Hearing Chinjao's words, a troubled look appeared on Raditz's face.
He knew his own problems well enough, but when it came to Haki, grasping advanced techniques truly required natural comprehension, and he simply lacked that kind of fast-track insight.
A large part of the reason he had come to fight Chinjao this time was to experience Chinjao's Hasshoken in the hope of comprehending Advanced Armament Haki.
Still, he had plenty of time ahead of him; even if it took him five years to master the advanced Two Types of Haki, he would still be under thirty years old by then.
He still had ample time to climb toward greater heights.
"Haha, seeing how strong you are, I almost forgot you're only in your twenties. To possess such strength at so young an age, a little bottleneck certainly won't stop you."
Chinjao looked at Raditz's troubled expression and smiled, offering words of comfort.
"Come, I'll take you to meet the people of our Happo Navy. Come to think of it, my son is about your age, but his strength is far inferior to yours."
A rare trace of gentleness surfaced on Chinjao's fierce face.
If the meeting between Raditz and Chinjao was relatively harmonious, the encounter between Hilbert and Jiang Zheng, the young master of the Four Treasures Navy, was quite the opposite.
After all, not everyone was as easy to talk to as Chinjao, nor was everyone like Raditz, who simply wanted to spar with someone.
As Axel's confidant, Hilbert had come to West Blue largely to pave the way for Axel.
Upon arriving in West Blue, Hilbert first went to the gang where Axel used to run in his underworld days, intending to find an opportunity to take them over directly.
However, whether it was because the various navies