Ultimate Fruit

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Chapter 56: Life for a Life

While everyone’s aggro was on Luffy, Crocodile turned into sand and went for Whitebeard!

Seeing this, Ace was the first to snap out of it as he turned into fire and blocked Crocodile.

Fire was also a natural enemy of the sand. Ace’s leg turned to flames and sent a kick towards Crocodile. As soon as his fire touched his sand, the sand solidified and turned into glass!

“Heh, figured you'd block me. Don’t get cocky now Kid!”

“Croc, I won’t let you hurt Pops!”

Whitebeard grinned seeing Ace safe and sound.

“You alright, son?”

“Heh! I can still fight!”

Luffy jumped up and landed beside Ace as well along with Sabo.

Kizaru had reappeared in a flash of light over to where the admirals are.

“Be careful, another scary one is coming.”

“Who?”

Just as Sengoku asked, a stream of water landed beside Luffy and revealed a man with huge wings behind him.

Seeing him, Luffy grinned.

“Lucas!”

“Yo, I thought we’ll meet in Sabaody, Luffy?”

“Shishishishi! Don’t sweat the details!”

Everyone watched people begin to line up beside Whitebeard.

In fact, Lucas himself never thought that he would be able to stand side by side with these characters he had read since he was young…

Whitebeard started to laugh as well.

“Gurararara! So you’re here as well huh, White-haired brat!?”

This instantly shattered Lucas’ excitement.

“Ah? Who are you calling a brat, White-bearded geezer!?”

Hearing the two, everyone sweated.

Luffy then finally took a look at Whitebeard and declared.

“I’ve heard about you! You want to be the Pirate King right!? Well, the one who’s going to be the Pirate Kind is me!”

!!!

Wh-what kind of people are these!?

One of them cursed Whitebeard, the other is competing against him!?

As if their shock wasn’t enough, Hancock joined in and pointed at Whitebeard with her head high up and her body bent backward.

“Foolish man! If my husband says he will be the Pirate King, then he will be the Pirate King!”

“...Well, I’ll be damned…”

Though everyone crashed to the ground in shock, Whitebeard simply grinned and laughed.

“Gurararara! You better not get in my way, greenhorns!”

“““You’re the one who better not get in our way, geezer!!!”””

Watching them, everyone was already beyond shocked that they didn’t know how to react anymore.

Ace and Sabo could only bring their palms to their face and sigh.

Over to where the admirals are, Kizaru turned to Sengoku and asked.

“Dear me...may I assume that all of these intruders may be executed, Sengoku-san?”

“Naturally!”

Having heard that, Kizaru appeared before everyone again and sent a laser beam to where Whitebeard was.

Lucas was already keeping tabs on him and with his Observation Haki, he was able to be a step ahead.

A wall of water already appeared between them which blocked his attack.

*Boom*

When the light exploded, all it did was spray water onto everyone.

Lucas looked over to where Kizaru was and smiled.

“Ready for round 3, Kizaru?”

“...My, what an annoying brat…”

Seeing the two about to duke it out, Ace jumped off and started to run towards the platform followed by Luffy and Sabo.

“Pops! We’ll be moving in as well!”

“Gurarara! Go! Oars, make a path for them!”

“Aye aye!”

Oars moved and swung his arm down to the ground to get rid of as many enemies he could get.

Kuma appeared to try and stop Oars with his Ursus Shock but Sabo immediately appeared in front of him as he swung his steel pipe.

“Kuma! What’s wrong with you!?”

“...”

Sabo tried to reason out with Kuma but he didn’t reply as if he never heard anything.

Kuma’s mouth opened where Sabo saw a blinding light. His face paled as he swung his steel pipe at Kuma again.

Back to where Luffy and Ace were, a path has been cleared by Oars but he was soon preoccupied by the team of marine giants and was held back.

More marine officers and captains surrounded the two including Black Cage Hina.

Seeing them being surrounded by a bunch of marines, Hina stretched her arms and encircled them all in one big cage.

“Awase Baori!”

Luffy noticed her and also recognized her.

“You! You're that girl from Alabasta!”

“Everything that gets in Hina’s way...will be locked up!”

Hina started to cross her arms along with the encircled cage, thereby locking up everyone that gets caught in between. Enemies and allies alike!

“Wah! Hey, Hina!”

The various captains tried to struggle in her grasp but were unable to be freed. Meanwhile, Luffy and Ace were able to get away with Luffy going to 2nd gear and Ace turning to fire.

When they passed by Hina, Hina showed a small smile then turned to look at Lucas fighting Kizaru in the air, not caring about the trapped captains.

With more and more marines trying to stop them, Moria finally joined in and started to raise his undead.

“Rise, my zombie soldiers, and capture Strawhat and Fire Fist! This is a battlefield! The more corpses there are, the more zombies I can make! Keshishishishi!”

“Ooooo!”

Luffy gritted his teeth seeing Moria again and was about to fight the zombies when a pillar of water suddenly shot towards the zombies, instantly making them spit their shadows.

Ace turned to see Jimbei beside the water and knew it was him.

“If I remember correctly, the zombies’ weakness was salt.”

“Jimbei!”

Jimbei nodded at Luffy and Ace.

“Go! I will deal with this one!”

“Thanks!”

Ace and Luffy continued to charge ahead while Jimbei blocked Moria.

After dealing with a few more marines, a figure showed up in front of them with his lower half turned to smoke.

“White Blow!”

“Gah-!? Smokey!”

Luffy really didn’t like facing this guy as he can’t touch him!

Just before Smoker’s attack can reach them, a slender figure appeared and sent a spinning kick at Smoker!

“Hancock!”

Luffy smiled in surprise. Right! Hancock knows haki! She should be able to beat Smoker!

“Luffy, I was able to get the key to that man you are trying to save. Take it and go!”

“Oooh! Thanks a lot, Hancock!”

“Haha, nice one sis-in-law!”

After tossing the key to Ace, the two of them quickly left to let Hancock deal with Smoker.

Hancock’s face continued to blush when she heard Ace call her sis-in-law.

Ahh~ this is love!

Smoker tried to escape from Hancock when he saw her be distracted but Hancock quickly snapped out of it.

“You think you can chase after my husband!? Perfume Femur!”

“Gh-! Dammit!”

On the execution stand, Sengoku’s face fell seeing Ace and Luffy able to reach so far. He took the denden mushi and announced something again.

“What are you all doing, allowing a rookie to beat you up!? I have told you how dangerous Ace is, I shall tell you about Luffy as well. Not only was he raised together with Ace, he is also the son of...REVOLUTIONARY DRAGON!”

!!!

Everyone listening had a similar shock as when Ace’s father was announced.

Just...what is this!? One is the son of the Pirate King, the other the son of the leader of the Revolutionary!?

While everyone appeared shocked, Hancock couldn’t care less as she smiled bashfully.

Ah~ Even if you’re the son of demons, I still…♡”

…

Garp sighed as he watched things unfold.

“I don’t care, there is no need to hide it anymore...Luffy has already gained such power and infamy that such labels may as well mean nothing!”

At this moment, a giant who tried to stop Luffy was blown away by his gear third and Ace’s fire fist!

“Gomu gomu no…”

“Flaming…”

““GIGANT RED HAWK!!!””

Lucas watched this from the sky and a smile appeared on his face.

In the original story where Ace had died in Luffy’s arms, it was speculated by many that Ace’s spirit has somehow transferred to Luffy in a way that he could use Red Hawk...of course, this was never really proven.

Still, it was nice that he got to see it here as well even with Ace still alive.

Since everything was still going fine on Luffy’s side, as expected of plot armor, it was time for Lucas to focus on his enemy, Kizaru.

For a while now, none of them are able to land a clean hit on each other as one can disappear into light and the other can turn to water.

Though Kizaru knows haki, Lucas simply timed the control of his body using his superior Observation haki.

Lucas actually didn’t care if he could beat Kizaru or not, but he should at least be able to tie him down so he doesn’t interfere with the others.

But this only lasted for a while.

Soon, Aokiji showed up and joined the fight.

Seeing Aokiji, Lucas’ mouth twitched.

Oi oi oi! Why are there 2 Admirals dealing with me!?

It was a good thing that he didn’t have to despair for long as a new figure appeared by his side.

“Lucas! I’ll back you up!”

“Ah, you are...Marco, right?”

Lucas turned to Marco who appeared as a flaming phoenix and wondered why he seemed to be acting familiarly to him…

“Hm? Ahh, yeah! I guess this is your first time meeting me? Haha, don’t sweat it. Let’s take care of these guys first!”

“...”

Though Lucas was confused and really wanted to ask what that was about, Lucas still nodded and charged towards Aokiji and Kizaru along with Marco.

Seeing the two together resembled two birds. One was made of water, the other made of fire.

When they flew in the skies, they seemed to be in sync as they attacked...no, from what Lucas could feel, it was as if Marco is able to match himself perfectly.

In his mind, he was thinking.

Have we met before?

Still, Lucas knew this wasn’t the time to ask questions so he ignored the feeling and continued attacking.

Aokiji waved his hands and tried to freeze the two of them but Marco was unable to be frozen while Lucas had already entered the 2nd degree Boilingman mode.

“That wouldn't work on me anymore, Aokiji! Steam Burst!”

“Ice Age!”

Aokiji attempted to freeze the steam explosion but Marco flew into the steam and ignited along with it, pushing the heat to a whole new level!

“Phoenix Burst!!!”

*BOOM*

Lucas stared wide-eyed and slack jaws when he saw the huge destruction their attack caused.

Damn! That combo move...was so powerful!!!

When the smoke caused by their attack settled, they saw Aokiji and Kizaru appearing bloodied and injured.

There was even a burn scar on Aokiji’s face and Kizaru had somehow lost a hand as well.

“They’re hurt? Aren’t they logia?”

“Ah, I used Haki as well.”

“...”

Lucas was a bit dumbfounded seeing Marco for a V sign with his fingers next to him…

Like I thought, he’s really acting so familiar to me…

Unable to hold back, he asked.

“Have we met before?”

“Ah? That...ah! Mihawk is targeting those two! I’ll help them out!”

“...”

As Marco said, Mihawk had indeed started to attack Luffy and Ace.

Just now, with a single swing of his sword, the ice wall at the side was cut cleanly in half!

Marco shouted while on his way.

“Vista! Lend them a hand!”

“On it!”

A man with a curled mustache and two swords arrived just in time to block Mihawk.

Looking around and seeing two admirals heavily injured, Lucas relaxed for a bit and flew back beside Whitebeard.

Whitebeard glanced at him and asked.

“Are you not joining them?”

“I will, but first, let me heal you so you can fight on your peak condition.”

“...”

Whitebeard turned and saw Lucas’ hand turned to water and was about to touch him, he sighed and grabbed Lucas’ arm with haki to stop him.

“No.”

“What? But why!? As long as you get back to your peak, we can easily end this!”

Lucas frowned and looked at Whitebeard. Even though he seemed powerful...but Lucas can feel how weak he is at the moment.

If he can just use his healing ability on him…

“Brat, do you still don’t know the cost of healing with your powers?”

“...Huh?”

Whitebeard saw how clueless Lucas looked and sighed.

“Your fruit is not an ordinary fruit. It changes from time to time and seems to adapt when the situation needs it to, correct?”

“Y-yeah but…”

How does Whitebeard know his power?

“But your healing ability is something dangerous. When you heal, a part of your life is taken from you. Do you get it? What you're doing is not healing, rather, you are taking your own life and giving it to someone or something! You will only die if you keep using it!”

Lucas’ was shocked yet not surprised…

Every time he had used this healing power of his in the past on someone or something else, he would feel dizzy for a while but he simply thought it was due to overusing his powers at the time.

For a while now, he does have this faint feeling that it will be dangerous if he keeps overusing it but…

To think that the cost of his healing was his own life…

Still...how does Whitebeard know of all this?

“...How exactly do you know this, Whitebeard?”

“...Gurarara, let’s just say I knew someone who had the same ability in the past.”

“...”

Someone else who had the same ability?

But that’s impossible! I ate this fruit back in my world...so how would it appear here as well?

Everything seemed confusing and Lucas can’t think of an answer.

Since that was the case...let’s just forget about it for now and focus on what’s happening at the moment.

Lucas looked at his hands once more then back at Whitebeard.

“If it is as you say...then let me heal you even if it’s just a bit. This way, the war will end much faster!”

“I told you, no! Get out back there son, don’t make me throw you!”

“...Fine…”

Lucas grumbled and flew away to join the fight.

Suddenly, he remembered something.

“Wait, did he just call me son!?”