What Else Are You Hiding from Me, Garp?!

The sea breeze drifted gently, and the waters lay still. In the dead of night, a lone warship stood motionless upon the ocean.

With a creak, Kuina stood with her dark-blue hair spilling down her back. Her still-young breasts had gradually begun to fill out, and unprecedented fighting spirit brimmed in her heart.

"Come out. I know you can hear me. Fight me—I'm going to defeat you with it!"

A soft chuckle came from the crow's nest atop the mast. Kuina's brows rose, and the flawless white blade sliced through the air, instantly stopping before her.

Countless orderly streams of azure techniques pierced into it with ease, as though there were no resistance at all.

"This is..."

"Wado Ichimonji—my black blade, mine alone. Even if an entire island were pressed upon it, it would not bend in the slightest. Even the hardest object cannot defend against its edge."

"A black blade that truly belongs to me alone. Even you are no exception!"

Her tone was exceptionally resolute, and a confident, radiant smile spread across her face. Kuina looked confidently at the opponent who had defeated her more than five thousand times in a row.

"So this is your black blade, Wado Ichimonji. As expected, that was its name..."

The next moment, under Kuina's horrified gaze, Hua Yue merely smiled without speaking and silently stepped forward.

"Idiot! What are you doing?! You'll get cut—"

Clang!

A crisp, pleasant sound like metal striking metal rang out before them.

"What a shame. The edge you take such pride in apparently cannot cut through my skin."

"How can this be? Wado Ichimonji can clearly even cut stones made of Poneglyph material and Seastone..."

Her pupils trembled as Wado Ichimonji in her hand gradually darkened. She glared furiously at Hua Yue, but no matter how