One Piece: It All Started When I Found Shanks' Arm

Chapter 82: A Vice Admiral from Headquarters, Is This All You've Got?

"What do you mean, helping pirates?! You're twisting the truth and framing innocent people!!"

Nami's face was flushed with anger, her teeth grinding. She had never met such a shameless person in her life.

"If you were just arresting pirates, who would care?! But you're clearly ignoring the lives of the residents! We wanted to save people, what's wrong with that?! You! Why don't you look down and see what a fine job you Marines have done!"

Nami's trembling finger pointed furiously at the collapsed shops and houses on both sides of the square.

"Watch your mouth, little girl," Onigumo said, a cold glint in his eyes as he stared at Nami. His right hand had unconsciously moved to the hilt of his sword.

"That was just collateral damage, an unavoidable price to pay for capturing pirates. Didn't your elders teach you to show some respect when you're out in the world, especially when you're facing a high-ranking official…"

SWISH!

Before he could finish his sentence, his vision blurred. A fist the size of a sandbag filled his vision, sending him flying backward!

THUMP! Onigumo crashed heavily to the ground, his cigar snapping and extinguishing. He clutched his chest and coughed up a large mouthful of blood.

"My apologies," Shane said, looking down at him, one foot planted firmly on his chest. "I just thought about it, and it seems I actually never taught her that."

…

A dead silence fell over the vast square, broken only by the sound of the rain.

Countless eyes, from all directions, were now focused on Onigumo on the ground.

Onigumo felt their gazes, and his face instantly turned a deep shade of purple.

—To be sent flying with a single blow, in front of everyone, and to be pinned down by a mere brat?

Ever since he had been promoted to Vice Admiral, he had been respected and admired wherever he went. Pirates fled at the mere mention of his name.

When had he ever suffered such a humiliation?!

"You bastard brat!"

Onigumo's hands shot out, drawing both his swords at once. He crossed them and slashed at Shane's ankles.

Shane sneered and pulled his leg back. Onigumo seized the opportunity to leap to his feet, his twin swords a blur as he unleashed a frenzied flurry of slashes, weaving a dense, crimson net in the rain.

"DIE!!!"

How dare you step on my chest! Don't blame me for being ruthless!

In that moment, he could already see the hateful, black-haired brat before him being sliced into a thousand pieces!

However, the suddenly amplified sound of the rain shattered Onigumo's fantasy.

His opponent seemed to be barely moving, strolling casually with his hands behind his back. But the dozens of high-speed slashes he had unleashed were all easily dodged.

He hadn't even managed to draw a single drop of blood.

This… how is this possible?

Onigumo's pupils constricted.

His opponent was dodging with millimeter precision.

Countless times, his sword had grazed the surface of the man's skin, yet it had never made contact. It was as if his every move had been anticipated.

Observation Haki?

No, that's not it!

That bizarre, contorting body… that's Paper Art! Paper Art mastered to its absolute peak!!!

And on top of that, this group had also demonstrated Moonwalk…

"You cowardly rat, is all you can do is dodge?!" Onigumo roared in fury. "How can there be someone in the East Blue who has mastered the Six Powers so proficiently?! Who taught you?!"

"Sakazuki."

Huh?

Onigumo's eyes widened. In that brief moment of hesitation, Shane had somehow already reached out his right arm and clamped it around his neck, a wide grin on his face.

"You were the one who asked me to stop dodging."

THUMP! Shane's arm muscles bulged, like a steel shackle, locking tightly around Onigumo's neck.

Then, with a sudden burst of strength, he slammed him into the ground!

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!!!

Once, twice, three times… Shane relentlessly slammed him back and forth, from side to side, his terrifying power on full display.

The ground on both sides quickly spiderwebbed with cracks.

Onigumo felt like a rag doll in a giant's hands, completely losing control of his own body, unable to break free.

In his spinning, disorienting vision, he thought he could see the distant figures, both pirates and Marines, pointing and laughing at him…

"ENOUGH!!!"

A vein throbbed on his temple, and he let out a furious roar.

Swish, swish! The messy hair on the back of his head suddenly began to writhe and extend, transforming in an instant into six spider-like braids. They thrashed wildly, like a nest of octopuses, and he broke free from Shane's grasp. The braids then each produced a sword from somewhere, gripping them tightly.

Slap!

Onigumo landed on the puddled ground, regaining his footing.

In that moment, with the six terrifying, muscular spider-arms behind him, he stared coldly ahead, his presence in the heavy rain overwhelming.

"One thing after another today, completely unexpected," Onigumo said, cracking his neck, a series of pops echoing in the air. He looked down at Shane, his expression grim. "I was just planning to have a little fun with you, brat. I didn't expect you to have some skill and embarrass me like that. But… now, the game is over."

The two swords in his hands, along with the six swords held by the braids behind him, all took on a dark, inky sheen.

"Eight Sword Style: Annihilation!"

With Onigumo's cold voice, the eight swords converged, slashing down at the center!

Vwoom! Vwoom!

Intersecting slashes of sword energy rushed towards Shane from all directions, instantly cutting off all his escape routes.

"Tempest Kick: White Lightning!!"

Without hesitation, Shane spun around, his leg whipping through the air and creating a vacuum.

A crescent-shaped blade of pale blue light, several meters long, shot forward, meeting the sword slashes head-on!

BOOM!!

With a massive explosion, the shockwave from the Tempest Kick actually shattered all eight intersecting slashes at once!

Thump, thump, thump.

Onigumo was pushed back several steps by the shockwave before he could regain his balance. He looked up, his eyes filled with disbelief.

The eight slashes I unleashed at once… were all stopped by a single Tempest Kick?

Shane grinned, having expected this outcome.

The System had judged his Six Powers as "Ultimate" for a reason. He had truly mastered them to the peak!

In terms of pure proficiency, even Lucci from the Enies Lobby arc would have been slightly inferior!

"What, you're an Eight Sword Style swordsman?" he asked, looking at Onigumo and laughing freely. "What a coincidence, so am I!!"

Swish, swish!

The scene from before seemed to repeat itself. Shane's black hair also began to writhe and extend, transforming into over a dozen braids as hard as steel.

"My math isn't great, but I think I have a few more than you," Shane said, tilting his chin at Onigumo, his hair-braids dancing wildly above his head. "I hope you can handle it."

The moment he finished speaking, his figure vanished. In the next instant, he was above Onigumo, his hair-braids raining down on him like a torrential storm!

How can he do that too?!

Onigumo's face changed drastically, and he hurriedly raised his swords to meet the attack.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

The spider-like hair, coated in thick Armament Haki, clashed with Onigumo's blades. Amidst the screech of metal on metal, a dense flurry of black lines danced, sending sparks flying.

The onlookers were dizzy from the sheer speed and intensity of the exchange.

And their arms weren't idle either, constantly clashing.

But one was using swords, while the other had completely transformed his arms into blade-like appendages, relying solely on the strength of his steel-like body to fight!

At first, they were evenly matched.

But as time went on, with each clash, the Armament Haki on Onigumo's blades began to weaken.

Shane's, on the other hand, was as strong as ever!

The four advanced techniques of Armament Haki.

Coating, Hardening, Emission, and Internal Destruction!

Aside from Internal Destruction, which he had learned relatively recently and was still a bit rusty with, he had already mastered the other three!

And through years of constant tempering, his Haki had reached a level that ordinary people could only dream of!!!

—CLANG, CLANG, CLANG, CLANG, CLANG!!

The explosive sound of metal on metal echoed through the rain. In that instant, all eight of Onigumo's swords were sent flying, clattering to the ground!

The immense force from Shane's arms sent him sliding backward, his boots carving two deep furrows in the stone tiles of the square.

"Out of swords?"

Shane pressed forward, inch by inch, a savage grin spreading across his face as he looked at the ugly visage just a few inches from his own. "—I'm not!"

THUMP!

His arms suddenly pierced Onigumo's shoulders. They then instantly transformed from blades back to their normal state, grabbing Onigumo's wrists and twisting them inward.

"Gah—"

A searing pain shot through him, and Onigumo coughed up a large mouthful of blood. But the weakness in his shoulders made it impossible for him to break free.

He could only watch as his own arm joints were twisted at grotesque angles by the horrifying strength, the shattered bones piercing his skin and sending a spray of blood into the air.

BOOM!

The rain fell harder, and a faint flash of lightning flickered in the distant sky.

"Strength, speed, Six Powers, Armament Haki… and the Life Return you're so proud of! I surpass you in every single one!"

Shane lifted Onigumo by the neck like a chicken, his mocking gaze meeting the Vice Admiral's.

"Tell me, is a Marine Vice Admiral from Headquarters really only at this level?"

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