A mocking smile curled Naruto's lips.
The next instant, the ground exploded, and countless thick branches shot up from beneath it. The Fish-Men throughout Arlong Park had no time to react. Wooden spears impaled them one after another, until, from a distance, they looked like meat threaded onto skewers.
Blood trickled down the wooden spikes, making for an indescribably horrifying sight.
"Wood Release: Cutting Sprigs!"
Naruto looked up at Arlong and met eyes that seemed ready to burst from their sockets. His smile grew even more derisive.
"Fish-Men are ten times tougher than humans?" He scoffed. "You don't even have Genin-level defenses, and you still have the fucking nerve to act tough?"
Many people assumed that bodies in the Pirate World were far stronger than those in the Naruto World, but ultimately, the two worlds simply had different power systems. Pirates focused more on training their bodies, while ninja focused more on cultivating internal energy. When it came to taking attacks head-on without using any abilities, people in the Pirate World were indeed tougher.
But once energy-based defenses were factored in, the conclusion changed completely. Naruto could jump straight down from Kage Rock without suffering a scratch, proving that the bodies of Naruto: The Ninja Way characters were not nearly as fragile as people imagined.
Conversely, the fact that Morgan could break through Garp's defenses with a single axe strike was enough to prove that human bodies in the Pirate World were not absurdly durable.
Different races naturally had different constitutions, but if the comparison was limited to humans in the Pirate World, who besides the intensely trained members of Cipher Pol could withstand bullets and steel blades without using Haki?
Pirate characters seemed especially capable of taking a beating largely because of how their art style portrayed things. Another