Chapter 269: Fruit Counter (22)
Chapter 268: Fruit Counter
"I'll handle this giant stone freak. Tashigi, take them and keep moving forward." Zoro was calm inside.
He had already accepted the fact that he could not beat Tashigi. Clearly, after eating the Weight-Weight Fruit, Tashigi had advanced by leaps and bounds, improving so rapidly that even a genius swordsman like Zoro had no way of catching up.
This world—this world filled with Devil Fruits—had never made sense to begin with.
Pirates who were born bigger and stronger than others without training, pirate hunters like Zoro who possessed natural talent for swordsmanship and had encountered a famous master, pirates who soared to greatness after eating a single Devil Fruit, even gamblers who could awaken Observation Haki by stabbing out their own eyes...
All of it was simply how this world worked. This world had always been this unreasonable.
They had long since grown used to such things.
Not to mention that Tashigi had eaten a Devil Fruit with an extremely clear purpose in mind. Just as Blackbeard had been determined to obtain the Dark-Dark Fruit, the Weight-Weight Fruit Tashigi ate happened to compensate for her weakest point and turned it into her strongest.
Naturally, it vastly increased her capacity to hold water.
And that water was strength.
When the two of them had soared into the sky together and sliced the stone man Pica into four pieces, Zoro had already realized this.
Pica was his prey, and also his trial. He had to defeat him alone!
After hearing Zoro's words, Tashigi turned to look at him. Seeing the solemn resolve in his eyes, she nodded. She would not insult or betray a swordsman's determination.
Ever since becoming stronger, she had grown far bolder and louder. She sheathed her sword, pressed a