Kamui

Kizaru's face was a mask of reluctance as he raised his hand and said, "Teacher Zephyr, Gigue is still a rookie, and he's a Logia type. If he can't control himself later..."

Zephyr cut him off impatiently, "You don't need to worry about that. You come up here now!"

"Sigh!"

With a heavy sigh, Kizaru drooped his head and walked to Gigue's opposite side. Zephyr added from the side, "Be serious later. If I find out you're just going through the motions, I'll cancel your extra allowance for this month."

"What!? Teacher Zephyr, you can't joke about that!"

"Who's joking? You haven't had a proper fight in a while, have you? I need to see if you've made any progress recently."

"Then Sakazuki too..."

"Sakazuki is no concern of mine in this regard. As for you..."

Zephyr crossed his arms and glared at Kizaru, his meaning clear.

Kizaru tried to resist a few more times, but Zephyr directly kicked him in the backside, shouting angrily, "Stop with the nonsense! Let's begin!"

With that, Zephyr directed the other trainees to retreat to the edge of the training ground, leaving the entire area to Gigue and Kizaru, giving the two Logia types their due respect.

Kizaru patted the large black shoe print on his backside, muttered something under his breath, then looked up at Gigue and asked, "Gigue, shall we begin?"

Gigue responded with a smile, "Please guide me, Borsalino."

As soon as he finished speaking, Kizaru raised his hand and fired a laser. The beam passed straight through Gigue's body and exploded behind him, instantly blasting a scorched pit in the ground.

Kizaru had anticipated this outcome. In his opinion, since Gigue was a Logia type, he could surely elementalize. An energy attack of this magnitude would definitely be ineffective. This move was purely to annoy Zephyr.

Zephyr had said earlier that he would only handle the fight and Kizaru didn't need to worry about the rest. So, the matter of repairing the training ground was something the dear Teacher Zephyr would have to worry about~

As long as he saw Zephyr frown, he would feel secretly pleased!

However, Zephyr knew Kizaru all too well. He frowned and shouted at Kizaru, "Borsalino, didn't I tell you how to deal with Logia types?"

Kizaru pouted, knowing he couldn't keep up the act anymore. He lifted his leg, and a layer of black Armament Haki slowly coated his calf, drawing gasps of surprise from the trainees.

"Is that Armament Haki? Borsalino has already mastered it!?"

"This guy was hiding it well. I've never seen him use it before!"

"Could it be that he simply didn't need to use Armament Haki against us?"

"Uh, that's true. But do you think Sakazuki can use it too?"

"That's a matter for monsters. Let's not inquire too much. Knowing too much will only make us upset!"

"This Gigue is in trouble. Without Armament Haki, he can't threaten the other guy at all."

Zephyr nodded slightly. Judging by Kizaru's performance, he had already mastered Armament Haki quite well.

He had Kizaru use Armament Haki with another intention: to let Gigue, a Logia Ability User, experience the feeling of being hit.

After decades of service in the Marines, Zephyr had encountered some Logia Ability Users. These individuals almost universally had one common flaw: an over-reliance on elementalization.

He wanted Gigue to realize this early on, to prevent him from becoming overconfident just because he was a Logia Ability User, and to encourage him to focus more on training his physical body.

Kizaru, with good intentions, reminded Gigue, "Gigue, be careful later. You might get hurt."

Gigue seemed unaware of the power of Haki and maintained a calm demeanor, implying that Kizaru could attack as he pleased.

Kizaru pushed his sunglasses up and his body emitted a golden light. He transformed into a beam of light and appeared before Gigue, sweeping a horizontal kick towards Gigue's waist.

His speed was incredible. Before anyone in the field could react, Kizaru's right leg had already connected with Gigue.

However, the scene of Gigue being kicked away, which was expected, did not occur. Kizaru's right leg, covered in Armament Haki, passed directly through Gigue's body.

Kizaru had not expected this at all. Stunned, he spun 360 degrees in front of Gigue due to inertia, and with a stumble, nearly fell to the ground.

After regaining his balance, he glanced at the Armament Haki on his right leg, which had yet to dissipate, and looked up at Gigue with disbelief.

It wasn't just him; even Zephyr on the sidelines was shocked. With his extensive combat experience, he quickly realized that Gigue had predicted Kizaru's attack and had elementalized his body to a different location beforehand.

With this realization, Zephyr was even more astonished, as it meant Gigue had awakened Observation Haki, and at a considerable level!

This was because Kizaru's ability provided a terrifying boost to speed, and ordinary Observation Haki would not be able to keep up with Kizaru's pace.

Zephyr couldn't help but recall the moment Gigue had grabbed his arm at the entrance of the training ground, which further solidified his conviction.

Thinking of Gigue's age, Zephyr was at a loss for words.

Even without the Dark-Dark Fruit, Gigue was a true genius!

He had no idea that Gigue's situation was completely different from what he imagined.

After becoming an Ability User of the Dark-Dark Fruit, Gigue discovered that the Dark-Dark Fruit could actually be elementalized. However, due to the nature of darkness, attacks received would be automatically absorbed and then fed back to the user with double the pain.

To avoid this drawback, Gigue developed another form of "elementalization" – hiding his elementalized body within the darkness space to achieve the effect of dodging attacks.

The advantage of this method was that it could evade almost all attacks, even Haki.

Of course, the disadvantage was that once Gigue entered this state, he couldn't attack others either.

And even though Gigue himself was darkness, if he put his body into the darkness space for too long, it was still easy to get lost in the endless darkness. Each time, he couldn't stay for more than ten minutes.

However, as Gigue developed his Devil Fruit abilities, the duration would gradually increase.

This method was inspired by Obito's Kamui from Naruto, so Gigue named this special elementalization "Kamui."

Kizaru, unwilling to give up, wanted to test him a couple more times, but Gigue didn't give him the chance.

A black vortex appeared in Gigue's palm. Kizaru instinctively felt a sense of crisis and his body instantly turned into light particles, scattering backward.

Gigue slowly raised his right hand and said softly, "Banshō Ten'in."

The countless light particles that Kizaru had turned into suddenly stopped, then all flew back in the original direction, finally condensing into Kizaru's form.

His shoulder was firmly grasped by Gigue, and a rare look of panic appeared on his face.

Because he discovered that he couldn't activate his ability at all!