Journey to One Piece

287. I can see future and it’s not bright

"Punisher Kenny.. Why are you here?" Law looked pissed as he asked that. Well, he always looked pissed to be honest so that was his normal reactions to most of the situations. 

"I was moving around and I heard the commotion here so I had to come." Ken replied while still seeing that Smoker and Tashigi just interchanged their bodies. That Devil fruit was really broken. 

But of course, Smoker being Smoker, even being on her body, he went to on to fight Smoker and before Smoker could hit Law with his weapon, he was parried by the sword of Ken. 

"Punisher Kenny.. This has nothing to do with you." Smoker replied and has livid by this point. He wanted to fight this man and take him down right here. Smoker always felt more danger from Ken than Luffy. 

Over time he understood one thing and that was Luffy loved freedom and he didn't really care about anything. But Ken was different. He felt like Ken was out there to prove a point, inflict pain to people who he deemed worthy of it. This was a huge a red flag because that would mean if one day Ken had a bad day, he could just start to kill innocents just because they tilted their head wrong.

"It has everything to do with me here. You wanted to hurt my friend and I stopped you." Ken replied. 

"I am not your friend." Law shouted. "And I can save myself. Don't need your help."

"Are they friends? Aren't they supposed to enemies since they belong to different groups of pirates?" Someone from G5 commented. 

"By the way from when did Punisher Kenny start using swords as weapons. He looked handsome though."

"Shut up. They are our enemies." 

Smoker put more effort to make Ken back off but he didn't budge an inch. Smoker was impulsive but not crazy. He knew that he couldn't win here so he put away his weapon. He had Tashigi and G5 to take care of so he couldn't go crazy here even if he wanted. 

"What do you want?" Smoker asked. 

"Nothing. We handle our case here and you handle yours." Law said. But Smoker didn't look at Law but looked at Ken for answer. 

"To show how rotten your G5 is." Ken smiled and said. 

"What?" Smoker was taken aback by the words. 

"Oye.. Punisher Kenny . How dare you tarnish the name of G5. We might not be like the other marines, but we are not bad." 

"Yes.. Yes.. You are an asshole.." 

"You are a scum of a pirate." 

He was getting railed with vicious words of the marines left and right but he didn't pay them any heed and just looked at Smoker, who didn't say a word and waited for an explanation. 

"No institution could be pure and there will always be traitors.. Isn't that right.. Vergo." Ken said and in his last words he looked at other direction of the passageway. The eyes of the G5, including Smoker and Tashigi , went wide as a man came out with a weird cut in his beard and small piece of ham struck on his cheek. 

"Hahahah.. I was asked to come here since the cameras had stopped working and because the private room was invaded. Didn't expect to see the legendary man of the Paramount War to be here. It's an honor." Vergo said. 

"Vergo..!" 

"Vergo-san." 

"Why are you here?" 

Everyone had different reactions when Vergo came out of the shadows. Smoker had indifference while the rest of the G5 were just surprised to the core. They didn't think that Vergo was a traitor, but were surprised that he was here. Vergo had been the mentor and a helpful higherup for most of the people in G5, so it came as a shock that he was here. 

"You are here because you couldn't contact Monet. Well let me be clear. She has been taken care of, so you can ask the questions which does matter here." Ken replied. This made Vergo stiffen up a bit and one could easily see the bulging veins on his forehead. He was losing his calm slowly. 

"What did you do to her?" Vergo asked and this time in a more demanding tone. 

"She is done for. What more you want to know?" Ken replied.

"Vergo.. What are you doing here?" Smoker asked while puffing his cigar. But he wasn't doing it our of smirk but out of anger and not knowing what was going on. 

"Smoker.. You are not supposed to be here. Law was right in punishing you." Vergo said. He wasn't here for Smoker or G5 but for Monet. He could feel that Monet had vanished somewhere but he couldn't find her body. He was here only for her and others were just excuses. 

Vergo slowly took out his bamboo and was ready to take care of others before confronting Ken, starting with Law. 

"You should run, while you still can. You can never confront me with the little power you have. I can take you down before your bamboo stick can even hit Law on the right shoulder to make him incapable of using his devil fruit power." Ken advised. This made Vergo make a double take. As Ken spoke those words the pupils of his slowly dilated and he spoke as if he knew what Vergo was going to do. 

He said specific words because he knew exactly what Vergo was going to do. He had seen it already. With his future sight. The advanced Observation Haki.

"You.." Vergo spat out but before he could speak another word, he was hit at the neck with extreme force with the sheath of the sword. This made him hit the wall with extreme force making a huge crater in the side wall. 

It was Ken who did so and he was so fast that nobody even saw how he moved.