"Nani!?"
Shiryu stared at Storm, who remained calm despite having clearly been cut in half, and cried out in shock.
"You're a Logia Devil Fruit User?!"
Before today,
Shiryu had never bothered paying attention to Storm, the new Jailer Chief who had volunteered to come to Impel Down.
So he had no idea that Storm was a Clay Fruit User.
Now, Shiryu suddenly witnessed Storm's peculiar ability to "turn his body into clay."
He mistakenly thought Storm had eaten an exceptionally rare Logia Devil Fruit.
Something like the "Mud Mud Fruit"...
But Shiryu's shock
didn't affect Storm's next move.
His body had nearly been cut in half by [Rain Shower]. White clay poured out through the gap, covering the surface of his body.
As the clay continuously filled in the opening,
Storm's body expanded in the blink of an eye until he was nearly the same size as Shiryu.
The distance between them had already been extremely close.
Storm's enlarged body shortened the distance between them even further.
[Shave]!
Storm's figure vanished from where he stood and appeared directly in front of Shiryu.
His right fist, swollen and strengthened by the [Clay Fruit], swung forward with astonishing momentum.
Caught off guard, Shiryu was brutally struck in the lower abdomen by Storm's clay-heavy punch.
Abdominal Punch!
Boom!
A deeply muffled sound rang out.
Shiryu of the Rain, who had been so aggressive moments ago, was instantly sent flying more than ten meters away by Storm.
"Bastard!"
Shiryu steadied himself in midair, then landed neatly on the ground with a flip.
He glared viciously at Storm and raised the Famous Sword [Rain Shower] in his hand once more.
A Logia Devil Fruit User wasn't invincible.
At the very least, Shiryu had plenty of ways to deal with Logia Devil Fruit Users.
Haki was the enemy of all Devil Fruit Users!
But just as Shiryu raised the [Rain Shower],
a sensation entirely different from usual surged through his hand.
Shiryu immediately looked at the [Rain Shower] in his hand.
He suddenly discovered that several clumps of white clay had somehow wrapped themselves around the blade of the [Rain Shower].
The white clay seemed to possess the ability to "reproduce asexually."
In the short span of a moment,
the volume of the white clay swelled to several times its original size.
The gorgeous and bewitching Famous Sword [Rain Shower], sheathed in this special layer of "clay scabbard,"
had directly turned into an absurd white fire poker!
Shiryu completely lost his feel for the weapon.
Storm's combat experience was fairly rich.
He knew very well
that no matter what level a swordsman reached, most of their strength lay in their weapon.
As long as he could lock down a swordsman's Famous Sword, the opponent's strength would plummet on the spot.
Surely there couldn't be a bizarre creature like a "Swordless Great Swordsman" on the sea?
Just as Shiryu had drawn his sword to attack,
Storm had quietly created several clumps of clay and stuck them to his opponent's blade.
Now that he looked at it, the effect was outstanding!
He had temporarily "sealed" Shiryu's Famous Sword.
Taking advantage of Shiryu's attempt to clear away the clay, Storm rushed toward him at top speed.
[Shave]!
The four-star [Shave] burst forth with lightning-fast speed, and Storm instantly arrived in front of Shiryu.
But Shiryu of the Rain was, after all, the Deputy Warden of Impel Down. His reaction speed was not slow in the slightest.
Seeing Storm approach, Shiryu no longer stubbornly tried to clear the clay from the [Rain Shower].
He swung the white clay rod in his hand as though it were an incomparably sharp blade, chopping toward the person before him.
[Kami-e]!
Storm clearly sensed the changes in the airflow caused by Shiryu's attack, and his clay-transformed body rippled.
Shiryu's "clay rod" slammed straight toward Storm's head.
But Storm neither dodged nor evaded. As he allowed the attack to hit him, he also swung a "clay-heavy punch" forward!
Smack!
Shiryu's "clay rod" struck Storm directly in the head, and half of Storm's head exploded.
White clay splattered in every direction like droplets of water.
Boom!
Storm's heavy punch struck Shiryu in the lower abdomen once again, sending him flying backward.
"Cough!"
After his soft abdomen suffered repeated heavy blows, Shiryu could no longer withstand the damage and couldn't help coughing.
A thread of bright-red blood seeped from the corner of his mouth and slid down his chin.
Once was an accident.
But what about twice?
When the surrounding Impel Down guards saw Shiryu sent flying by Storm once again, they began whispering among themselves.
"The Deputy Warden was actually sent flying..."
"The Jailer Chief is so strong! He's actually suppressing the Deputy Warden!"
"Could the prison be changing hands?"
Hannyabal, mixed in among the crowd, quietly withdrew at that moment.
He didn't know whether Storm was stronger or Shiryu was more powerful.
But with a riot breaking out in the prison, and the Jailer Chief and Deputy Warden fighting each other in full view of the public...
Hannyabal sent out an emergency signal.
"Go to the fourth level and get Magellan!"
Neither of the two fighters on the field paid any attention to the spectators' reactions.
Shiryu wiped the corner of his mouth. He didn't care about an injury of this degree.
But when he saw Storm's head rapidly restore itself, he couldn't help spitting again.
"Damn it!"
There was no time to coat his blade with Armament Haki, so he couldn't inflict effective damage on his enemy...
Shiryu's peripheral vision glanced at the [Rain Shower] in his right hand.
After this exchange of attacks,
the clay covering the [Rain Shower] had grown thicker and thicker.
By now, Shiryu couldn't even let go of the hilt if he wanted to.
The clay had not only wrapped around the [Rain Shower],
but had also wrapped around most of his right hand!
Shiryu's right hand now looked like a gigantic, mutated white club.
I can't let this mud keep growing...
A thought flashed through Shiryu's mind.
The next moment, he stopped hesitating and directly released his Armament Haki.
Jet-black Haki surged from Shiryu's body, wrapping around his entire right arm from the inside out.
The Famous Sword [Rain Shower], along with the outer layer of "clay scabbard," was completely enveloped by Shiryu's Armament Haki.
A moment ago, Shiryu's right hand had looked like a white club.
Now it was a "black club"!
Although Armament Haki could touch the physical body of a Logia Devil Fruit User,
it couldn't prevent a Devil Fruit User from activating their ability the way Seastone could.
And when it came to physical clay created by the [Clay Fruit],
Armament Haki was even less capable of "erasing" it.
Shiryu's release of Armament Haki merely suppressed the clay's continued expansion. It couldn't make the clay disappear.
He casually moved the club on his right hand a few times, counting it as an adjustment to this special "weapon."
"Kid!"
Shiryu looked at Storm and revealed a cold smile.
"The game's over!"
This time, before Storm could attack, Shiryu charged straight at him.
Although the Deputy Warden looked rather comical as he dragged along a strange black club,
his movement speed wasn't slow in the slightest!
Seeing that Shiryu had used Armament Haki, Storm had no intention of underestimating him.
Before Shiryu could close in, Storm swung his right fist directly.
White clay piled together, rapidly expanding and growing huge.
Storm's right arm swelled to a size comparable to that of a member of the Giant Tribe in the short span of a moment.
He swung his arm with all his strength, and the clay giant fist launched an incomparably ferocious attack forward.
Giant Clay Fist!
On the other side, Shiryu also swung his right arm—the strange, ugly black club.
Boom!
One black and one white,
two weapons of different shapes and somewhat different colors collided violently.
A loud boom erupted at once, and surging waves of air spread outward in every direction.
But Shiryu was Shiryu, after all.
He was one of the two pillars of Impel Down.
Even though Shiryu had lost his Famous Sword,
the level of his Armament Haki was still not to be underestimated.
Before that Armament Haki club,
Storm's clay giant fist held out for less than a few seconds before rapidly collapsing.
Shiryu smashed through most of the clay giant fist with overwhelming force, and large chunks of clay fell to the ground.
But the softness of the clay itself still buffered much of his strength.
In the end,
Shiryu's black club came to a stop.
This wasn't entirely because the clay had absorbed part of his strength.
It was also because a powerful force inside the clay giant fist had stopped the black club from advancing any farther.
[Tekkai]!
Storm's right hand was hidden deep inside the clay giant fist.
His knuckles now radiated the same jet-black sheen.
At this moment,
Storm's fist was like a hard iron nail, blocking the attack from ahead.
If he had taken the time to check his attributes, he would certainly have seen a new ability appear in his ability panel—
[Armament Haki: ☆]
But even without seeing the awakening of [Armament Haki],
Storm could still clearly sense the existence of this power.
When he had previously blocked the Man-faced Lion's group attack, Storm had already sensed the existence of this power.
Now, as he used [Tekkai] to block Shiryu's attack, the feeling became increasingly clear.
This was the power!
Haki!
Storm had just been about to continue throwing punches and test his new ability
when an angry shout came from the entrance to the prison cafeteria.
"Stop fighting at once!"
In the midst of battle, Storm had no mind to pay attention to the noise outside.
Shiryu was the same.
And then—
"Poison Dragon!"
Two dark-purple Poison Dragons came flying over menacingly.
Storm stood where he was, completely unmoved.
But Shiryu looked as though he had seen a cat after being turned into a mouse.
He hurriedly swung the black club in his hand at the incoming Poison Dragons, smashing one of their heads apart in a single blow.
Immediately afterward.
Shiryu hurriedly dodged to the side, avoiding the splattered poison.
"Magellan..."
Shiryu stared warily at the man standing at the cafeteria entrance.
"Yo, Warden!"
Storm waved at Magellan calmly and casually.
Magellan looked at Shiryu, who was in a sorry state with blood at the corner of his mouth, then at Storm, who remained calm and unhurried.
Hadn't Hannyabal said that Shiryu was cold-blooded and ruthless, and had raised his butcher's knife against his comrades in Impel Down?
But why did the scene before him look more like...
Storm was abusing Shiryu?
Today... he probably wouldn't be recommending anyone...
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