One Piece Law Light Novel

Bacca conscientiously works to reduce my energy reserves. I can hardly see how I could win, but I can't run away. Whatever happens, I decided to help these people. Is it because new emotions have arisen in me? Because after all, I ended up behaving like a doctor? I just know that the moment I give up rescuing them, I will no longer be myself.

Use your head, damn it. Heat up your brains!

Somehow I have to find a way to beat this junk.

- Ho hoo ... Since you still seem to be overflowing with vitality, I'm going to offer you a little something ... which will have the gift of disgusting you, Bacca announces before taking a deep breath.

Fortunately I am out of reach of his masses: he is not able to touch me.

- If I were you, kid, I would avoid underestimating the power of the fruit of dissolution! My next move will get the better of you! Melty love!

A pale blue ray emerges without warning from Bacca's mouth.

- Han!

I lean more than necessary to successfully dodge it, then I glance behind my back and find a large hole in the wall, where the raxon hit. A sound of melting matter is heard.

- Ghe pa pa! My Melty love spits out an extremely powerful acid which liquefies everything in its path! Haa ... Let's see how far you can avoid it ... Melty love!

Bacca regains his inspiration before letting go again. The latter rushes straight at me but I manage to avoid it by jumping to the side.

- Melty love! Melty love! Melty love!

I concentrate with all my strength to avoid as best as possible this ray which he spits continuously.

That's why...

- It is the end!

I didn't realize Bacca was getting dangerously close to me.

- Ghe pa pa pa!

Its violent blow of lateral mass throws me against the wall.

- Argh ... Eurgh ...

Right in the lungs. I can no longer breathe, I can no longer feel my limbs. Damn, how annoying heartbeats can be when you find yourself lying on the floor like me right now! The heartbeats, the sound of circulating blood, the sound of my breathing, the trickle of electricity running through my body ...

From ... electricity?

- Han ... Han ... It's over, kid! After all, the desires were blown from the start! I left with much more experience and determination than you! The future is mine! Thanks to the money from the submarine that I will hasten to resell, I will become a great pirate! I will finally be able to trample on this bullshit that is love and justice!

- Hey...

In a whisper, I question Bacca:

- Is that the piracy you dream of for you?

- Of course! Theft, murder, domination! That's all that, being a pirate! Live freely! Kill freely! Happiness!

- In your eyes, freedom therefore comes down to these principles ...

- Eh? Obviously, I do not see why you ask the question. Live for and by his desires! Binge on the same stuff! If that's not freedom, then what is it? I am strong! This is why I am able to make my wildest wishes come true! That's a great pirate!

- If you say so.

In my heart of hearts, I calm myself down.

The fear of being killed, the anxiety of losing against Bacca, everything has disappeared. Aah, I think I was really on the wrong track. Of course, this man is more resolute than ever. Certainly, he seems determined to achieve whatever costs his desires. And until then, I have been crushed by this determination. Because I felt that by postponing the fulfillment of Cora's dearest wish and my own desires "later", I was worth less than Bacca. But the reality is quite different.

"Now" or "later", all this makes no sense until it is a question of "true freedom". I don't know what freedom really is and, to be frank, that's not even my ideal. Nevertheless, I am sure of one thing: this freedom that Corazon wanted me is certainly not as bad as the one Bacca speaks of. I also know that living by crushing others, at the sole option of one's desires, has absolutely nothing to do with any "true freedom".

Finally, that's it, I feel that I have made up my mind. Decided to reduce to pulp the ugly freedom that the enemy who is in front of me keeps telling me about. I calm my breathing and get up.

- Hmm? Are you mobilizing your last strength? Good very good! However you want! I'll finish you off once and for all! Ghe pa pa pa!

When I turn to Bacca, he is already in an attack position.

- Say your prayers, brats! Melty love!

His mouth emits a new ray. But I am not afraid so far. This whole room is still under the effect of my Room.

- Shambles!

I throw the hilt of my saber forward and use my power.

In less time than it takes to tell, the handle and the large rock in the room are swapping. As expected, the Bacca ray hits the rock head-on.

- Ah! That's not what will stop me, because my Melty love has the power to do everything ... fon ... Why does it not melt ?!

The ray suddenly vanished around the center of the rock. I take the opportunity to jump over it and slip into his lap.

- You were saying that the power of your acid consumes a significant part of your energy, eh? If this had been your first shot, I would have melted with the rock. But when I saw the hole caused by your ray shrinking, I understood. Your power is no longer the same as at the start.

- And ... So what ?! It doesn't change the fact that I still have the advantage ...

- Yes, it's true. If I had no more means of attacking, you would indeed have won.

Physical attacks do not damage him. The only valid option I have in mind is to attempt an offense with Wolf's electric saber. And it is not because the latter broke that I am no longer able to use the electric. I know it, I can feel it.

I then direct all my knowledge, my entire awareness, to the thumb of my right hand. I concentrate all the electricity in my body towards this inch, then I condense it and finally amplify it.

- You and your low-level determination, I won't let you defeat me. If I bowed to a guy who only has money and power, Cora would never forgive me.

I hear a crackle, as if something is about to explode. My thumb starts to glow, I can feel the electricity overflowing. This blow will be the last.

- No wait!

- Take that ... Counter shock!

I reach forward with my right hand and plant my electrified thumb in Bacca. a powerful current pours into all its liquefied body.

- Ghe pa pa pa pa pa pa!

An explosion of light. Followed by the sound of roasting meat. Without a single word, Bacca collapses.

- Ended.

The winner is designated. The people of Pleasure Town will soon be released from the Trocadero power spell. Only I won't be able to move right away. I sit down on the floor and breathe a deep sigh of relief.

I see Wolf, who by pure chance, has just regained consciousness, walking in my direction. Ah, no, it is not towards me that he is advancing. The old man walks over to his son, sits down next to him and takes out a dagger he had hidden in his inside pocket. Then, with the same gesture, he brandished it above Bacca's chest.

- Stopped.

Just as he is about to bring down his gun, I grab his arm.

- Let me go, Law.

- Are you planning to kill him?

- Yes.

- He is completely unconscious, no need to do more.

- I am responsible because twenty years ago, as well as today, the city as a whole and its inhabitants were exposed to serious danger. It is my duty to repair the damage they have suffered. This is why you have to let me go.

- Out of the question.