Because Smoker was the only Logia Devil Fruit user in the Training Camp and was rather special, before the match began, the referee walked up to Leiyin with a black staff in hand.
"According to the rules, Smoker is a Logia user, so you may wield a Seastone staff and fight him in this match."
There were only a handful of trainees in the Training Camp who knew Armament Haki. Even those who did had not mastered it very well. In Smoker's previous matches, every opponent had fought him with a Seastone weapon.
If you couldn't even touch his physical body, how the hell were you supposed to fight him?
"Thank you, but I don't need it."
"What?"
The moment Leiyin said this, even the referee was stunned for three seconds.
"That second lieutenant—does he even know what he's saying?"
"Even if he has some strength, there's no need to be this arrogant, right?"
"What arrogance? He's just asking to die."
The trainees below erupted in discussion.
Even Verdan, who was watching from the side, thought, How long is that big bastard Leiyin going to keep showing off? There has to be a limit to his arrogance.
Hina smoked beneath the stage, but she felt that things weren't so simple.
On the elevated platform, Momousagi said, "Leiyin, could it be that he has already mastered Armament Haki?"
Akainu crossed his arms over his chest, his face full of disdain. "Hmph. What an arrogant brat."
Logia was publicly acknowledged as the strongest of the three Devil Fruit types in One Piece. Aside from Blackbeard's Dark-Dark Fruit, merely entering their Hollowfication state was enough to leave countless people helpless against every other Logia.
To touch the physical body of a Logia user, there were only a few possible conditions: Armament Haki, Seastone,