【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

"No, no, no! I absolutely cannot let that dragon get away with it either!" Brook drew his sword, glaring angrily at the dragon. "Did you see that? When it charged at me, it suddenly stopped in front of me, and the look of disappointment on its face was so humiliating!!"

"Because it thinks you're just bones, nothing to eat," Qi joked with a laugh.

"Bones have nutrients too!!" Brooke shouted angrily. "Anyway, I'm going to take care of this guy!"

“Oh, it’s charging at us,” Qi warned.

"Get caught! Get caught!" Nami kept muttering as she watched the dragon charging towards them, her fingers pressed together. Then she grinned and said, "Thundercloud Trap!"

"The world's stinkiest flower!" Usopp immediately seized the opportunity and fired a bullet at the charging green dragon. The plant directly enveloped the dragon's head, "The Queen of the Flower."

"Forty rounds of blossoms!" Robin crossed her arms and used her Devil Fruit power to grow arms on the dragon's back, binding its wings. "Four trees, suppress!"

The instant the dragon fell, Brook and the samurai charged at it simultaneously, delivering the final blow.

"You split the flames open again," Zoro remarked, watching the samurai's slash that cleaved through the flames.

Qi looked at the samurai who was venting his anger on the dragon that had already been defeated with some doubt, then noticed that there seemed to be the presence of children upstairs. "Nami, there seems to be the presence of children upstairs. Did you rescue all of them?"

“That’s the room where we met these children,” Nami said, looking up at the room. “We can’t leave the children in this dangerous building.”

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"They're coming!!"

When the panicked shouts of Caesar's men reached their ears, the three brothers wore smug smiles and knocked away any obstacles in their path.

Ace grinned and glanced at Luffy, who had already taken down most of the enemies with his rubber fists, just like when they fought together as kids, teaming up to defeat any thugs that came near.

"Gum-Gum... Pistol!" Luffy grinned and punched the guy with horse legs in the face, sending him flying.

Ace and Lucci ran alongside Luffy, and a burning fist and a sharp knife took down many guards who approached them from either side of Luffy.

"Luffy, Caesar is in that room up ahead," Lucci said with a smile as he casually knocked down the guards who approached them.

"Hehehe, leave the rest to me, I'll definitely beat Caesar to a pulp!" Luffy grinned, his excitement evident on his face.

“Remember we’re going to capture him,” Lucci added with a smile.

"Leave these guards to us." Ace grinned and unleashed a fiery punch, igniting a large group of guards that were approaching them again. He then gave Lucci a mischievous smile. "Lucci? How about a match?"

"The one who defeats the most guards wins." Lucci grinned, pointing his sword at the anxious and frightened guards in response to Ace.

Ace gave a maniacal laugh, his knuckles cracking as orange flames erupted from his fists. The guards began to cower and retreat. "Prepare for defeat, Lucci."

"You're the one who should be prepared to accept defeat, Ace." Lucci grinned, bending his knee to launch the first attack on the guard.

Ace transformed into flames and followed closely behind, generating heat in the surrounding area and causing the air to shimmer. Ace grinned as he answered Lucci's question, then struck a poor guard with his burning fist. "I can't!"

Watching his brothers compete, Luffy pouted in dissatisfaction. He wanted to join in too, but then he remembered he had Caesar to fight. Luffy immediately became excited, kicking open the door in front of him. "Caesar! I'm here to give you a good beating!!"

"Straw Hat Boy!" Caesar exclaimed in shock.

"I'll never let you get away with this!!" Luffy angrily swung his fist at Caesar, hitting him squarely in the stomach and sending him flying.

"Straw Hat, why are you still staring at me?! Lucci's heart has already been retrieved!" Caesar shouted angrily, crossing his fists in front of his chest and deliberately setting himself on fire to create an explosion, "Gas Incineration!!"

Luffy immediately activated Gear Second to dodge the explosion. Hearing Caesar's question, he honestly replied, "Law said that if we capture you and take you back, something fun will happen!"

“But…” Luffy said, looking up at Caesar with obvious anger in his eyes, “I have to beat you up no matter what.”

"A world without space!!" Caesar clenched his fists and opened them, drawing in the surrounding oxygen.

Luffy immediately felt suffocated, quickly flipping backward to get away from Caesar, and took a deep breath, "Looks like this is the distance!"

"Hehehe!" Caesar grinned smugly. "That's right, there's a limit to what can cause someone to suffocate!"

Ignoring Caesar's laughter, Luffy, knowing the suffocating distance, immediately used Gear Second to launch a pistol attack at Caesar. As Caesar approached, Luffy leaned back and took a deep breath, shouting, "Jet Pistol!!"

"Pfft! Ouch!! That hurts!! My nose is broken!" Caesar screamed in pain, revealing his knocked-out teeth, and inflated his body to its maximum size, with white smoke billowing from his entire body.

"You know absolutely nothing about this island! Straw Hat! Your ally, that kid Law, actually attacked SAD! Do you even know that SAD is a factory specifically supplied to the Shichibukai Donquixote Doflamingo?!"

"All sorts of big shots in the New World are cooperating with the Joker, even the Four Emperors. By capturing me, you're essentially starting a war against all those big shots!! Do you really have the guts to fight these big shots?!"

Luffy flashed in front of Caesar, his right hand, coated in sharp Armament Haki, slammed heavily into Caesar's face. "I'm going to beat up trash like you!!"

"You bastard!" Caesar's face contorted in pain instantly. He never expected that even after revealing his backer, this kid would still dare to attack him. Caesar, his face contorted in agony and tears streaming down his face, yelled, "Can't you understand human language?! Doflamingo is..."

Luffy didn't want to listen to this guy's nonsense. Before Caesar could finish speaking, he disappeared. The next second, his fist, imbued with Haki, slammed into Caesar's face with a deafening roar that shattered the air. Caesar's unfinished threats vanished instantly, and he flew backward again with terrified eyes.

Luffy gave him no chance to breathe. His anger made him not want to play with him anymore; he just wanted to kill him. Luffy stretched his arms back, and a pair of giant fists appeared.

One second Caesar was still freefalling, the next second a huge shadow loomed over him, a massive fist imbued with Armament Haki.

Caesar stared in terror at the massive fist hurtling towards him, his mind filled only with the pure instinct for survival. This instinct drove him to run away, forcing him to beg for mercy and kneel before the man in front of him, begging for forgiveness. But Luffy was completely unmoved, and those two giant fists swung violently.

A shrill, choked scream burst from Caesar's throat as his body was slammed against the wall by a giant rubber fist. Blood seeped from his mouth, ears, and broken nose, and his swollen, disfigured face rolled down at Lucci's feet along with the rubble.