The Fight for the Treasure 6

Nikita POV - Blue Star, Grand Line, Nanatsu Islands(Hi) - 20 GAP 

After Zandeer shouts out my name, he doesn't hesitate and quickly uses his Sonido to appear in front of me and warp my body in a tight, strong, comforting hug as he whispers, "It is really you... I'm so glad to see you here, I thought that something truly bad happened to you and that I... that I had lost you forever... only the hope that in some way you were still alive somewhere pushed me forward and made me travel to this world in the hope that you would do the same... I'm really so glad..."

After hearing all that and feeling his strong arms around my body holding me so tightly as if afraid that I'll disappear at any moment, I can't help but feel a fuzzy feeling in my chest as a bright content smile forms on my face making me wish that this moment would last forever.

But then the pirates' painful verses as they twist on the ground after the blood needle I throw at them impaled their bodies, snaps me out of this little pink world made of only Zandeer and me, and makes me remember where we are and what is actually happening around us at the moment, so, I whisper back, "Yes, I'm really here, and I'd love to spend the rest of the day with you talking about everything that happened to me since the Random Battle, but at the moment we have something more important to take care..."

That also snaps Zandeer out as he releases me from his hug and starts to look around nervously and notices that Law is giving him a silent thumb up while he dodges another bomb thrown by Marc while Bepo rolls on the ground to dodge a white ball thrown by Boo Jack which explodes as soon as it touches the ground and at the same time he says, "Good for you, Zandeer. But let me ask something first, can you please focus back on what is going on here?"

At this point, I also look back at Honey Queen and see that her expression turned into one full of panic and that quickly after that, she fully turned herself into that liquid substance and is now silently running away using the wreckage all around us to hide herself as she escapes.

Seeing that, I smirk and say to Zandeer, "You go and help Bepo, I'll take care of that wench..."

Then I don't wait for his answer and quickly use my Supernatural Speed to get closer to that bitch, but it is truly difficult to catch her as in her liquid form, she flows through pretty much every obstacle.

But I don't give up, and quickly I look around to search for a solution, and instantly notice a nearby jar that is still intact and luckily it also has its lid on, which gives me an idea on how swiftly deal with her as I suddenly remember a scene from the One Piece anime I saw quite a long time ago.

I don't hesitate and quickly grab the jar, open the lid, and then with a knowing smirk, I tap into my Magical Power and start to chant another spell, "Les lames colligo. Ad me gluttuli."

Soon after that, from one of the wreckages in the distance, a familiar lilac-colored, syrup-like liquid starts to float up, quickly condensing into a small ball which then flies into the jar in my hands, and quickly after that, I close the lid securing the content inside.

This is another spell of the Biological Branch called Liquid Gathering Spell, a spell that allows the casting witch to gather and concentrate a liquid, such as tears, water, milk, mercury, and such into a small container, especially useful if you have to gather a liquid that is hard to reach or especially dangerous to touch or even get close. 

My smile grows even bigger as I watch that even if it struggles to around in the jar, the syrup-like liquid is unable to break it and force itself out or even transform back into its human form, and mutter, "As expected you have no effective physical strength when in liquid form, and cannot transform back into your normal form if you are in a space that your normal body cannot fit in... "Wet-Haired Caribou" with his Numa Numa no Mi (Mud Mud Fruit) also had a similar weakness as I clearly remember that he was trapped into a simple wooden barrel but despite that was unable to get out until the barrel itself was damaged... You better remember that you bitch are no match for a witch." 

After that, I look around to see the situation of the other fights and see Zander easily knocking out both Skunk One and Boo Jack with a single Bala, an Arrancar-exclusive offensive technique in which Zandeer gathers his Reiryoku (Spiritual Power) on his hands and shoot it out with a punching motion.

While similar in function to a Cero, a Bala is not nearly as powerful, but, thanks to its composition, its speed is 20 times faster, allowing it to be fired in quick succession, in addition, it possesses more concussive force than a typical Cero does making it the perfect technique to swiftly deal with a nimble opponent or simply deal with them without outright erasing them from existence like a Cero usually does.

At the same time, Bepo, now free from the three encirclements, is able to rush toward the shocked Pin Joker and quickly knocks him out with a quick series of side kicks which I admit reminds me a little of Chun-Li's iconic Hyakuretsukyaku (Hundred Rending Legs).

On the other side, the fight is getting hotter, literally as Bear King's hardened arm is now burning red and everything he is hitting is now set ablaze forcing Marc to retreat, but right at this moment, Law finally decides to act, probably because he realizes that the situation is now fully to their advance, and more importantly both Bear King and Marc are finally inside the range where his Devil Fruit is most effective at the exact same time. 

Law quickly extends his left hand and commands, "ROOM!" creating a spherical space around himself and his targets whose color is mostly transparent, with only the boundaries visible in a light blue aura.

This is ROOM the precursor to all of Law's techniques, the operation room in which he can manipulate anything he wants in a variety of ways, but as a cost, he cannot perform any of his other techniques outside of this spherical area.

After that, Law doesn't give them any time to react as he quickly draws his sword, Kikoku, and rushes toward Bear King ready to cut him into many pieces.

Seeing that, the clueless Bear King raises his hardened hands ready to grab and block the blade while mocking him, "Hahaha! I thought that you were planning something else since you were just skirting around while I fought with that puny bomber! What a fool! I already told you guys that my body can become as hard as rock! There is no way that your puny sword is able to even scratch me!"

In response, Law simply smirks and yells, "Amputate!" swinging his sword at a strangely slow speed, making Bear King even more confident which moves his hands on the path of the sword to catch it mid-swing.

But his confident look instantly turns into one of horror as he watches his hand being cleanly sliced off, he is so shocked that he doesn't even realize that he doesn't feel any pain or lose any blood as he exclaims, "What!? Impossible!!"

Quickly after that, Law's slow blade suddenly picks up so much speed that only a blurry shadow can be seen, and quickly after that, Bear King's body is cut into many small pieces, who in shock is unable to utter anything else, even if he is technically still completely fine as with the power of his Devil Fruit, the Ope Ope no Mi (Op Op Fruit), the people separated by this ability are not killed and can still feel their separated parts, regardless of the distance. 

At the same time, seeing such a "gruesome" scene scares the shit out of Marc of the Simon Pirates, who starts to run to get as far away as possible from Law.

But Law first performs a lifting motion with his index finger and commands, "Takt!" making a couple of rubble lift off from the ground and starting to levitate, then by pointing to the desired direction, in this case toward the fleeting Marc, he redirects the rubble's position making them fly toward him at astonishing speed hitting him square on the back of his head, easily knocking him out long enough to also calmly slice up his body into many smaller parts using Amputate once again, rending him totally powerless without actually killing him. 

Seeing this scene and how he easily took care of them, I can't help but internally comment, ' As expected from the Ope Ope no Mi (Op Op Fruit) which is also called the "Ultimate Devil Fruit". One of the most OP (Overpowered) Devil Fruits of this world that grants the power to create a spherical forcefield wherein the user can freely rearrange, dismantle, without harm, and remodel the structure/anatomy of anything and anyone, themself included, in a "surgical" way, making the user a Free Modification Human. In simpler words the Ope Ope no Mi's user becomes the surgeon, their space the operating room, and those caught inside are the patients on the operating table.'

Then I started to remember everything that I saw Law do in the One Piece Anime, 'And the things that the surgeon can do in his operation room are many not only levitating and moving objects of any size around akin to telekinesis, and slicing people/objects apart without actual injury just like he demonstrated a few moments ago, but he can also reattach the separate parts to other surfaces, swapping the locations of two targets to teleport them "scanning" targets, transplanting "personalities", basically their spirits or souls, permanently taking out people's organs without harm, etc. And what is even worse is that as long as the user's chosen targets are inside their ROOM, they are within range and the user's techniques instantly reach them regardless of distance. Truly an OP power!'

Soon, I hear Law's voice as he yells, "Bepo, Zandeer! Quickly gather everyone, and tell them to bring back the injured and the rest of the villagers, we will rescue all those who need help, there were already too many needless deaths today." then he looked at me and said, "And you, you are Zandeer's woman, right? Well, help us out, the quicker we fix this situation, the quicker you can spend some alone time with him."

After saying that, he completely ignores me and starts to focus on the people brought by his crew inside his ROOM giving them a quick check using Scan by imbuing his sword with the fruit's energy and beaming it through the crowd, using it much like an x-ray machine, then quickly arranging them according to the severity of their situation, obviously taking care first of those that are in mortal danger.

Of course, during this, I don't stay chilling around watching them work but also start to help using some Healing Spells on some of the most severe cases that Zandeer quickly brings me using his Sonido, as they are advanced spells that are used to heal the injuries and recover from non-fatal wounds, which at the very least can lighten Law's burden

I'm pretty good at them because I trained a lot with them for the simple fact that basically there aren't many kinds of wounds that can be considered "fatal" for me, making me able to quickly heal from pretty much anything.

But for those that I can't help using my Healing Spells, I make sure to, at the very least, cast a Pain Reduction Spell on them, a spell that can be used to reduce the physical pain of another person, but while the pain diminishes, the spell, however, does not have any real healing properties but at the very least this makes the wait for their turn a lot more bearable.

Like that, we quickly help as many people as possible, and start to deal with them even faster when a doctor from a nearby island, someone named Zabal arrives and also starts to help us.

But something about him doesn't sit right with me, he is an average-sized middle-aged man, with a black goatee, black glasses, and a black beanie, with two white sparks on it, he wears an open red coat, with a big white collar, and two white surrounded in black spark at each side of the zipper, under the coat, he seems to wear a red unique suite, with a zipper in the front, he also wears two long scarfs, a white one around his neck and a blue one on his left shoulder, brown open gloves, two narrow brown belts around his legs, and polished dark red shoes.

(Image Here - Zabal)

He is a quite rude person and treats his patients quite roughly almost to the point of hurting them, but despite that, he is quite efficient in his work, so I can't exactly judge him on that, especially since there is the precedent of Doctor Kureha, an elderly doctor who works on Drum Island. 

She is referred to as a "witch" by many of the people living on Drum Island and for several very good reasons, the first is her eccentric treatment of patients, going as far as violently threatening them if they do not follow her orders, the second is her forceful method of checking for injury, for example, deliberately prodding the ailing area, causing her patients pain and then having Chopper knock them out as a form of anesthetic, the third is her age, as she is 'only' 141, and the final reason is her reclusive nature.

But despite all that she still has her patients' health as her first priority and is a full-fledged respectful doctor, so I can't judge him only based on his manners, but something about him puts me off, I just don't know what. 

With the combined effort of the people from the Heart Pirates, Law, that Zabal guy, and my spells, we are finally able to give everyone timely proper care making the number of people needing urgent help quickly diminish, and with that, we finally have the situation under full control, which gives me and Zandeer enough time to properly reunite.

So, we walk away from the chaotic village and find a quiet place where we can finally talk about everything that happened since we were separated to take part in the Random Battle.

Zabal POV - Blue Star, Grand Line, Nanatsu Islands(Hi) - 20 GAP 

As I quickly warp the bandage around some guy's arm after grossly stitching the cut he had on it and telling him to the fuck out of the way so that the next son of bitch can get quickly fixed up, I continue to look around carefully checking the situation and see that those bastards in boiler-suit are finally done with swarming all over the place searching for more people to fix up and are now focusing on helping the people fix up the village as it was messed up quite a lot by the chaotic battle that took place here.

I also notice that two of the most dangerous individuals, the short bombshell and the gloomy guy, also got away maybe to have some fun in the woods, leaving behind only that extremely dangerous doctor, the captain of this pirate crew.

Seeing that, I quickly glance at the next person who came to me to fix him up and see that it is a simple cut, he doesn't even need actual medical intervention, but since his face pisses me off, I simply pour some alcohol on his wound anyway to disinfect it and stitched it anyway to make him feel some pain for making me wasting my time on him while at the same time thinking, 'A little bit more... they just need to lower their guard a little bit more and I can finally make my move and get done with this fucking island... Fuck, Marc! That little bitch can't even follow his orders even if his life is on the line!'

Marc's job was quite simple, he had to watch over the island and see if any of the targets that Simon-sama ordered us to find would show up so that I could later capture them. 

In the meantime, I had to take care of the Treasure Guardian in Hitoma Cavern and grab the Eye of Xiquiripat needed to reveal the treasure's location.

Everything was going fine I found the Hitoma Cavern, reached the treasure room, and took care of that bullshit Treasure Guardian, which was some kind of mechanical statue with only a spherical torso and two mechanical arms, it had a long neck which is cable-like, while the head resembled a fish, on top of its head and its hands, it possessed colored gemstone-like hemispheres, grabbed the Eye of Xiquiripat from within that thing, and used Din's birds to send it back to Simon-sama, everything was going perfectly well.

At least until I noticed what was going on all over the island with our men fighting against some no-name pirates for no reason at all, we just needed to fucking grab the Eye of Xiquiripat and capture any Devil Fruit user to start a fucking all-out war with the first pirate crew that steps on the fucking island.

Moreover, after causing all that, the fucking prick had even the gall to spectacularly fail and cost us a hell lot of manpower, and leave me to fix everything he left behind of this mess he has caused, luckily despite my former bounty of 30.000.000 Belly, my face, the face of "Crimson Lotus" Zabal isn't very well known in the Grand Line where there are countless pirates with a way higher bounties, this isn't the South Blue where everyone knew my face.

As I think about all that, time continues to pass and the opportunity I was waiting for finally comes as the doctor is now too focused on taking care of a pregnant woman who is currently at risk of miscarriage, very probably caused by the stress of the whole pirate attack situation she just went through, and so, I don't waste any more time taking care of these people, and quickly make my move.

First I finish bandaging the loser in front of me, and then I say to the other people in the line waiting for medical attention that I'm going to take a quick break to go to the toilet and take a dump.

After that, I quickly moved toward the building where these people put the defeated pirates which I scouted out beforehand while searching for bandages, alcohol, gauze, and everything else needed to take care of minor injuries.

I easily enter the building as it isn't guarded, and there is a good reason for that, it is simply because that fool Marc and the two Devil Fruit users aren't in any state to cause any kind of problem, while the other three people are tightly bound by some chains, so they too can't cause any actual problem.

Marc and the pirate called Bear King are literally in pieces, and not, they aren't dead, that kid named Law has the dreadful power of cutting people up without actually killing them, in fact, these cut parts are very strange, they are all still perfectly fine, the blood is still flowing through them as if they are somehow still connected to the body, while they are clearly apart, hell, both Marc and Bear King can still move and probably feel their severed body parts, but they can't do anything since they are cut in such a way that rends them powerless.

Meanwhile, the third Devil Fruit user is a quite special case, her Devil Fruit allows her to transform into some kind of liquid but that in itself is quite a weak power, because, now she is currently trapped in a simple, frail, glass jar with the lid carefully closed and taped, but despite that, she is unable to free herself, and is at the mercy of everyone else.

As soon as I step inside, the voice of that fucking prick and constant failure of Marc greets me as he yells, "Zabal!! You are finally here! Quick fix me up! Stitch my body together, tape it, or anything else, I can't stand to stay in this state any longer!" which is quickly followed by the man called Bear King who says, "I don't care that you are this guy comrade, but I promise you that if you free me and my siblings, then I will give you the blueprint of an incredibly powerful weapon I found. I call it the King Cannon, it is a weapon that can fire its bullets with drilling force, which is strong enough to cause intense impact to create shock waves that can spread throughout a portion of the ocean..."

But I ignore the rest of his rant and without any hesitation, I kick his head right in the temple, sending a shock straight to the brain which knocks him out, then I look at Marc and say with an annoyed tone, "Shut up, you cunt! I don't want to listen to your annoying voice any longer! You simply don't understand how much you have fucked up our plans, don't you? We simply had to get in and out of this island unnoticed without drawing too much attention from the World Government on ourselves while making sure that these pirates took the full blame for the chaos happening here... But no! You just had to fuck over everything! Now I have to warn Simon-sama that he has to speed up his plan even more!"

I slowly walk to get close to his head as I calmly continue, "Regarding your situation, at this point, I would really enjoy studying your current curious state in a very detailed way as slowly and painfully as possible making sure that you'd wish that those goody shoes pirates would have killed you instead. But unfortunately, since you have messed up so bad, I don't have any time for that now as I have to rush back to Simon-sama and tell him that he has to speed up his plans..."

At this point, I draw my sword as Marc realizes what is going to happen and in panic yells, "Wai-." but I don't give him any more time, and without any hesitation, I stab him right between his brows killing him in an instant as cleanly as possible.

After that, I don't care anymore about that trash, and calmly head toward the three chained pirate who are looking at me with clear panic in their eyes and to do the same with them, but this time, I simply stab them in the throat, cutting off their carotid arteries and vocal cords, so that they won't be able to scream as they die.

Done with that, I quickly grab a nearby sack and stuff all the sliced pieces of Bear King inside, and grab the jar full of syrup-like liquid and also put it inside the sack, then I rush outside the building before anyone can realize what happened here while making sure that no one sees me, I head for the hidden location where I have docked my ship to head toward our headquarters in Mu Island while thinking, 'I hope that these two Devil Fruit Users are enough for Simon-sama, those other three guys are way too dangerous for me to risk my life in trying to capture them. Among the three of them, I truly don't know who is worse, each one of them gave me the impression that they didn't put any effort into dealing with that kind of situation, and each one of them is scary in their own way making me sure of the fact that even a superior being like Simon-sama would have some trouble in dealing with those three... Especially the woman, when I looked at her in action I felt that she was very similar to Simon-sama, her abilities are truly superior to those of the usual Devil Fruits.'

While thinking that, I can't help but shudder as I once again remember the scene where the woman almost wiped out all the pirates fighting on the island in a single move.