"Hasshoken Secret Art: Drill Dragon Nail
Chinjao roared and gathered all his Haki into the sharp point of his head, then rammed straight toward Garp.
Garp laughed wildly as Haki wrapped around his fist. "I have been waiting for this move for a long time, Chinjao!"
Facing that sharp head, Garp did not say another word and punched straight at it.
"Mountain Fist!"
The instant Chinjao's sharp head met Garp's heavy fist, Chinjao felt a terrifying pressure. Layers of force exploded on top of his head, making the bones in his whole body feel numb.
At that moment, Tofu also made his move.
"Stir-Fried Chinjao!"
Chinjao and Tofu were sworn brothers, so how could they not have a joint attack?
Blazing flames wrapped in Haki roared upward and reached Chinjao in the air almost instantly. Then the flames spun around Chinjao's powerful body like a fire dragon before gathering above his head into a stream of fire.
With a boom, a fierce explosion burst open in the air. It scattered the remaining waves of Conqueror's Haki around them while also covering both Chinjao and Garp inside.
However, Chinjao had clearly prepared for this. In the next instant, he rushed out of the explosion.
Right after him came Garp, whose body was covered in flames. Even though fire burned on him, he did not seem affected at all. He laughed and said, "You two work pretty well together!"
As his voice fell, Haki shook from his body and directly snuffed out the flames.
"Hasshoken Ogi: Drill Spin!"
Chinjao landed on both feet, twisted his waist, and began spinning rapidly. His head turned like a high-speed drill as he charged at Garp again.
At the same time, flames burst from Tofu's hands, and he growled, "Great Fire Reduction!"
Burning flames surged from his body and turned into a fire dragon. Together with Chinjao, one from the left and one from the right, it rushed straight toward Garp.
But at that moment, Kuzan also moved. Freezing air burst from his hand, and he shouted, "Ice Block: Pheasant Beak!"
An ice bird formed from his cold air and crashed into the fire dragon in midair. The collision between flame and frost instantly created a large cloud of steam, blocking everyone's sight.
At that moment, the clash between fire and ice seemed almost even.
"You are much stronger than that brat from earlier!" Tofu said with a serious expression as he kept increasing the power of his flames.
As for the brat he was talking about, Crocodile had already been blown away when Garp and Chinjao clashed with Conqueror's Haki. In the middle of such an intense fight, no one cared about him at all.
THUD!
A dull impact rang out.
Inside the thick white mist, Chinjao's nose sprayed blood as his body flew backward like a cannonball. He crashed hard into the ground, shattering the ice layer beneath him, then rolled several times before finally stopping.
Right after that, Garp burst out of the steam, his Marine coat with the word justice on it fluttering in the wind. He raised his fist with an imposing look and shouted, "Not enough! That was nowhere near enough, Chinjao!"
With a boom, Tofu's flames shattered Kuzan's ice bird. Then Tofu's figure flashed and appeared beside Chinjao. He said in a low voice, "This one is hard to deal with!"
These "navy" forces from Kano Country had always carried a rough underworld style, and even the way they spoke was the same.
Chinjao covered his broken nose with one hand. Bright red blood kept flowing through his fingers, and his expression was full of anger.
"I do not even know why this guy always chases after me. Damn it!"
Chinjao believed he had never taken the lead in provoking Garp, but for some reason, that bastard Garp always liked causing trouble for him whenever he had nothing else to do.
How long had Chinjao even been back in the New World?
This dog-like bastard had already followed the scent and come running.
As for Garp, there really was no special grudge.
He simply had an obsession with flattening Chinjao's pointed head.
"If that freezing brat was not here, the two of us working together could still try. But with him interfering from the side, we cannot use our teamwork properly. Unless you have some good way to break the situation, I suggest we leave quickly…" Tofu said in a low voice.
Garp's name was too famous, and his strength was truly powerful.
Facing such a powerful enemy, running away was completely reasonable. Without enough value or gain, staying here to fight him to the death would be the foolish choice.
After hearing that, Chinjao hesitated. On one hand, Garp did leave a shadow in his heart, and from their clash just now, he could clearly feel that during his years in the West Blue, his strength had not grown much. Garp, on the other hand, had become much stronger than before.
Chinjao was no match for him.
But if he simply ran away in such a pathetic way, he would not be able to accept it.
Before Chinjao could make a decision, a firework suddenly exploded in the air near the port, drawing everyone's eyes.
Kuzan looked at the firework and frowned. "Garp-san, someone else is here to interfere…"
"So soon?" Garp licked his lips. "A tougher one has arrived…"
Chinjao did not fully understand what was happening, but he knew that something had changed, and that it had made Garp, who had been pressing forward so fiercely moments ago, become more cautious.
Just then, a sharp slash suddenly erupted from one of the Marine warships at the port.
But before the slash could fully form, an overwhelmingly powerful wave of Conqueror's Haki exploded from the same direction.
Kuzan was the first to feel it. His eyes widened in disbelief. He instinctively raised his arms to guard himself — but the surging wave of Conqueror's Haki crashed into him with terrifying force.
The pressure instantly flooded his entire body. Cracks of ice spread across his arms, and his waist bent under the weight. It felt like he couldn't even breathe properly. The suffocating sensation was so intense it felt completely unreasonable.
"What kind of Conqueror's Haki is this!?" Kuzan cried out in shock.
The person had not even appeared yet, but this Haki alone was enough to make the still-young Kuzan unable to resist.
Not far away, Garp raised his arm slightly, blocking part of the terrifying Haki sweeping toward him. Compared to Kuzan's hard-pressed state, he looked calm, but his serious expression showed that he was not as relaxed as he seemed.
As for Chinjao, he had crossed his arms in front of himself to resist wave after wave of that terrifying pressure.
He was not in as rough a state as Kuzan, but he still felt great pressure.
"Garp, whose Haki is this!?" Chinjao could not help roaring.
Garp did not turn around. He looked toward the port and said in a deep voice, "The one you have been waiting for."
"Valthior!?" Chinjao shouted in disbelief. "How is that possible? Haki at this level, even you might not be able to…"
Garp's Conqueror's Haki was already very strong, and he could also release Haki at this level, but he could not do it as easily as the person at the port.
Garp took a deep breath and nodded. "It is hard to believe, but that guy really is a monster. His greatest strength is this unreasonable Conqueror's Haki."
Back on Linderland Island, when that guy's Conqueror's Haki first awakened, it had already carried enough pressure to sweep over everything.
Now, it had clearly become even stronger.
The flames on Tofu's body flickered, appearing and vanishing. His face was full of shock as he said, "Chinjao, this is the monster we were waiting for? Before coming here, you did not tell me the New World was this terrifying!"
As soon as his voice fell, a dark figure shot over from the distance.
Garp's eyes narrowed. His body moved at once, and he appeared in the path of the flying figure at great speed. He reached out and caught the person.
"Are you all right?" Garp asked as he landed.
The person in his hand was his right-hand man, Bogard.
The sharp slash that had burst out at the port just now had come from him.
Bogard's arm trembled, and the Haki around his body was somewhat scattered. His expression was very ugly as he said, "That guy is here… and he is even stronger than we predicted!"
Garp, whose expression had been serious a moment ago, suddenly laughed. He rolled his shoulders and said, "Is that so? Then this is just what I wanted. Chinjao is too weak now and cannot let me enjoy myself at all…"
"Ahahahahaha…" A bold laugh came from the distance.
Biting cold quickly swept across the whole battlefield, covering everyone's brows with pale frost. Bright snowflakes began to fall from the sky.
"Garp-san, it has been a long time…" Valthior said with a loud laugh as he walked out from the freezing wind.
At that moment, Chinjao finally saw Valthior clearly.
He was more than three meters tall, with a powerful yet not bulky build. His body was very well balanced. His medium-length silver-white hair was neatly combed, and his sharp, heroic face was matched with a pair of scarlet eyes where tomoe slowly turned, making him look almost otherworldly.
His fitted dark brown knight outfit looked extremely refined, and each step of his tall leather boots left a frosty crystal footprint on the ground.
Chains wrapped around his left arm from shoulder to wrist, then hung down to a one-handed battle axe at his waist.
A bold, fearless smile rested on his face as he walked forward with Conqueror's Haki so thick it almost seemed solid.
With just one look, Chinjao knew.
He was not Valthior's match.
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