Marine Headquarters.
Inside the Fleet Admiral's office.
Sengoku had finished dealing with the mountain of tedious paperwork. He rose and walked over to Garp, snatching the bag of senbei right out of his hands.
"Hey, you old bastard, Sengoku! You stole my senbei!" Garp sprang to his feet and roared.
Seeing Garp's furious expression, Sengoku paid him no attention at all. Instead, he leisurely sat down on the sofa and began eating the senbei.
"Garp, was what you just said true? That Marine named Roya really mastered Conqueror's Haki as freely as you said, in just a little over three months?" Sengoku asked.
After parting with Roya, Garp had come here immediately and told Sengoku everything about him.
"Sengoku, what am I supposed to say about you? You're the Fleet Admiral. Do you really know nothing about the Marines under your command? I really don't know how you became Fleet Admiral." Garp snatched his bag of senbei back from Sengoku with lightning speed and even began mocking him.
"You do remember that I'm the Fleet Admiral, huh? Do you know how many Marines there are in Marine Headquarters? Besides, there are so many affairs to deal with. Am I supposed to know every Marine inside and out? If you think you can do better, then come be the Fleet Admiral!" Sengoku shot back irritably.
"Hahahaha, no thanks! I'll just remain a vice admiral. Look how free and comfortable I am now. Unlike you—you've got white hair, yet you deliberately dye it black. You're already so old, so can you stop pretending, Sengoku?" Garp continued his merciless taunting.
"Shut up!"
"You're an old bastard too!"
"Garp, if that Roya really is a genius, then you have to train him properly. Our Marines are counting on the new generation."
After saying that, Sengoku reached out and snatched the bag of senbei from Garp again, only to discover that Garp had already eaten every last one.
Suppressing his anger and calming himself down, Sengoku asked, "By the way, Garp, have you heard about that pirate in the East Blue recently..."
Early the next morning.
As agreed, Roya arrived at Garp's training ground.
However, the first people he saw were not Garp, but Koby and Helmeppo.
"Big Brother Roya!"
"Hello, my name is Koby, and this is my friend Helmeppo!"
"Helmeppo and I came to apologize for our recklessness yesterday. We're truly sorry for the trouble."
Koby pulled Helmeppo into a bow before Roya and apologized. Koby's attitude was extremely sincere, while Helmeppo looked rather unwilling.
"It's fine. How are you two? Are you all right now?" Roya replied politely.
"Big Brother Roya, Vice Admiral Garp told me what happened. The power you used to defeat me yesterday was Conqueror's Haki, a power that might appear in only one person among a million. You're incredible!" Koby said excitedly, looking like a devoted fan.
"Hmph."
Helmeppo, standing to the side, was still unconvinced. "So what if it's Conqueror's Haki? I'm sure I have it too. It just hasn't awakened yet."
Roya paid Helmeppo no attention at all. Instead, he chatted idly with Koby.
Before long, Garp arrived.
"What are you doing here? Don't you have training?" Garp bellowed sternly.
"Vice Admiral Garp!"
Roya, Koby, and the others greeted him respectfully.
"Koby, Helmeppo, your performance yesterday disappointed me greatly. Today's training will be doubled. No, tripled! If you can't finish it, don't even think about eating or sleeping!" Garp roared.
Koby and Helmeppo had no way to argue and could only dejectedly go train.
"Roya, come with this old man." Garp addressed Roya.
Roya nodded without saying much and followed Garp out.
Soon.
Garp led Roya away from Marine Headquarters to a barren mountain.
Although he had no idea what Garp intended, Roya did not ask. He simply followed Garp there.
"Roya, you have excellent potential. To master Conqueror's Haki and use it freely in just over three months is truly rare."
"However, Conqueror's Haki is innate. It can't be acquired through training later in life. So, in battle, the other two types of Haki are the ones we use more extensively."
"They are Observation Haki and Armament Haki."
"I brought you here today mainly to demonstrate and explain these two types of Haki."
Garp explained everything to Roya with great seriousness.
Of course.
Roya already knew all this basic knowledge, but he did not interrupt him. After all, he still had to show the appropriate respect.
"First is Observation Haki. Watch closely." As Garp spoke, he picked up a massive boulder and lightly punched it, turning it into a pile of gravel. He then gathered the fragments in a cloth, wrapped them up, and tossed them into the air.
As the pile of gravel came raining down, Garp instead closed his eyes, looking utterly calm.
With Garp's Observation Haki, the stones fell like a torrential downpour, yet not a single one touched him. He dodged them all with ease.
Roya was not surprised by this display. He had already mastered Observation Haki, and the system had even activated automatic training for him. After a night's worth of automatic training, Roya believed he could reach this level just as effortlessly.
"This is the foundation of Observation Haki. If you train it to its peak, you can even foresee the immediate future. As for that, I won't demonstrate it further." Garp explained.
"Next is Armament Haki!"
"First is Armament Haki's coating. Besides strengthening your own power, Armament Haki can also be used against Logia Devil Fruit users to grasp their physical forms."
Garp clenched his famously powerful iron fist. In an instant, his fist turned completely black. That was Armament Haki's coating and hardening.
"Of course, this is only the most basic application. I'm just demonstrating it for you."
"Next."
"This old man will show you the power of Armament Haki Emission after Armament Haki has been trained to the highest level."
Garp smiled with absolute confidence. He slowly walked toward a small mountain in the distance. As he walked, he even raised his fist to his mouth and blew on it. After making some preparations, Garp punched directly toward the mountain.
Then.
Boom...
With a thunderous crash, the entire mountain collapsed and split apart.
Garp's fist had not touched the mountain at all. An invisible force suddenly burst from his fist and slammed into the mountainside, disintegrating the entire mountain in a single second.
Holy crap!
Was this the legendary power of the Marine hero?!
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