The remaining pirates then snapped out of their trances, howling and lunging forward.
The five officer-class ones rushed out first, two holding blades and three holding axes, slashing over from different directions with tacit cooperation!
Luna did not dodge or avoid, not even looking at them.
Her [Observation Haki Perception (Rudimentary)] operated at full capacity; although she couldn’t yet predict the future, the opponents’ motion intentions and attack trajectories clearly emerged in her consciousness like water ripples.
The moment the first swordsman’s blade was about to touch her shoulder, Luna moved.
She only slightly turned her body, the blade brushing past her clothes, while her right index finger snapped out like lightning!
“Rubber Finger Pistol Poke!”
Her finger jabbed into the swordsman’s wrist joint like a bullet.
With a crisp crunch, the swordsman screamed, his blade flying out of his hand.
Luna smoothly grabbed his arm, swung his entire body, and smashed him like a weapon toward the axeman rushing from the side!
Bang!
The two collided into a ball and tumbled to the ground.
The third axeman ambushed from behind, his axe fiercely chopping toward the back of Luna’s head.
Luna didn’t even look back, flicking her left hand backward, her arm whipping across the axeman’s face like a rubber whip, sending him spinning away to crash into an earthen wall and slide down.
The remaining two officers exchanged glances, a fierce look flashing in their eyes, and attacked simultaneously from the left and right sides, blades and axes coming out together to seal off all dodging angles.
A trace of impatience flashed in Luna’s eyes; she had no time to play with small fry.
“Rubber…
Pendulum.”
Her body suddenly became extremely soft, leaning backward at an incredible angle, almost touching the ground, while the blades and axes crossed over her.
At the same time, her legs kicked upward fiercely like two giant springs!
Bang!
Bang!
The two officers’ chins were kicked simultaneously, and their entire bodies were sent flying upwards several meters by the kick, then heavily crashing down and passing out.
From the five officers making their move to all of them falling, another ten seconds passed.
The remaining ordinary pirates on the periphery were already scared silly, their hands holding weapons shaking, not daring to step forward.
Brad’s expression became extremely ugly; he finally realized that this brat was no ordinary character.
“A Devil Fruit user…” Brad stared fixedly at Luna’s freely stretchable arms.
“Rubber?
Or some weird fruit…
Whatever!”
He slammed his club heavily onto the ground, causing the ground to shake.
“Brat, give me your name!
I, ‘Bone-Crasher’ Brad, do not kill nameless nobodies!”
Luna straightened her body, patted the dust off her clothes, and said in a flat tone: “Luna.
Also, I’m commandeering your ship.”
Brad laughed out of extreme anger: “Arrogant!
I’ve been mixed up in the East Blue for ten years with a bounty of seventeen million, and you, a brat, dare to…”
His words came to an abrupt halt.
Because Luna had already rushed up.
It wasn’t that kind of tentative charge, but a straightforward dash with no flashy moves, elevating speed to the ultimate limit!
Her rubber legs compressed to the limit and then released, shooting her toward Brad like a cannonball!
“Rubber Bazooka!”
Brad’s pupils constricted.
He could feel that the power contained in this punch was far beyond what she used against the small fry earlier, but he had confidence in his own strength.
With a roar, he swung his club, kicking up a howling wind, and smashed it fiercely toward the oncoming Luna!
“Bone-Crasher Heavy Strike!”
The instant the club and the rubber fist were about to collide, Luna’s fist suddenly deflected at a slight angle — instead of a head-on clash, it brushed past the side of the club, while her arms wound around the club’s shaft like soft noodles!
“What?!” Brad was greatly shocked, wanting to retract his weapon, but it was already too late.
Utilizing the pulling force of the wrap, Luna traced an arc in the air, instantly drawing close into Brad’s embrace!
Her other hand made a fist, stretched backward to the limit, with an extremely faint black gloss faintly flowing on the fist — a weak application of [Armament Haki Condensation].
“Too close.”
Brad could even clearly see that pair of calm yet slightly rash eyes beneath Luna’s hat brim, and then, that fist wrapped in faint black gloss solidly slammed into his abdomen.
There was no earth-shattering loud sound, only a muffled “bang” that was heart-palpitating.
Brad’s eyeballs popped out, his mouth wide open, but he couldn’t make any sound.
He felt a supremely condensed impact pierce through his muscles and internal organs straight to his spine.
That wasn’t sheer brute force, but mixed with some trait he couldn’t understand — although weak, it tore apart his proud defense like paper.
His huge, three-meter-tall body bent into a shrimp shape, his feet leaving the ground as he flew backward, crashing through the wall of a wooden house at the edge of the open space, and rolling another dozen meters on the ground before collapsing limply into the ruins, foaming at the mouth and completely losing consciousness.
One punch, and the seventeen-million-bounty “Bone-Crasher” Brad was defeated.