Can't Improve Your Swordsmanship? I Can Teach You, Hawkeye

A Sword Intent that surpassed his own, one that supposedly existed only in legend, was displayed before him! Mihawk had long since been itching for a fight!

To be able to cross blades with a powerful swordsman like Ye Yu had been Hawkeye's lifelong wish.

This... was a swordsman's obsession with swordsmanship!

A powerful fighting spirit surged from Hawkeye Mihawk's body. Facing an opponent as strong as Ye Yu, Hawkeye Mihawk had never intended to hold back from the very beginning!

Against a supreme swordsman who could forge swords from intent, holding back would be no different from suicide!

Hawkeye Mihawk, as a swordsman himself, understood that perfectly well.

Sensing Hawkeye's overwhelming will to fight, Ye Yu smiled faintly and separated a portion of his Conqueror's Haki from his body, placing it in front of Urouge.

The aftershock of the battle between himself and Hawkeye Mihawk would probably be enough to overwhelm Urouge... He had only just taken in an errand-running underling. He could not let him get shaken to death by the aftermath of his own attack...

Feeling the battle intent of two peerless powerhouses from such close range, Urouge's throat went dry as he swallowed.

"Thank... thank you... Captain Ye Yu! You two... are so powerful!" Urouge said with a shocked expression.

After protecting Urouge, the giant sword above Ye Yu's head began madly absorbing the Conqueror's Haki within his body.

For swordsmen, this kind of attack was called "intent," the strongest form of attack available to a swordsman.

But for Ye Yu, this was merely one form of his Conqueror's Haki Manifestation!

His Conqueror's Haki could manifest everything in the world! A giant sword... was only one of its forms!

Centered on Ye Yu and Hawkeye Mihawk, two powerful forces finished gathering!

The entire Kuraigana Island was swept by violent winds because of those two forces. Even the sea surrounding the island became turbulent and surging, constantly battering the coastline!

The baboons nearby wailed as they fled in every direction, while flocks of birds took flight from the island.

"Mihawk, I... am about to make my move," Ye Yu said calmly.

"Come, Ye Yu. I have waited for this day for far too long! Let me see what true swordsmanship really is!" Hawkeye Mihawk showed no fear in his eyes, only eager anticipation.

As a swordsman, even dying beneath Ye Yu's attack would be an honor!

The giant sword gathered above his head, thick with Conqueror's Haki and already manifested into form, finally swung down!

The surrounding space seemed to explode as a powerful slash appeared, like lightning.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

A dazzling, razor-sharp sword aura over a thousand meters wide appeared, carrying the power to destroy everything as it sped toward Hawkeye Mihawk, the world's greatest swordsman!

The gale generated by that slash alone uprooted every tree in the surrounding forest!

"Hawkeye Mihawk, let us decide the victor with one strike," Ye Yu said.

Holding back against the world's greatest swordsman, Hawkeye Mihawk... would instead be an insult to him.

Ye Yu intended to use his full strength and decide the outcome in a single strike!

A sharp gleam flashed through Hawkeye Mihawk's eyes as he said excitedly, "Good! One strike to decide victory! This is what a true battle between swordsmen should be!"

"Nine mountains and eight seas form one world. A thousand worlds gather to become one. A Small Thousand Worlds. I have one blade; nothing exists that I cannot cut. One Great—Great Thousand Worlds!"

Faced with Ye Yu's terrifying attack, Hawkeye Mihawk muttered the words and directly unleashed his strongest strike!

Hawkeye Mihawk tightly gripped his black blade with both hands and swung it fiercely toward the thousand-meter slash in the sky.

A massive black slash appeared, like thunder, carrying the aura of death as it collided with Ye Yu's attack!

The two powerful forces met and clashed!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

At the very center between Ye Yu and Hawkeye Mihawk, an explosion erupted like the detonation of a nuclear bomb!

Powerful shockwaves continuously expanded through ripples in the atmosphere! The aftermath of that overwhelming force spread outward from the two of them.

Even the ground began to collapse. The immense force spread across Kuraigana Island, opening crack after crack in the earth.

The island's forest was swept by the shockwave, and more than half its trees were uprooted. The island's baboons all fled into the caves in the mountains, clutching their heads and curling up together!

Watching this apocalyptic scene, Urouge's eyes were filled with shock. His mouth hung open, and his lips trembled uncontrollably with excitement.

"This... this terrifying power... is this Captain Ye Yu's strength?"

"It is simply too terrifying!"

"Before such power, I, Urouge, feel like nothing more than an ant!"

"This is the power of a god! Humans simply cannot reach such a level!" Urouge said, gazing at Captain Ye Yu with worship in his eyes.

The two enormous slashes intertwined in the sky. Ye Yu's white slash only remained locked against the other for a second before bursting outward through the sky like an exploding balloon, rapidly sweeping through the surrounding area!

After holding out for a second, Hawkeye Mihawk's black slash was instantly suppressed by the white slash and swallowed in a moment!

After the deadlock ended, the powerful aftermath rushed swiftly toward Hawkeye Mihawk.

Hawkeye Mihawk's expression turned grave. The dazzling light of the slash nearly filled his entire field of vision.

It is too fast... There is no way to dodge it! Hawkeye Mihawk thought in shock.

I will die!

But... to have fought a supreme swordsman as powerful as Ye Yu, I will have no regrets even in death!

So... this is Sword Intent?

When my swordsmanship reaches its end, this is the direction it should develop toward!

If I had a few more years to develop in this direction, my swordsmanship would definitely break through its bottleneck!

Hawkeye Mihawk closed his eyes. If there were another life, he would definitely reach that realm!

BOOM!

The powerful slash struck behind Hawkeye Mihawk. The entire island shook violently, and even the sea was churned up like the eruption of a tsunami, with waves dozens of meters high crashing toward the island's interior!

Under Ye Yu's terrifying slash, Kuraigana Island was forcibly split in two!

Hawkeye Mihawk opened his eyes. All around him was a scene of heaven and earth collapsing, as though the apocalypse had arrived—yet he himself was completely unharmed...

There was no need to say it. The young man before him must have altered the slash's trajectory at the critical moment!

Ye Yu still wore a smile. Hawkeye Mihawk was supposed to be used to turn against the Marines. If Ye Yu killed him just like that, would this trip not have been for nothing?

"Well, Mihawk? I won that strike. I hope you will honor our agreement," Ye Yu said calmly.

Hawkeye Mihawk looked at Ye Yu, his eyes filled with shock. Thanks to the young man before him, he had finally comprehended the final link of the sword path!

At such a young age, he possessed such terrifying power...

Is this... a true genius?

Compared to the young man before him, his own understanding of the sword path—his so-called talent for swordsmanship—was completely insignificant!

"You won, Great Swordsman Ye Yu! I, Hawkeye Mihawk, concede wholeheartedly!"

"You let me experience the joy of being a swordsman once more. As for our agreement... I will naturally honor it!" Hawkeye gave Ye Yu the salute shared between swordsmen and spoke respectfully.