Crisp Heads—You Can Tell They're Good Melons at a Glance

Watching the Navy suddenly erupt into commotion, even several vice admirals looked eager to make a move.

Satisfied smiles appeared on the Five Elders' faces.

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However, their true targets were Aokiji and Kizaru.

After all, they were two Navy admirals!

Moreover, based on what they had always known of them, both were relatively laid-back.

There was a slight difference between them, though.

Aokiji was genuinely lazy. No matter what you asked him to do, he would do it at his own pace.

Kizaru, on the other hand, was simply content to slack off. He treated work like clocking in and out—if you assigned him something, he would do it, but if you did not, he would coast until the end of the day.

Although they did not know why Akainu, the "dog" they had once valued most, had been the first to turn against them, winning over the remaining two would be an unexpected bonus.

At that moment, a pink-haired young man suddenly stepped out from behind the Five Elders.

"Five Elders, sir! It was that man with the monkey tail! He caused all of this; the other Marines are innocent! We Marines would never betray the World Government! Right, Fleet Admiral Sengoku?! Mister Garp?!"

The pink-haired youth looked across Sengoku and the others with hopeful eyes.

Yet all he received were their silent expressions, along with the increasingly fierce battle between Shamrock and Akainu nearby.

The Five Elders also watched Sengoku and the others with amused expressions.

The Warrior God of Agriculture said, "Well, Sengoku, if what this young man says is true, then we'll give you one last chance."

As he spoke, he raised a hand and pointed at Zhu Mang. "Kill this man and put an end to this farce!"

That was what he said, but in truth, Sengoku, Garp, and the others had already been sentenced to death in their minds!

Because that was the order personally issued by that person after seeing the earlier Visual Den Den Mushi footage!

And that person's orders were something even they could never defy.

They could not even question them!

"Koby..." Zhu Mang looked at the pink-haired youth who had suddenly appeared, somewhat surprised.

Koby was startled. He did not understand why this terrifying fiend knew the name of someone as insignificant as him.

He had only just become a chief petty officer, a tiny nobody!!!

Koby screamed in terror inside his heart.

He had joined the Navy only a few months ago. Though he had trained under Garp, he still retained some of the cowardly nature he had possessed before.

Now, a single word and one glance from Zhu Mang had frightened him so badly that a snot bubble formed at his nose.

"How disgusting." Zhu Mang raised his hand, then lowered it again in distaste. He muttered to himself, "In that case, I'll use you to test my new insight."

"Monkey-Tailed Man, what exactly are you—" The Warrior God of Finance among the Five Elders had just begun to speak.

Suddenly...

Boom!

A powerful wave radiated outward from Zhu Mang in every direction.

"S-Such intense Conqueror's Haki!" Sengoku, Garp, and the others standing beside Zhu Mang all changed expression.

Even though they had also mastered Conqueror's Haki and developed it to the level of Conqueror's coating, they still felt faintly dizzy.

It was not just dizziness.

As their minds blurred, it was as though a vision of mountains of corpses and seas of blood appeared before their eyes.

A deadly sense of crisis rose within every one of them.

Didn't Gebinz not even know what Haki was before? And I never told him what Conqueror's Haki was either!!! Sengoku roared inwardly, utterly incredulous.

He could hardly imagine how extraordinary someone's talent had to be to go from nothing to mastering the Six Powers and Armament Haki in just a day or two—and even awakening Conqueror's Haki!

Other than Observation Haki, he had somehow acquired every standard ability of the powerful in this world!

What Sengoku did not know was that Zhu Mang did not need any of these things to be strong.

They merely added a little extra amusement atop his already overwhelming strength.

"Ge... Gebinz..." Garp forced out the words, wanting Zhu Mang to stop using Conqueror's Haki.

His Conqueror's Haki had clearly only just awakened, and he could not yet control it freely.

With the strength and force of spirit behind his Conqueror's Haki, he might very well knock out everyone present!

Just then.

Whoosh—

The Conqueror's Haki that had been pressing down on Garp, Sengoku, and the others suddenly vanished.

Just as they thought Gebinz had noticed the problem and withdrawn it himself—

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

A series of explosions rang out.

Ahead of them, where the Five Elders and the others stood—

Koby's pink-haired head exploded first with a bang, bursting like a watermelon. Chunks of shattered flesh, still carrying tufts of pink hair, sprayed in every direction along with blood and brains. Then his body hit the ground with a thud.

Next came the Five Elders.

The heads of all five exploded one after another, in scenes nearly identical to Koby's.

In an instant, the ground was covered in blood, brains, and fragments of skull.

Naturally, there were also six headless corpses.

"Bang!" Zhu Mang held out his palm and made an exploding gesture. "Crisp and pleasing to the ear. You can tell they were good melons."

In truth, he did not know whether what he had used counted as Conqueror's Haki.

He had only experienced Conqueror's Haki firsthand at close range when he had been near the Empress.

Afterward, during the fusion of his soul and body, he gained a strange sensation—a sense that he could release something within himself similar to spiritual power.

Thinking it over carefully—

In One Piece, Armament Haki and Observation Haki were probably like offensive and defensive applications of ki, with Observation Haki being somewhat deeper in nature.

As for Conqueror's Haki—

According to the original story, it was the "qualities of a king," a talent possessed by one in a million.

But in truth, it was more like a form of mental power.

By all rights, though, that should not have been an area Saiyans excelled in.

He remembered that in Dragon Ball, Piccolo often trained through meditation, but Son Goku, Vegeta, and the others did not seem to undergo any deliberate mental training.

At most, Son Goku had learned something at the Lookout as a child about being "as calm as the sky."

But on further thought, although Saiyans did not specifically train their minds, they were not actually weak in that regard.

Vegeta had relied on his own willpower to willingly accept Babidi's mark, yet still resisted Babidi's control.

Babidi's enslavement magic was probably another method of controlling the mind.

Judging by Sengoku and the others' reactions, even if what he had used was not Conqueror's Haki, it was close enough.

And mastering this kind of mental power was clearly beneficial to him.

Not only could it make up for the Saiyans' weakness in mental matters, it could also give him a deeper understanding of how to control ki!