Painted Three Sisters, Part 2

"Okay, Teacher Ra~"

Oshi responded with a deliberately drawn-out tone, just like a student in the highest kindergarten class.

"I'm ready, Big Sister."

Obe wasn't as playful as Oshi, but she felt a bit uneasy in her heart.

She was afraid her Armament Haki talent would be like her Observation Haki, requiring Ra to teach her face-to-face. If that happened, Oshi would tease her for a long time.

Thinking of this, she unconsciously started twirling her hair with her fingers.

Ra saw Obe's nervousness and gently comforted her, "Armament Haki isn't as complicated as you think. You'll probably master it in the remaining time this morning. Now, extend your hands."

"R-really?" Obe was a bit doubtful but still extended her small hand.

"If Sister Ra says so, it's possible!" Oshi trusted Ra immensely and directly offered both her hands to Ra.

Ra didn't speak but gently held both their hands. Then, golden Armament Haki emerged from her arms and directly spread to their arms, dyeing them golden as well.

Ra had already infused her energy into them several times before, so she was very familiar with the process.

"What is this? Is this energy Armament Haki?" Obe immediately felt the energy flowing through her arms.

"That's right. Armament Haki is composed of life energy and a special energy. This special energy should be unique to the people of this world.

However, we can use Divine Power to mimic this energy, and the effect is similar. I'm currently transferring the simulated energy to you. Feel it carefully."

"Mmm, I see. The energy's amplitude and frequency are like this, and this radiation intensity..."

Carefully analyzing Ra's Haki on her arm, Obe muttered to herself while continuously adjusting the Divine Power within her.

In terms of understanding and reconstructing this energy, she was confident she would be faster than Oshi this time. No! Several steps faster!

Just you wait, Oshi! Let's see who the little dummy is this time! Hmph~

And just as Obe began to fantasize about her being far ahead, leaving Oshi behind—

"Done! Is it like this?"

"..."

Obe's small blue head looked to the side with a hint of disbelief. She saw the gold on Oshi's arm slowly turn crimson, interspersed with streaks of golden lightning patterns, making it look quite flashy.

"Oh! Oh!! Oh!!! My Haki is red! So cool! Then yours must be blue, Obe."

Oshi was clearly satisfied with the appearance of her Armament Haki and then looked expectantly at Obe, only to find that Obe was also looking at her.

"Obe?"

"I'm here. Forgive me for asking, Oshi, but how did you do it so quickly?"

Obe, for the first time ever, asked Oshi for an explanation. She really couldn't understand why this girl was faster than her again, especially when she already knew the principle this time.

"Huh? Like this, then like that, and finally a 'kacha' sound. It's very simple~"

Obe: ...

I finally tried seriously, and you made me lose so completely.gif

"What's wrong, Obe? Why aren't you talking?" Oshi waved her now-red arm in front of Obe's eyes.

"It's nothing, just a bit of wear and tear."

Obe gave up dwelling on meaningless things and began to focus on adjusting her Divine Power.

After a while, Obe's arm also turned indigo blue, with some black patterns mixed in.

Oshi, standing beside her, poked Obe's transformed arm. "Hoho~ Now all three of us have fancy tattooed arms. The Phantom God Three Sisters have become the Year Beast Three Sisters."

This arm, like a colorful painting, reminded her of a four-character game she used to play.

Because their own Divine Power replaced the special energy in the Haki, the Armament Haki, which was normally invisible, became clearly visible on the three of them, like ordinary body paint, even without using Observation Haki.

"Our Armament Haki looks a bit different from Kaido's and King's. Is it because we used our own Divine Power to replace that strange energy? It kind of feels like a custom skin, though."

Obe said, looking at her big blue tattooed arm.

"Isn't it good? I think it looks much better than their dark, plain Haki."

Oshi was very pleased with the look and began to constantly pose with her red Armament Haki.

"Hey~ Obe, look at my Magnetic Battle Mark!"

Several special patterns suddenly appeared on Oshi's forehead and cheeks, with red and gold intertwined, looking exceptionally alluring.

She was already imagining how cool it would be to activate her battle marks during a fight and stun her opponents.

Obe ignored Oshi and asked Ra, "Sister Ra, what are the uses of Armament Haki? Is it just to deal with those Logia-type ability users?"

"Currently, there should be two more ways to use it," Ra said directly without keeping them in suspense.

"The first is that after covering the body with Armament Haki, both defense and attack power are significantly enhanced, similar to wearing a layer of armor.

The second is that when I was training with Captain Kaido, he demonstrated another way to use Armament Haki. It's like a liquid flow that directly invades the opponent's interior to cause damage, and it can even achieve remote attacks without physical contact."

Ra recalled Kaido's Thunder Bagua—an attack that was almost impossible to defend against without using the same technique.

"It doesn't sound very difficult. Isn't it just making the energy move? That's easy to do~"

Oshi made the first attempt again, and as expected, it was a success. The Haki that had covered her entire arm flowed entirely to her fist.

Taking it a step further, Oshi gathered it all onto her thumb and index finger. At this moment, the Haki faintly emitted a glow.

"Hey, watch this Bullet Flash!" Oshi flicked her finger, and a perfectly round, deep pit was instantly created in the ground beneath her feet.

"Indeed, simply making the energy flow is no difficulty for us." Obe, standing beside her, had clearly succeeded as well. Or rather, this was a skill they had already mastered.

"As expected~ For a genius like me, Haki is nothing but a piece of cake. Sigh~ I wonder if there's anything in this world that can stump me."

"Life is truly as lonely as snow~"

Oshi placed her hands behind her back and sighed towards the sky at a forty-five-degree angle.

Having mastered the advanced forms of Haki that Burufatt and the others had described as extremely difficult in just one morning made her feel a little conceited.

"Hmph, it's passable," Obe said. Although she didn't show it on the surface, she was quite pleased with herself internally.

[I really want to see what kind of expression King, that gloomy masked man, will have then~]

"Snap~"

Ra clapped her hands together, interrupting their internal monologues.

"We'll stop learning advanced Haki here for now. The rest will depend on you slowly adapting to using Haki in battle on your own.

This afternoon, we'll have a slightly more challenging lesson. You're free to do as you please now. We'll meet here again after lunch."

"Hooray!"

"Understood."

PS: Armament Haki is most likely related to the 'Substance P' within the human body in the Pirate World, the same substance found in seawater and Seastone that nullifies Devil Fruit abilities.

Therefore, Armament Haki should be a unique ability of the people in that world, much like Chakra.