If SP-9 hadn't had such severe side effects, it would have been issued on a massive scale long ago. Garp had agreed to let Aokiji inject him with the stuff only because he was prepared for the Life Force to burst him apart.
But even Garp couldn't expend all that immense Life Force, not even after using Star Shatter, a Secret Art he could barely perform in his old age. The foreign Life Force kept churning inside him, leaving him in too much pain to speak.
Worse, at the spot where Loa had struck him, the Life Force was clashing with an unknown energy left by the attack. The two forces had turned his body into a battlefield, and the pain cut through him like knives. An ordinary person would have passed out or suffered cardiac arrest. Only Garp could struggle to remain on his feet.
He hadn't expected that Motion to make Sengoku misunderstand and nearly kill him.
Lying on the ground, Garp caught his breath and gave Vice Admiral Tsuru a rueful smile. "Thanks, Tsuru."
"Don't talk. Get out of here, now."
Tsuru's expression suddenly turned grave. "You don't actually think those attacks were enough to kill Loa, do you? According to the records, he was a Monster who could fight Kaido head-on a year ago! If you can't kill Kaido, you can't kill Loa!"
"What?!"
Realization struck them all. Loa's defenses might not yet match Kaido's, but they weren't far behind. And like Kaido, his power of recovery was terrifying. Loa would probably be ready to fight again before long.
Most importantly, Loa wasn't a Devil Fruit Powers User!
The sea placed no restrictions on him!
The others turned to Kizaru, hoping he could give them a definite answer. Both Sengoku's suppression and Garp's Star Shatter had