Randall and Aequus arrived at the Training Ground.
By then, the Ryugu Kingdom's Guards had already crowded around the Training Ground.
The three princes had come as well.
Fukaboshi had only met Randall once, at the entrance when Randall first arrived on Fish-Man Island.
Back then, he had only notified Neptune because the visitor was a Marine. He had never expected him to be such an extraordinarily powerful figure.
He had also heard that the Fish-Man District had vanished, and that this man was responsible.
He had no particular feelings about its disappearance. If anything, he had always hated that dark, dismal place.
But now he truly wondered whether this human, who looked so small, really harbored that much power inside him.
Some things meant nothing when you merely heard about them. Only seeing them firsthand gave you a true sense of them.
While everyone was occupied with their own thoughts, Randall and Aequus had already reached the center of the grounds.
Randall glanced around. The grounds were spacious, about the size of four soccer fields.
"Ready? I'm going to start."
Randall looked at Aequus and smiled.
For some reason, Aequus suddenly had a bad feeling.
"Wait, let me activate my Armament Haki first."
With a thought from Aequus, a patch of black appeared atop his head and spread across his entire body in the blink of an eye.
To the soldiers watching, Aequus now looked like a statue cast from black iron.
"What is that? Why did he suddenly turn black?"
Similar questions rang out all around. The experiment had not even begun, and the crowd was already stirring.
Although Fish-Man Island was the gateway to the New World, the vast majority of Fish-Men clearly knew nothing about the power known as Haki.
Once Aequus was ready, Randall raised