Pirates: My Immortality Starts with Maxed-Out Conqueror's Haki

A moment later, the ship ahead came into view.

"Garp!"

"You really are making things difficult for me!"

"On this vast sea, we actually ran into each other again!"

Loud laughter rang out from the other ship, stirring the sea breeze.

Xia Le focused his gaze.

It was a man wearing a captain's hat, his face filled with smiles and confidence.

The current Gol D. Roger.

The future Pirate King, Gol D. Roger!

Chapter 25: The Little Guy Who Must Not Be Underestimated

"Bogard, go full speed! We can't let this guy escape again!"

Garp shouted.

Bogard acknowledged the order. The Warship immediately increased its speed once more, racing across the sea and rapidly closing in on the Oro Jackson ahead.

The distance between the two sides rapidly shrank before their eyes.

"Is he crazy? He's bringing a group of new Marine recruits to fight us?"

Rayleigh, whose hair was golden and short, was astonished when he saw the young faces aboard the warship.

"Hahahaha! You and I both know what Garp is like, don't we?"

"He's just that kind of person!"

"Even if he were alone, he would still chase us all over the place."

Roger laughed loudly. His eyes fixed on the rapidly approaching Warship, he placed his right hand on the hilt at his waist.

"Every time I run into this guy, the blood in my heart starts to boil!"

A trace of battle lust appeared in his eyes, and the aura around Roger gradually grew stronger.

Silvers Rayleigh slowly drew the rapier at his waist, his eyes narrowing.

Likewise, Gaban, Scopper, Sambel, and the others behind him all drew their weapons.

Douglas Bullet stared at the figure ahead. Hesitation flickered in his eyes, but in the end, he clenched both fists.

"Roger!"

"With your terminal illness, can you still stand against that guy?"

The sea wind suddenly intensified, sweeping over everyone's heads and blowing their hair about.

The Dog-Head Warship reached a position four or five hundred meters in front of them in the blink of an eye. For ordinary warships and ships, that distance might exceed the range of standard cannons, but for the World's Strongest—

four or five hundred meters was nothing more than an instant.

Therefore, at that very moment—

"Vmmm!"

Roger suddenly drew the long blade at his waist. His aura surged out in an instant, rushing toward the Warship ahead with utterly frenzied force.

At that moment, the void seemed to erupt with black lightning.

Above the sunlit, calm sea, an overbearing aura filled with suffocating pressure suddenly spread.

The aura swept forth like a gale, like lightning, arriving before the Warship in an instant.

"Hahahahaha!"

Garp burst into laughter and tore off the white Justice Cloak draped over his shoulders, revealing the black undershirt beneath, which was nearly bursting from the muscles underneath.

"Conqueror's Haki! Conqueror's Haki again!"

Behind him, Sakazuki gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with both anger and fear.

He did not know whether he could withstand that overbearing and violent aura.

Likewise, the other Marine officers on deck were all tense and frightened.

Suddenly, the void around everyone froze. Then, an aura no weaker than the one surging from ahead rose up and charged forward with unstoppable, resplendent force.

"Vmmm!"

The two auras collided. Strands of lightning appeared in the void, splitting the sky and sea into two separate regions.

Sakazuki froze, then looked up at the figure ahead draped in a white Justice Cloak.

"Xia Le!"

Kuzan smiled and drew the saber at his waist.

At that moment, the black-haired youth standing to Garp's left had dazzling light shining in his eyes. The aura around him was even more overbearing and terrifying, inspiring awe.

"That guy's spirit can actually stand against a great Pirate of the world!"

Sakazuki was shocked inwardly and clenched his fist.

This sudden scene likewise startled the Pirates aboard the Oro Jackson.

"Hahahahaha!"

"Looks like we can't afford to underestimate our enemy at all!"

Roger laughed loudly.

The black-haired youth at the bow of the Warship ahead had undoubtedly surprised them, because none of them knew him.

The two ships rapidly advanced. In the blink of an eye, only three hundred meters remained between them.

At that very moment, Garp suddenly leaped high into the air.

Xia Le looked up and saw Garp rising into the sky at an astonishing speed. With the sun behind him, the sight was somewhat blinding.

"How many times have we fought by now?"

"Garp!"

Almost in the next second, Kong shot into the sky. Accompanied by laughter, he rapidly closed the distance with Garp high above.

"Who knows?"

"There's no need to count something like that!"

Garp laughed loudly.

The two seemed to hang suspended in midair, three hundred meters above the sea, while everyone aboard the ships looked up.

Then, in the next second, they saw Garp throw a punch, while Roger likewise swung the long blade in his hand.

Lightning!

Fine lightning erupted with terrifying momentum, and an unimaginable gale swept over everyone's heads.

"Fist Bone: Clash!"

"Divine Departure!"

The two were still more than ten meters apart, yet they attacked without hesitation.

Fist and blade collided. Black-red and golden lightning blazed dazzlingly, while an invisible majesty caused the void above to solidify and radiated in all directions.

Everything seemed to freeze at that moment.

After time stagnated for roughly two or three seconds—

"Boom!"

The deafening sound of the collision finally rang out. Invisible ripples spread through the sky, and the distorted space caused the sunlight to shine in seven colors. The violent wind and majestic aura made everyone's hearts pound faster.

Xia Le looked up at the sky. Beneath the blinding light, he realized that Garp had somehow returned to his side.

At the same time, Roger landed at the bow of the Oro Jackson.

"Roger, that slash of yours isn't as powerful as it used to be!"

Garp shouted.

As Roger's longtime opponent, he had keenly noticed the problem with that slash.

"Hahahaha!"

Roger laughed loudly but did not respond.

Then he turned around and nodded at his crew.

"Let's go. We don't have Kong to deal with this madman."

Rayleigh nodded.

After glancing at the Warship behind them, the other crew members quickly got to work.

Only Bullet clenched his fists and stared fixedly at Roger.

"Are you still the strongest man in this world?"

"Roger!"

But in the end, he did not ask the question aloud.

"What is it, Bullet?"

Roger seemed to sense something. He turned around and asked with a smile.

"Nothing!"

Bullet released his fists and answered in a deep voice.

Roger smiled faintly, then looked toward the two little fellows not far away. "Buggy, Shanks, stop standing around, you two. Go help Rayleigh!"

"Yes, Captain!"

The two immediately replied loudly.

The Oro Jackson almost instantly accelerated to its maximum speed, shooting away like an arrow loosed from a bow.

"They're running!"

"Chase them! Bogard!"

Seeing this, Garp shouted.

He grabbed a shell placed beside him and began hurling them forward with alternating hands.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

One shell after another instantly formed a barrage, covering the sky above the Oro Jackson at an unbelievable speed, far beyond the range of ordinary cannons.

Roger drew his blade and easily cut the shells apart while laughing.

Rayleigh, Bullet, and the others all joined in.

"Even one Garp is difficult enough to deal with!"

Gaban sighed.

No one disagreed. Having fought that opponent many times, they understood the enemy pursuing them from behind all too well.

"Xia Le, you too!"

"We absolutely can't let Roger get away!"

Garp shouted.

Xia Le froze, then immediately acted. "Yes!"

Then, imitating Garp's movements, he grabbed a shell and hurled it with all his strength.

The shell shot forward, but its speed was far slower than the previous ones.

"No, you need to apply force like this!"