Rob Lucci

CP9’s deadliest agent

Rob Lucci is the strongest assassin of Cipher Pol No. 9, a secret government unit whose members can kill without trial. For years he hid in plain sight in Water 7, posing as a mild shipwright with a pigeon named Hattori perched on his shoulder — a disguise that made his eventual reveal all the more chilling.

The leopard within

Lucci ate the Neko Neko no Mi, Model: Leopard, a Zoan fruit that turns him into a hulking man-beast. He is also a master of Rokushiki, the government’s superhuman martial art, culminating in the Rokuogan — a shockwave delivered straight into an opponent’s body at point-blank range.

Enies Lobby

Lucci is the central antagonist of the Enies Lobby arc, standing between the Straw Hats and their captured friend Nico Robin. His duel with Luffy forces Luffy to unveil Gear Second and Gear Third, and it is one of the hardest-won victories of the crew’s early voyage.

Return as CP0

Rather than vanishing after his defeat, Lucci rises within the government’s ranks to CP0, its most elite cell, reappearing at the world’s turning points. He remains a recurring measure of how far the Straw Hats have climbed — the assassin they once barely beat, now circling them as an agent of the World Government itself.