One Piece: Seeing Proficiency Made Me a Legend

He glanced at his colleague, whose clothes had been reduced to rags just like his own, and gripped his long blade once more with trembling hands.

He reinforced it with Armament Haki, then Ryuo-grade Armament Haki. The fear in his eyes gradually faded.

"Lass! Let's give it everything we've got! There's no escaping this guy!! I just never thought he'd be this strong..."

The other man responded in kind. As Great Swordsmen, they had their pride. Since there was nowhere left to run, they would face their fate head-on.

Even if they died in battle, they would die standing, never on their knees.

He, too, wielded Ryuo-grade Armament Haki. Without Devil Fruit powers, it was their exceptional mastery of Haki that had brought them to an Admiral's level of strength.

"Damn it! I thought we could wear down even one of the Four Emperors, but who knew he'd be this powerful?! If I'd known, I never would've come. That bastard Tian Gang—I won't let him off even as a ghost!!"

"Tch! Easy for you to say. Are we even going to make it back?"

Yaan?Lass's eyes dimmed. Watching the figure plunge from the heavens, stretched into a streak, he sighed softly.

"I bet those World Government bastards are going to regret this. This guy is no weaker than Garp! They've provoked a monster powerful enough to turn the seas upside down!!"

"Too bad we probably won't live to see it!!"

"But if he wants to kill us, we're not going to make it that easy!!"

"Boil, boil! Steam Explosion Giant!!"

This was Yaan?Lass's strongest Devil Fruit technique. He gathered all the water vapor within a ten-kilometer radius in one breath, using the energy generated by its boiling heat to ionize the water molecules, producing hydrogen and oxygen to create a