall..."

"Excuse me, ma'am."

Nami immediately pulled out a small stack of banknotes from her wallet and threw them up. "This is 200,000 Berries. That should be more than enough to repair this wall. The rest is our apology."

The woman caught the banknotes, paused for a second, then her anger vanished instantly, and she counted the money with a beaming smile: "Oh my, young people these days are so sensible!"

"Go on, go on, play however you want, you can even tear down all the walls, no problem."

The old woman closed the window and disappeared.

Robin looked at Nami and shook her head helplessly: "You gave too much."

Even though prices are higher in a metropolis like Water City, repairing this wall would only cost a maximum of 60,000 to 70,000 Berries.

"That little bit of money is nothing!"

Nami smiled and waved her hand dismissively, "We did cause trouble for others, didn't we? So what if we gave them too much? Anyway, once we sell those treasures, we'll make a few hundred million more Berries."

What belongs to my brother is hers.

Money is something you can have as much as you want. Who cares about a mere few hundred thousand Berries?
……

at the same time.

Hundreds of meters away, in a dark alley.

Pfft!
Bruno fell awkwardly from mid-air, crashing heavily to the ground. The excruciating pain he felt made him groan involuntarily.

"Damn..."

He gritted his teeth, clutching his wound, cold sweat beading on his forehead. After glancing around to make sure no one was paying attention to him, he began to quickly analyze his situation.

He dared not return to his tavern.

Although he was wearing a mask, his voice and physique most likely gave him away.

So, that's the only place we can go.

"We must inform Lu Qi as soon as possible!"

Bruno staggered to his feet, clutching his chest, and limped deeper into the alley.

"Nicole Robin...and her companions...who exactly are these people?!"

……

Carrera Shipbuilding Company.

Inside the main gate of Dock No. 1, in a small, dusty room that hadn't been cleaned in a long time.

This is the secret meeting place that the CP9 agents, who were lurking in Water 7, purchased in advance when they first arrived.

But later, after Bruno started running the tavern, the discussion about the location naturally shifted to the tavern, and this place gradually became vacant.

at this time.

Bruno, wearing a mask and sitting anxiously behind the table, finally saw the man arrive.

—Lucci pushed open the door and entered, with the white dove that had been with him for almost twenty years perched on his shoulder.

He seemed no different from usual, still wearing his boatman's uniform, but at this moment his eyes were indifferent and he exuded a dangerous aura.

"Hey, Bruno."

Lucci didn't speak, but the white dove on his shoulder put its hands on its hips and squawked, "You look terrible."

Bruno gave a bitter smile, removed his mask, revealing his pale and pained face: "I'm sorry, Lucci... the mission failed."

"Where are Kaku and Kalifa?" White Dove's gaze swept over the wounds on his chest and abdomen, her brows furrowing slightly.

"They've all been arrested."

Bruno gritted his teeth and said, "Those two girls... are very strong, much stronger than we expected. I only managed to escape because of my Devil Fruit ability."

Lu Qi paused for a moment, then walked to the window and looked down at the bustling dock below.

The white dove pinched its chin with its wing, frowning as it looked at Bruno.
"Tell me more about it."

Bruno nodded, took a deep breath, and recounted the whole story in detail.

From Robin's unusual reaction, to Nojiko shattering his iron body with a single punch, to the strange injuries on Kaku and Kalifa...

"A Logia-type Devil Fruit user?!"

Lucci finally stopped using ventriloquism. He turned around, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes. "Two of them appeared all at once?"

“That’s what they call themselves, and only that can explain why neither Kaku nor Kalifa could harm them in the slightest with their physical skills.” Bruno smiled wryly. “Besides, they are very familiar with the Six Powers, even more so than we are…”

Lucky tapped his fingers lightly on the windowsill, lost in thought.

“Nicole Robin…” he murmured, “When exactly did she start having a companion like this?”

"Lucci."

Bruno hesitated for a moment before speaking, "What do we do next? I think... we might have messed with someone we shouldn't have."

"Oh?"

Lucci glanced at him. "Are you scared?"

"It's not that I'm afraid of them!"

Bruno shook his head. "But if ordinary crew members have this kind of strength, then who is the captain? Thinking about it more deeply, it's very unsettling. There is likely an entity behind him that we cannot contend with."

“Is that so? Interesting… You were right about that.”

Lu Qi remained calm, took out a large stack of wanted posters from his pocket, and casually tossed them over.

"These are all the wanted posters collected this year. The ones at the bottom seem to match the two people you mentioned perfectly. Take a look for yourself."

Bruno was taken aback, then quickly began to read it.

Before long, he found the two girls who had left a deep impression on him.

"Nojiko, the Fist of Winter, bounty 130 million Berries."

"Orange-haired Nami, bounty 80000 Berries"

"They really are no ordinary people..."

Bruno's expression turned serious. "130 million Berries, that's a bounty for a Supernova captain. The other bounty is a whopping 80,000... wait, 80,000 Berries??"

He stared at it closely again and confirmed that he hadn't miscounted; there were only four zeros.

A powerful figure who could easily defeat Kalifa has a bounty of only 80,000?

Bruno was immediately taken aback.

"This pirate crew also has a pet, who is said to be a user of the Flame-Flame Fruit, with a bounty of 100 million Berries."

Lucci shook his head slightly. "Now it seems that it was entirely the fault of those lazy idiots in the Navy who got the intelligence wrong and made a complete blunder."

Is this really so absurd?

Before Bruno could react, Lucci calmly spoke again:
"More important than all that, you should be looking into who the captain of this group is..."

He held up two fingers, pulled one out from the wanted posters at the back, and placed it on top.

Bruno instinctively looked down, his pupils suddenly contracting—

"Swordsman Shano, bounty of one billion Berries..."

It’s him!
Bruno's throat tightened, his voice became hoarse, and he stared intently at the photo of the black-haired boy on the wanted poster, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

"Nicole Robin's new captain is this man?!"

"Now you understand why that son of the devil is so fearless."

Lucci's gaze was deep and unfathomable. "With such an incredible figure backing us, not to mention CP9, even that mysterious and powerful organization called CP0 wouldn't dare to provoke us easily..."

"Then what do we do?"

Bruno was somewhat alarmed. "It's basically impossible to snatch Nico Robin from these monsters, but Kaku and Kalifa are still in their hands. We can't just give up on them like this..."

"It doesn't matter whether those two people live or die."

Lucci's expression was cold, yet a sinister smile curled at the corner of his mouth. "In comparison, Bruno, don't you think..."

"Is a pirate with a billion Berries worth killing?"

A chilling killing intent spread, making the temperature in the entire secret room seem to drop.

"what?"

Bruno stared wide-eyed at Lucci, completely unprepared for his words.

"The two of us...go, go kill that Xia Nuo?"

"good."

Lucci's gaze was as sharp as a knife. He slowly stood up, and the white dove on his shoulder put on sunglasses, striking a pose of great composure.

"Don't forget, CP9's mission has never been just to capture Nico Robin or to obtain that blueprint."

His voice was deep and carried an undeniable sense of authority: "Any entity that threatens the World Government, any individual who dares to challenge justice, is our target."

That's right.

But isn't this goal a bit too ambitious...?

Bruno swallowed hard. "Lucci, that's a monster with a bounty of ten billion! Even the Seven Warlords of the Sea couldn't do anything to him, how could we possibly—"

"idiot."

Lu Qi interrupted him coldly, a hint of contempt flashing in his eyes.

Are we like those pirates who only know brute force?

He raised his hand, his fingertips lightly tapping his head. "Don't forget, we are CP9 secret agents, we never rely on head-on confrontations."

Bruno was taken aback: "You mean..."

"As long as you can find the weakness, even the strongest prey will fall to the hunter's gun."

Lucci's gaze was icy. "This man named Shano is a world-renowned swordsman. For every swordsman, a sword is as important as life itself, but... what if he loses his sword?"

Bruno's gaze unconsciously shifted to the bounty poster.

"See that? That katana that he never leaves his side."

Lucci stared into Bruno's eyes and said, word by word:
"Remember, that's your goal."

"Once we find that man, if he's alone, I'll go up and distract him. Then you can use the Door-Door Fruit's power to snatch the knife from behind him and take it directly to the other side of the door."

"After that, it will be my turn to unleash my full potential."

Lucci glanced at the seemingly weak-looking boy on the wanted poster, then slightly twisted his neck, producing a series of popping sounds:
"A swordsman without a sword is like a tiger with its teeth pulled out; even if he has a skill, he cannot use it."

"And I will use my unparalleled physical skills to let this guy feel just how big the gap is between him and me in a pure physical duel!"

Bruno was still somewhat hesitant.

Lucci is right; a swordsman's strength will inevitably be greatly reduced if he loses his sword.

But... that's a monster with a bounty of ten billion!
“But… what if we fail?” Bruno couldn’t help but ask. “It’s a bit much for just the two of us, isn’t it? Maybe we should ask Spandam for help…”

"Nothing unexpected."

Upon hearing the name, Lucci's expression turned to one of disgust. He coldly interrupted, "Who do you think I am? Do you think I'm as incompetent as you lot?"

A bounty of one billion Berries is indeed very substantial.

But he's no pushover either.

He's Rob Lucci!
It is the most ruthless killing weapon in CP9's history, and the strongest on Enies Lobby in 800 years!
If we could rid the world government of such a major threat...

His prestige on Judiciary Island will undoubtedly rise to a new level.

They might even be recalled and no longer tasked with the tedious and boring mission of finding Hades.

Instead, he was promoted directly, becoming a member of the legendary, mysterious, and powerful CP0!
With this thought in mind, Lucci's gaze became even more resolute and determined.

Now that he has already made a plan, given his temperament, he won't turn back!

To uphold justice.

Even if there are some risks, they are completely negligible!

　Note: Lucci is a character Oda intended to give "growth potential." He was cold-blooded and ruthless from a young age, but after being wanted by the World Government and being rescued by his comrades at the cost of their lives, they developed a so-called "bond." That's why, two years later, he pleads with the higher-ups because of Kaku. However, this is still six years ago, and he and the other members of his pairing have only been infiltrating Water 7 for a few months, so their bond isn't that deep yet.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)