"Not bad." Garp grinned and took off his justice coat.
Though Patri Vic's fist had landed a direct hit, an attack like that was nothing to Garp.
"My Haki is still too weak." Patri Vic clenched his fist helplessly.
He had only recently mastered Haki, so his control wasn't very refined. Compared to Garp, his Haki was much weaker.
"Vic, how about joining the Navy?" Garp asked as he approached Vic step by step.
"What are you talking about? I'm a pirate." Patri Vic paused, then replied after a moment's silence.
He truly hadn't expected Garp to say something like that.
"Even pirates can turn over a new leaf. You haven't gone too far down the wrong path yet, so come over to the right side." Garp continued trying to recruit him.
"Hey, you bastard Marine! Vic belongs to the Rocks Pirates."
Patri Vic hadn't even replied before Whitebeard, fighting in the distance, objected.
"Don't get your hopes up, Garp." Patri Vic shook his head slightly.
"What a shame." Garp sighed.
"Bang!"
The two vanished from where they stood in an instant. Their fists collided, sending up billowing clouds of smoke.
At the same time, the entire Meras Kingdom was in chaos. After all, many of the Navy's strongest fighters had arrived.
And Rocks had run into a Navy Admiral.
"Today is the end of the line for you, Rocks."
In a city in the Meras Kingdom, Navy Admiral Krieg had found Rocks.
"You Marines are such a nuisance. We only took over an Affiliated Nation and killed a Celestial Dragon. Do you really have to keep hounding us and trying to kill us?" Rocks replied with a contemptuous sneer.
"What? You killed a Celestial Dragon?" Krieg said, somewhat shocked.
They had no idea about this. All they'd heard was that the Rocks Pirates were targeting the Meras Kingdom.
They hadn't expected that the pirates had also killed a Celestial Dragon!
"You're truly lawless, Rocks. If I don't kill you today, I won't be able to answer to my superiors." Krieg's expression turned cold as he spoke.
"Enough blathering. If you've got what it takes, try me." Rocks drew the blade at his waist and spoke disdainfully.
His only goal for now was to get money. He had no interest in picking a fight with a Navy Admiral, but that didn't mean he was afraid of one.
Meanwhile, Patri Vic and Garp were locked in a fierce battle.
In terms of Haki, Body Technique, and strength alone, Patri Vic was clearly at a disadvantage.
"What incredible strength."
Patri Vic was knocked back by Garp's fist. He shook out his numb hand. No wonder Garp would later be known as the Fist.
Even with Haki covering his fist, after fighting for a while, Patri Vic's hand still went numb and began to ache.
"If you refuse to see reason, then I'll send you to a Navy prison." Garp sounded confident.
"Go ahead and try." Patri Vic replied calmly.
"Oh? Do you have some other power?" Garp asked with a laugh.
In Garp's eyes, the Purple Steam covering Patri Vic was the power of a Devil Fruit.
It was powerful, but Garp could still deal with it. He couldn't imagine what other tricks Patri Vic might have up his sleeve.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"
Patri Vic spat out a giant fireball, its scorching heat surging toward Garp.
Feeling the fireball's searing heat, Garp broke into a slight sweat. He leaped into the air and dodged the attack.
Patri Vic charged after him in an instant, Haki coating his arm as he landed a heavy punch to Garp's face.
"Bang!"
Garp's body slammed into the ground, smashing a sizable crater into it as clouds of smoke billowed up.
"Garp!"
Sengoku was stunned when he saw this.
"Don't look around during a fight."
Whitebeard's fist, coated in white vibrations, swung toward Sengoku.
"Crack!"
The air around them shattered, webbed with countless cracks. Like shattered glass, it began breaking apart in deeply warped patterns.
The immense force struck Sengoku and sent him flying.
"Fire is the power of your Devil Fruit? Then what's that Purple Steam around you?"
Garp rose from the crater, looking somewhat surprised.
He hadn't expected Patri Vic to be able to wield the power of fire.
"Take a guess." Patri Vic shrugged nonchalantly.
"Could you be a dual Devil Fruit User?" A bead of cold sweat appeared on Garp's forehead.
The Navy's archives had once recorded a person who possessed two Devil Fruits, but that was ancient history.
He'd thought it was a myth. But after seeing Patri Vic, he was certain it was true.
Patri Vic had that kind of body!
"I haven't eaten any Devil Fruit." Patri Vic replied honestly.
He'd gained all his abilities by unlocking more of Hashirama Senju's potential.
Eating a Devil Fruit could certainly make someone stronger quickly, but it had one drawback: you became unable to swim.
So he had no intention of eating a Devil Fruit for now.
"Don't try to fool me, Vic. You think I don't know? You're a Devil Fruit User." Garp sneered.
Patri Vic shrugged helplessly. He'd told the truth.
"Vic, are you really not going to join the Navy?" Garp asked with a deep breath.
With talent like his, if he joined the Navy, he'd surely be given special attention and training. After all, he had such a unique body.
"It'd be a shame if you didn't join the Rocks Pirates. You could've become a great pirate." Patri Vic teased.
"I'd never become a pirate," Garp replied.
"And I'd never become a Marine," Patri Vic said coolly.
Being a pirate was so much freer. As a Marine, you were bound by rules at every turn and had to protect the so-called descendants of the creators—the Celestial Dragons.
"Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation!"
Seeing Garp rushing toward him, Patri Vic opened his mouth and unleashed a sea of flames.
The raging fire was like a demon from the depths of the abyss. In an instant, it swallowed Garp whole.
The heat was so intense that even Sengoku and Whitebeard, standing nearby, could feel it.
"The temperature around us... it's gone up quite a bit," Whitebeard said, momentarily taken aback.
"Garp," Sengoku muttered with a grave expression.
But he had no time to worry about Garp, because he had a powerful enemy right in front of him.
"Great Buddha Form!"
Golden light shimmered across Sengoku's body as he used his Devil Fruit power, growing to an enormous size.
In this form, both his attack power and defense increased dramatically.
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