Learn and Use Immediately: Great Voyage

Garp grabbed Lynn's forearm, a satisfied smile appearing on his face.

"That'll do, brat."

"You've passed the entrance exam."

But Lynn did not stop after hearing those words.

He was just a little short of grasping the tail of a new skill!

Yet Garp suddenly exerted force, flinging Lynn away and slamming him onto the ground.

Before the rising dust could settle, Lynn sprang back to his feet and clenched his fists again.

"Again!"

"HAHAHAHA!"

Garp could not help but burst into laughter again. "Don't be in such a hurry, brat. You'll have plenty of time to fool around!"

After laughing, Garp suddenly waved his hand. The surrounding Marines swiftly formed up and prepared to leave.

Seeing this, Lynn hurriedly stopped them. "Wait!"

"Oh, right!" Garp suddenly smacked his forehead, pulled something from his pocket, and tossed it to Lynn.

Lynn caught it and saw that it was a Log Pose.

"Recover properly. With your current body, you won't be able to keep up with my training."

Garp grinned at Lynn. "With how tough you are, a few days should be enough to recover, right? Once you're healed, follow that pointer and come find me!"

Then, led by Garp, the Marines marched out of Foosha Village.

Elsewhere.

Hearing Garp's words, Lynn's tense body and nerves instantly relaxed. He fell flat onto his back, gasping heavily.

Using up five hundred Energy Value in one go had indeed placed an enormous burden on his body.

Seeing this, Makino hurried over from nearby.

"Lynn, are you all right?!"

"I'm fine." Lynn shook his head.

Garp had held back well and had not seriously injured Lynn, but those two punches had still left his entire body feeling as though it had fallen apart.

The exhaustion and swelling pain brought on by the massive Energy Value expenditure spread through Lynn's body. Lying on the ground, he raised his right hand and looked at the pointer in it.

"Training with Garp..."

Lynn grinned and turned to ask Makino beside him.

"Is there a boat in Foosha Village that can go out to sea?"

"I have a small one. It's docked at Foosha Village's harbor, and it's enough to head out to sea."

Makino nodded. She had overheard Garp and Lynn's conversation. The two did not seem to be enemies, so she was relieved.

As for the agreement between Garp and Lynn, Makino understood that she had no reason to stop them. All she could do was help however she could.

Using a handkerchief to wipe Lynn's face, Makino asked:

"When are you heading out to sea? I'll prepare in advance."

Without any hesitation, Lynn gave his answer—

"Now!"

The sunlight was just right.

The sea glittered with rippling waves.

A warship moved slowly across the water.

Its figurehead was a massive dog's head with a bone in its mouth.

Anyone familiar with the Marines knew whose warship this was—

The Marine Hero, Iron Fist Monkey D. Garp!

At the moment, Garp's warship carried around fifty Marine soldiers. They were elite troops selected from various Marine divisions, far surpassing ordinary Marines of the same generation in both combat experience and combat ability.

Their destination was an uninhabited island, where they would undergo special training in the "Marine Six Powers"!

Soru, Tekkai, Kami-e, Geppo, Rankyaku, and Shigan—these six techniques were the pinnacle of Marine martial arts, capable of allowing their users to surpass the limits of human physical ability.

Yet an odd atmosphere hung over the warship.

Apart from those operating the vessel, the remaining Marines stood in neat ranks on deck.

Their expressions were strange, their eyes constantly darting backward.

Garp stood directly in front of them, gazing out at the sea. He pulled out a rice cracker from the bag in his hand and began crunching away on it by himself.

The adjutant beside him could not help reminding Garp.

"Vice Admiral, is it really all right to just... ignore him?"

The "him" that Marine referred to was currently behind the warship, riding in a small boat only a few meters long.

And atop that small boat, the first thing one could see was a mountain of food.

A hand stretched out from the pile, grabbed a piece of bone-in grilled meat, and stuffed it into a mouth.

In the blink of an eye, that single-person portion of bone-in grilled meat had been swallowed whole.

Lynn Barek was currently riding Makino's small boat and chasing after Garp's warship!

Rest for several days to recover? How could that be possible!

Lynn could not wait even a single day for the chance to receive Garp's personal guidance!

He had chosen to depart immediately.

So that he could recover his strength and replenish his Energy Value as much as possible along the way, Lynn traded the Giant Wild Boar he had just hunted in Foosha Village for a large amount of food, then crammed it all into Makino's small boat.

Thus, a scene that was both reasonable and bizarre appeared behind the Marine warship.

The Log Pose Garp had given him sat in front of Lynn.

His right hand constantly stuffed food from beside him into his mouth.

His left hand held a book.

Whenever he paused from rowing, Lynn kept flipping through it.

Seeing this, the Marines aboard the warship began speculating about Lynn's identity and the deeper meaning behind his bizarre behavior.

"Is that kid really human? He was so badly injured just now, so why is he already bouncing around like nothing happened?!"

"He eats so much! Is he trying to finish all the food on that boat?"

"Why does he keep reading that book?"

"I heard that the Great Pirate nicknamed Tyrant likes to read while sailing. Could Lynn Barek be connected to Tyrant?"

"What exactly is that book?"

The mysterious book in Lynn's hands aroused endless curiosity among the Marines aboard the warship, but they were too far away to see its cover clearly.

Thus, only Lynn himself knew the book's title.

It really was a very important book—

"Beginner's Guide to Sailing Small Hand-Operated Boats."

Take a few bites of meat, read a few pages.

Then put down the book, stare at the Log Pose and the warship ahead, and row a few strokes.

Lynn did not want to be doing this either, but he knew absolutely nothing about sailing.

Rowing a small boat on a lake and rowing one on the ocean were completely different matters. Controlling a small boat at sea was definitely a technical skill!

Even with a target ahead, poor sailing skills could easily get one swept off elsewhere by the currents.

Lynn had barely learned how to operate a warship before, but he did not know how to row a small boat.

With no other choice, he borrowed a book from Makino and rowed while reading.

A proper case of learning and using it immediately!

On the warship.

Garp laughed heartily as he answered the adjutant's question.

"HAHAHAHA! What an energetic brat. No need to mind him!"

Looking out at the sea ahead, Garp grinned.

He had indeed come specifically to find Lynn.

Earlier, Zephyr had told Garp through a Den Den Mushi that Lynn and Fisher Tiger had sailed off aboard his warship.

For a Fish-Man, the sea was home. But Lynn was a Devil Fruit User, so he could only rely on that warship to reach the next island.

That warship only had three Log Poses:

There was no way Lynn would go to the Sabaody Archipelago or Marine Headquarters, so there was only one place he was most likely to go—Loguetown in the East Blue.

Garp had originally planned to find Lynn in Loguetown, but by the time he arrived, he learned that Lynn had already left for Foosha Village.

Why did that brat go to my home?

Garp did not dwell on it. He brought a ship full of elite Marines to Foosha Village and finally encountered Lynn Barek.

The adjutant beside him thought for a moment, then finally forced himself to speak to Garp.

"Vice Admiral Garp, that man is the most vicious criminal personally named by the Celestial Dragons. Are you really going to..."

What the adjutant left unsaid was, of course, Garp's intention to teach Lynn Haki.

For the Marine Hero to teach Haki to a criminal with a bounty of 100 Million Beli was simply unheard of!

"Mm!"

Garp nodded. "It's a promise I made to an old friend. I have to keep it!"

The adjutant wanted to ask more, but one glare from Garp frightened him into shrinking back.

With the adjutant no longer pestering him with questions, Garp took advantage of the rare quiet and sank into memories from not long ago.

More than a month earlier.

Garp had heard about Lynn from Zephyr through a Den Den Mushi.

At the time, Zephyr had spoken to Garp in an excitement he had not shown for a long time.

"Garp, do you know?"

"In this era, there's actually a brat whose dream is—to be a hero!"

"HAHAHAHAHA!"

Even now, Garp could still remember Zephyr's laughter from that time.

Ever since pirates had killed his wife and child, Zephyr had never laughed so happily again.