Chapter 31

And the worst part of this all? The huge rat wave Is actually heading right for me! Coming at me like a ravenous monster!

As I see these thousands upon thousands of ravenous rats heading towards my direction, I quickly reach into a pouch that I carry inside a pocket of my red jumpsuit and pick up a small airtight jar that holds some explosive powder made from the flowers of a special plant found on Lily Island.

I then reach into another pocket adjacent to the first, and find a small, hardened, sealed tube filled with black vicious looking liquid, appearing to anyone knowledgeable enough to actually be deadly poison.

I then remove the small lids from both containers, followed by quickly pouring in every drop of the black poison into the explosive jar.

I then toss away the small empty tube, and quickly re-seal the small jar of poison and explosive material.

I then quickly shake it in order to mix the contents and wait 5 seconds before I turn towards the incoming rat wave and throw it as close to the center of the rat wave as possible.

Not wasting any time, I quickly follow it up by Soru'ing out of there as fast as I could.

And not 2 seconds later, all I hear is a loud explosion followed by a huge plume of red/black gas.

*BOOOM*

*PSSHT*

What happened is that when those two chemicals are used separately, they can still be used in a satisfactory manner, with the explosive powder one could form small explosive pellets that when ignited can cause damage to an area of about 2-3 meters.

And the black poisonous liquid is self-explanatory, commonly referred to in West Blue as 'Ruin', as it's typically used for poisoning individuals of high importance, ruining the stability of an island; and in higher doses can be used to poison water reservoirs, ruining, and killing off small towns throughout history.

These two materials are strictly regulated by the World Government and by local authorities all over the world, but they can still be easily purchased and found in the black market, which can again be found in almost every island.

In fact, the black market on this island is managed by the Gambino family, ironic that I'm using their products against one of their own.

Anyways, when these two substances are mixed together, they create a much worse reaction than anything imaginable.

The effects of both chemicals are enhanced by at least 5 times, and the effects work beautifully together.

The explosion gets the benefit of having a dangerous aftermath: the poison cloud; and the poison gets a way to distribute itself to a large area very quickly: the shockwaves caused by the explosion; making it the most dangerous part of the concoction.

Ruin can enter its victims in many ways, it can be inhaled, making the lungs and the respiratory system fail, it can be ingested, affecting primarily the digestive system, or it can be absorbed through contact, destroying the integumentary, nervous, musculoskeletal, and even the skeletal system, amongst many others.

Overall, this is one of the worst poisons found here in West Blue.

I have heard that there are a few worse ones found in the Grand line and in North Blue, but they are not much worse, they just have different effects.

However, this poison is so well known and well used throughout history, that even though its effects are still deadly and exaggerated, the cure for it has been found a long time ago, making it not as deadly nor effective as before.

However, that's in the case for humans, not rats, and so, as the explosion goes off in the midst of them, it quickly eradicates the closest ones, a few hundred give or take, and then the poison starts spreading in a fine mist throughout the whole group, poisoning the rats in huge quantities.

And the effects of the poison are short to follow, not 10 seconds later, thousands upon thousands of rats are falling headfirst into the ground, dead.

"ROAR, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WOMAN! USING RUIN TO STOP MY ATTACK! SHEE! AND EVEN THE RUIN FROM THIS VERY ISLAND, SHEE!"

And not long after this, I see the humongous 80 ft tall rat roar into the sky and angrily comment on my actions.

Apparently, he could tell that it was Ruin from this very island, probably from the shade of the black, those are usually affected by the environment of the islands, making the poisons color range from light gray to midnight black, this one was mid-black, not light absorbent in the least.

…

What? Is this guy stupid or something? Of course, I would use his own poison on him, this is a fight to the death after all.

Therefore, I don't feel the need to respond to his inane comment, and I quickly shave towards his position, intending on cutting his exposed tendons and hamstrings to shreds, making his mobility nil.

Unfortunately, it appears that he saw this coming, so he quickly opens his large mouth once again, and fires off 4 very large razor-sharp teeth, that look more like missiles than anything, at my direction.

However, just like the last time he fired off his teeth at me, I easily dodge them with my paper arts, not even halting my progress towards his person.

And it also seems that this time, those huge teeth take a minute longer to regenerate, making his most used strategy worthless in this giant form of his.

So, I quickly arrive at his legs and start wildly swinging and going to town on his huge skinny rat legs, making huge gashes appear, and ripping out large chunks of bloody meat from his person.

This seems to once again startle and make him feel frightened because I hear a nervous, "SHEE~!" However, unlike last time, he doesn't run, as rats are known to do at the first sign of danger, but attacks with quick swipes from his large claws on his skinny paws instead.

Huge claws rain down on me from my every direction, but I don't stop hacking at his legs. With the paper arts I can comfortably sit here all day, bending and dodging any of his incoming attacks, and unless he grows a lot faster out of the blue, he's done for.

However, just as I thought I would hack through his whole leg, he leans his head down, once again opens his large maw, and spits out a huge chunk of purple saliva at me. I'm startled by this, but I quickly calm myself and shave out of there to safety.

And seeing the melting road as well as the damage it caused to his own legs, I can comfortably say that I made the right decision.

"SHEE! YOU BITCH! JUST DIE ALREADY! YOU'RE LUCKY THAT IN THIS GIANT FORM IM SLOW AS A RAT'S ASS! SHEE!"

He loudly rages once again.

This imbecile just will not learn, not only did he just damage his legs further, basically making them unusable, but his head and neck injuries are also getting worse as he moves and continues this fight, making fountains of blood gush out of his head and neck into the street.

Just as I predicted, this garbage man, known as Rotto or something, I don't know, I no longer consider him worthy of being remembered, quickly deflates back to his original size of 20 feet, then 15 feet, then 10 feet, and finally to 5 feet tall.

Making him shorter than I am.

I take this opportunity to quickly approach him and cut off all of his limbs.

I cut off both of his disgusting arms, and both of his disgusting, mangled skinny legs.

Leaving him as nothing but a bloodied torso and a blood covered brown mouse head.

He screams and roars in pain through all of this, but I ignore his annoying voice, and continue the slaughter.

I consider this man a waste of space. Not only did he have the resources to gain strength in this world through his powerful family and not use them appropriately, but he used his devil fruit in such a crude and unintelligent way.

I know for a fact that rats are amazingly quick and nimble creatures, amongst other things, and the fact that he just stood there, taking all of my blows, and even willingly slowing himself down by turning into a giant and remaining as one, is disgusting to me.

What a waste of a devil fruit.

…

And not long after I remove his appendages, he reverts back into his human form, even though it's hard to recognize him as one, with no limbs, and blood and dust covering all of his facial features. He seems more like a pile of red shit than anything else.

And just as I approach him further, I expect him to start begging for mercy, he surprises me one last time, instead of begging he begins to sob and cry tears of blood, mumbling and ranting of how he schemed for so long to get his dirty paws on that fruit, risking it all in offending the king to get his hands on that fruit, willing to go to any lengths in order to take revenge for his father, whom I believe was called Carlos Gambino, intending to kill Capone Bege and his whole family for what they did to him.

And with a few more mumblings about his crazy plan, his last bloody confession finishes, abruptly stopping mid-sentence, and dying.

Signifying the end of a waste of a man, Rotto Gambino.

Chapter 32

[MC's POV, Back to His Fight]

However, this progress seems to be too slow for her liking because she suddenly moves away from me, pauses for a second and sighs loudly, it's like she lost a bet with herself or something, and then disappears from my sight.

However, this also gives me a few seconds of breathing room, and just as she is implementing a new move, I'm also implementing my own.

It's the new move that I once mentioned to Poche-chan in passing. A move that I've been practicing for these following weeks and trying to get it as close to the real thing as possible.

I jokingly call it, Limitless.

What I did is within the timeframe of the red-haired agent moving back a distance and sighing loudly…too dramatically for my tastes, I began to quickly sense my energy as deeply as I could, and slowly cover my whole body with it, limb by limb, basically forcing myself to focus on every single part of my body at the same time and envelop it with my Slow energy.

Something that with 2 weeks of constant practice, is doable, but still very dangerous to me, if I had something like parallel thinking than it could be the most useful ability in my arsenal, but I don't have that, so it's not really all that practical; its merely an energy guzzler and a huge risk at the moment.

But I have to use it, not only has it been 2 minutes since we have been fighting, giving me 1 more minute until 3 more Cipher Pol agents jump into the party, but I've also been losing a lot of blood, making me slightly lightheaded, and weak, indicating that if I don't do something soon, I will fall and I will die at the hands of this red headed assassin.

That is why even if uncomfortable with using it, I force myself to use Limitless, a move that when implemented, basically makes me invincible in the lower tiers of power.

With the slow energy surrounding and moving with my body, anything that tries to hurt me, ranging from a sword to a bullet, to sound waves it's all frozen in time as it gets further inside the energy layer (if an object is removed from the layer, it reverts back into normal speed).

Basically, making me a human fortress, and the good thing about this is that I don't even have to worry about not being able to attack, I can move just fine, and for some reason or another, if I am holding an object, like a knife or sword, the energy automatically considers it a part of my hand, covering it as well.

It also makes my surroundings slightly colder.

Back to the fight, as I cover the last part of my body in a thick layer of purple energy, I'm suddenly assaulted with the sight of a sharp edge of an ornate dagger, right in front of my eye, stopping just as it was about to make contact with my eyeball.

This scares the shit out of me, making me almost shit my pants, but I hold it in and jump away from the attacker, which once again proved to be the lightning speed red haired Cp agent.

And going by her body language, which she seems to like exaggerating, she is perplexed on how her crazy quick attack didn't end me, but then she just overtly shrugs and attacks me once again.

Cutting and slashing and piercing at me 100 times per second, and with a tremendous force behind her attacks, making me believe that if she would have used whatever she is using right now in our previous exchange, then I would have been a cold corpse not a second after I met her.

And due to the fact that this is the first time I've used Limitless in battle, the crazy barrage forces me stop and stand in place, putting all of my attention on maintaining my hold on Limitless, because if I falter for even a second, then that whirlwind of sharp steel will cut me up before I can even blink.

*Fwish Fwish Fwish*(X100/sec)

'Focus, Focus, Hold, C'mon Hold it!' I repeat in my head like a chant over and over again.

*Fwish Fwish Fwish*(X100/sec)

'C'mon! Focus on the goddamn feeling! You can do it! She won't be able to keep that crazy attack up for long!'

*Fwish Fwish Fwish*(X100/sec)

'Yes! Yes! It's getting easier c'mon; this is going to be a breeze! And when I get complete control of it, I am going to go up to the bitch and sock her right in the pus…WHAT SHIT!' Just as I was feeling as if the energy was becoming easier to keep in control, I feel something different! I feel my reserves of energy plummeting!

Fuck, I forgot that Limitless was something that takes a shit ton of energy to actually work!

With this new detail coming into play I quickly evaluate my options, and none of them are looking good.

My energy reserves that my body naturally holds are at an all-time low and using limitless is not going to be possible in a few more seconds.

Therefore, I do the only thing that I can think of at the moment… run as fast as I can and get the heck away from this woman!

And that's exactly what I do, I start running as fast as I can, unintentionally using shave, something that I was very close to mastering, and running towards the edge of the island, intending on running over the ocean.

And when I look back, I see the woman shaving much faster than me and catching up to me.

She looks reluctant to chase after me, especially on water, since I believe she has a devil fruit, but by this point it would be a personal mark on her ledger if she couldn't get me.

*Fwoosh* *Fwoosh*

*Fshh* *Fuugh*

We shave all the way to the coast, and I immediately begin walking on the water, running towards a further location.

I'm actually doing this not by using Shave or the awesome Moonwalk, but with Limitless.

Whenever I touch the water or the ground, it freezes the molecules slightly, and creates a foothold for me to run on.

…

And not long after I find myself about a mile away from the coast, standing in the middle of the open sea, the shining silver moon giving light to the night; and right across from me I find the red-haired woman, similarly standing on the ocean waves, not seeming to be using Moonwalk either.

And with the moon at my back, I ask her "Why is the World Government meddling in the issues of a small island in the West Blue?"

She tilts her masked face slightly and slowly answers in a soothing voice, "Soo… you know this much? Do you? You are a much bigger threat than previously believed! You must be eliminated! "she says while making a threatening gesture.

I put my hands up in surrender "Hold on a second their woman, we can come to an agreement if we talk it out, don't you think?"

She leans her head forward a bit and coldly replies," Negative…You are stalling, fool!"

I reply with an "Hey, hey, hey! C'mon now! What's with that quick answer! And what could I possibly be stalling for? I have no one coming to back me up! I don't even know what happened to them!"

"You are lucky the World Government has asked for anyone involved with Hellcat Carina to be brought in, or I would have pierced you where you stand, even with that shield of yours," she coldly replies to me with a smooth voice.

With that only the sound of waves could be heard until a "HAHAHA, you got me woman, thanks for following me you bitch! Take this!" I quickly scream back as I take a big gulp of air into my lungs and loudly exhale as I heave and clap my hands together as hard and as loud as I possibly could, and *KRAKOOM* The result was a loud sonic boom followed by a huge vaporous explosion of sound, light, and freezing air.

Chapter 33

I take a big gulp of air into my lungs and loudly exhale as I heave and clap my hands together as hard and as loud as I possibly could, and *KRAKOOM* The result was a loud sonic boom followed by a huge vaporous explosion of sound, light, and freezing air.

*CRACKLE*

*BOOM*

This wave of pure destruction mushrooms out as quick as sound itself, freezing and demolishing everything that comes within its path, and since it's a widespread attack, there is no place to run, everything within half a kilometer is immediately reduced to small crushed chunks of ice.

What I did there was truly use the full power of my Limitless technique, I did not name my new technique 'Limitless' only because of the defenses that it provides, similar to the original, my Limitless has an extra feature that allows me to attack my opponents in an extremely destructive fashion.

What I do is I concentrate and compress as much slow energy as I possibly could into my hands, forcing the energy to basically change forms from immaterial photons to a material superfluid.

What I found out is that by using Limitless I can compress the energy so much that when a certain point is reached, the molecules in the air start to become affected and begin to slow down significantly.

This makes the molecules cool down and the elements found in the air form into a near frozen state, however this is not the end, the extraordinary thing about my Limitless, is that it allows me to continue injecting energy(molecules) into such a small space without it backfiring immediately due to the slowing properties of the technique.

Due to this important factor of the outlandish devil fruit power, it basically forms a highly condensed material that keeps on condensing continuously. Creating a huge amount of pressure.

This would normally take huge machines with powerful lasers and complex mechanics in my previous world to accomplish, but here just with my devil fruit powers alone I can easily do it.

Following the pressurizing of freezing air, I then clap as hard and fast as I can, catching more molecules, and pressurizing it even further, and when I finally interact with my other hand, both films of Limitless surrounding my hands come into contact, acting similar to two powerful hydraulic presses that are synched up with each other and intent on crushing whatever is stuck in-between them into nothingness, pressurize the near absolute zero liquid to the extreme.

This squeezes the already pressurized material to the point where it becomes something akin to the legendary superatom of my previous world. A Bose Einstein Condensate.

However, it's not to that point yet, meaning that the effects are much more severe, the freezing is much higher, and the danger level is through the roof.

If I get as strong as Garp I believe that I could possible even create a Hydrogen Bomb In the future using cold fusion, for now though this attack is at a similar level to the Hulks Thunderclap, but with a freezing element added to it.

And just as would be expected of such an attack, the results are disastrous, everywhere around me you can see that the water was frozen and immediately destroyed by the loud sonic boom that my attack produced once I set it off.

Everything within a few meters of me has been turned into a soft powder, similar to snow; and going from there everything else goes from crushed ice to large ice cubes, even the few fish that were caught in the attack were minced and crushed into bloody bits.

Seeing the results I smile, believing that due to the range and speed of the attack (half a second) there was no way that the red-haired Cp agent could have escaped unscathed, she should be nothing more than small chunks of bloody ice by this point, or at least a part of her body should be.

However, contrary to my expectations, I am once again proven totally wrong by a hard kick from behind, right at the base of my skull.

*crack*

Is all I hear as my skull is cracked and my body is sent rag dolling back all the way back towards the island and crashing into a large boulder.

*Boom*

…

I quickly try to stand up, but I don't get any immediate response from my body. I am considered to be a superhuman, yet as I reach for my head, all that greets me is the crackling noise of bone fragments, and blood.

And not long after I can feel blood pouring out of my nose, ears, and eyes, as well as my internal organs feeling as if they were thrown and regurgitated out of a meat grinder.

I feel like death.

And that's exactly what I believe is about to happen, I'm about to die!

I'm about to die and lose my chance at a life of greatness. I'm about to lose everything, even before I could really get going in this world. I'm going to die soon.

But just as I believed this, something amazing happens, out of nowhere green otherworldly particles of light begin to leave all of the green trees and grass near my position, for as far as the eye can see, and begin to surround my body and slowly entering through all of my bruises, cuts, and lacerations that my body now has.

And something miraculous happens when they make contact with me, they begin to fizzle out slowly and spread warm energy throughout my body, healing me of all of my injuries that I sustained in this crazy fight.

It even begins to heal my fractured skull, giving me back my mental faculties, as well as recharge all of my energy spent throughout the fight, making it seem as if I wasn't ever in a life-threatening situation.

And as I am staring at these wonderful green lights, I hear a soft, feminine voice coming from one of them, "Hey handsome, hope you missed me."

When I hear the voice, the biggest smile I've ever had in my life appears on my face, I quickly reply while laughing "HAHAHAHA Carina! You know that I could kiss you right now? You just fricking saved my life, HAHAHA."

I laugh hysterically, I just survived my first real life near-death experience, where I truly believed I was going to die, and apparently when that happens to me, I become a hysterical Joker. (Situation with Jack the Machete was quickly resolved and no injuries were sustained, so seems mild in comparison)

"Well, what about you return the favor then handsome? I am right at this very moment running and hiding for my life, heee *Boom* *Clatter* phew, yeah, I really need help here as well, so lose that monster redhead and come pick me up fast!" she replies in a hurry, cutting off the connection with the floating green orb immediately afterwards.

Hearing this I immediately make an ugly face, I completely forgot about the danger that Carina is facing at this moment, 3 other Cp agents are there with her, and if they are anywhere near as strong as the redhead, which I highly doubt, evident by her ability to dodge my snow-flake beam while the others not so much, yet they are still highly dangerous opponents.

I better lose this redhead and retreat in order to regroup with Carina-chan and Porche-chan.

But just as I was about to get up and disappear from this place, I see the waves getting split by an approaching redhead.

This Forces me to instead of fleeing, face the incoming redhead by once again covering myself in Limitless, that thankfully is usable again due to all of my energy being restored, and preparing for another compression attack, but this time a less powerful version, only intending for it to be a distraction to retreat and regroup.

But just as I am preparing for the clapping motion, the redhead suddenly turns her masked head a little to my left and stares at the green floating balls of energy at my side.

She suddenly halts in place, floating above the sea at about 5 feet, and stares for a few seconds longer.

She then turns to me again and replies, "So your friend consumed the fruit. Consider this your lucky day." She says as she immediately disappears in a speed too fast for me to see, towards where Carina-chan and the other Cp agents are located.

Seeing this and guessing what she is about to do I frown even harder and scrunch up my face in an ugly sneer, "You goddamn bitch, keep Carina out of this."

Followed by me using Shave as hard as I can, which is much faster than before, in order to go and protect Carina-chan from this overpowered witch.