Did You Go Easy on Luffy When You Fought Him?

Did you go easy on Luffy when you fought him?

On the azure sea, the wind howled as the waves rose and fell.

On the Dog-Head Warship, the sails on its three masts billowed, driving the vessel forward.

Inside the crow's nest atop the second mast in the middle of the warship, a Marine soldier holding a spyglass shouted urgently down below:

"Report! Thirteen pirate ships have appeared on the horizon!

Judging from their Pirate Flags, they appear to be the Lions Grand Fleet led by Pirate Admiral Paul Frode!!!

Pirate Admiral Lion Paul Frode, with a bounty of 365 million Belly, is also among the fleet."

"Ha! Pirates!?"

Hearing the lookout's cry, old Garp instantly felt wide awake. He reached into a box, grabbed a doughnut, stuffed it into his mouth, and swallowed it.

"Bogard, have them bring up the cannonballs."

"Yes!"

Bogard, who had been standing beside Garp with a sword in his left hand, nodded lightly. He strode into the cabin and ordered a group of Marine soldiers to push carts fitted with conveyor belts onto the bow deck one after another.

On the distant horizon, aboard a massive Lion-Head Three-Masted Sailing Ship among the thirteen pirate vessels.

A pirate lookout standing on the mast stared ahead and shouted down below:

"Admiral Frode, a Marine warship has appeared in the distance.

The sails bear the words 'Marine HQ3.' It should be the warship of Marine hero Vice Admiral Garp."

At the lion-headed prow, Paul Frode—a bearded, muscular man over three meters tall with long golden hair draped over his shoulders—drew the great saber from his waist and laughed.

"Marine hero Garp!? What are you panicking for!

He only has one warship, while we have thirteen. Sink him!

Perfect. Before I enter the New World, I'll use this to make my name ring across the seas.

As long as I defeat Garp, I'll be one step closer to the throne of Pirate King... Open fire!"

"Long live Admiral Frode!"

"Long live Admiral Frode!"

"Long live Admiral Frode!"

After the bearded man's impassioned speech, the pirates' morale soared at once. They howled as they loaded cannonballs into the cannons, preparing to fire.

Under Paul Frode's command, all the pirate ships formed a line across the sea, their broadside cannons aiming at the Dog-Head Warship charging toward them in the distance...

When the two sides were three kilometers apart, the hundreds of cannons of Paul's Grand Fleet began firing in succession.

Boom! Boom! Boom!...

At the bow of the Dog-Head Warship, Garp stood at the very front with an excited grin on his face. He casually picked up a pitch-black cannonball weighing nearly twenty kilograms and tossed it in his hand.

Fist Bone Meteor Shower!

As Garp shouted, his hands immediately began to move, transforming into a blur of afterimages.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!...

One twenty-kilogram black cannonball after another was hurled out like volleyballs, smashing toward the thirteen ships three kilometers away.

Boom! Boom! Boom!...

The cannonballs fired from the pirate ships splashed into the sea around the warship, blasting up huge sprays of water that continuously splattered across the deck.

Sephiroth turned to look at the deck he had just mopped clean and could not help sighing.

Looks like I'll have to mop it again later...

Every cannonball on course to hit the Dog-Head Warship was intercepted in midair by a cannonball Garp casually threw back, detonating instantly in bursts of blazing fire.

Garp, you must have gone easy on Luffy when you fought him, right? Sephiroth muttered inwardly.

While dealing with hundreds of cannons all by himself, Garp still had time to throw several cannonballs at the pirate fleet ahead, battering their hulls until they cracked apart and slowly sank beneath the sea.

That terrifying throwing speed was practically a Humanoid Gatling!

If the enemy pirate ships had no experts in Physical Prowess or effective means of interception, they could only take a one-sided beating.

No wonder the Roger Pirates had been chased all over the world by Garp!

Under such terrifying firepower, ordinary people would find it nearly impossible to even muster the desire to fight him...

Under Garp's relentless bombardment, the thirteen pirate ships sank beneath the sea one after another.

Before long, only one enormous three-masted sailing ship with a lion-shaped prow remained on the pirates' side.

That was only because Lion Frode had risked his life to block the cannonballs...

Garp stared ahead, ready to continue throwing cannonballs and sink the flagship. His right hand reached out by instinct, but grabbed nothing but air.

Looking down, he discovered that the cannonballs on the carts had long since been used up.

"Bring up more cannonballs! Don't dawdle!"

Beside him, the logistics officer quickly stood straight and reported loudly:

"Report, Vice Admiral Garp, those were the last 1,500 cannonballs on the ship..."

"Ha!? Didn't I tell you to keep five thousand cannonballs in reserve?" Garp turned around with an unhappy expression.

"The other 3,500 were all thrown out by you during the previous encounters with pirate ships..."

"Then why didn't you restock them?" Garp widened his eyes, his tone dissatisfied.

At that, the logistics officer's eye twitched slightly as he explained weakly:

"When we arrived at the City of Water, we hadn't had time to resupply... before you urged us to set sail back to the G-3 Branch..."

"Ahahaha!~(￣▽￣~)~ So that's how it is! Then it's fine...

Looks like I'll need to prepare an iron cannonball that can be recovered in the future..."

Upon hearing that, Garp immediately laughed it off awkwardly and issued another order:

"Forget it, don't fuss over such details!

Prepare to board them and engage in close-quarters combat!"

"Yes!" ×N

After receiving the order, the Marine soldiers immediately sprang into action, raising their weapons. Some soldiers armed with rifles had already begun firing under their officers' command.

Bogard swept his gaze across the deck and spotted Sephiroth by the rail, leaning on his mop and gazing into the distance.

"Recruit, the battle ahead isn't something you can casually take part in.

Get down into the cabin. Don't come out recklessly."

Sephiroth could not help curling his lips. His body immediately transformed into Vampire Form, and he drew the Autumn Leaf Blade from his waist.

"Even if I'm a recruit, I'm not weak!"

Bogard had wanted to say more, but Garp interrupted him.

"Ahahaha! You've got guts, kid!

Just don't die once the battle starts!"

Clearly, Garp had already agreed to let Sephiroth join the battle, so Bogard, as his adjutant, could only stop trying to persuade him.