Lia's POV;

Block C had mostly weak and pitiful fighters. Koala was, by some margin, the strongest. Her Fishmen Karate is useful against both Devil Fruit user and normal fighters. Those few who could pose some threat to her were mostly weapon users, like swordsmen or pole fighters.

And those were taken care off by Jonny. His fast combat style, that relies on evasion and quick attacks, is good developed enough to fight and beat anyone who was part of block C. He might even be skilled enough to fight against Koala, but I'm not sure if either of them would truly win. It would, most likely, be a pyrrhic victory.

It was amusing to watch how they worked together to fight, and beat, anyone that came close to them. Their teamwork wasn't perfect, which was only to be expected, they have only met today. Still, it was a rather good display of hastily learned teamwork.

“They work rather well together, don't you think Sabo?”, asked Lara from my side. She must have thought the same as I.

“Yes, a pity that Koala is always all business. Your Jonny seems to be a good guy. She could relax some and go out with him. You think we can do something there?”, he replied and both gained mischievous grins.

I don't know what I should think about Sabo, he has an aura that points at a strong mind and body. He feels strong, strong enough to fight either Lara or me. He must be this strong, if I remember correctly, then he is something like a commander in the Revolutionary Army.

A position as high as that can't be fulfilled without strength or some other high skills.

“Seems like their fight is almost over”, noted Noa. I looked back to the arena and saw how Jonny made a somersault over a man with a hand-axe. The man turned around to engage Jonny but left his back open for Koala to hit him with a quick series of jabs.

He slumped to the ground and the match was called to an end. Jonny, Koala, a man with boxing gloves and a woman that had could spit some kind of corrosive fluid would be allowed into the proper tournament.

“Whelp, this means that it's now my and Yosaku's turn. See you afterwards.” Announced Lara happily. She received a kiss from me and walked, followed by Yosaku, out to the arena.

“So, your sister and you are... together?”, asked Sabo with a tinge of pink on his cheeks. Why are people always so embarrassed, confused or angry at Lara and my relationship. It's not as if they are affected.

“Yes”, I replied curtly, not really in the mood to speak much. Interaction with people is still not something that I enjoy. Our crew is okay, I'm used to them. Business talk, like buying things, was also okay. But small talk or other longer conversations without a real point are boring, hard to follow and useless.

He thankfully stayed silent until Koala was back. “So Koala, you and Jonny made a good team”, the double meaning of team wasn't left unnoticed by the large-eyed woman.

She showed it by glaring at Sabo. “That was all business. A temporary truce gave us the best chances for victory. But I have to agree that it was surprisingly easy to work together.”

Jonny looked a little hopefully at Koala. “But he isn't my type. I'm more into people like Lia. Cute, large eyes and such smooth skin”, she then said and hugged me to her large chest. My head was pressed into her bosom and she started to wiggle me around.

Has this girl seriously just said that? It's her luck that Lara isn't here, the thing she is doing would have earned her a broken hand. “Only if Lara is included”, I said without moving a single muscle. Maybe it will portray my disinterest? And if not, then Lara and I could double team her and show her her place. Who dare this girl thinks she is, trying to sway me away from my Lara. Her large soft pillows won't be enough to keep me away from my Lara.

Koala blushed deeply, while Noa, Jonny and Sabo managed to knock themselves out with a nosebleed. And Mrs Chicken Wing, the feathery voyeur, perked up in interest. “Ehehe, maybe I take you up on that offer”, laughed Koala. Her tone wasn't earnest, she may have tried that to evade any more talk about her and Jonny.

Jonny, who somehow regained his consciousness was crying in sorrow. He kept mumbling about the unfairness of life, how every hot chick was either a lesbian or had the hots for the stupid, weak, unreliable, dumb, ugly, crude Yosaku.

“Look, Lara and Yosaku are down in the arena. Do you think there is anyone strong with them?”, stated Koala suddenly, the obvious attempt at changing the topic was, much to her relieve, accepted by everyone.

“Hmm, I heard that Slicer Lara is a sword user that can manipulate sound. Is that true Lia?”, asked Sabo, a calculating glint shone in his eyes.

I thought about how much I can or should say. The information on our poster only says what Sabo said just now. “Yes”, I decided to say. It wasn't a lie, Lara can do that, but also so much more.

“She must be pretty good to warrant a bounty of such height. And Yosaku's isn't tiny as well. For such a young crew you all have a high bounty. I hope for you all to also have the needed strength for such a bounty.” Noa and Jonny looked a little squeamish when they heard Sabo's warning tone.

Hmpf, that won't be a problem, as long as we stay in Paradise. There are not many who can beat Lara and me and our crew is growing nicely. They only need some better weapons, some more experience and the awakening of their Haki.

Jonny, Yosaku and Josef shouldn't need much more time. Their aura is steadily increasing in strength. Soon they will awaken their prominent form. Yosaku most likely Armament, with Jonny and Josef having Observation.

“Ouch, that must have hurt”, commented Noa. He meant the swing of Yosaku's sword. Yosaku has used the flat side of his large sword to bash a woman across the whole arena. She has had evaded all his attempts at cutting her, so he used the way larger flat side. It crashed right into her side, like a wall of steel. The gust of wind that followed even knocked a few nearby fighters off their feet.

“His strength is starting to become ridicules”, mumbled Jonny. True, Yosaku is physically strong. Soon will even be stronger than Lara. Her body trait is only making her equal to men. And while our [Body without a Limit] makes it possible for us to gain strength, the training needed for each new increase is getting ridicules high. So it won't be long before Yosaku catches up with us, he is only working on his strength and is also way taller than us. His larger muscles are also growing faster. Yosaku is nearing the two metres, while Lara and I will stay at our 1.55 metre. Still, he will, at some point, stop getting stronger, while we just have to increase the amount of training.

“Yes, but look at Lara. I didn't know that she was that good with other weapons”, said Noa while pointing at my Lara.

Her small form was blitzing through the lines of contestants. A Warhammer was, larger than her body, in her left hand with a stolen pistol in her right. She jumped over the swing of a sword, shot a bullet of her pistol in the shoulder of her attacker and threw the now empty weapon at a man that tried to attack her mid-flight.

The man who got shot lost his shortsword and Lara grabbed it out of the air, before landing back on the ground. There she used her hammer as a pole and jumped back up into the air.

She gained speed with a somersault and crashed the blunt side of her hammer into the arena floor upon landing. The stone cracked, and not unlike Noa's attack, also pelted anyone nearby with stones. The only difference was that her crater was thrice the size of Noa's, and her hammer was now bent.

The useless weapon was quickly discarded and her assault continued. A quick stab, with her short sword, into the stomach of a woman, brought her a pair of daggers. The short sword was left behind in the bleeding stomach of the falling woman.

“She is damn fast”, praised Sabo. Of course, she is, she is mostly training her speed and Devil Fruit after all. It will be hard to get her strength any higher, at least not without drugs, way more training or another Devil Fruit.

“Look out Yosaku!”, shouted Jonny suddenly and I looked back at Yosaku. He was in the middle of a fight with someone who had large stone hands. Jonny's shout of concern wasn't because of this one, however, it was the tiny man who tried to sneak up on Yosaku.

Still, the shout was unnecessary, Lara had kept an eye on Yosaku and thrown one of her daggers at the tiny man. It hit him right in the throat. He tried to make a grab to the weapon, but Yosaku, who had noticed the person behind him, made a 360° turn with his sword and cut the head of the tiny man off.

Yosaku's spin was momentarily stopped when his sword hit the side of the stone guy. But then his weapon continued onwards and also bisected the Devil Fruit user. Soon, someone on this island will find somewhere a strange fruit.

Yosaku took some rest, now with his closest danger gone. Lara, who was still looking like a blond blur for most people, was continuing her rampage. She somehow found a large scythe and played dervish.

Her swings showed that her new weapon was sharp. Each swing was amputating limbs, cutting bellies open or a straight beheading. It didn't take other long to notice the bloody dance and soon the contestants were running away from her.

“Am I wrong or does it seem like Lara is angry?”, asked Noa, slightly wide-eyed from all the carnage.

Jonny offered a possible reason for Lara's unusual brutality. She was rarely this bloody when people could see her. “I think she overheard how Koala flirted with Lia. Lara can be quite possessive.”

Koala was sweating bullets. “How could she have heard that she was down there in the loud crowd when Koala said that”, denied Sabo. His claim was moot when Lara's scythe came flying up to us. The pointy tip embedded itself right over Koala's head into the wooden frame of the arena.

“I think she did hear Koala”, said Noa drily. Koala was looking fearfully at the blade that was stuck in the wood only a few centimetres away from her face.

“Will she kill me?”, she then asked me with teary eyes. I suddenly had the strange urge to pat her but squashed it instantly.

“Probably not, a fright is mostly the maximum she does to someone she likes. Strangers get broken bones and someone she does not like often leaves with one hand less attached to his body.” I answered with a shrug.

“Isn't that kinda extreme?”, asked Sabo with a worried glance at me. Is he worried about me or Lara's mental health?

“You should see what Lia does, most of the time there isn't even a body left”, whispered Jonny. I heard it easily but didn't comment. It was the truth, those who touch my Lara are not worthy of life.

Sabo shuddered and inched away from me. Finally, I had more room. I continued to watch how Lara decimated the competition, a bright smile plastered on my face. Seeing her happily killing people always makes me happy. I only wish I could stand next to her, fighting alongside her.

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Lara's POV;

That was a fun fight. Sadly they started to run away from me once I got my hands on a scythe. And I also got to frighten Koala. It wasn't what she said that angered me, but what she did in combination with what she said.

She was flirting with my Lia and even had the audacity to press her chest into Lia's face. It's my job to press Lia into a soft bosom. Mine may be not large enough to serve as a pillow, but they are perky and still soft.

Anyway, thinking about sex and Lia can wait for the night. Now it was time for the commentator to announce the winners of block D. Of course, Yosaku and I were included. As were two others. Both were male, one of them could cool things down. He had used his Devil Fruit to freeze his enemies. While the other one was fighting mostly with his legs. They were clad in iron protectors and his kicks were strong enough to shatter low-grade swords.

Their names were Dy and Leroy.

“Ladies and Gentlemen, today's fighting rounds are hereby over. I'd like to ask for each winner to come down to the arena so that the audience can see you once again. We also have to decide on who will fight whom.” Announced the commentator after the cleanup.

There still were some blood puddles left, but the wounded and dead were carried out. I huffed in annoyance when no one, other than Yosaku, stepped closer to me. Seriously, this tournament allows killing, there are many who will die from the other blocks.

Thankfully, Lia came down. So I gave her a hug and kiss on the cheek. The others were with her, but Lia is more important. I'll have to show her later that my breasts are better than whatever Koala did to her. Her slight smile showed me that she knew what I was thinking and agreed wholeheartedly.

“And here they are, the sixteen participants of this years fighting tournament. From block A we have Noa of the Kage Pirates, Butch the Axe, The Evasive Chlaris and True Shot Lia from the Kage Pirates. From block B we have Sabo, The Hen of Death Mrs Chicken Wing from the Kage Pirates, Lieutenant Tashigi from the Marines and Daniel. The local boxing champion Geppon, Corrosive Galina, Quick Draw Jonny from the Kage Pirates and Koala will rise up from block C and last but not least are those who won in block D, Slicer Lara captain of the Kage Pirates, Big Cleaver Yosaku of the Kage Pirates, Cooler Dy and Leroy.

All of them are strong fighters and each will try for the final price. But they have to show that they are the strongest among each other before any of them can get their hands...or claws on it.” Shouted the commentator and with him roared the audience.

“I have the draws with me and want each of you now to please pick one.” He continued and handed each of us sixteen a small slip of paper.

“Please show us which number you've gotten”, he then said and noted the numbers down on a large board. Soon it was easy to see who would be fighting whom.

Lara vs Chlaris

Noa vs Daniel

Cooler Dy vs Butch

Mrs Chicken Wing vs Geppon

Tashigi vs Jonny

Lia vs Koala

Sabo vs Yosaku

Galina vs Leroy

So I will have to fight against Noa and then Mrs Chicken Wing, before facing either Lia or Sabo. That is if I manage to beat Mrs Chicken Wing. Maybe there is some way for me to win against the strange hen.