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How many years had it been? How many years?
Ever since he had eaten the Gasu Gasu no Mi (Gas Gas Fruit)… he had always felt as if he were floating, as if walking on clouds.
Weight, Flesh, Mass… these concepts had long faded from his mind.
So long, in fact, that Caesar had forgotten what it felt like to fall and hit the ground.
It hurt!
It hurt so much!
Caesar tumbled to the floor in a miserable heap.
He could no longer keep his composure.
“How is this possible?!” Caesar screamed in panic, completely losing his cool. “My genius… My Gasu Gasu no Mi (Gas Gas Fruit)?! My Elementalization! My Gasu Gasu no Mi (Gas Gas Fruit)… Where has it gone?!”
He tore open his clothes and wildly waved his arms through the air, staring in disbelief at his unchanged hands.
No matter how hard he tried…
Not only had his Elementalization completely failed…
“Gas Lasso!”
He couldn’t create gas…
“Blue Flame Sword!”
He couldn’t refine oxygen…
“Vacuum World!”
He couldn’t create a vacuum…
All of those abilities, which had once come to him as naturally as breathing, were now entirely unusable— it was as if they had never existed!
Why was this happening?
Caesar frantically darted around, crashing into tables and chairs, startling the young women nearby, who thought he had lost his mind.
How could something like this be happening?!
Morgan shouted in shock, “What is that?!”
His wing pointed toward Caesar’s chest, where something faintly— barely visible— seemed to be flying out from Caesar’s body!
Morgan quickly looked up, his gaze locking onto the boy on the second floor—Chopperna Giorno!
Earlier, that boy had waved an empty hand in Caesar’s direction.
And a faint shadow had drifted downward.
Morgan had dismissed it as a trick of the eye, thinking he must have been imagining things.
But now…
Caesar was rolling on the ground, screaming as though his Devil Fruit abilities had disappeared!
At that very moment, a dark shadow emerged from Caesar’s chest, flying straight toward the boy on the second floor!
The 100 Million Belly Pirate, Chopperna Giorno!
“It’s him!” Caesar, his black hair in disarray, glared up at the second floor, his bloodshot eyes filled with fury as he screamed, “It has to be him! Chopperna Giorno! Jolyne Kujo!!”
He spread his arms wide, his face twisted with rage, and, like a madman, howled at the second floor, “What did you do to me?!”
His scream silenced the entire room.
The young men and women who had been dancing in the pool of light all paused, feeling confused, and stare at the furious, violated-looking Caesar.
The young women around Caesar stepped back a few paces, following his gaze to the second floor, where his anger was directed.
Behind the second-floor railing, Liam noticed how the previously noisy room had suddenly quieted down.
Even the Den Den Mushi in the corners, which had been playing music, had stopped broadcasting and were now sneakily watching the commotion.
Seeing Caesar glaring up at him with a face full of indignation, Liam raised his hand toward the B.I.B.’s armored left arm, which had just returned after precisely extracting the Gasu Gasu no Mi (Gas Gas Fruit) chip from the scum’s chest…
He paused for a moment, then, in the sudden silence, he waved back at Caesar and said, “It was too noisy before, so you probably didn’t hear me. *Cough cough*… Hello there, scumbag!”
He repeated what he had said earlier when he waved at Caesar while the latter was embracing women below.
If nothing else, Caesar was utterly dumbfounded.
What… was going on?
Scumbag?
Was he talking to *me*?
Caesar hadn’t even had time to process his anger when he noticed something else. Liam’s left arm, covered in blue flame patterns, was gripping a triangular chip emitting a faint white glow. The chip bore a swirling gas symbol.
Liam reached out to grab it when suddenly…
*Whoosh!*
A sound pierced the air.
*Bang!*
A bullet-like object struck Liam’s hand viciously.
Robin was startled. A bullet? But she hadn’t heard any gunfire!
She turned her head and saw the blonde woman with sunglasses, standing a short distance away with a cold expression on her face.
She still had her pale, slender hand raised, her index finger extended…
Standing next to Stussy was an elderly man dressed as a priest.
Liam shook his hand, and a faint red mark was left on the back of his hand from the hit earlier, and he shouted, “That really hurt, big sister!”
As he spoke, the B.I.B.’s left arm, gripping the Gasu Gasu no Mi (Gas Gas Fruit) chip, slowly sank into Liam’s chest…
What was that thing?
What did he throw toward Caesar that came flying back?
Stussy was slightly surprised. Her earlier “Flying Shigan” had hit the boy’s hand directly, yet it didn’t injure him.
This kid… does he know not only Geppo but Tekkai as well?
That would mean these two youngsters have fully mastered all of Rokushiki…
With a swoosh, Stussy’s elegant form vanished from the priest’s side.
“Though I don’t know what’s going on, I’ll help out as well!” The elderly priest laughed heartily as black and white stripes appeared on his skin, and the muscles in his limbs and torso suddenly swelled, straining his clothes to their limits.
His face extended forward, revealing features similar to those of a horse, and his legs transformed into hooves, which stomped down hard, accelerating him with a whoosh as he charged toward Liam and Robin.
Stussy abruptly reappeared next to Liam, her white foot in pink high heels kicking straight toward him.
Whoosh…
She kicked Liam in the head but felt no impact, her foot simply passing through his head as if it were air.
Behind her sunglasses, Stussy’s eyes widened.
What did she just see?!
This boy’s head… had turned into a cloud of gas!
Elementalization?!
The Gasu Gasu no Mi (Gas Gas Fruit)?!
Stussy, astonished, quickly turned her gaze down to the first floor. Caesar, the Gasu Gasu no Mi (Gas Gas Fruit) user, was clearly still alive!
Caesar also witnessed this and was overcome with fury and heartbreak. He roared, “That’s my Devil Fruit! It’s my Gasu Gasu no Mi (Gas Gas Fruit)!!!!!”
“That guy stole my fruit!!!” Caesar pointed at Liam, who had Elementalized into gas under Stussy’s attack, his finger trembling like a victim robbed of his most precious treasure.
Nearby, Morgan the birdman shot to his feet, pulling out a camera Den Den Mushi and rapidly clicking the shutter in excitement. “Stealing someone else’s Devil Fruit and bestowing it on yourself? Big News! This is Big News!!”
Amidst the ensuing chaos, Stussy momentarily shifted her gaze.
But at that moment, Robin charged forward.
Her left hand reached out as the B.I.B.’s left arm floated out from behind Liam and fitted onto her left arm.
Robin unleashed a punch, aiming straight for Stussy’s face.
*BAM!*
Robin’s punch landed ruthlessly on Stussy’s face, but Stussy showed no reaction. Instead, it was Robin who cried out in pain.
Tekkai: Enforced!
Stussy’s expression remained unchanged as she let Robin’s fist land on her face. Using a high-level application of Rokushiki’s Tekkai, she reflected the force of the punch back onto the girl.
Robin’s fist loosened, her five fingers trembling uncontrollably, and it seemed her arm had fractured.
In the manga, Luffy had also been repelled by Rob Lucci using this technique. Luffy, being a rubber man, could handle the rebound, but Robin, with her flesh-and-blood body, was not so lucky.
“Little girl! You’ve got some skills!” The priest, now in Centaur Form, galloped forward, his hoof raised high to strike the pained Robin.
A cloud of gas suddenly intervened, forming a barrier between Robin and the hoof.
The high-pressure gas exploded softly, creating enough of a force to send Robin flying towards the ceiling.
The B.I.B., fully attuned to Robin, understood her intentions and immediately helped her use Rankyaku, a single strike shattering the ceiling.
*Crack!* *Crack!*… B.I.B. took several swift steps, carrying Robin out of the pleasure ship.
The centaur priest, his body covered in alternating black-and-white stripes, looked up at the hole in the ceiling and smirked.
He said to Liam, “You think you can escape? Logia-types are a pain for me, but this one… she’s different… You’ve really made her mad!”
Liam looked over at Stussy.
It seemed so…
Stussy removed her sunglasses and tossed them aside casually.
She clenched her hands together.
A layer of pitch-black Busoshoku Haki (Armament Haki) covered her fists.
Click, Click…
Stussy’s high heels clicked on the floor as she said in a cold tone, “You’re not getting away. Neither of you will escape, not even the one up there!”
Through the hole in the ceiling, Robin was kicking off the air, ignoring her broken arm and struggling against the ghostly armor on her body.
She shouted, “Don’t worry about me! Go back and help him!” She knew that with the armor ghost, she was no match for that woman. And Liam… Liam was in great danger now!
‘Your safety is helping him,’ The B.I.B. replied back.
But Robin couldn’t hear its voice…
Amid the swirling clouds, only Liam’s head and shoulders were visible; the rest of him had Elementalized into gas…
Stussy paused mid-step, and her form vanished!
Rokushiki: Soru.
She reappeared behind Liam in a flash, her Busoshoku Haki (Armament Haki)-infused hand grabbing onto his gaseous form as if it were solid.
But in the next second, Stussy’s hand went limp, releasing her grip.
What? Her knees buckled, and she half-knelt.
“Ahh!!” Nearby, the centaur priest suddenly screamed in pain, veins bulging across his skin as blood lines burst forth, even his eyes tearing open. “What… is happening…”
Stussy struggled to cover her mouth and nose, looking up through the swirling clouds, where the boy calmly said, “I once read in a book… that the deadliest poison closest to living beings is air. Oxygen is essential to all life, so it must stay below a 40% concentration… At 100%, pure oxygen is a lethal toxin! High-concentration oxygen oxidizes iron, explodes on contact with fire, and strips electrons from cells, destroying tissues in an instant…”
Liam hovered like a cloud, watching as the priest, bleeding profusely, fell to the ground. “The enlightened are always… Well, whatever. Bye-bye!”
Liam transformed into a gas cloud and floated out through the hole in the ceiling.
“BASTARD!! Give me back my Gasu Gasu no Mi (Gas Gas Fruit)!!!”
Inside the pleasure ship, Caesar cursed furiously at the gaping hole in the ceiling. No matter how much he raged, the gas-like figure that had flown away would never return…
That graceful exit should have been his, Caesar’s! Why, oh why had his Devil Fruit disappeared, only to end up with that kid?!
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