"Shave...not difficult at all."
"Not a bad technique."
Shave, one of the Six Powers of the Navy, involves stomping the ground dozens of times at high speed in an instant to generate explosive reaction force for high-speed movement, making it seem as if the enemy has vanished.
Undoubtedly, Shave is a high-end combat technique, and the instantaneous burst of movement speed can catch most enemies off guard.
Such a technique is often extremely difficult to learn. Looking across the entire sea, almost no one in the first half of the Grand Line can master such an ability. Within the Navy, those who can master the Six Powers are usually lieutenant officers or above.
But such a high-end combat technique is so simple and unadorned in Yoriichi's eyes.
Under the Transparent World, when Aokiji uses Shave, the movement of his body muscles is clearly revealed, and there is no secret for Yoriichi.
Yoriichi himself is the kind of person who can cut Muzan into more than a thousand pieces of flesh in an instant. Although he is only 12 years old after being reincarnated into this world, his strength has not deteriorated at all, and his physical condition can fully support him to use Shave.
Therefore, the moment Yoriichi saw Aokiji use the "Shave" technique, he was able to perfectly replicate it and apply it in battle.
He flashed behind Aokiji and slashed at Aokiji's back with a backhand strike. There was a significant height difference between them; his usual method of decapitating Aokiji only reached Aokiji's lower back.
"Whoa!"
"That's truly astonishing!"
"Have you learned 'Shave'?"
Aokiji turned and glanced at Yoriichi, asking.
Facing Yoriichi's attack, Aokiji neither dodged nor evaded, letting the blade strike his back. The instant the blade touched Aokiji's body, his back turned to ice, the chill spreading rapidly, instantly freezing Yoriichi's sword and quickly spreading towards his arm.
Yoriichi reacted quickly, releasing his sword and leaping back to create distance between himself and Aokiji.
Looking at the long sword frozen on the back of Aokiji, Yoriichi was speechless.
What happened to teaching him the Six Powers of the Navy? What's with all this Devil Fruit power-ups? Isn't this bullying an honest guy?
"I've never learned this before; this is the first time I've seen it."
Yoriichi prepared to give up. He was already disarmed; this sparring match had barely begun, yet it was already over. Logia-type Devil Fruits were simply too much for him at this stage. Even though Yoriichi hadn't fully unleashed his breathing techniques, the result was the same.
For those who don't know Haki, Logia users are invincible. After all, not all Logia users are like Crocodile, who could be beaten to a pulp by a bucket of water.
"First time seeing it?" Aokiji's expression faltered slightly upon hearing this, but he quickly regained his composure, casually removing the frozen sword from his body and turning to look at the watchtower on the warship.
At that moment, in the watchtower of the dog-headed warship, Garp leaned against the windowsill, watching everything unfolding on the deck. Behind him, his adjutant, Bogart, noticed Aokiji's gaze and said,
"Vice Admiral Garp, the sparring seems to be stalled."
"That Yoriichi Tsugikuni actually used Shave! Could he be...?"
Garp shook his head, grinning,
"Learned Shave after just one glance? No one would believe that."
"But that's the truth. Before setting sail, I talked to Zephyr, and this kid had never touched Shave before."
"As for before joining the Marines... heh, no way, there aren't any Marines like that in the East Blue."
"Looks like I underestimated this kid. Not just in Haki, but in other aspects, his talent is top-notch!"
"Now it seems my training plan needs a slight adjustment."
Garp spoke to his adjutant, but didn't respond to Aokiji's gaze below.
After a moment, seeing that Garp on the lookout tower didn't react, Aokiji withdrew his gaze and turned to Yoriichi.
This time, Aokiji carefully examined Yoriichi from head to toe. After a while, he tossed the long sword to Yoriichi and said,
"The technique you used to slip behind me just now is Shave, one of the Six Styles of the Navy." "At first, the technique I used to block your horizontal slash was called Iron Body, one of the Six Powers of the Navy."
"Seeing how skillfully you used Shave just now, I assume you have mastered it. So, Iron Body…"
Aokiji didn't finish his sentence, but the intense expectation in his eyes made Yoriichi instantly understand his meaning. Under Aokiji's gaze, Yoriichi shook his head, shrugged, and said,
"Sorry, I didn't see you use Iron Body. I only know that your body turned into ice when I slashed you."
"The one that turned into ice, is that Iron Body? I still don't understand."
Yoriichi feigned ignorance. He knew Aokiji's Devil Fruit ability, and now he was deliberately mistaking the fruit ability for Iron Body to deceive others.
Of course, Yoriichi's words were not entirely a lie. He really hadn't noticed that Aokiji had used Iron Body. With the enhancement of the Transparent World, Yoriichi only noticed that Aokiji's body had become elemental, but he really hadn't noticed Iron Body.
The flesh turning into ice was obvious, but the iron block…
"Uh…"
"No, turning my body into ice is my Devil Fruit ability."
"You know Devil Fruits, right? The treasures of the sea. Eating a Devil Fruit grants special powers, but also the ability to swim."
"And I am an Ice Man who ate the Ice-Ice Fruit. I'm a Logia-type, and my body can freely turn into ice. What you just saw was my Devil Fruit ability."
"As for the iron block…"
At this point, Aokiji paused. He suddenly realized that when he used the iron block, he hadn't been able to withstand Yoriichi's slash at all. His body had subconsciously become elementalized, which explained why Yoriichi hadn't noticed he used the iron block.
But as soon as he thought of this, Aokiji's gaze towards Yoriichi became strange.
If his information was correct, Yoriichi was only 12 years old, right? His slash could actually break through his iron block? Aokiji knew his Six Powers weren't very good, and his iron block was nothing special, but for it to be broken by a child was still quite shocking.
During the battle, Aokiji hadn't realized it, but now, reviewing the events, he suddenly found Yoriichi somewhat terrifying.
"Did your teacher, Zephyr, ever test your Douriki power? If so, how much was it?"
Aokiji suddenly asked curiously, guessing in his mind, "That attack power just now, at least one or two thousand."
"A full-power attack, over five thousand, I forget the exact number."
"Zephyr said I was weak, not presentable enough. If it weren't for Vice Admiral Garp leading the way, I probably wouldn't have been able to set sail."
Hearing Aokiji's question, Yoriichi lowered his head in shame.
"Oh, only five thousand?!?" Aokiji, hearing Yoriichi's words, tilted his head forward slightly, looking utterly dumbfounded. Although he had expected Yoriichi to be strong, hearing this number still made him gasp.
When he was Yoriichi's age, he probably only had a fraction of Yoriichi's power.
Five thousand units of power is considered top-tier even within the Navy. If it weren't for Aokiji's Logia-type Devil Fruit ability, defeating Yoriichi would have been a huge challenge.
Hearing this, Aokiji finally understood why Garp had sent him to instruct Yoriichi on the Six Styles of the Navy. There were very few people on the ship qualified to instruct Yoriichi.
Practicing with Yoriichi might even help him, a Logia user not skilled in hand-to-hand combat.
"Zephyr-sensei is really reckless!" "
Yoriichi, don't listen to Zephyr-sensei's nonsense. Your strength is already quite high. You must hold back when sparring."
"Now that I think about it, if I didn't have my Devil Fruit ability, I would have been injured by those two attacks."
"Go get a bamboo sword. I won't use my Devil Fruit ability; I'll fight you with hand-to-hand combat and demonstrate the other Six Styles to you."
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