Chapter 33: Yabura (Tuesday Data PK Recommendation Slot, Please Continue Reading!!!)

Bang!

Ten strikes hit the ground, shattering the floor and raising dust and smoke around.

Smoker's brows, however, knitted tightly together.

A strike that was certain to succeed ended up missing, and now the opponent's whereabouts were lost; it was not simply that the technique had been seen through.

More importantly, how was such sudden disappearance of speed achieved?

"Roketto?!"

"Or a Devil Fruit ability!"

"Neither!"

Gao Wen's voice came from beside his ear; Smoker suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, turned his head, and saw a phantom as fast as a ghost rushing from the distance.

"Shakushi - Yabura!"

A fierce and rapid thrust pierced Smoker's body in an instant.

Even though he had elementalized beforehand to dodge Gao Wen's attack, his vision lost the target in the next instant.

The white smoke originally used to restrict Gao Wen's vision had, at this moment, become his own restriction; Smoker, coming to his senses, looked around in horror.

"This speed, a Devil Fruit?!"

"No, it was achieved through the body, but with a human body, to reach this extent—!"

Smoker's words were cut halfway as a loud roar sounded again from the distance.

"Yabura!"

An even faster and more rapid thrust swept past from outside the dust and smoke, directly scattering Smoker's body once again just as it had reformed.

"Such attacks cannot cause me any harm; aside from wasting time, what else is there—!"

"You are wasting time?"

Having realized this, Smoker felt an inexplicable sense of urgency arise in his heart, yet the moment he moved, he found that only Gao Wen's seemingly endless thrusts awaited him...

"Yabura!"

"Yabura!"

"Yabura!"

Time and again he reformed his body, only to be scattered in the next instant.

Within a few breaths, near-continuous attacks completely suppressed Smoker.

If not for the Logia-type ability to be immune to physical attacks, he would have died countless times already; realizing this, Smoker felt nothing but immense humiliation.

The opponent's speed was simply too fast.

Even with his own eyesight, he could only barely see a blurry black shadow, utterly unable to make any countermeasure.

"Tsk, if I had mastered Observation Haki, I certainly wouldn't be so passive!"

Recalling Zephyr's instructions before leaving headquarters, a trace of regret rose in Smoker's heart, yet he quietly gripped his ten fingers tighter.

Amidst the increasingly fierce assault, Gao Wen felt his strikes becoming smoother and smoother.

The Shakushi technique itself demands extreme physical conditioning; coincidentally, Gao Wen's physical conditioning far surpassed Xiang Keluo's, and he also possessed super-fast neural reflex speeds that Xiang Keluo lacked.

The completion level of Shakushi was naturally higher, and the speed far exceeded Xiang Keluo's!

Combined with the famous sword Guanshi Zhengzong he had just obtained, even the simplest thrust would unleash power beyond imagination; the crisscrossing slash marks in the port were the best proof.

With the two combined, Gao Wen became increasingly adept at this tactic of suppressing opponents with divine speed.

Indeed, if the opponent were not a Logia-type user, facing Gao Wen's relentless thrusts, Smoker would have almost no means of counterattack.

And this was the technique Gao Wen had developed based on Xiang Keluo's indiscriminate Shakushi attack, a move uniquely his own that suppressed opponents through speed!

Yabura!

A thrust attack driven by divine speed.

The battle from this moment onward developed into a one-sided beating.

The Guard Captain, who had received Jasha's order to come to the port and investigate the battle situation, saw this scene and was stunned.

In his vision, there was only endless white smoke and a white-haired man composed of smoke, constantly being scattered and constantly reforming; the white smoke gathered in the port seemed to be completely torn apart by some invisible creature!

"What on earth is happening?!"

"The Kama-Itachi of Wano Country legend? The evil wind that harvests lives?!"

"I..."

Although the scene in the port was utterly absurd, the Guard Captain still recorded it truthfully and, via the Den Den Mushi, transmitted the information from the port to Jasha's ears.

"Guard Captain..."

Jasha raised his hand to his forehead:

"I told you to watch Major Gao Wen, and you tell me about Marines and white smoke?!"

"No."

Xiang Keluo, standing beside Jasha, reached out and patted his shoulder:

"The invisible thing he mentioned should be Gao Wen." "Major Gao Wen is a Kama-Itachi?"

Jasha was even more confused.

Xiang Keluo said expressionlessly:

"You can understand it as a sword technique of super-fast speed."

"Is that so."

Jasha relaxed:

"Then it seems the one currently gaining the upper hand is Gao Wen?"

"Upwind? Of course it's upwind!"

Xiang Keluo's mouth twitched. Through the soldier captain's description, how could he not understand that Gao Wen's control over the dead was even higher, surpassing even his own.

Isn't it a bit ridiculous for a pirated version to be stronger than the original?

However, thinking of his awakened Observation Haki, Xiang Keluo still had confidence in himself.

Only those who have touched Observation Haki clearly understand the huge chasm between having it and not having it; the gap between them is nothing short of a dimensional strike.

!

"Gao Wen, it won't be long before I surpass you."

"Mr. Locke?"

Jasha looked at Xiang Keluo in confusion; the latter immediately wiped the expression from his face and spoke:

"Are there any ships still able to leave the port? Our identities are sensitive; we cannot make direct contact with the Navy."

After a slight pause, Jasha shook his head:

"Originally, there were backup ships, but we just received a report that those ships were all taken away by refugees, and..."

Seeing Xiang Keluo's brows gradually furrow, Jasha saw his concern:

"If you are worried about subsequent Navy searches, I can provide assistance."

"Without a search warrant, even the Navy cannot do anything to the Lord's Mansion."

Xiang Keluo's expression relaxed, and he spoke to Jasha:

"Then it's troublesome."

"This is what I should do; after all, we will still need your strength to maintain order around Raven Port."

"Mm."

Night gradually deepened.

In the port, the sea breeze gradually rose, blowing away the boundless white smoke.

The two who had fought fiercely for several hours gradually exhausted their strength and, in a moment of tacit understanding, stopped, facing each other from a distance.

Gao Wen was drenched in sweat, panting heavily.

To be honest.

He really had no way to deal with Logia types now; Logia types in this version were simply a dimensional strike.

Even using the move Fang Fang, he could at most hold Smoker back.

He hadn't tried to snatch the Sea Prism Stone jitte from Smoker's hand; after all, that thing was a hard counter to Devil Fruit users, and if Gao Wen got his hands on it, the match would be over instantly.

But Smoker had anticipated this; as soon as Gao Wen showed abnormal interest in the Sea Prism Stone jitte, the guy casually and decisively threw it into the sea.

His reaction was terrifyingly fast!

Little did he know that Smoker's heart at this moment felt like he had eaten shit.

What the hell!

How does this kid even know that the tip of my weapon is made of Sea Prism Stone?!

There's a mole in the Navy!

If I hadn't thrown it away quickly, that thing would have truly become a sharp blade stabbing at me!

Yet at this moment, a whistle sounded from the distant sea surface, and a massive warship cut through the wind and waves, sailing into the port.

Gao Wen turned his head; even under the night sky, his vision made it easy to see a figure standing on the deck.

Short blue hair, slightly stiff square-framed glasses; the newcomer was Tashigi, holding a long sword.

Behind her stood a group of Marines armed with rifles.

"Time to go."

(End of this chapter)