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Kagran concentrated his Armament Haki onto the very tip of his spear. He spun once in midair, pouring all his strength into this strike.

The spear tip shrieked as it tore through the air. At that moment, the Armament Haki coating the shaft reached the greatest density he had achieved since beginning his Ryuo training!

The spear tip struck Kuma's palm. Then it stopped.

Kagran could feel the resistance before the spear tip surge from nothing to a despairing level in an instant, like trying to poke an iron ingot that had cooled in a mold for an entire day with a bamboo skewer.

Then that resistance began pushing back. Kuma's five fingers closed around the spear tip and shoved outward.

This push was stronger than any before it.

The instant Kagran was sent flying along with his spear, the Waver Boots on his feet left the cloud surface. He spun several times through the air before crashing into the formation of a battle squad behind him. Two companions caught him, keeping him from rolling any farther back.

Kuma lowered his head and looked at his palm.

A tiny red dot had appeared on the pink pad of soft flesh in his palm, left by the spear tip. It was not even as large as a Sky Coconut grain.

The skin around the red dot was slowly returning to normal. The elasticity of the Paw-Paw Fruit bounced the compressed capillaries beneath the skin back into place one by one. The mark was fading at a visible rate and would probably vanish completely in a few breaths.

He turned his palm over to examine the back of his hand, then turned it back and looked at his palm again before speaking toward Kagran.

"Your Armament Haki is trained very well. In