"Plunder!" Lu En's gaze sharpened as he looked at Kuro.
"Buzz!" A purple light, visible only to Lu En, flew out from Kuro's body and was obtained by Lu En.
"Plunder successful! Obtained special move 'Soru' (Deep Purple) entry."
And the next moment, "Gurgle! Gurgle!" The unconscious Kuro's muscles began to strangely contort, then, like a deflating balloon, he lost all strength. As Lu En plundered his strength-based entry, the plundered individual would lose all their power.
"What's wrong with him? He's so strange." Nami felt a chill in her heart as she watched this scene.
"Got something from him." Lu En said with a faint smile. "Wake him up, Usopp." Lu En looked at Usopp.
"Huh? Okay." Usopp paused, then ran towards the unconscious Kuro. "Wake up! The ground's cold, don't catch a cold." Although Usopp sounded concerned, he wasn't gentle at all. Badmouthing his father was what Usopp couldn't tolerate the most. Under Usopp's prodding, Kuro slowly woke up.
"Klahadore, are you alright?" Kaya still found it hard to believe that the butler who had taken care of her for three years was a pirate.
"Are you awake? 'Hundred Plans' Kuro. No, even if you admit you're 'Hundred Plans' Kuro now, you wouldn't be able to do it, would you?" Lu En looked at Kuro, smiling faintly.
"That, what power, huh?!" Kuro was still stunned by the shock of Conqueror's Haki. Then he shook his head fiercely, and his pupils suddenly constricted. "My, my power, I..." Kuro looked at his hands in disbelief, then tried hard to stand up, but his legs gave out, and he fell to the ground.
"It's normal to temporarily lose control of a frail body after losing power. Relax." Lu En showed a villainous expression.
"You, what did you do to me?!" Kuro completely lost his composure for the first time, roaring at Lu En.
"'Hundred Plans' Kuro, bounty 16,000,000 Berries. His most unique combat style is the so-called 'Silent Walk.' An assassination technique using high-speed, cat-like movements." Lu En said, demonstrating Silent Walk as he spoke. Although he had directly plundered Soru (Deep Purple), performing Silent Walk separately was naturally also possible.
"My, my Silent Walk..." Cold sweat beaded on Kuro's forehead. His power, was it taken away?!
"Sugoi, so fast! Were you always this fast, Lu En?" Luffy's eyes widened.
"What did you do?! Give me back my power!" Kuro, no longer caring about hiding his identity, roared hysterically at Lu En. Without his power, let alone peacefully inheriting the fortune and living, tomorrow would be his death day! In his plan, the Black Cat Pirates were supposed to arrive tomorrow, massacre everyone here,
and then have Kaya write a will leaving all her possessions to him. And as the former captain of the Black Cat Pirates, Kuro knew the personalities of those scoundrels in that pirate crew too well. Many of them wouldn't respect him, their former captain who had disappeared for three years and assumed a new identity.
He had based his confidence in this plan on possessing immense power. But now that he had lost his power, those guys from the Black Cat Pirates would probably try to kill him first.
"You really are 'Hundred Plans' Kuro!" Seeing Kuro's hysterical admission, Usopp immediately tensed up.
"How could this be...?" Kaya covered her mouth, looking at Kuro in disbelief. But the truth was right in front of her. Kaya was kind, but not truly naive. In the current situation, Kaya naturally understood. Klahadore was indeed that great pirate, 'Hundred Plans' Kuro.
"Don't worry, Usopp. All his power has been taken by me. Even you can easily take him down now," Lu En scoffed, looking at Kuro. To be able to develop a skill similar to "Soru" of the "Six Powers" in the East Blue, Kuro's talent was actually quite good.
However, because he was tired of being hunted by Marines and bounty hunters, he chose to fake his death and live under a new identity. Not only that, he even infiltrated this place and became a butler for three years, intending to rightfully inherit Kaya's family fortune and live a peaceful life. Such hypocritical behavior was utterly disgraceful.
"So amazing, Lu En, you can even take away other people's powers? Is it a Devil Fruit ability?" Luffy looked at Lu En in surprise.
"No, this is my innate ability, unrelated to Devil Fruits." Lu En didn't intend to hide his ability. Not only because he spent day and night with Luffy and the others, and even if he tried to hide it, he wouldn't be able to, and it might even cause a rift and slow down the progress of loading entries from Luffy and the others.
More importantly, under the Haki power system, intentionally hiding one's abilities and acting weak to ambush strong opponents could truly turn one into a weakling. For example, Blackbeard, who was hidden in the Whitebeard Pirates, if he hadn't encountered the Dark-Dark Fruit, he would have truly become a parasitic pig, having already started to think that spending his old age on Whitebeard's ship wasn't so bad, due to constantly shrinking his capacity from hiding his strength.
Furthermore, sometimes, exposed combat power information is not a weakness, but a terrifying deterrent! Only by being able to display more terrifying abilities, widely renowned across the sea, can one gain a stronger reputation, possess greater capacity, and forge even stronger Haki within oneself.
Coupled with Luffy's powerful network, he wouldn't encounter pirates and Marines he couldn't handle anyway. If he were to greatly conceal his ability to plunder others' power, how could he talk about reaching the capacity to stand at the top?
Besides, Lu En wouldn't go around the world promoting his ability. The capacity of a king and foolishness were two different things. The ability Lu En displayed was merely the surface of Lu En's true power, seen by others. By the time Lu En voluntarily revealed more of his combat power information as a deterrent to raise his reputation, Lu En would have already become a peak powerhouse in this world.
At that time, the combat power information Lu En actively revealed would be the most powerful deterrent to the sea, and it would also forge Lu En's stronger Haki. Just like the current Yonko, who among the true powerhouses of this sea doesn't know their combat power information? Yet, how many dare to challenge a Yonko? Instead, that formidable reputation makes the Yonko's Haki even stronger! Such duels between peak powerhouses ultimately still depended on Haki. What did knowing information matter? Haki! It could transcend everything!
Lu En, possessing the "Born of the Sea (Super Gold)" entry, had absolute confidence.
"You're really terrifying, Lu En." Directly taking away others' power, such an incredible ability, even Zoro felt a chill. Fortunately, Lu En was their companion.
"Convert." Lu En gave the command at this moment. After displaying his power and proving Kuro's identity, this uncontrollable attack method was useless to Lu En. It was better to use it to strengthen existing entries.
"Conversion successful! Obtained 1 strength-based Deep Purple-level entry." A line of light screen appeared.
"It's over, Kuro." Lu En looked at Kuro, a villainous expression on his face.
"Wait, wait! I have something to say!" Kuro looked at Lu En, who was walking towards him, filled with terror. At this moment, Kuro was like a stray dog! He had been stripped of everything by this man!
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