"Old Man Garp, I'm telling you—hit Brother Biao on the head again, and I'll fucking fight you to the death." Brother Biao walked behind Garp, clutching the swollen lump on his head as he berated him resentfully.
"You deserved it. Making a pirate-like declaration so openly on a warship? You're lucky I didn't arrest you on the spot."
Garp swung his arm with great satisfaction. Clearly... he hadn't meant a word of that. He had simply wanted to punch Wu Biao.
He couldn't be bothered correcting Wu Biao's form of address. The kid could call him whatever he liked. If Garp found him annoying someday, he could just punch him again. It wasn't like he had anything better to do.
The others could only shake their heads. This was Vice Admiral Garp—any other vice admiral would have gotten angry long ago.
"Hey, Old Man Garp, what was that punch just now?" Wu Biao asked after rubbing down the huge bump on his head.
That was right... he had actually rubbed it down.
Helmeppo and Koby followed behind Wu Biao and watched with their own eyes as the huge swollen lump vanished after being rubbed a few times.
"I'm asking you a question. Your fist turned completely black just now, and it hurt like hell when you hit me. What was that?" Wu Biao hurried forward and casually shoved a rear admiral standing beside Garp out of the way.
The rear admiral's face darkened, but after glancing at Garp, he forced himself not to react.
"That was Haki."
Garp didn't hide it, saying proudly, "Haki is a latent power possessed by all humans. There's Armament Haki, which boosts defense and attack power and allows one to touch the true bodies of Logia Devil Fruit users; and Observation Haki, which lets one