While Buggy was counting the money, Uchiha Kazama got up and left the room.
Before long, he brought Uchiha Natsume and the others aboard his ship.
"Patriarch, someone's coming."
Uchiha Nagasawa and the others stood behind Uchiha Kazama and spoke gravely.
"Mm."
"And the people coming are a rather troublesome bunch!"
Uchiha Kazama smiled.
He reached out and left a mark on each of the five.
At the same time, he injected a surge of chakra into their bodies.
"A fight is inevitable."
"And as it drags on, more enemies might join in."
"I'm close to getting that special ninja tool that lets us travel through space and time."
"Before we leave, we should have one good fight!"
"Consider it a kind of training."
With that, Uchiha Kazama lowered the sails and headed out to sea.
A dozen or so minutes later.
A warship with a dog-shaped figurehead appeared nearby.
Their ship came to a stop at that moment as well.
Uchiha Kazama hadn't stopped it himself. The entire sea had frozen over.
"Patriarch, is this our enemy?!"
"He seems to have some really powerful Ice Release abilities!"
Excitement appeared on Rimoku Uchiha's face.
Now that Rinboku had mastered Tailed Beast Chakra, his own Tailed Beast happened to be capable of using Ice Release.
A training environment like this was... really wonderful!
"Yes. He's Aokiji, Kuzan, an Admiral from Marine Headquarters!"
"His power comes from the Ice-Ice Fruit."
"At its limits, it can even freeze space and time."
"Be a little careful."
Uchiha Kazama gave them a brief introduction to Aokiji.
Of course, the claim about freezing space and time was an exaggeration.
If he could truly freeze space and time, Sakazuki wouldn't have taken his leg.
At that moment, a man slowly walked out across the frozen sea.
Cold