Longinus shook his head. "That's not how it is."
Akainu asked in confusion, "Then why did he help you lie?"
"This is a partnership!" Longinus said with a complicated expression. "I actually discovered a long time ago that the doctor seemed to be conducting highly dangerous research. After I questioned him about it, the doctor didn't stop his research. Instead, he proposed exchanging cooperation for my silence."
"Highly dangerous research?" Akainu was only startled for a moment before losing interest. He didn't believe scientists could be more dangerous than pirates. "None of that matters anymore. Let's begin. I've been waiting impatiently!"
"Then, as you wish!" Longinus bent his knees slightly and stomped down hard. The earth, tempered to extraordinary hardness by thunder, instantly collapsed. Borrowing the rebound force, Longinus shot toward Akainu at incredible speed.
"Don't think that beating Whitebeard means you can defeat me. I'm not some old geezer who has to pant after moving a few times!" Akainu threw a punch, and the Magma Great Hound wrapped in the Thunder Dragon came roaring toward him.
Boom!
With just one collision, the surrounding jagged mountains shattered in waves. Boulders flew everywhere before being ground into dust by the shock waves.
"That explosive power really is terrifying!" Longinus flexed his slightly heated right hand, his gaze solemn.
He hadn't underestimated his opponent simply because he had defeated Whitebeard. If Whitebeard's quake power was the strongest destruction from within outward, then Akainu's Volcanic Eruption was the strongest attack from without inward.
Underestimating an enemy like this would make him suffer terribly.
"This guy's fists are really... hard!" Akainu thought for a moment but couldn't find a better description than "hard." Rather than saying Longinus's strength was immense, it would be more accurate to say that the layer of Armament Haki Armor