"So do you understand now? Even if you injure me, I can recover quickly." Ade burst into wild laughter. "I can grow bigger and stronger, and I can run faster and faster. What about you? What makes you think you can fight me?"
Ronglin fixed Ade with a pitying gaze, shaking his head with a sigh. "What a waste. You possess such abilities, yet you willingly serve as a Celestial Dragon's lapdog."
Ade threw back his head and laughed. "Even if I'm a dog, I'm a dog standing high above the rest! I'm far better than strays like you, barely surviving in filthy gutters! Hahaha!"
"I can no longer tolerate your stupidity!" Ronglin clenched his fists, and Armament Haki Hardening instantly covered them.
Whoosh! Ronglin vanished from where he stood, streaking sideways through the air and appearing at Ade's side in an instant.
"Hahahaha! Did I hit the mark, and now you're lashing out in embarrassment?" The ring of vibrating waves around Ade rapidly contracted, all gathering around his body as his entire frame began to tremble violently.
Whoosh!
A grayish-white afterimage flashed. Ade's body shifted directly from its original position, looping around through the air along the opposite trajectory as he threw a fierce punch at Ronglin's back...
Ronglin twisted around, spread his fingers, and clawed at him.
With a bang, he caught Ade's incoming fist.
Their Armament Haki-hardened hands glimmered with black light. The clash of Haki instantly sparked terrifying frictional flames. Between fist and palm, a force powerful enough to nearly tear apart the air surged wildly, its gale-like pressure stinging Ronglin's face.
Several slashing wounds opened one after another across Ade's beastlike face, spraying blood into the air.
!!
He had thought they were evenly matched and would be locked in a stalemate. Only when blood