'Why are we headed this way? '

Wyper groans as Usopp takes him down another hallway. It was faster to just slide right up the walls instead, especially with this weighty machine gun and all its ammunition.

'Just a moment. Coby 's sending an SOS. '

Usopp 's tense.

Coby 's haki, while not the strongest he 's ever known ' that honour always went to the Conquerors, the Emperors, and of course, Luffy himself ' Even when Coby became Fleet Admiral, it was hard to say if he was their equal, and he never claimed to measure up to them, since he rose to power only after the greater battles of the Worst Generation had ended.

But Coby 's

control

over his haki? That was undeniably among the greatest of the era, and no one could deny it. The only ones who would doubt it either didn 't know enough about Haki, or were just as skilled and underestimated, like Buggy.

If Coby didn 't want to be noticed, he wouldn 't be.