Chapter 231: Chance Encounter (part 2)
Swish!
The deep blue heavy wings suddenly unfolded, immediately sending sand and stones flying around, with a fierce Gang Wind blowing so strongly that people couldn’t open their eyes.
Seeing that things were ultimately heading toward trouble, Obei simply decided to force her way out.
“Everyone! Battle preparation!”
In the midst of the gale, Bogard pressed down on the hat on his head while commanding the Navy combat team he had brought.
And the soldiers of this combat team directly under Garp were all elites, stabilizing their footing in an extremely short time.
And in the instant the gale suddenly stopped, they raised their standard-issue muskets, aiming the gun muzzles at the two small figures not far away.
As for why the wind suddenly stopped…
“Vice Admiral Garp, how about we pretend not to know each other like before and then go our separate ways?”
Looking at the tall figure blocking in front of her, covering most of the sky, Obei said somewhat helplessly.
The opponent had blocked in front of her at extreme speed in the instant before she was about to take off, forcing her to stop her wing-flapping action.
Compared to Aoxi, Obei’s speed and agility were still slightly inferior.
“Hey! You brat, you were really lying after all, huh?”
“You almost fooled me!”
『Normal people couldn’t possibly be fooled at all!』
The surrounding Navy soldiers once again complained in their hearts.
“Looks like you two are indeed the culprits who kept causing explosions around the Holy Land.”
“So what? Are you going to capture me here?”
Looking at the opponent’s body full of power and without any flaws, Obei’s fists began to accumulate power, secretly preparing for battle.
“No, I don’t plan to hand you over to those scum Celestial Dragons.”
Garp had no intention of handing two children who clearly weren’t adults yet over to the Celestial Dragons, or rather, no one with any humanity would do such a thing.
“Then please make way. You heard it too—we need to hurry back to join the battle now.”
“Sorry, but I won’t let you return to the Beasts Pirates either.”
“Then what exactly do you want—”
Bang!
Before Obei finished speaking, Garp’s iron fist smashed down directly, but fortunately, she who was prepared dodged backward.
Crack!
The sandbag-sized fist sank straight into the Earth, and the ground instantly cracked with a spiderweb-like fissure that extended all the way to under Obei’s feet, who was already more than ten meters away.
“I’ll use my fists to bring you two brats who have gone astray back to the right path.”
Pulling out his fist, Garp said to Obei, whose expression was gradually becoming serious, and Aoxi beside her who had already entered a battle stance:
“Kids who have just been weaned shouldn’t be playing pirate… I can’t just let that slide.”
Loosening his tie, Garp ordered the surrounding soldiers and Bogard not to act before rolling up his sleeves.
“Kids should do what kids are supposed to do.”
“Correction Iron Fist!”
Swish—!
Using that teleportation-like technique again, Garp’s figure appeared in front of Obei and the other in the blink of an eye, and two fists coated with Armament Haki smashed down fiercely.
But this time, neither Obei nor Aoxi dodged; instead, they countered with fists also coated with Haki.
Clang! *2
Two sounds like metal clashing rang out, and an invisible Impact wave immediately spread out.
One red and one blue pair of slender fists surprisingly weren’t instantly crushed in front of Garp’s massive iron fists; instead, during the Haki confrontation, they erupted with astonishing power.
“Hm?!”
“This intensity of Haki! You two are really just brats?!”
“Hah!” *2
Ignoring Garp’s surprise, taking advantage of his momentary distraction, Obei and the other pushed with all their might at the same time, directly shoving Garp back.
“Eh?”
Sensing the instant when the opponent’s body slightly lost balance, the two showed perfect synchronization once again, simultaneously kicking out at Garp’s chest and sending him flying.
“V-Vice Admiral Garp was actually repelled by those two brats!”
Even the Navy soldiers who had fought alongside Garp against almost all the pirate powerhouses on this Sea couldn’t hide their shock at this scene.
It wasn’t that they had never seen Garp at a disadvantage, but the ones in front of them were just two little girls who still smelled of milk!
Sizzle… Sizzle sizzle~
Leather Shoes scraped across the ground, and Garp adjusted his stance after merely retreating a few steps, standing upright again.
“Haha! I really underestimated you two brats, but now I definitely can’t let you go back.”
Bang!
Fists clashed in front of his chest, powerful Haki wrapping around them once more.
After getting a slight glimpse of Obei and Aoxi’s strength, Garp decided to show a bit of his real skills.
Tearing off the obstructive coat behind him, Garp stomped heavily, shattering the ground beneath his feet.
Then, using the powerful reaction force, he brutally broke through the air and charged right up to the two.
“Double Fist Bone Conflict!”
Iron fists that seemed capable of shattering space came assaulting with the explosive sound of the atmosphere.
Without needing any signal, the two little ones instinctively made the best coordination.
“Superconducting Wave Thunder Cannon!”
Golden breath was released instantly without any charging, not for hurting the enemy but merely to disrupt the opponent’s senses.
Even if Haki was used for defense, the heat and electromagnetic interference carried by the Thunder Cannon would still cause a momentary disruption in the opponent’s Observation Haki.
And even just that one instant of sensory gap was enough for Aoxi. After Garp forcibly broke through the baptism of golden thunder, all that was left in front of him was Obei alone.
『That red brat… behind me!』
His restored senses continuously warned of the threat from behind, but the blue figure in front was equally impossible to ignore.
A slender body erupted with power as if it could destroy heaven and earth; the Authority of destruction turned into a Gang Wind that tore everything apart, swirling around her left hand, and with every swing of the girl’s fist, the space along the path was shaken to pieces!
“God Fist Crush!（God Hand Crush!）”
Boom!!!
Sensing the oncoming gale, Garp ultimately chose to deal with the terrifying fist in front of him first.
Adjusting the angle of force exertion, he concentrated the power originally dispersed across both fists into one, and Garp met that divine fist with his own iron fist.
The two fists collided in the air from several inches apart!
The energy torrent produced by power distorting space rampaged indiscriminately toward the surroundings, and the Red Line beneath their feet began to shake uncontrollably.
“Haha! Brat, what great strength!”
Feeling the force transmitted through his arm, Garp couldn’t help but praise.
If it was just a contest of raw strength, he might not be a match for the slender little girl in front of him.
That small body seemed to hide some extremely violent existence.
However, so-called fist-to-fist wasn’t just about strength; it was a clash of Haki, a clash of belief!
When it came to unyielding belief, Garp was confident he wouldn’t lose to anyone!
“Hah! Little girl, you’re still a bit short right now!”
A surge of intense Haki suddenly erupted from Garp’s fist, instantly suppressing Obei, but Obei’s face showed no sign of panic.
“Perhaps, but I’m not trying to decide a winner here with you either.”
With that, Obei looked behind Garp, where a small figure was already poised to strike.
“?!”
Garp, who was pinned down, couldn’t turn his head at the moment and could only vaguely hear the opponent’s voice mixed in with the thunder.
“Thunder—”
The crimson tail instantly tensed straight, golden Electric Current flowing and crackling across its surface; Aoxi spun around and whipped her tail from behind viciously!
“—Eight Trigrams!”
Clang!!!
