Chapter 129 - Vs Jack

Elene and co similarly used 'shave' like Ian to get near their opponents.

With a simple step, they were suddenly in the middle of the huge number of beast pirates.

Most of them were only the so-called pleasures… but there was a fair share of Gifters among them.

Those were the ones giving the minks some trouble, and only due to numbers and having never seen them from before.

Robin and Elene shared a look. Before Robin whispered to her.

"Let's see who can take down more… rules are to not use our devil fruit abilities," Robin said.

And after a bit, Elene agreed.

"Alright. I agree" she said.

Those two always ended up challenging each other. But something common about their challenges is that they always were betting about something.

This time it was no different.

"So what's the wager?" Elene asked.

And hearing her Robin started thinking seriously for a second.

Before finally, she replied.

"The winner gets to be the lady later... And the loser would be the maid of course." She said. And even though she didn't explain it enough Elene would be able to understand.

And Elene started thinking about that before she agreed with a grin.

"Deal!" She said. Then she took out her dual handguns and was going to jump straight into the fighting… but Stella came near them and said.

"I'll join this challenge. However, the wager is between you. I won't take part in that." Stella said.

Bert from the side just shook his head. Before he too said.

"Alright, then I'll join you too. But like Stella, the wager would be between you too." He didn't even understand what the wager was after all.

"Alright then." Elene gave a nod. This meant that even if perhaps Bert was the one with most takedowns if Elene had more than Robin she would win their wager.

But all of a sudden, just when they were about to start, a loud yell that drew everybody to look.

They then noticed Jack transforming again.

Back to Ian. He was watching the transformation happen with patience.

He of course can take out jack right now before he transforms… but then he wouldn't get to show Jack how weak he was even in his strongest form now, could he?

Just thinking about that almost had Ian jump from excitement.

Jack's body enlarged even more than it was before. He was already 830cm tall, but now he reached past the 10m mark. His skin changed to blue and became thicker. His hair fell into two braids on each side of his face. And two long massive tusks sprouted from under a long trunk. His hands retained its fingers although they were thick-skinned too, meanwhile, his legs changed to elephant ones. And his overall body stature became even bulkier.

At this moment, Jack, instead of taking his rather known mammoth form, had taken a more humanoid form.

This transformation left all there shocked. Especially the two rulers. As it essentially meant that just like them Jack too had his own trump card.

So even using the lunar pill might not have been enough.

They were glad they had asked for Ian's help.

Even Ian thought it was a bit cool, to be honest.

Jack connected his fists as he addressed Ian.

"I'll show you your place, Ian Louis." He with an arrogant tone as if he had already won.

Which left Ian perplexed.

'How was he so confident? Didn't he see the events of the war?' Ian asked himself.

Anyone who saw those events would know that Ian was not weak.

Still, he didn't mind it much. He was going to be enjoying destroying him in a bit after all.

Elene and co continued on their part in the fight as soon as Jack had finished transforming. Meanwhile, all the minks Eyes were on Ian.

Jack came rushing at Ian swinging his Shotel blades, covered in Haki since this form of his allowed him to wield them.

His speed for someone that large was quite impressive… however his opponent was Ian so it was not enough.

Still, Ian allowed him to swing his weapon one time after the other trying in vain to hit Ian.

Ian was dodging with ease, none of the hits came even close to touching him, much less injure him.

And notably to all viewers, including Jack, Ian had still not taken his hands out of his pockets.

Jack growing irritated at Ian swung both blades at Ian from different sides but Ian once again easily dodged them leaving Jack to miss hitting him and instead cleave a tree that was in the way.

Ian himself after a bit of probing Jack, and intentionally angering him, felt it was enough for now and started his first attack.

Jack had been following after Ian to continue attacking, but instead of dodging as he did before, Ian went inside of Jack's guard after which he used both hands to push Jack's Shotel wielding arms outwards leaving his mid-section open.

And then capitalizing on that opportunity, using a small amount of force, Ian delivered a punch straight to the stomach of Jack.

"COUGH"

And upon contact jack coughed out blood before he was launched backward wrecking many trees on his way before he finally fell with a 'thud' sound.

The onlookers were shocked out of their minds.

They couldn't fathom how a seemingly normal punch was able to do that much damage.

Meanwhile, the two rulers of the minks, knew what power an emperor of the sea has. Still, even they were quite surprised at the feat Ian had done.

Just as Jack had gotten up to stand staggering on his feet, he felt danger coming and when he raised his eyes he was met with three sharp compressed air blades coming at him.

"Swish"

Hurriedly raising his Shotel blades to guard, Jack tried to push the attack back as soon as it hit but he was instead pushed backward.

Then in great anger at being easily out donned by Ian, Jack used all his power to redirect the air blades towards the sky.

"OHHHHH" And with a mighty roar, he finally succeeded in redirecting them.

After which he stood there breathing roughly.

He was starting to regret engaging Ian. And angering him at that… the guy had after all casually punched him, and then sent air blades at him using his 'arms'…

Just seemingly weak attacks, but the fact that Jack was barely standing said otherwise. Jack looked at Ian in regret, fear, but also anger.

However the emotion of anger always wins over other emotions, and the fact that Ian was younger but still much stronger than him was pissing him off.

And then he heard Ian speak.

"I'm still waiting for you to show me my place… or perhaps that earlier love tap of mine was too much for you?" Ian's taunting words grated on his nerves and were the switch that had Jack overcome his feeling of regret and fear.

With a yell, he used all he had to lunge at him both weapons ready to dissect him to pieces…

If only it was that easy.

Using speed that no one can keep up with from the viewers, Ian moved closer to Jack and delivered chops to both shoulders which lead to Jack's knees giving in, and his hands to let go of the Shotles.

"After all that talk you gave me… you couldn't even amount to anything…" Ian said as he shook his head.

Jack still not giving up tried to stand and barely managed to do so.

He then used his Haki to coat his right arm and swung it at Ian who was watching with amus.e.m.e.nt.

Instead of shying from the attack raised his left arm to guard against it before he spun on his left leg to the side and with his right arm delivered a punch straight at the right elbow of Jack.

Which, of course, had broken it immediately.

"AHHHHHHH" Jack yelled out as he brought his hand and grabbed it with his left.

The great pain he was in had him revert to his human form.

His eyes were filled with terror as he finally managed to understand that he was at the mercy of his enemy.

He looked at Ian in fear before he tried to run. Not sparing a second to say anything to his crew.

He spun on his heels and started running from Ian foolishly leaving his back open to Ian.

And since Ian had no intention to let him leave, he cut the short distance between them using a 'shave' before he unsheathed his sword and abruptly plunged it straight through Jack's back and into his chest.

"COUGH-COUGH" Jack started coughing blood as his eyes took in the sword appearing from his chest.

"Didn't I tell you earlier, that if you wanted to stay alive you had better leave this island?" Ian asked him softly.

"COUGH"

"You can't say I didn't warn you. Well, I wasn't going to let you leave even if you tried, but that's another thing. You see, Jack, someone like you doesn't deserve to live. You bring pain to the world simply by existing. You revel in destruction… I can't let someone like that exist. Just like how you kill innocent people, I kill people like you." Ian said. And it was true. Although he won't go out of his way to search for these evil people. But if he met them, he wouldn't let them live.

And with that Ian channeled his electricity through the sword and effectively cooked all his internal organs.

And just like that, Jack the drought, was dead.

[A/N: I have a question. Does jack play an important role in the last one-piece episodes?]