Chapter 659: End! Thank Goodness This Kid Doesn

"Hm?"

Lu En, who had been about to resume a fierce battle with Labu, suddenly furrowed his brow and halted his movements mid-action.

His gaze shifted.

He sensed something, turning toward the sea region beyond Reverse Mountain.

Then,

beneath his gaze,

he saw an enormous pirate ship sliding down from the peak of the high mountain on Reverse Mountain.

This was a massive pirate crew.

Number of personnel…

No fewer than three hundred!

This was no longer a small-time pirate gang.

"Pirates?"

"Right now…?"

"Coincidentally coming down from Reverse Mountain?"

"Are these pirates from one of the other four seas, entering the Grand Line?"

Lu En pondered, his eyes tinged with amusement.

It was indeed too coincidental.

He hadn't expected it at all.

After fighting Labu here, he'd just happen to run into a pirate crew!

What a gift handed straight to him!

No reason to refuse it!

Since he'd encountered them, Lu En naturally had no intention of letting them slip away.

"Forget it."

"Let's postpone our fight."

"Next time, I'll return and fight you again."

"What do you say?"

Lu En turned his gaze away and faced Labu directly.

He knew.

Labu possessed a certain level of intelligence; though it could not speak human language, it understood every word spoken.

"That battle was exhilarating!"

"You're a worthy opponent."

"Next time…"

"Let's make a pact to fight again!"

Lu En stepped before Labu and gently stroked its battered head.

Ooooh~

Labu's massive eyes fixed on Lu En, emitting a sound brimming with joy and excitement—as if determined to remember this tiny human.

Fighting Lu En felt like meeting a long-lost rival.

Lu En had earned Labu's recognition!

Lu En was the first…

To fight it to such a brutal stalemate with bare hands, as a mere human.

Next,

after ceasing combat, neither Lu En nor Labu made another move.

"Your wounds need tending."

Lu En smiled.

Ooooh~

Labu shook its head, as if dismissing its injuries entirely, unbothered.

"Of course—I forgot you've spent years slamming into Reverse Mountain to toughen yourself."

"These wounds mean nothing to you."

"I underestimated you."

Lu En burst into loud laughter.

This entire scene reached Kurokas's eyes from nearby, and he unconsciously exhaled a breath of relief.

Thank goodness!

Neither of them had continued fighting.

Otherwise,

he would have had to intervene.

After all,

if they'd kept fighting…

If he wasn't mistaken,

Labu would have lost in the end!

That navy brat was just too strong!

Simply strong as a monster!

Though Lab is massive in size, facing such a terrifying powerhouse among humans, it is ultimately far, far inferior.

"With a human body, defeating Lab through pure hand-to-hand combat!"

"This little brat…"

"Truly extraordinary!"

"Strong as a monster."

"When did this sea ever produce a monster of this caliber? And a Marine at that!"

Crocus exclaimed in awe again and again.

He had a premonition.

The pirates of this sea in the future…

Were bound to suffer disaster!

A Marine brat so young already possessed such terrifyingly powerful combat strength.

Given time.

In this sea, who else could be mentioned in the same breath as this monster?

No one!

At least.

In Crocus's understanding.

He had never seen.

A terrifying genius and freak like Lu En!

Looking across the seas over the past several hundred years, such a monster appears only once!

"The Marines have produced a true, genuine monster."

"A monster who can dominate this entire sea!"

"On the day this little brat truly grows up, he will absolutely be enough to rule this sea, making every pirate on it tremble in fear and feel utter despair."

"The pirates born in this era…"

"Are truly pitiful."

"Sharing an era with such a monster!"

"It must be utterly despairing, I imagine?"

Crocus thought silently to himself.

He could not help but begin to pity the pirates of this era.

Because…

These pirates' future was about to face an unprecedented, terrifying monster of a Marine!

"Being able to, through sheer individual strength, without any external aid, using only the power of his physical body, beat Lab into such a miserable state."

"This alone is enough to show how terrifying this little brat's strength is."

"This level of strength is enough to sweep through most of the strong on the first half of the Grand Line."

"Truly hard to imagine…"

"Such a powerhouse actually looks to be only five years old."

Crocus shook his head.

Having sailed with Pirate King Luo Jie for many years, he was well-traveled and had seen countless strange and shocking things.

Yet he had never seen a single example…

That could be mentioned in the same breath as the Marine brat before him.

"This kind of monster…"

"Can be called a once-in-several-hundred-years prodigy!"

"The Marines are going to rise."

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Crocus could foresee it.

The day that monster before him grew up.

The Marines would surely rise to supreme dominance over this sea!

When that time comes, it will be the beginning of the pirates' nightmare.

"I wonder…"

"Has this little brat mastered Haki?"

"Or perhaps."

"Is his physical strength the only thing so overwhelmingly strong? In fact, has he not mastered any other power at all?"

"That is quite possible."

"After all, he is only five years old."

"A five-year-old brat not having come into contact with Haki training is actually quite normal."

Crocus fell into deep thought.