【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

Chapter 465 Dragon Claw Hand

“Lucci showed me.” Luffy clenched his fingers, then looked at Lucci and asked, “Where will the wound move to?”

"This..." Lucci scratched his head, looking at the three pairs of eyes staring intently at him, and suddenly felt a little nervous. "Luffy, why are you suddenly asking this?"

“Your Devil Fruit ability looks interesting,” Sabo interjected with a laugh. “Luffy is probably just too curious.”

"It will transfer to yourself, won't it?" Ace said with a gloomy expression, arms crossed.

Lucci looked at Ace in surprise. How did Ace know? He had never shown him this ability.

Luffy looked at Lucci, then turned to Ace, realizing that what Ace said was true. He looked up at Lucci and asked seriously, "Lucci, how many times have you used this?"

"I've only used it once, I promise!" Lu Qi said immediately, feeling a little guilty as he looked at the three pairs of eyes still staring intently at him. Finally, he explained softly, "Actually, it's not bad. It's still very useful in critical moments because I can choose to move the wound location, which reduces the damage by at least half."

Ace nodded, accepting the explanation. Judging from the extent of Lucci's injury last time, it was indeed better than Sachi's, but he still didn't want such a thing to happen again.

Sabo frowned, still not quite pleased that Lucci possessed this ability. However, he knew they couldn't decide this matter or control his brother's behavior, but at least it wasn't too bad. He could only say, "It's still somewhat useful."

“Yes, that’s right.” Lucci nodded, letting out a sigh of relief.

Ace looked at Lucci, who was visibly relieved, and shook his head helplessly. He knew that the guy wasn't telling the truth, but he also knew that Lucci just didn't want them to worry more.

Therefore, he saw no need to expose Lucci's obvious lie and complicate matters further. Besides, since it had already happened, he would not allow Lucci to use that ability again.

Seeing Luffy deep in thought, Lucci immediately put his arm around Luffy's shoulder and, while walking out, changed the subject, "Luffy, it's almost time to eat, let's go to the restaurant."

Upon hearing that it was only once, Luffy relaxed. His brother hadn't done anything stupid. Hearing Lucci's words, Luffy became excited again and followed Lucci to the restaurant, telling him all the while what food Sachi would prepare for him that night.

Lucci listened and responded to Luffy. Seeing that Luffy was completely absorbed in the discussion about food, he breathed a sigh of relief. He turned to look at Ace and Sabo who had followed him and suddenly remembered that when Sabo grabbed him during their sparring session, the shape of his fingers seemed a little different.

"Sabo, your fingers seemed to have turned into claw shapes during your sparring just now?" Lucci asked Sabo, looking at him with a puzzled expression.

"Huh? Claws? Did Sabo also eat a Devil Fruit?" Luffy immediately looked at Sabo with curiosity.

"No wonder your grip is so tight, almost as tight as Marco's," Ace said with sudden realization.

“No.” Sabo chuckled, not understanding why they thought he had eaten a Devil Fruit. “That’s not a Devil Fruit. I learned it from the dragon.”

As Sabo explained, he took off his gloves and then made a familiar shape with his fingers to show his brothers, “This is called Dragon Claw.”

Luffy looked eagerly at Sabo's hand, wanting to know what kind of claws his brothers had been discussing.

Lucci and Ace frowned, staring intently at Sabo's hand, which was now quietly maintaining its three-claw shape. Lucci looked on with some confusion, not understanding how Sabo had managed to do it.

Lucci stretched out his hand, trying to bend his fingers into a claw shape like Sabo, but no matter what he did, he couldn't bring his last two fingers together to make the same gesture as Sabo.

"That's impossible!" Ace protested loudly, clearly having tried to imitate Lucci but failing miserably. "Human fingers simply can't bend like that!!"

“I agree!” Lucci immediately nodded and withdrew his hand, which had failed to imitate the pose. “A normal hand couldn’t do that.”

Luffy tilted his head and looked at Sabo's hand, then at his two older brothers who had failed to imitate him. He raised his own hand, mimicking Sabo's dragon claw shape, grinned, and stretched out his successfully imitated hand in front of his brothers, proudly shouting, "I can do it!"

Lucci and Ace were speechless when they saw that Luffy and Sabo had the exact same finger shape.

Sabo burst into laughter, mercilessly mocking his two brothers who had been instantly humiliated by Luffy.

Lucci was the first to react, pressing Luffy's hand down. "Luffy, you're made of rubber, you don't count!"

“That’s right, Luffy can certainly do that since he’s made of rubber, but a normal hand simply can’t do that!” Ace also realized and retorted.

Sabo stopped laughing and protested, panting, "My hand is normal!"

"No, a hand is a hand; it can't change into any other shape," Ace retorted with a snort.

“But Chopper has hands and hooves.” Luffy looked at Ace, puzzled.

Ace was stunned and didn't know how to refute it.

"Luffy, Chopper is..." Lucci was about to retort when he suddenly stopped, because he remembered that Chopper could change forms and that he did indeed have hands and hooves.

Sabo, seeing Lucci suddenly stop mid-sentence, burst into laughter. "Looks like Luffy taught you two a lesson!"

Seeing that Sabo was clearly mocking him, Lucci angrily grabbed Sabo's neck with his arm and said, "Stop laughing, Sabo!"

Ace rolled his eyes, nudged Sabo's shoulder, and then put his arm around Luffy, who was also laughing at his brother's embarrassing situation.

……

Looking at the lush island ahead, Lucci could sense that there were many powerful animals on it, much stronger and more dangerous than the island he had stayed on before. But this also meant that Luffy would become even stronger after training.

At that time, Luffy will be able to fight on equal footing with the powerful pirates of the New World who are on par with the Marine Admirals. He also needs to learn to let go as soon as possible. Although he understands all this, it does not mean that he has to like it.

They've come this far anyway, so it's time to say goodbye.

Since there was no water or wind, they used the Mini Moby's built-in propellers to navigate in the calm zone. Daddy used Conqueror's Haki to repel a large number of Sea Kings, which made their small boat much less dangerous when it went alone.

Because men are forbidden from entering Amazon Lily, only the three of them, Gareth and his companion, were sent to the island.

Luffy sat on the railing, swinging his legs excitedly as he watched the island draw closer. He could sense that there would be many interesting adventures on it, and he couldn't wait to jump onto the island.

Ace and Sabo also looked at the island with some curiosity; it looked quite interesting. Lucci, unusually, showed little interest and remained silent, quietly waiting to land on the island.