After Praline discovered that even Tempest Kick could not secure her victory, she became a little discouraged and petulantly called off the fight. But expectation soon reappeared on her face. This was exactly the kind of ability her teacher needed to have!
But the choice of whether to accept still lay with Jinbe. Although Fisher Tiger had spoken up, it would be difficult to force him if he refused, and Praline had already proven in that short time that she was not the sort of good student teachers liked.
Since Mousse had always had a good impression of Jinbe, he had no intention of ignoring his personal wishes and forcing him to teach his sister. So he, too, looked toward Jinbe and awaited his decision.
"Given your sister's condition, if she masters the leg techniques in Fish-Man Karate, she will become strong beyond anything I can imagine. She only needs to casually learn the rest; there is no need to devote too much effort to it. A strong fighter specializing in leg techniques is already enough to handle the vast majority of opponents. Her earlier loss was mainly due to insufficient combat experience."
Jinbe did not answer directly, but the moment he offered that advice, Mousse smiled, because it was effectively a declaration of his stance.
Mousse also agreed with Jinbe's assessment, and so the matter was settled. However, before Praline joined the Sun Pirates, he still had one thing to do—remove the Devil Fruit she had eaten earlier to maintain the intensity of her training under the Seastone training method.
It was not because Devil Fruit users could not learn Fish-Man Karate, but because the latter was most efficient when trained in water. In any case, girls finished growing early, and Praline's physique had already been trained nearly to