Chapter 285: Chapter 285
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As Burgess tackled Sabo through the trees, the young Revolutionary started smashing his fist onto the man's back, trying to make him let go, "Let. Me. Go!" with a final smash Burgess was finally smashed onto the floor and Sabo skipped back.
Both Sabo and Burgess had taken damage but Sabo was in better shape than his opponent.
The blonde growled at the Blackbeard pirate as he held onto his metal pipe. Burgess was a notorious criminal on the list of the Revolutionaries' for quite a while. Even the Marines had a bounty on him, Sabo didn't remember the exact number but it was more than enough to be cautious about.
"You are guys going to pay for what you did to Doc." Burgess said with a sadistic grin on his face, "The man might have been a weirdo, but he was part of our crew… and you fuckers killed 'em." He then cracked his knuckles, "You will regret it after I'm done with you."
Sabo just narrowed his eyes as he calculated the situation. He could lead Burgess to the others like planned and help Ace with Teach, but Luffy had stressed the importance of killing the targets as fast as possible. And as a Revolutionary, Sabo knew that sometimes dragging the fight could backfire on you.
Burgess made a mistake of separating him from the group and he was going to cash in on it. "The only one regretting anything will be you." Sabo said, launching away from his spot.
The Revolutionary blurred from his spot using Soru and Geppo in a way that would make Luffy proud. As a Revolutionary, they were taught the basics of the Rokushiki, but Sabo had used the techniques less and less and focused on other aspects. Only after seeing Luffy's creative use of the techniques had he gone back to them.
Sabo dashed forward with his metal pipe coated in Haki, while Burgess came forward with his fist. Both opponents clashed, creating a sonic boom as the air rippled around them.
"I know of you!" The pirate declared, "You are Sabo, the second in command of the Revolutionary Army. Why the hell is a coward like you here?" Burgess grinned, "Eh, it doesn't matter. At least I can cash in your bounty. Now! Die!"
The helmsmen of the Blackbeard pirates cocked back his other fist and launched attacks in rapid succession.
Inwardly Sabo smiled, dodging his attacks with little difficulty. Many fighters didn't go all out from the start, some did it for the challenge, while others did it as a strategy. To make their opponents drop their guard and claw them when they least expect them to. And Sabo was the second type of guy.
"You might be strong but I'm faster!" Sabo said, matching Burgess's blows, putting on an act that showed that he was struggling. The World Government always had underplayed the Revolutionary Army's capabilities so most people thought them of being weak.
A strategy so that new people wouldn't join the side of the Revolutionaries, but it also made others underestimate them.
Most Observation Haki users thought they could base someone's true strength on their Haki. And in most cases they did, but when you were a Revolutionary who had to run missions under the nose of the World Government and the Marines, you tended to pick up on things.
Hiding your true strength from an opponent was a skill few people used, but it was a useful skill nonetheless. The most proficient one he ever saw was Sparky, and give that monkey a device that could turn him invisible and you'd have the ultimate assassin.
If all monkeys were like him, the Revolutionary Army really needed to up their charm in recruiting more monkeys into their ranks. Which was saying something as the leader of the Revolutionary Army's family name was also Monkey.
'Huh, would you look at that… the World Government has a monkey problem in their hands.' Sabo mused at his own joke.
"Wiiihahah!" the larger man laughed as he started to gain an upper hand on his opponent. Or so he thought, "Don't die too quickly, I still have to smash your face in for the earlier attack…! I almost thought you were stronger than me."
Sabo felt his brows twitch, but continued putting up his game of looking weak until a moment presented itself. And after a while, it did. Burgess had swung his fist in a wide arc that left his right side open, and Sabo cashed in on his mistake.
"You know, everything has a core…" Sabo said as his left fist took on a claw shape as it became covered in a layer of Advanced Armament Haki, the air around his fist crackled with sparks of yellow lightning crackling with energy, before smashing it right into the large man's side. "And your's is unguarded… Ryu no Ibuki!"
Burgess was wide-eyed as even though he had sensed the danger covering his sides with haki, he was too late. A devastating blow landed on him, making him bend, and cough up blood.
Burgess's Armament Haki gave little protection from Sabo's Advanced Armament-enhanced technique. A devastating liver punch that most surely destroyed a good chunk of his liver along with his stomach.
"Gah!!!"
But Sabo wasn't finished. He didn't waste any time as, with his other hand covered in Advanced Armament, he delivered a side hook, right into Burgess's stretched arm, right towards his elbow.
…crack
"Moterfucker! Agh!" Burgess screamed as he fell on his behind, holding onto his right arm, which had bent in an odd way, while his body was a bit tilted from the devastating liver punch. "Y-You! You! You were holding back!"
Sabo mused, at the downed opponent that was now on the floor, "Oh really? What gave it away?"
"Why you…"
"Don't answer that, it's called sarcasm," Sabo said as he started his attack yet again. The pirate had little time to curse the man as Sabo was on him yet again with a fury of strikes with his pipe. "What, you thought I would give you time to recover…? Don't delude yourself, pirate."
The pirate had to duck forward and roll back as Sabo came forward, swinging his pipe. "Hey, hey! We can talk about this!" Burgess said in a panic.
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