My Teacher (Please Vote for Me at the End of the Month!!!)

Countless fine roots hung from its chin like whiskers. Its body resembled a whale, with fins on either side spread like wings.

Its back was like a vast stretch of land, broad and seemingly endless.

Deep within Beast Hell, its body filled the entire corridor.

"I've been looking for you for far too long!"

Xia Le grinned.

The first time he had seen it in this form, he had strongly suspected it was some powerful creature out of myth and legend.

Fisher Tiger stood frozen, his eyes vacant.

Beside that creature, a human body was no more than a speck of dust.

So tiny!

Chapter 186: My Teacher (Please Vote for Me at the End of the Month!!!)

West Blue, the G-1 Floating Base.

This enormous Marine Base had stood in West Blue for years.

It had once been the G-18 Fortress.

Over the past decade or so, the G-1 Floating Base had changed drastically. For one thing, Bullet, a Vice Admiral and the base's deputy commander, had undergone a change in temperament, growing ever more brutal.

That had left the base's younger generation increasingly dissatisfied. In recent years, they had quietly departed to seek other paths.

The sprawling G-1 base was slowly weakening compared with what it had once been.

Its ties to Marine Headquarters at Marineford had also grown more complicated, at times close and at times distant.

In a corner of the training ground, a girl of about fifteen or sixteen sat quietly.

She watched the Marines before her train amid thunderous shouts, sweat pouring from their bodies, and felt a little lost.

"Feeling down, Kuina?"

"Have you finished the training Instructor Kozuki assigned today?"

A woman walked over with a smile and sat beside her.

The girl was Kuina. Since arriving in West Blue, she had