Chapter 67: "Drill-less" Chinjao [High Rank] ★5
Seeing that Klee Meow was joining the fight too, the corners of Chinjao's mouth twitched a couple of times.
But then he reconsidered. With Xie Wen and Sanji Meow there, Klee Meow probably wouldn't use bombs as powerful as the ones before, to avoid friendly fire. That eased his anxiety a little.
All one could say was that the old man knew far too little about the Hill-Dousing Lord's personality.
"Klee! Sanji! Let's go!"
Knowing the gap between them, Xie Wen dispensed with courtesy and attacked Chinjao first.
He flicked out two Flying Slashes as a greeting. At the same time, Klee Meow tossed out several Boom-Boom bombs, cutting off Chinjao's escape routes.
Yet Chinjao's massive body moved with remarkable lightness. Not only did he dodge both slashes easily, he also slapped the Boom-Booms away before they could explode.
Though he could easily block them with Armament Haki, Chinjao had just taken one of Klee Meow's bombs head-on and didn't dare waste his Armament Haki carelessly.
While he was dodging, Xie Wen closed in on him and immediately unleashed a Spirit Blade Roundslash coated in Armament Haki.
Not to be outdone, Chinjao swung his pitch-black arm, meeting it with Hasshoken.
"Urgh!"
Facing that powerful, heavy punch, Xie Wen gripped Long Moon with both hands and barely held it back with all his strength. Even so, he was pushed a short distance backward, his feet plowing two furrows into the ground.
Even though Chinjao had weakened after his head was flattened, neither his strength nor the quality of his Armament Haki was something Xie Wen could currently match. He hadn't even used any higher-level Haki techniques, only basic hardening and Hasshoken's own penetrating force.
Under these circumstances, Xie Wen naturally stopped worrying about endurance