Something was wrong. Very wrong!
The battle had already raged for half a day.
Garp noticed that Teach showed no signs of slowing down.
Not physically, and not mentally.
No matter how hard he was hit or how badly he was injured, he recovered quickly.
Though Teach remained wounded, his injuries never hindered his fighting.
That rate of recovery was downright bizarre.
To some extent, Life Return could achieve this through the allocation of energy and control over the body.
But Garp knew there was something strange about Teach's vitality.
As a fight dragged on, stamina inevitably waned.
Healing injuries consumed stamina, especially when Teach kept getting hurt.
Ordinarily, an opponent in that position would accumulate injuries while his stamina steadily declined.
His fighting ability would deteriorate, and more openings would appear until the last one finally brought him down.
But Teach?
He remained at his peak.
His reserves of stamina were so vast that even Garp found them alarming.
Only fighters of equal strength could reach a stalemate, turning the fight into a contest of will and endurance.
Ultimately, the body was the foundation of everything.
If events had not changed, Redfield would have defeated Kong before he ate a Devil Fruit, only to lose to the Garp who arrived soon after because he had run out of stamina. He would have been captured.
If Redfield had limitless stamina, who could have stood against him?
Yet Teach was still only a young monster, nowhere near Garp's level.
Even so, his terrifying recovery, Life Return, the Munch-Munch Fruit's powerful digestion, and his vast energy reserves had kept him going until now.
Teach's stamina was abnormal.
Nor did he possess the power of some formidable Zoan Devil Fruit. Everyone knew he was a Dark-Dark Fruit User.
How could Garp have guessed