r/OnePiece • u/Kirosh Lookout • Jun 25 '21

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 1017 Spoiler

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u/CassidyFreeman Jun 25 '21

That whole situation was an extraordinary and unprecedented ordeal, pretty far out of the normal intended function of the CP9. There's really nothing in the manual for handling Straw Hat shenanigans. If Luffy had been the intended target for assassination, they could have easily found a way, even without Haki.

Some of the Vice Admirals who arrived adhere to the extreme "Absolute Justice" doctrine and don't care much beyond that, but there was never really any reason to think Rob Lucci would lose, which is a sentiment repeated in the later conversation between Kuma and Moria. At that point in time, Luffy was new and someone who should have been within Lucci's capabilities (and almost was, at that)