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Episode 1105 of the One Piece anime, titled “A Beautiful Act of Treason! The Spy, Stussy!,” explained the nature of Stussy’s shocking betrayal of Lucci and Kaku during the Egghead Arc. Admittedly, no one could have predicted such a stunning turn of events, as the three elite CP0 agents seemed to be a close-knit squad.
Compared to the past, Lucci and Kaku have become massively more powerful, as they have trained their Haki and even evolved their Devil Fruit powers, achieving the uncommon stage of Awakening. In Egghead, Lucci was able to clash on par with Luffy, now a full-fledged Emperor of the Sea, and endure some of his techniques. It should be noted that Luffy was using his formidable Gear 5 form.
Granted, Luffy eventually overpowered Lucci, but the villain’s performance remains quite impressive. With that in mind, fans were shocked to see Stussy get the better of Lucci and Kaku. Things got even more interesting as Stussy was revealed to be MADS' first successful cloning experiment, No. 1 "Stussy," the perfect clone of former Rocks Pirate member Miss Buckingham Stussy.
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Disclaimer: This article contains major spoilers from the One Piece manga up to chapter 1115.
Episode 1105 emphasizes Stussy’s betrayal as one of the greatest deceptions in One Piece (manga spoilers ahead)
A recap of the events recounted in the One Piece anime
Tasked by the World Government with killing Dr. Vegapunk, Lucci, Kaku, and Stussy arrived on Egghead with warlike intentions. Only Roronoa Zoro’s timely intervention stopped them from destroying the Thousand Sunny, which would have resulted in the Straw Hat crew’s escape routes from the island being cut off.
As Zoro effortlessly blocked Kaku’s Sky Slicer Rankyaku, the CP0 agent decided to use his Awakened Zoan form to attack the swordsman. Once again, however, Kaku was no match for Zoro, who blocked the former’s moves and then used his raw muscular strength to smash him on the ground.
Having realized the difference in power, as Zoro outclassed him without employing neither a real attack nor his serious Haki techniques, Kaku was understandably upset. However, the worst was yet to come for Kaku. Just as he was getting to his feet, something absolutely unexpected, if not outright shocking, happened.
Stussy struck Kaku from behind, knocking him unconscious. More precisely, she bit her fellow colleague, sucking his blood and life force like a vampire would do. As Kaku fell asleep, Stussy revealed a transformation she had never shown before. Her body had bat-like features, such as sharp-pointed teeth and a pair of wings.
Stussy claimed that she just put Kaku to sleep and threatened Lucci to do the same. Seeing what had just happened, Lucci was in a state of utter bewilderment. Enraged and confused, he didn’t even activate his Zoan powers but just attacked Stussy without a second thought.
However, she easily dodged his reckless attempt. Using an advanced version of the Kami-e technique, she exploited the opening to flank Lucci and touch him with her lipstick. As the item was made of Seastone, a material that weakens all Devil Fruit users, Lucci immediately lost all of his strength upon contact with the lipstick.
With Lucci impaired by the Seastone, Stussy used her vampire-like powers to bite him and put him to sleep. Stussy then made clear her true allegiance as an ally of Vegapunk by contacting the scientist and confirming that she had neutralized her colleagues from CP0.
As if things weren’t shocking enough, a narrator’s box declared Stussy to be No. 1 "Stussy," the perfect clone of Miss Buckingham Stussy. A creation of the MADS research team, she was in fact a replica of the homonymous former Rocks Pirates member.
Over the years, Stussy had become one of the CP0’s best agents, but in reality, she had been acting as a mole from the very beginning. She was ready to betray her colleagues when the time was right, which was when they were tasked with killing Vegapunk, the person she was truly loyal to.
Stussy played it smart, knowing she wouldn’t stand a chance otherwise
One Piece author Eiichiro Oda brilliantly foreshadowed Stussy’s eventual betrayal. In the previous episodes, there were several scenes in which it was implied that Stussy had already been to Egghead in the past and that, despite knowing the island’s secrets and features, she deliberately avoided revealing them to her colleagues.
Even then, only the most attentive One Piece fans noticed those hints. Furthermore, no one could really know how or when Stussy would make her move. Hence, the reveal of Stussy’s real identity and loyalty left One Piece fans stunned. It goes without saying that Lucci and Kaku were even more shocked themselves.
The fact that Stussy single-handedly took them out with relative ease is an outstanding feat. Still, it’s also evident that this occurrence must be properly contextualized. Stussy exploited her tricky abilities and the element of surprise caused by her unforeseen betrayal.
Essentially, she took cheap shots at her colleagues, as she was well aware that she wouldn’t stand a chance otherwise. Needless to say, Kaku considered Stussy to be his reliable coworker and ally, so he would have never expected her to suddenly betray him. Furthermore, she struck him with a sneak attack from behind.
As regards Lucci, he was confused and enraged. This led him to attack blindly. In fact, he didn’t even use his Zoan abilities, much less his fearsome Awakened form. He charged him thoughtlessly, leaving himself wide open.
Of course, these plot-driven predicaments are very different from a proper 1v1 battle. Under normal circumstances, the peculiar abilities that allowed Stussy to bypass even an Awakened Zoan’s toughness wouldn’t work.
Not even Gear 5 Luffy was able to beat Lucci with such ease, and it goes without saying that the former is many times stronger than Stussy. In all likelihood, Luffy is much stronger than Stussy, even with just his base form or his lower Gears, let alone with the Gear 5 transformation.
Notably, Lucci was almost undamaged after taking two direct hits from Gear 5 Luffy’s powerful techniques. It took a third strike from Gear 5 Luffy to injure Lucci, and even then the villain was only temporarily subdued. Little later, he was absolutely fine on his feet.
In fact, Stussy self-admitted that Lucci and Kaku were both too strong for her to fight them directly. Stussy knew well that she couldn’t win against any of them in fair combat. So she played it smart.
She waited for the right moment to take them by surprise with her tricky powers, i.e., the vampire-like ability to put people to sleep by biting them and the Seastone item that enables her to knock out Devil Fruit users upon contact.
This explains how Stussy was able to take down Kaku and Lucci, even though, for her own admission, they are too strong for her. The fact that Stussy wouldn’t stand a chance in a fair fight against her colleagues was confirmed by what happened in the course of the One Piece story.
As the events of Egghead Arc progressed, Lucci agreed to a truce with the Straw Hat Pirates. At one point, however, he broke the temporary alliance and attacked Vegapunk. Stussy tried to protect the scientist but couldn’t properly stop Lucci’s attack, even though it was just a basic Shigan executed in base form and without adding Haki.
All Stussy could do in front of Lucci’s most basic technique was to act as a human shield. She couldn’t block the attack nor withstand it, as she fell unconscious immediately. This made it clear that, under normal circumstances, Stussy could never take on Lucci and hope to survive, let alone win.
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