Chapter 25: Genius And Monster (lower)
“Bang!”
“Hiss——”
While Obei’s head next to her kept refreshing ‘Merits +1’, Sister La, as the eldest sister, quietly closed her eyes, as if she had entered a meditative state.
『As expected, observing this world from the perspective of energy is much clearer and more thorough than simply using the five senses.』
Sister La, sitting quietly, had unknowingly extended her perception to cover the entire small island, and she was trying to reobserve this world from the perspective of energy.
In Sister La’s current ‘vision’, the energy emitted by all living and non-living things was like colored lights of different colors, with size, shape, outline, and intensity all clearly visible.
『That one with the highest intensity… hmm, as expected, it’s Captain Kaido. But it’s a bit different from others, this color… there seems to be an extra kind of different energy in his body compared to others, could it be the Conqueror’s Haki that Burufaruto mentioned?』
『I can ask about it when I have time.』
She naturally tilted her head while thinking, and Mr. Jinn’s scabbard came down a beat late, as if Mr. Jinn had deliberately swung at empty air.
“？！”
Sister La’s movement, which was clearly a step faster than her own, surprised Mr. Jinn. In theory, even if she could dodge, she should have evaded after Mr. Jinn made the attacking motion.
『This golden-haired brat dodged before I even moved! Did she know in advance that I was going to attack her?』
To verify his guess, Mr. Jinn tried a few more surprise attacks, but as expected, Sister La completed her dodges every time before he even acted.
Afterward, Mr. Jinn tried a feint once more, posing with the motion and momentum of an attack, but the scabbard stopped just short of her head at the last moment.
And this time, Sister La didn’t make any dodging motions from start to finish!
It must be known that this time Mr. Jinn had suddenly decided to stop just a moment before smashing down, and no one with Observation Haki could fail to react at this distance.
『As expected, it’s Future Sight. This brat is only about ten years old! She’s practically a monster!』
Sister La’s performance was already shattering Mr. Jinn’s common sense, making him suspect if the other had some racial talent for future sight.
『Mr. Kaido said before that this golden-haired one is the most special among these three, and I thought it would be hard to teach her, and now it seems he was right.』
While Mr. Jinn was still immersed in the daze of his common sense being pulled, Sister La had already withdrawn her consciousness from her perception of the entire island, then removed the black cloth covering her eyes.
“Mr. Jinn, I think I’ve preliminarily mastered Observation Haki. Can you show me Armament Haki?”
That’s right, just now Sister La had only used a small portion of her attention focused on Mr. Jinn to foresee his movements.
“Just call me Jinn.”
Mr. Jinn was brought back to reality by Sister La’s ethereal voice, but he seemed unaccustomed to Sister La’s polite title.
After realizing that the other’s Observation Haki was already above his own, Mr. Jinn didn’t say much more.
He first had Obei go to Burufaruto to continue cultivating with Aoxi, while he directly demonstrated Armament Haki in front of Sister La.
That familiar energy clung to Mr. Jinn’s arm and wrapped around the scabbard as well.
“This is Armament Haki, which can greatly increase the user’s attack and defense power. It can also attach to weapons like this.” Mr. Jinn explained.
And in Sister La’s perception, a burst of black energy had just erupted from Mr. Jinn’s body, then gathered on his arm and scabbard.
She reached out to touch the scabbard, and as her fingers made contact, that pitch-black energy became even clearer.
『What a magical power. This Armament Haki seems to have the property of isolating external energy.』
This reminded her of the previous battle with Kaido. Clearly at the beginning, her flames could easily melt his wolf fang club.
But after Kaido used Armament Haki to wrap it, the high temperature could no longer affect it.
Sister La wrapped her divine power around this energy, then tried to separate out a tiny bit of Armament Haki.
She proceeded very slowly in this process; the Armament Haki on the scabbard was wrapped very tightly, and peeling it off required extremely precise energy control.
It was just like trying to tear off a small advertisement stuck to a door intact while wearing rubber gloves coated in lubricant.
……
『Hmm… success.』
About ten minutes later, Sister La finally withdrew her hand.
At the same time, Mr. Jinn noticed that the Armament Haki he had attached to the scabbard suddenly disappeared a tiny bit—not due to consumption, but truly gone.
He looked at Sister La in surprise and doubt, and found her staring at her palm as if there was something there.
『Is it life energy fused with some strange energy…?』
A wisp of Haki completely wrapped in divine power gradually broke down in Sister La’s palm, its essence laid bare before her.
『However, there doesn’t seem to be this special energy in my body. Is it because of different races? Or is this energy unique to people of this world?』
For an energy with such distinct otherworldly characteristics, Sister La first thought of the renowned ‘chakra’.
Things had hit a slight bottleneck, but for the current Sister La, this hardly counted as trouble.
『Let’s first try imitating it with divine power.』
With a thought, Sister La immediately began adjusting the nature of her divine power to approximate that strange energy.
It had to be said that energy originating from gods had extremely high plasticity, capable of simulating the nature of almost any other energy at will.
This Egyptian God Cards power, akin to the ‘Mr. X of the energy world’, was fundamentally a distortion of reality and a modification of rules.
However, due to the influence of divine status, this energy with infinite possibilities often manifested externally in a singular form.
But this singularity allowed divine power, when manifested as authority, to reach an energy level far higher than ordinary divine power release.
In simple terms, divine status was like an amplification converter, transforming divine power into the most suitable form upon release.
For example, Sister La’s flames and Aoxi’s lightning—these were the essence of a god’s external authority.
And now Sister La had found a second form of divine power release, namely Armament Haki.
With a thought, she combined the simulated divine power with life energy, and golden Armament Haki with flame patterns appeared on Sister La’s arm.
And unlike ordinary Armament Haki, Sister La’s Armament Haki was directly visible to the naked eye, requiring no Observation Haki to detect.
“Th-this is golden Haki?! How is that possible? Isn’t Haki always black?! But this feeling is undoubtedly Haki…”
Mr. Jinn could no longer comprehend what kind of existence this little girl was—learning Haki from scratch in just ten minutes, without anyone teaching her.
This had far surpassed the realm of genius; she was a monster in the truest sense! The common sense of this world seemed entirely inapplicable to her.
“Yes, this is indeed Haki. The reason it’s different from normal is probably because our race is somewhat special.”
“Thank you for your patient guidance, Jinn. As for teaching Armament Haki to Aoxi and Obei, leave it to me. Ordinary training methods might not suit them.”
Sister La slightly bowed to Mr. Jinn in thanks. After all, he had stood motionless for a full ten minutes, maintaining the Armament Haki wrapping without a single urging word.
Mr. Jinn inwardly grumbled that he hadn’t taught anything at all—he had just stood there like a fool for ten minutes and she figured it out herself.
“Since you’ve already learned it, I’ll go teach that blue-haired brat. You’re free to do as you like.”
“Okay, I was just thinking of going to Captain Kaido to learn about Conqueror’s Haki, so I’ll take my leave first. Please take care of my sisters.”
“Eh? Sister La, you’re leaving already? You mastered Haki this quickly?” Aoxi and Obei, still getting beaten, watched Sister La’s departing back like two little raccoons abandoned by their mother, their eyes full of helplessness.
“Study well with the two teachers. I have something with Captain Kaido and will probably be back by dinner.”
Sister La turned her head, smiling lightly as she waved gently to Aoxi and Obei, like a young mother saying goodbye to her children at kindergarten every morning.
“Hey, what kind of monster is that little girl exactly? Could she really be from some god clan like that blue-haired brat said?”
Burufaruto had clearly noticed the process of Sister La awakening Armament Haki, and that brilliant, sacred flame-golden Haki had likewise shattered his common sense.
“Maybe. After all, anything is possible on this sea. And even the real Divine Clan probably isn’t that powerful in reality… Alright, let’s continue teaching.”
Mr. Jinn seemed unwilling to dwell further on the topic. Burufaruto wisely said no more.
“Good! Since your sister has graduated, you two as the sisters surely won’t be too bad either! Get up, keep dodging my attacks!”
“Bang~”Bang~”Bang~”
“Damn it!”Qua! It hurts!”
“Don’t get distracted, focus!”
“Red-haired brat, don’t you dare run! Get back here!”
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