Defeating Navy Vice Captain

Short was dismissed, and the Major, though not playing a key role, was promoted to Captain of the 153rd Branch by Garp for his valiant combat. Monka was also promoted from Sergeant to Lieutenant for his tenacious resistance against the Pirates.

As for Leiyin, Garp heard the Navy members of the 153rd Branch describe him as someone who could breathe fire, spit water, release lightning, teleport, and even knew some swordsmanship.

This sounded like complete nonsense.

Garp listened to their serious nonsense, wondering if his hearing was failing.

However, since the entire 153rd Branch said the same thing, he became very suspicious.

Could all these Navy members have gone crazy?

Even the strongest Natural-type Dark-Dark Fruit could only absorb one Fruit ability, or at most two. This guy had demonstrated no less than three Natural-type abilities. A person like that wouldn't exist even in the whole world, let alone the East Blue, right?

What else could it be but nonsense?

But since the entire branch had the same story, it greatly aroused Garp's curiosity. He also wanted to see for himself, after all, seeing is believing. Besides, he wasn't even on the scene when it happened.

But unexpectedly, after two days, that guy Leiyin came back on his own.

The reason was simple: he came back for money.

When Krieg was first killed, Shells Town was already a scene of devastation. Leiyin was too embarrassed to directly ask the Navy to exchange the bounty. Now that the Navy had rested and recovered, Leiyin came.

Garp sat at his desk, eating snacks and drinking tea. When he saw Leiyin, he wore his signature amiable smile: "Boy, I was just about to send someone to find you. I didn't expect you to come yourself."

"Find me?"

The wrinkles on Garp's forehead gathered together, and he smiled even more brightly: "Boy, your deeds have been spread like a legend in the Navy. This old man can't pretend nothing happened."

"Hmm?"

Before Leiyin could react to what Garp was saying, Garp winked at a Navy Vice Captain standing next to him. The Vice Captain, seeing this, kicked at Leiyin without saying a word.

Fortunately, Leiyin reacted quickly and dodged the kick. The Vice Captain missed, and his foot kicked the wall, creating a large hole.

Leiyin dodged to the side and was immediately furious: "Hey, old man, what do you mean by this?"

Garp ate a cracker: "This is Vice Captain Pruzz, my bodyguard and deputy captain. You can spar with him."

Leiyin's deeds had been spread like wildfire among the Navy members of the 153rd Branch, and his demonstration of at least three types of elemental attacks was even more unbelievable, so Garp sent his subordinate to test him.

This Vice Captain Pruzz had no expression on his face, like a stone statue, giving people a very aloof feeling.

Leiyin looked at the large hole that had just been kicked out and jumped out of the hole. Pruzz thought he was going to run away and immediately chased after him.

Standing on the Navy training ground, Leiyin stopped running and stood still: "The space inside is too small to move around. Let's do it here."

Pruzz still had no expression on his face and didn't say anything, rushing towards Leiyin quickly.

Garp stood behind the hole that had just been kicked out, watching the battle with great interest.

Pruzz took the lead and used a Rokushiki-Shigan, directly stabbing at Leiyin. Leiyin didn't dodge and still used Chakra to gather protection around his body. The Shigan stabbed him, shaking him back several steps.

As expected of a Vice Captain of the Navy Headquarters, this Shigan was incomparable to the one Miller had used before.

When Leiyin stopped, he revealed a subtle smile. From this attack, he could see that this guy was no ordinary person, and fighting with experts was one of his life's interests.

At this time, the officers and soldiers of the Navy's 153rd Branch stood around the perimeter of the training ground, all watching the battle.

Leiyin's hands moved up and down, quickly forming hand seals.

"Fire Release-Great Fireball Technique!"

Accompanied by a burst of high heat, a ball of crimson flame suddenly spewed out of Leiyin's mouth, directly attacking Pruzz. Pruzz, however, suddenly disappeared from the spot, without a trace (Rokushiki-Soru)

The Navy members around the training ground also started talking.

"That kid from that day is here again."

"It's still that fire-breathing trick."

Seeing this scene, Garp somewhat believed the words of the 153rd Navy members. At this time, he was also a little apprehensive: Is this the ability of the Natural-type Flame-Flame Fruit? No, that's not right. The Flame-Flame Fruit has already been eaten by that guy Ace. How could there be two identical abilities in the world?

While Garp was pondering, Pruzz had already arrived in front of Leiyin.

"Rokushiki-Rankyaku!"

Pruzz raised a foot and quickly kicked out a blue wave of energy like a slash, while Leiyin also disappeared from the spot at the same speed. The blue wave of energy cut a deep mark on the ground.

Flying Thunder God Slash!

When Leiyin reappeared, he was already behind the Vice Captain. When the Vice Captain turned around, Leiyin's hand had already gathered a ball of blue Chakra.

"Rasengan!"

Pruzz didn't have time to react at all. The Rasengan mercilessly struck his body. Pruzz suffered this blow at such close range, spinning and flying more than twenty meters away, falling to the ground.

Pruzz stood up tremblingly, and when he fell again, it declared Leiyin's victory.

At this time, even Garp couldn't help but size up Leiyin: Even a battle-hardened Navy Headquarters officer wasn't his opponent. This kid had unfathomable strength.

Leiyin walked over slowly, looked up at Garp on the third floor, and said loudly: "Old man, I've defeated this guy. Can we talk about my business now?"

Garp put on his dog-head mask and laughed heartily: "Haha, I can see it now. You're definitely not an ordinary kid. Okay, tell me what's going on."

Leiyin: "I killed Krieg. Give me the bounty now!"

Garp was a Navy Vice Admiral, so this matter was just a word for him.

Garp thought for a moment, then said, "Alright, but you must agree to one condition of mine."

"A condition?"

Garp said seriously, "I sincerely invite you to join the Navy. I wonder what you think?"

Huh?

Hearing this, Leiyin's jaw almost dropped.

Although Garp usually had a goofy personality, he didn't seem to be joking when he said this.

Joining the Navy was something Leiyin had hardly considered since coming to this world.

Bounty Hunter, Pirate, Revolutionary Army, Adventurer—he had thought about all of these, but never about joining the Navy.

Hearing this, Leiyin said with a serious face, "What if I refuse?"

"Hmm?"