Chapter 30 - 15 steps!

Ian looked at his now wrecked shirt but did not take it off. That was so that he would not expose another secret of his in front of master Rey…All things considered he was trying to stay low-key, while at the same time giving a bit of respect to Master Rey. Using the six powers is already enough.

And he did not want his strength to be found out this early by the marines and world government. Besides he could not imagine the shock that would result when they announce that this "new" pirate, is as strong as admirals from the very first fight he has. In case he had got some companions, he did not want them to live in the threat of always running from an admiral. And he could not protect them forever.

Through the actions this time, Ian found Master Rey to be an honorable person. As such he did not want to disrespect such a person by instantly KO'ing him in one move. Rather he had chosen to fight him in the area he specializes in. The marines' six skills.

After patting the dust away from his self, he used 'shave' and started the fight again, but this time he was the one on the offensive with Master Rey was only keeping his guard up to defend.

All of the techniques they had mastered were flying about. From flying finger gun, tempest kicks, paper art, iron body, moonwalk, six king gun, and shave. Only the difference is, that the power they used them with was one so huge it left shockwaves and destroyed buildings in its wake.

They have now been fighting for 20min with Ian enjoying the fight, and Master Rey, getting increasingly frustrated. He had been trying to beat Ian, with no success. And what made him even more frustrated is that Ian had the same look about him ever since he started the fight, he was not even breathing heavily. Besides the tearing marks, and the big hole in his shirt's chest area, there was no sign of injuries, or even shallow scratches on his skin.

And Master Rey was sure he had landed quite the amount of hits on him. But they all did nothing. Meanwhile he had quite the number of injuries, mostly internal, due to the ease with which Ian used 'six king gun', and most importantly his stamina was getting consumed by the minute. And even more when he uses the 'six king gun' skill himself. By now he was already breathing heavily. And his speed was starting to decrease. He had no trump card to play. The one he had, Ian proved to be a better master of it than him. Asides from playing dirty and targeting Robin sneakily, there was nothing he could do.

'However, even if things are dire, I am not that low of a person. I refuse to do it. Such a thing is no better than the low class pirates' Master Rey thought inside his mind. He had always been a rightful person. Such cheap tricks were not befitting of someone like him.

'It appears that I was the one who underestimated this young man by thinking I was stronger' master Rey thought bitterly inside his head. He thought that with his strength he could bring him down, and perhaps get him to join the government after. He even had the thought that with time he may be able to reach a much higher position than him… Alas this young man was stronger than him, and apparently by a huge difference… as along the fight, no matter how hard he tried by attacking Ian, he could not get him to be more serious.

But soon a huge explosion sound, brought Master Rey out from his erratic thoughts.

When all three of them that were there on the courthouse turned to look, they found a massive giant arm protruding from a building. And the one getting hit by this enormous punch was none other than Rob Lucci who was in his transformed Leopard form. He had his eyes rolled out to the back of his head, and from his body one could see that he was injured badly.

'It appears Luffy is close to finish his fight' Ian thought, as he knew whose arm was that. Still seeing it in reality, was an amazing thing.

Ian then turned back towards Master Rey and said, after thinking things through.

"Looks like the other fights are almost done too. It's a shame, I wanted to enjoy the fight a bit more. But now I have to be a bit more serious and end this quickly." Ian said, as he looked at master Rey regretfully.

He was enjoying this fight that revolved around physical strength, speed, and close quarters combat. It was a good experience for him, as he only ever fought against his father. But since the other fights were getting finished already, he had to get it done too. He did not count Enel as he had practically destroyed him easily.

So when Ian used 'Shave' this time he kicked the ground 15 times, which is higher than normal. Much higher.

10 steps, were generally the number of steps almost all people of this world were capable of, with the exception of very few people. Ian was one of them. Even Master Rey was only capable of 10 steps. Each step after the tenth would generally be extremely painful and would hurt your legs. As such not many pursed this path. But Ian had his high regeneration, which made it possible for him to reach even the 15 step while he was still in the island, but now after many body upgrades, he was sure he could pass 20 steps easily.

The speed that Ian launched with was almost triple that of before. Master Rey could not even see him move before he was punched to the gut, releasing all the air he held in his lungs, and shortly thereafter he lost consciousness before his form reverted to his human one. Ian was able to see the shock on master Rey's face before his eyes closed.

It appeared that he did not believe in what had just happened or more like could not accept it. Which was understandable.

His form granted him an unmatchable speed normally, and adding to it the mastery of 'shave'… one could understand why he was shocked when he could not even see Ian move.

Ian held his body to prevent him from falling to the ground and put him to the ground gently. Then he searched his body, and found what he was looking for. Seastone handcuffs. He bound master Rey's hands with it. Internally, he had a bit of anticipation for the bounty that will be issued about him. After all getting bounties is perhaps the dream of every one piece fan.

Now that only him and Robin that were there, he didn't have to keep hiding stuff. After all he was not afraid of showing his strength and abilities, it was just that he wanted to be in control of what information was known about him.

He then took his shirt off, leaving only his pants on.

Robin unlike what he thought as he started changing, only gave a small smile as she looked him up openly she found that he had a good robust figure, not burly, but lean, with extremely chiseled muscles and an 8 pack abs. She gave him a thumps up as she said.

"You must have worked out a lot, to get such a good form" she said.

Ian gave a nod and took a shirt from his ring before he wore it. It was similar to the last one he was wearing. He had many of them made in his home island. And many other shirts he bought along his journey through the islands. Besides her eyebrows raising a bit, Robin had no other change. She probably thought now was not the time to ask him questions.

Once he did so, he took his royal cape back from Robin and fixed it on.

Robin who has been waiting for him to finish, finally spoke.

"How are they now? Are they hurt?" she said. Even if it was not believable to anyone, that a person could sense things from such a distance away, to Robin, she had chosen to trust in his words. After all so far he did not lie to her ever.

Ian closed his eyes, and took his surroundings for a few seconds.

He noticed that all of the fights were now done and all the crew were making their way out of the building, except Luffy who could not move even an inch.

"All of them are fine, except the captain. He is extremely hurt, so much that he can't even move. However on the other side he had won, and won against an opponent so strong above him, I would have believed it if he even got killed by him. But it appears that he is a miracles maker" Ian said with a hint of admiration in his tone. And he was not faking it. Normally one would be certain of Luffy's defeat. But he was extremely tenacious and wouldn't stay down no matter what. It was worthy of admiration.

Robin gave a nod. But her eyes held a gentle light to them. She was truly grateful to all of them. The dangers they had went to for her were enough for her to see them as her family, there was no way she wouldn't be scared and ask if they are okay.