Irritable Shiryu

Is this what you needed me to explain?

Noah rubbed his forehead, but after giving it some thought, he quickly understood. "That guy had developed his Devil Fruit ability to the point where he could swim through objects made of other materials?"

"Exactly."

Kizaru drawled, "Sand, walls, trees, even air—he could move swiftly through all of them. He could truly fly through the sky and burrow through the earth, capable of anything. Other than being unable to swim in the sea and sinking if he fell in, he could swim through anywhere else at top speed..."

He could even swim through the air? No wonder they couldn't catch him.

Noah fell into thought.

If a guy like that realized things were going badly and drilled underground, there seemed to be nothing Noah could do. At most, he could blindly slash out a few flying sword attacks and hope for the best.

But if Kizaru were the one facing him...

Leaving aside whether he could escape at lightspeed, once Mr. Kizaru unleashed Yasakani no Magatama, its three-hundred-and-sixty-degree, dead-angle-free barrage would cover everything. It would not matter where he swam.

Unless Baruru changed his surname to Monkey on the spot.

"According to the latest intelligence we gathered, this Baruru was currently active in the waters near Lodestar Island. He was preparing to contact a secret underground arms supplier and purchase a large batch of customized weapons."

"We had been watching that arms supplier for a long time. In order to wipe them all out in one stroke this time, Mr. Kizaru personally set out. Besides us, there was also a warship currently carrying out another mission that had already headed there ahead of us."

Major General Gumier glanced at Noah and smiled. "Noah, you should be very familiar with the captain of