Aft of the dog head warship docked at the Marineford pier, aside from a few Marines left behind, only Leon remained, still wrapped up like a mummy.
Lying in the empty infirmary, Leon finally let out a sigh of relief.
Over the past few days, the ship's military doctor always used the excuse of treating his injuries to stealthily inspect his physical structure.
That obsessed gaze made Leon feel a chill run through him whenever he recalled it...
He finally understood why ancient seafarers kept a few sheep on their ships...
Taking advantage of the lack of people on board, Leon got out of bed and intended to go outside for some activity.
Because of the presence of Godzilla within his body, Leon's physique was a mobile source of nuclear radiation.
To keep the Marines on the ship from contracting leukemia, cancer, or similar diseases for no reason, Leon basically stayed lying in the infirmary during the voyage, avoiding physical activity as much as possible to reduce the emission of radiation.
As for Garp, who often lingered in the infirmary to slack off under the pretext that his injuries from the battle with Shiki had not fully healed...
Leon had also asked Garp, using the concern for Garp's injuries as an excuse, if he felt any discomfort, and the reply he got was:
"You brat, are you looking down on the old man!?"
Fine, Hero Garp was a hard-nosed man.
Godzilla was an atomic monster that fed on Nuclear Energy, but Leon, who shared a two-in-one body with Godzilla, had no organ in his human form like a nuclear reactor to absorb and convert Nuclear Energy.
However, after this period of adaptation, the current Leon could avoid radiating heat outward while conscious, and he believed it would not be long before he could control the stray nuclear radiation within his body.
Going even further, relying on the adaptation and modification of the human body by Godzilla's life form, developing techniques driven by Nuclear Energy was not impossible...
Wrapped head to toe in bandages and somewhat hampered in movement, Leon strolled swayingly into the warship's main cabin.
Inside the cabin, a huge display board covered in wanted posters first caught Leon's attention, and at the highest point of the display board were two conspicuous blank spots where the wanted posters had clearly just been peeled off.
Only a single wanted poster remained, pasted at the very top of all the bounties.
One of the Three Great Legendary Pirates, nicknamed Whitebeard—Edward Newgate!
Bounty amount—5.046 billion Beli!
This long string of astonishing numbers left Leon clicking his tongue in wonder.
One had to know that in the world of pirates there was no standard scale for dividing strength; although the Marines had a system for judging strength based on Doriki Value, it was only circulated and used on a small scale.
After all, circulating across this vast sea were martial arts, swordsmanship, marksmanship, Devil Fruit powers, Three Types of Haki...
A powerhouse who had mastered Haki might not necessarily defeat a Devil Fruit User who had not practiced Haki, and a Devil Fruit User could still die by guns and cannons...
To the Marines, the size of a military rank could roughly reflect one's level of strength.
On the pirate side it was even simpler: a string of numbers on a wanted poster represented their level of danger.
Monkey D. Luffy's bounty of 1.5 billion Beli could earn him the title of the Fifth Emperor of the Sea.
Whitebeard and his 5.046 billion Beli...
It was fortunate that Whitebeard had no desire to rule as king, otherwise at this period Whitebeard, who wielded the Tremor-Tremor Fruit and was not burdened by pain, could just wait for people to experience the terror of heaven shattering and earth splitting if he truly made a move...
Facing such a monster, unless landing a direct hit with Atomic Breath in Godzilla form, Leon did not think he had any possibility of winning.
The Nuclear Energy inside his body right now was also insufficient to use a Blue Lotus Nuclear Blast once more, and this pirate world had no Mothra to sacrifice herself to trigger Godzilla's Burning Form.
When all was said and done, Leon was simply too weak.
Because of this bizarre symbiotic relationship, Leon's feeble human form was simply inadequate to unleash Godzilla's full strength.
Unless...
Leon was willing to abandon his human shape, directly transform into Godzilla, and lurk inside a volcanic crater for hundreds or thousands of years.
When he emerged again, that Imu would probably have long since been beaten to dust by Luffy. Even if Luffy failed to beat him, judging by the time, the next Joy Boy should be coming out anyway...
In a sense, this could also be considered Leon fighting for his life.
Let's see which of us lives longer.
Why is my train of thought getting so off track...
Leon pulled his straying thoughts back onto the right path.
The most important thing at present was to rapidly elevate his own strength, relying on the influence and modification of his human form by the Godzilla form.
Leon's current physical talent was not the least bit inferior to Big Mom's—who possessed the strongest talent in the pirate world and was dubbed the "Iron Balloon"—and it would only grow stronger in the future.
With things this way, accepting Garp's invitation to join the Marines had become the best choice at hand.
No matter how good a talent was, it was useless if it could not be brought into play and forged into true strength.
Although the Marines had completely degenerated into accomplices and running dogs for the Celestial Dragons, joining Marine Headquarters remained one of the best starter villages an otherworldly traveler could encounter.
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