Booth the king and the queen opened their eyes in amazement, but the queen quickly asked.
"Wifes and 5 of them? Do they get along?"
Ars smiled and nodded, before replying gently.
"Yes and they get along pretty well."
After a few minutes of talking they heard a knock on the door. And the king swiftly said.
"Come in!"
The butler entered and quickly put the snacks and beverages in front of them.
"I wasn't sure what your majesty Ars would like, so i brought the same as last time, for the queen i brought, her new favorite pastry, orange chocolate cookies and tea and finally for the king I brought tea and a sandwich."
They all nodded happily. They kept talking for a bit longer and after a while Ars prepared himself to go back to his walk. When he was leaving the queen made a request to Ars.
"Next time you come to visit, bring at least one of your wifes, ok?"
Ars laughed, and replied calmly.
"Maybe… We will see."
While he was leaving he recognized a ship that was just arriving, it was a ship from the Big Mom pirates. He could see someone already ready to disembark. He did recognize her, it was Charlotte Flampe, he observed her quietly a bit curious if she was alone, but suddenly he felt that someone had locked in on him, he looked at the source and saw Katakuri looking at him.
Ars smiled back at him, Katakuri just thought that Ars was curious about seeing such a young girl on a pirate ship and decided to ignore him.
Ars after a few more seconds, searched for an isolated place and took flight once more, but unlike the usual solo flight, after flying for a while, he found someone else flying. At first Ars identified the person as King from Kaido's crew, but the longer he looked at this man the longer he thought he might be wrong.
Normally, King always wore his mask, and this individual seemed younger than King, but quite similar looking. Ars decided to follow, and soon reached an island that normally had no people other than the occasional pirate, but today a world government ship was here and there was a loud commotion from the middle of the island.
Ars instantly started using his observation haki at his maximum power and the man he was following rushed towards the commotion.
Ars on the other hand went towards the ship and started inspecting his new goods, most of the things here not that useful, and he already had them but it was always a good thing to have extras. He was nonetheless a bit disappointed, there was nothing that good to take, the best he got was a sword that he wasn't sure if it was famous or not.
But he knew it wasn't as good as the one his blacksmiths made specifically for him and not even as good as the weapons being produced for everyone else, made with the new metal alloy. Though it was still above average.
Done with inspecting the goods, he moved towards the commotion, where he found 3 lunarians slowly losing ground to a large group of Cp agents. The agents weren't that strong in Ars eyes, but appeared to be strong enough to oppress the 3 lunarians.
The lunarians had 1 adult male, 1 adult female and 1 young boy. They were fighting desperately trying to find an opening to escape, but their enemies were slowly wearing them down and leaving no openings.
Ars decided to help them, he already had hidden his identity previously and he didn't intend on leaving survivors anyway.
Ars quickly attacked one of the Cp agents, but the man dodged quite easily, Ars quickly identified the attackers with the new information.
"Observation haki… Cp agents, wonder which number… This is gonna be interesting."
Ars swung his sword again, the man dodged easily but Ars predicted his dodge and kicked him into another Cp agent who dodged but started targeting Ars instead, he wasn't the only one, seeing that one Cp agent wasn't enough, another 3 joined the fight against Ars.
Now on a 4 v 1, Ars noticed he could go all out, but at the same time he decided not to, or this would be over too fast, unless there was someone stronger than expected. Ars went on the attack again, much to the surprise of the agents, they had expected him to get defensive in this situation, thinking they could buy time to get an easy win if they delayed until the others finished with the lunarians.
Ars went for a stab, and his target jumped back out of range, the other 3 quickly attacked by stabbing the place where Ars was, Ars intended to to jump but at the last second he ducked instead, when the agents noticed Ars movement changed and reacted, he was already in the middle of attacking one of them, using both his self created martial art and his ability to repel at full force, he attacked the Cp agent head and hammered it on the ground, ending this enemy instantly.
The others hesitated when they saw how quickly Ars dispatched one of them but then the one who had dodged previously, tried to use a sword, Ars wasn't exactly sure if he just found it, but he wasn't that good with it. Ars dodged the sword, but was greeted with a rankyaku waiting for him, he quickly coated the area of contact with his armament haki and dodged back.
He looked down and noticed his clothes were now damaged.
"Tch… My clothes… They will definitely complain about this…"
Ars was thinking about the earful he was going to receive from his wives, when his observation haki picked up someone trying to ambush him from behind, he did a backflip over the attacker and in the middle of the backflip he grabbed the enemy head and pulled the enemy in the air right above him. The moment his feet reached the ground he quickly started a rankyaku himself in the direction of the head of the enemy spinning in the air above him.
The enemy did not manage to dodge and fell on the ground, Ars smiled, lifted 2 fingers and coldly said with a smile.
"2 gone and few more to go, but don't worry you won't need to worry soon enough!"
The one sent flying came back and joined the 2, seeing this situation they prepared themselves to start attacking once more, they split in 3 directions and forced Ars to stay in the middle, or so they believed. The main attacker forced Ars to jump back and commented.
"Got you."
But in the middle of the jump Ars used geppo to adjust his position and rolled his body between the blades of the other 2 who attacked from behind, but he wasn't done, while spinning he grabbed the blunt side of the blades and forcefully pulled the enemies towards him, and redirected the blades into the 2 enemies, causing them to stab each other, but that didn't kill them fast enough, so Ars grabbed their necks and used his fire creation skill to make flaming gloves and burned their necks off into cinders.
The man saw this and knew he wasn't a match for Ars 1v1 so he requested help from some of the others who were still attacking the 3 lunatians.
"This opponent is stronger than expected, we need to nullify him first."
The 3 lunarians had been exhausted and were slowly losing, getting more and more injured as time went on. Originally there were 25 Cp agents attacking the adult male that Ars followed, 20 on the female and 6 on the young boy. The agents probably had orders to capture them alive. But were unexpectedly discovered by this male who wanted to help them, but there were still too many enemies and he was having difficulties himself now.
So when they saw Ars coming and attacking their enemies they were slightly hopeful but did not believe they would make it out, but now Ars had gotten rid of 4 enemies and his other enemy was asking for reinforcements and that meant some relief from the pressure they were feeling. While they were still getting wrecked, at least it was slower than before.
Seven people came to help Ars enemy, Ars smiled cruelly, licked his lips and said with a provocative tone.
"Four and a few more to go, maybe if you grannies could move properly, you could stand a chance but…"
He looked at his 8 enemies and scoffed. The first enemy he attacked when he arrived realized something and commented angrily.
"You're having fun… Do you have any idea who you are opposing here?"
Ars looked at him and laughed out loud before declaring confidently.
"You're god damn right, I am having fun!! I am having fun and I don't give a damn who I am opposing. And do you know who I am!? Exactly! what can you do even if you managed to push me out… You can't do anything to me!"
They got angry and attacked, Ars was still managing to dodge but he was now finding attacking without getting hit annoyingly hard. But then he smiled and decided to make full use of all of his abilities.
Until now he was only playing and relying on his physical body besides using his skills and martial arts sparsely, now Ars decided to make full use of all his abilities.
He clenched his fists and started using his seismic first and instead of just dodging and trying to go for blows in the enemies bodies and heads for a quick conclusion, he started targeting their limbs while focusing on dodging. At first the enemy just felt the blows, but they weren't strong enough to break their defenses through tekkai and armament haki, so they kinda ignored the hits.
One of them even made fun of Ars.
"You hit like a little girl and at this rate you're going to die begging! Where is the overconfident fool from before!?"
Ars just smirked and made his original opponent shiver, he knew Ars was planning something, he just didn't know what.
But with no choice they kept attacking Ars, but not even one minute later something happened, Ars attacked the limbs like he did before but this time there was a large cracking sound.
When they looked at the source they realized one of their companions was clenching his teeth and grabbing his arm. That man quickly informed the others.
"Be careful, he is using some sort of technique on his punches and each strike makes bones take damage that increases over time."
They now understood what Ars was doing but had no way to stop him. One of them shouted.
"Don't let him hit the places he previously hit."
Ars just kept smiling, they were slowly realizing the terror of his self created technique, but didn't yet grasp one last point.
They were now avoiding Ars attacks like they were the plague, but that just left more time for Ars to attack heavily.
For a few more seconds they managed to dodge and fight back, but suddenly when someone dodged and one of their legs broke, they realized at this moment that from the first few hits until now they had been fighting a fight against time. Like with poison the hits left a residual energy that kept damaging their bones even if they weren't hit again.
Even Ars only knew one way to dispel the effect… And it was standing still for around an hour.
While they were distracted feeling horrified, Ars ambushed one and punched him in the sternum full power.
The sternum broke into pieces, like glass, but it wasn't just the sternum, the places where Ars had hit all exploded sending small bones flying everywhere.
It was at this moment they realized how dangerous Ars technique was. If they rushed they would get light taps that accumulated and amplified damage over time, if they played it slowly one good hit would cause the latent energy to explode, causing massive damage and it was over for them.
They also realized that even if they coated their bodies with armament haki, as long as Ars landed a hit even with no technique, just using brute strength was enough to hurt them.
One of them quickly shouted for more help.
"We need to prioritize this one! Or we all die here!"
The ones attacking the lunarians were shocked that this enemy was so dangerous that even 8 couldn't handle him.
Some of them nodded to each other and went to help. Ars was now facing 23 people at the same time.
One of the 7 that were fighting Ars shouted afraid.
"Don't even let him touch you, any hit he does can be stupidly destructive, even light blows with basically no damage received causes damage over time."
They all nodded, but looking at Ars relaxed self his original opponent had the shivers… He didnt know what but Ars was still amusing himself playing with them, like they were toys and he wasn't afraid at all. He had a really bad feeling, and said.
"Be very careful he is planning something…"