"Nani???"
"Getting beaten up can awaken Haki???"
Hearing Austin's bizarre "lesson plan," the many trainees on the training ground looked at one another, unable to suppress their doubts.
It was not that they doubted Austin's strength, but no matter how they looked at it, this method sounded far too absurd.
"So... who wants to come forward and give it a try?"
Austin ignored their strange expressions, merely sweeping his gaze over them as he spoke calmly.
Yet for a moment, no one dared to step forward voluntarily.
Just as Doll's eyes flickered and she wondered whether she should give it a try, a sturdy figure stepped forward.
"Instructor Austin, I'm willing to try."
He was a man with a black mushroom haircut, a cold expression, and sunglasses, dressed in a Marine uniform.
Simply standing there gave off a steady, composed feeling.
"Someone actually dared to go up there!!?"
"That's... Vergo, right!!? I've seen his name before!!!"
"Won't he get beaten to death...?"
When Austin saw him, he truly had not expected it to be Vergo.
His little brother's little brother, Doflamingo's spy planted within the Marines, just like Sengoku had planted Rosinante.
Those two schemers each had eight hundred tricks up their sleeves, neither willing to give an inch to the other in this regard.
Still, since Vergo had dared to step forward, Doflamingo was surely part of the reason. Even without a heads-up, he could count as a planted participant.
But Austin did not care much.
Since he had no intention of exposing Rosinante, naturally he had no intention of embarrassing Vergo either. His gaze remained calm, as though he truly regarded Vergo as an ordinary Marine.
"Then... attack me with everything you have."
Austin clasped his hands behind his back. His long hair stirred despite the absence of