Snatching the Griffin Fruit

"Damn it!!"

"Kozuki Houka! Do you not even have the courage to fight Imu?!"

"You'll never measure up to Joy Boy!"

Kozuki Houka's shamelessness had Imu fuming with rage. Imu quickly appeared beside the Four Elders and the Holy Knights.

This was to prevent these servants from truly being ambushed by Houka and locked away in some mysterious alternate dimension!

They had to find a way to restrain Kozuki Houka's speed!

"Tch! If I had eight hundred years to train, I'd crush you with one finger!"

"And you're no match for Joy Boy either!"

"I heard Joy Boy's Conqueror's Haki scared you into kneeling and breaking out in a cold sweat?"

"How embarrassing, Imu!"

"Let me say it again: Queen Lily didn't like you. She liked Joy Boy!"

"Even if you keep a giant portrait of Queen Lily in the Flower Room, you're still just a pitiful wretch."

Houka instantly appeared beside Rocks, who was tossing Ursus Shocks everywhere, and began hurling insults at Imu.

Even while being surrounded and pincered by the Four Elders and Holy Knights, Rocks had yet to reveal his Dark-Dark Fruit abilities.

Had this brute learned to hold something back too, planning to catch Imu off guard?

"Houka! Imu will tear you to pieces!"

Houka's taunts filled Imu's eyes with bloodshot veins, and Imu transformed into the massive form of Demon Imu.

"Rocks! Time to make a real getaway!"

Seeing Imu enter berserk mode, Houka decisively chose to flee.

"Wahahaha! This ability is fun! Imu, see you next time!"

Rocks teleported away directly. He had never intended to fight Imu in the first place; he had only come to have a little fun.

That was enough.

He had not even revealed his Dark-Dark Fruit abilities.

"Kozuki Houka!! Don't you dare run!!"

Imu cursed in a