While the others talked, the two men in the arena had already exchanged over a hundred probing blows.
The once-flat wasteland had been beaten into collapse, forming a massive Pit dozens of meters deep.
Dawn and Dragon stood at the bottom of the Pit, neither of their breaths even slightly disordered, both as steady as mountains.
Dragon was the first to rein in his offensive. The Hurricane swirling around him gradually calmed.
"Why did you set your sights on Luffy?"
Ever since he discovered that Luffy of Foosha Village had transformed overnight from a seven-year-old child into a seventeen-year-old youth, he had immediately made a secret trip back to East Blue.
From familiar people close to him, such as the Tavern Owner and Foosha Village's Village Chief, he easily learned the truth.
Luffy had never been able to keep secrets. He had long bragged to those close to him about how "a very powerful uncle" had helped mature his body and taught him Haki, even describing the man's appearance in detail.
"Don't tell me you don't know that your son is this generation's host of the Nika Fruit?"
Dawn raised a brow. Seeing Dragon's pupils suddenly constrict, he blinked in confusion.
"Or has Kuma never told you about the Nika Fruit or Joy Boy?"
He had originally assumed that, as the leader of the Revolutionary Army who had opposed the World Government for so many years, Dragon would surely know the Gum-Gum Fruit's true name was the Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Nika, and would also know that the World Government had been frantically searching for it and covering up the truth for centuries.
But judging from Dragon's reaction, he actually knew nothing about it?
A bead of cold sweat slid down Dragon's forehead, and a chill instantly spread across