CHAPTER 178: CHAPTER 178: THUNDER BAGUA, THE OP-OP FRUIT IS OBTAINED

"Gulp..."

"Cap... Captain, am I seeing things?!"

"Why would such a big shot appear here?!"

When Karl appeared out of thin air in front of the Heart Pirates, who had just walked out of the small town and were preparing to leave the island.

Looking at the world-famous figure before them, the current four-person Heart Pirates were all frozen in place, unable to move.

Especially the mink, Bepo, whose animal instincts warned him, saw an unprecedentedly terrifying aura on Karl.

Cold sweat involuntarily soaked his entire body.

Their boss and captain, Law, was not much better off. He was also covered in cold sweat, looking at Karl as if facing a great enemy.

"Trafalgar Law, Doflamingo has missed you very much these past few years."

Looking at Law, who was too nervous to speak, Karl smiled and took the initiative to greet him.

"ROOM—"

Hearing Karl say the name of his enemy, Law immediately regained control of his body and directly released the domain of the Op-Op Fruit.

"Leave this island immediately, and don’t look back—Shambles!"

Law turned his head and shouted at his three companions.

Then, before he could finish his words, he used the ability of the Op-Op Fruit to transport them to the farthest distance he could currently manage.

In response, Karl did not stop him.

Or rather, he couldn’t stop him.

Unless he chased after them with the world’s fastest speed, even Karl could not interfere with Law’s transportation within the domain of the Op-Op Fruit.

But Law’s transportation was not omnipotent either.

In this world where Haki was a jack-of-all-trades ability, Law’s domain could only transport existences whose Haki was on the same level as his, or weaker.

Once the enemy’s Haki far surpassed his, then no matter if it was transportation or the cutting ability that ignored the hardness of matter, it would be ineffective against the enemy.

Karl was such an existence.

"This ability is really wasted on you..."

After Law had transported all three of his crew members away.

Karl, holding the spiked club, grinned at Law and stated his purpose for being here, "The Op-Op Fruit, hand it over to me!"

"...Shambles!"

Hearing this, Law’s pupils contracted again, and he unhesitatingly used his ability to transport himself in the opposite direction of his companions.

What a pity...

Although his spatial teleportation was truly the world’s fastest, the range he could teleport was too small.

"Thunder Bagua—Boom!"

Just as Law had teleported a thousand meters away, a shout that came from afar suddenly reached his ear.

Before he could turn his head to look in Karl’s direction, a few strands of golden lightning, different from the Rumble-Rumble Fruit’s, flashed in his vision.

Immediately after, an extremely intense pain that instantly stole his consciousness eroded Law’s entire body.

The moment his consciousness was taken away and his vision became blurry, Law only saw a spiked club wreathed in golden lightning.

The next second, Law’s body turned into an afterimage, flew off the coast of the island, and fell into the distant sea.

In the process of flying backwards, Law had completely fainted.

He didn’t even let out a grunt when his body shattered the objects in its path.

"This distance should be more than ten miles, right?"

Karl carried the spiked club on one shoulder and placed his other hand on his forehead. Looking at Law’s position, he sighed slightly, "A striking weapon like a spiked club, for martial arts powerhouses like us, feels much better to use than a sword. No wonder Kaido doesn’t learn to use a sword like Charlotte Linlin."

Thunder Bagua!

The move that Karl had learned from Yamato as soon as he met her, and then perfected with Kaido’s help.

Although this was Karl’s first time using Thunder Bagua, if he were serious, this move could also instantly kill existences like Doflamingo and Fourth Gear Luffy.

But to avoid killing Law with one blow, Karl had held back ninety percent of his strength.

Even with one-tenth of his strength, it was not something the current Law could withstand.

Except for the freak Blackbeard, no one in the current "Worst Generation" could withstand Karl’s Thunder Bagua.

"...Garp is a monster!"

After sighing, Karl suddenly and inexplicably complained about the old mad dog, Garp.

Because Kaido’s Thunder Bagua, Charlotte Linlin’s Elbaf’s Spear: Ikoku Sovereignty and strange sound roar, Karl’s second trait, Absolute Comprehension, could all be learned instantly.

Only Garp’s superhuman mode had failed Karl’s Absolute Comprehension.

Clearly, the way he broke the limits of the human body, just like the superhuman mode of the electric current method + Life Return, was definitely not just the highest level of application of Life Return.

There was something else that even Absolute Comprehension could not learn.

But I digress.

After marveling at Garp’s monstrousness, Karl teleported into the sea in an instant and fished out the dying Law.

Then, with another teleport, he appeared in the warehouse of the large galleon, which had not docked.

Then he returned to the hall of the cabin, brought Baccarat, who was playing cards, into the warehouse, and performed the Op-Op Fruit extraction ceremony.

Because there were innocent girls like Shirahoshi, Yamato, Tama, and Nojiko in the crew, Karl usually did not perform the Devil Fruit extraction in front of them.

After secretly completing the Op-Op Fruit extraction ceremony, Karl sent Law’s body back to a certain place on the island and did not directly throw it into the sea.

And so, one of the twelve members of this year’s "Worst Generation" had been eliminated.

The one who had been eliminated was one of the divine doctors who had saved Luffy in the original story.

If Luffy, as in the original story, had first been poisoned by Magellan, and then had been severely hit in the Summit War.

Even if he had been lucky enough to survive with his protagonist’s halo, he would probably have been similar to Roger, who had contracted an incurable disease.

Of course... these had nothing to do with Karl.

Stance determines attitude!

Before he had crossed over, Karl, from a reader’s perspective, might have had a little bit of a good impression of Law.

But that little bit of a good impression had long since disappeared in the eighteen years of his transmigration and the reshaping of his personality.

Never mind a mere Law...

If it was beneficial to him, or if it was necessary, Karl could even kill the Monkey D. Luffy with his invincible background.

The Op-Op Fruit was useful to him, he didn’t need male crew members in his faction, and Doflamingo was his ally.

In addition, he had something that could extract Devil Fruits, so Karl naturally had no thought of recruiting Law.

So death was Law’s destined end.

It was just a matter of dying sooner or later.

If Law, as in the original story, had led Monkey D. Luffy to attack the Dressrosa Kingdom, Karl would not have let him succeed.

After all, if Doflamingo were to be arrested, the one who would suffer a serious loss would not only be Kaido, but also Karl.

An ally like Doflamingo, who had connections in both the light and dark, whose power was spread all over the world, and whose strength was very weak, was too rare in this world.

Karl, who had received so many benefits from Doflamingo, and who could earn tens of billions of Berries every year in his cooperation with the Donquixote Family, and who could help Doflamingo with just a lift of his hand, would naturally not let anything happen to his good friend.

Now, with Law’s death, one of Doflamingo’s hidden dangers had also been eliminated.

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