One Piece: Gambling To The Top

The battle had gone on for an hour, with Enel being fully alert, not wanting to approach Josh, and just spamming lightning with high voltage on him. There had been moments when Enel was caught off guard, getting his shoulder pierced by one lightning bolt.

The mortal has made Enel puzzled somehow. Instead of getting weaker, his opponent was getting stronger and stronger. Enel, however, assured himself that it's the animal instinct in Josh that made him stronger. But all animals do that before they just die.

Enel had a smirk. Josh looked miserable, and he hadn't used his Zoan form.

'Looking at him, I guess that one more hit would be enough to kill him.' Enel smirk turned into a crazy smile as he turned to lightning and headed 2000 meters high in the sky. He then looked at the ground. Most of the forest was in a bad condition. Enel decided that after this strike, he would go down and see the other hot chicks. They may be a good addition to his collection, who knows.

"Prepare, I'll burn you to ashes this time." Enel decided to show no mercy and to kill josh and leave nothing of him.

Striking someone would usually rend them unconscious or dead. But if he kept pouring lightning on them, they would burn.

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Josh was looking at the sky, his eyes closed.

"Tic-tac. Tic-tac. Tic Tac." He was muttering so fast.

Enel waved his hand, and Josh barely moved. Before he could even complete the word he is muttering, the lightning surrounded him. It kept striking him, and he turned into ashes.

Josh, all of the sudden, opened his eyes widely, seeing Enel heading to the sky.

'I just saw myself dying.' Josh thought as he saw Enel lifting his hand. 'I just saw the future.'

'Tic tac… tic tac…'

Josh's brain was repeating the ticking sound, while he was looking at Enel.

He knew that Enel would strike 1 second later.

In this, case, 0.5 seconds later would be the right time to move.

"Die!" Screamed Enel as waved his hand down, a huge lightning beam descended on Josh. The lightning's flash filled the area with light. When the vision was available again, Enel smiled as he looked down.

To his surprise, next to the hole, Josh was standing, healthy and alive.

"You!" Enel landed on the tree and stared in disbelief at Josh.

Josh made a shit-eating grin as he made eye contact with Enel. "Your time is over. Time to repay you for what you have done. Most of my sperm are dead now." Josh muttered. "Well, for my future children, you have to pay the price."

Josh was feeling like a superman now. After all of that pain he got from lightning, all of those burned internal organs, Josh's Berserk Constitution made him way stronger than he was at the start of the battle.

"You must be bluffing," Enel smirked as his breathing rate started to calm down.

"You wish."

Josh jumped toward Enel, surprising the latter with his forwardness.

Enel couldn't comprehend how Josh is approaching him like that.

Nevertheless, Josh had offered himself on a plate of silver.

Extending his hand, Enel shot a lightning beam. Josh used Moonwalk and shave, just a part of a second before Enel could aim, and he dodged the lightning beam, heading with a higher speed.

Enel was surprised as Josh appeared in front of him. He was so fast that it caught him off guard. Quickly, Enel turned into lightning and escaped.

"Here you are." Josh, turned his head to 7 O'Clock direction, crossed his arms, and waved them, sending tens of sharp air blades from his fingers.

When the air blades were about to reach the ground, Enel appeared on the aim spot.

"What!" Enel screamed, feeling a great pain coming from his chest. As he lowered his head, he saw many injuries appearing on his chest, and blood splashed out all of them.

*Tzzz*

Clenching his teeth, Enel ran lightning through the wounds, burning them and stopping himself from bleeding. He, however, couldn't deny the damage that came from it.

When Enel stared forward, he saw Josh landing on the ground before he started walking toward him.

"What are you… Devil…" Enel clenched his teeth. He couldn't believe that not only Josh could avoid his lightning, but he also had predicted his direction and had injured him, despite the fact Enel was keeping a safe distance.

Enel thought quickly. Should he escape? If he did, then no one would be able to catch up to him.

But this is unacceptable. Enel was the king of this land. He was the god who toys with his victims, some time spares them so he can play with them. Now, the demon is here, and he is mocking him.

"Don't mock me!" Enel screamed. The drums on his back shone in blue before different lightning attacks with different shapes and high voltages headed toward Josh.

Josh figure blurred, turning into afterimages that appeared between the lightning beams. Enel could only watch the afterimages. Despite being as fast as lightning, his senses aren't able to keep up.

Josh vanished completely from the sight.

Enel was left confused, and he turned his head to left and right.

"Behind you."

Came a scary voice.

Enel quickly spans and extended his hand, which was covered in lightning.

"Behind you, again."

Enel opened his eyes widely, a cold break of sweat appeared on his face. He was afraid of what he couldn't see, and he found that he has no choice but to escape. When he changed his nature to lighting to escape, Enel appeared high in the sky, and he looked at the ground. He couldn't see Josh at any place.

All of the sudden, Josh appeared in front of him, his hands on Enel's chest.

His hands were surrounded by an invisible sphere. It seemed like some sort of shockwave.

"Six King Gun."

With this declaration from Josh, the sphere in his hand exploded, unleashing a big shockwave toward Enel.

Josh had tasted this move from Lucci in the past. If you are not a rubber man, then your body would absorb the shockwave, and all of your internal organs would be destroyed.

Josh had tasted the pain of this technique. No matter how strong you are, your internal organs aren't as tough as your muscles, and Six King Gun can ignore your physical defences.

A huge amount of blood flew out of Enel's mouth, his eyelids going backwards. Enel fell on Josh's shoulder, unconscious. Josh only patted the back of his head and landed on the ground gently with Enel.

Josh sighed as he heard the notification.

[Gamble is completed]

[The rewards are transferred to the host.]

Josh smiled as he heard the notification. He then touched Enel and sighed to see that he was still alive.

"Good, he is alive…"

Josh needed Enel to be alive since he hadn't brought any fruit with him.

However, he had something else, a better thing to take Devil Fruits out of their hosts. Josh opened his storage and looked at one item.

[Devil Spirit Vessel (Legend)]

"Josh!" Josh heard a voice calling him.

"Oh, Hancock, Kalifa, come here."

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