Pirate: I Loaded the Game Panel

Watching from afar, Adrian sucked in a sharp breath.

"Is fighting between physical monsters always this insane—and this philosophical?"

"Hard to believe Shanks later rose to become an emperor of the sea with the body of an ordinary man. Whitebeard, Big Mom, the Beasts—which of them isn't a famous physical monster?"

Even Bullet could not completely ignore Sengoku the Buddha's furious, full-strength attack.

The blow hurled Bullet through the air and tore the clothes from his upper body, exposing his massive, bulging muscles. The Buddha Form's heavy punch had left a deep mark across his powerful chest, and the bruise turned dark blue almost in the blink of an eye.

The intense pain jolted Bullet out of the Positive Hollow's influence almost instantly.

Boom!

Bullet unleashed a ferocious burst of Conqueror's Haki, sweeping away the inexplicable surge of youthful restlessness that had filled his mind.

His Conqueror's Haki seemed almost solid as its purple-blue radiance blotted out the sky and engulfed the sea.

The sheer force of the outburst spoke to the fury raging inside him.

"White Ghost... That's your name, isn't it?"

Once he finally steadied himself, Bullet looked at Adrian for the first time—the rookie pirate he had completely ignored until now.

"Remember this: I'm going to kill you!"

Bullet kicked off hard. The air beneath his feet exploded, and he shot forward like a cannonball.

Anger mixed with humiliated outrage drove him to a speed far beyond what he had shown against Sengoku.

"That sounds rather intimidating," Adrian said from atop Mist Theater, a faint smile tugging at his lips. "So, Mr. Bullet, would you like to do this the hard way, or the hard way?"

Bullet's mountain-shattering fist slammed into a White Hollow. Armament Haki, harder than black alloy, erupted from his fist, and the force