One Piece: It's always been you

Chapter 107 A Defeat for Both Sides?!

"Hahahaha, as expected, your strength is only so-so now. That person wasn't lying to me." The Dark-Dark Fruit user laughed wildly, spreading his arms wide with an air of absolute confidence. "Kill you, obtain your power, and I will be invincible!"

He actually knew about my abilities!

Yu now understands why this person found her: it was because of her abilities. Who told him? Doflamingo? Kaido? Or did she discover it herself?

"Acquire my power? You're kidding me. You're a Dark-Dark Fruit user. If you acquire another fruit, aren't you afraid of dying instantly?" All special powers are attributed to Devil Fruits. Since he's already a Devil Fruit user, he naturally knows that a person can only possess one Devil Fruit power.

"Threatening me?"

The man in front of him laughed even more wildly, "Most people can only use one Devil Fruit ability, but I'm different, I can use more than one!"

"Break!"

The air seemed tangible; with a few punches from the person in front of him, visible cracks appeared, and the entire ground began to shake.

Yu was already off balance due to the repeated attacks, and this air tremor made things even worse for her. She could only crouch down to lower her center of gravity and stabilize herself.

Seeing Yu's pathetic state, the Dark-Dark Fruit user was in a good mood. "How pathetic! This is how you treated me. Now it's finally my turn!"

"Don't get too cocky."

Although he didn't know what the man was saying, Yu would never let him continue his attacks, and Yu would never let anything happen to him here! His brother's revenge was still unavenged, he didn't know what was happening to Katakuri, and there was also his grandfather. Yu would never let his grandfather lose any more loved ones.

"Trying to steal my abilities? You'd better see if you have the skill." Yu, crouching down, casually touched the ground with her palm. "Thorn Blast!"

The ground shook and cracked open, revealing thorns that spread and grew wildly beneath the earth, rising up towards the location of the Dark-Dark Fruit user. The person seemed to have anticipated this, leaping aside and mimicking Yu's movement, slamming their palm into the ground, "Dark Pressure Point."

The ground was once again shrouded in darkness, and the thorns released by You came into contact with the darkness of the dark acupoints and were compressed and crushed in an instant.

The thorns were pulverized so quickly that Yu herself didn't have time to react, and the ground beneath her feet turned into darkness, which flowed like seawater.

Yu felt her body sinking rapidly. Without support, all her struggles were in vain.

"Ugh."

With her neck gripped, Yu struggled to pry open the ability user holding her. Her feet were trapped in hidden pressure points, preventing her from launching a sneak attack. Yu felt the air growing increasingly scarce, and she was struggling to breathe.

That's it, I can't use my abilities anymore.

The ability user's hands touched him; now there was no escape.

"Hahaha, your abilities are finally going to be mine!"

Blood trickled from the corner of Yu's mouth, and her limbs grew weaker and weaker due to difficulty breathing. But her eyes remained fixed on the ability user, unwilling to die here like this.

Let's take a gamble and risk everything!

Seawater is the nemesis of all Devil Fruit users! Her abilities are no less powerful than those of the Dark-Dark Fruit!

"Tides".

The air tremors from the shattering had ended, but the ground shook again, and the shaking of the entire island this time was no less intense than that caused by the shattering.

Not far from the coast, the two could already feel the sound of the sea crashing against the shore, wave after wave, each one higher than the last.

The surging seawater swept ashore, its waves crashing like a ferocious beast with its jaws wide open, baring its fangs and claws as it charged forward.

"If you want my abilities, then you'd better take them!"

The ability user stared at Yu in shock, never expecting that she could still use her abilities!

He wanted to let go and escape, but it was too late. This time, it was You's turn to hold on to him tightly, determined to die with him.

At the same time, the waves came and swallowed the two of them.

This side of the island, which was originally a forest, was instantly submerged by the sea, and all the vegetation was submerged. After a long time, the waves receded, and the ground was damp.

The user of the Dark-Dark Fruit lay on his back, motionless, as if unconscious.

Yu's situation wasn't much better. The seawater swept the two of them away, but the fruit's power didn't disappear so quickly, and she was still affected by it.

Regardless, controlling seawater is an innate ability of Yu, and even if she were to be swept up in it, the damage she would suffer would not be as great as that of an average person.

Yu stood up shakily, and after catching her breath, the ability user who had been lying flat on his back turned over and lay prone on the ground.

"Entangle." You dared not and could not give this ability user any chance. Moreover, just in case, the seawater in the ground was also controlled to wrap around the vines, thus imprisoning the ability user together.

The user's injuries weren't too serious, but being a user, he appeared powerless. Furthermore, bound by vines encased in seawater, he had no strength left to retaliate.

Yu stood a meter away from him, her vine-like swords pointing directly at the ability user's heart. "You seem to know me. Tell me, how do you know my abilities? And who is this person you're talking about?"

"Of course I know you. I also know you can control plants and seawater. I came here specifically to obtain your abilities." The ability user's eyes did not show any weakness despite failing to capture you. "Unfortunately, I didn't understand you thoroughly enough. Otherwise, how would you have had the chance?"

Ha, not understanding thoroughly enough, that's a good excuse, but it's just making excuses for yourself. "You probably don't have the ability to fully understand my capabilities."

He once said that his current strength is just average, which means that the version of himself he encountered before was very powerful.

After much thought, I can only conclude that it's in the future, but such a conjecture is a bit too far-fetched.

However, considering that he himself might not even be from this world, and that he was merely traveling through a different time and space, it didn't seem so unreasonable after all.

"It's better if users of the Dark-Dark Fruit don't exist in this world." Yu had no intention of sparing his life.

To spare someone who traveled through time to kill her would be tantamount to having too long a life of their own. It's utterly ridiculous. She, You, would never leave such a huge threat alive.

"Hahaha, you think you can kill me so easily? We'll meet again!" The ability user regained his arrogant aura. "Dark Star!"

A massive, dark sphere, resembling a black hole, swooped down towards You in mid-air.

The sphere's immense size completely shrouded Yu in shadow, blocking out the sun's light. Previously, she had used seawater to engulf the Dark-Dark Fruit user, but now the roles had reversed.

Turning his gaze away from the sphere above, he found the ability user had vanished. He was gone!

But she doesn't have the energy to think ahead; dodging this sphere's attack is extremely difficult. Just throwing it away takes time, and by then, the sphere will have already hit her!

Driven by instinct, Yu took off running in the direction of the shortest escape route, while simultaneously controlling the growth of thorns to form a protective encirclement behind her.

The sphere landed, spewing out gray-black smoke in all directions. A huge crater was punched into the ground, and the forest was no longer what it used to be, with a large empty area scorched by the aftershocks.

Yu disappeared into the smoke, leaving no trace.

Meanwhile, the frequency of the crystals that Yu You and Yu You were sensing each other reached an unprecedented number of times.

The wearer of the crystal necklace also reached an unprecedented level of anger.

Katakuri had only one thought: to kill the group of marines in front of him with the Earth Dragon's blade!