Chapter 33: Colored Drawing Sisters (lower)
“Okay, La~Tea~cher~”
Aoxi responded with a deliberately drawn-out tone, just like a real kindergarten senior class student.
“I’m ready, Big Sister.”
Obei wasn’t as mischievous as Aoxi, but she was feeling a bit uneasy inside right now.
She feared that her Armament Haki talent would also require head-to-head teaching like Observation Haki, and if so, she would really be laughed at by Aoxi for a long time.
Thinking of this, she began unconsciously twirling her hair with her fingers.
La saw Obei’s nervousness and softly comforted: “Armament Haki isn’t as complicated as you think. You can probably all master it in the remaining time this morning. Now stretch out your hands.”
“Re, really?” Obei was a bit skeptical but still extended her small hand.
“If Sister La says it’s possible, then it definitely is!” Aoxi had great trust in La and directly offered both hands in front of La.
La didn’t speak but gently grasped both of their hands. Then golden Armament Haki emerged from her arm and directly spread to their arms, dyeing their arms gold as well.
Before, La had input her energy into their bodies several times, so it was familiar territory.
“This is? This energy is Armament Haki?” Obei immediately felt the energy coming from her arm.
“That’s right. Armament Haki is composed of life energy and a special kind of energy, and this special energy should be unique to people in this world.
But we can just directly imitate this energy with divine power; the effect is about the same. Right now, I’m transmitting the simulated energy to you. Feel it carefully.”
“Mm, I see. The energy’s amplitude and frequency are like this, and this radiation intensity…”
Carefully analyzing the Haki on her arm that belonged to La, Obei muttered to herself while constantly adjusting her own divine power inside her body.
In terms of understanding and reconstructing this energy, she was confident she could be one step ahead of Aoxi this time. No! Several steps ahead!
『Just wait! Aoxi! Let’s see who the little fool is this time! Hmph~
And just as Obei began fantasizing about far leading and leaving the Aoxi beside her in the dust—
“Done! Is this it?”
“
Obei’s little blue head turned with a trace of disbelief to the side, only to see the gold on Aoxi’s arm slowly turning crimson, interspersed with strands of golden lightning patterns, looking quite flashy.
“Oh! Oh!! Oh!!! My Haki is red! So cool! Then yours must be blue, Obei.”
Aoxi was clearly very satisfied with her Armament Haki style, then looked expectantly at Obei beside her, only to find the other also looking at her.
“Obei?”
“I’m here. If I may ask boldly, Aoxi, how did you manage to do it so quickly?”
Obei unusually asked Aoxi for advice; she really couldn’t figure out why this girl was faster than her again. This time she clearly already knew the principle but still couldn’t beat her.
“Huh? Just do this and that, then that and this, and finally ‘crackle’ and it’s done. Very simple~”
Obei: …
I finally got serious for once, and you made me lose so thoroughly.gif
“What’s wrong, Obei? Why aren’t you talking?” Aoxi waved her now-red arm in front of Obei’s eyes.
“Nothing, just a bit of weathering.”
Obei gave up obsessing over such meaningless things and began focusing on adjusting her divine power.
Soon, Obei’s arm also turned indigo blue, interspersed with some black patterns.
Aoxi beside her poked the other’s color-changed arm: “Hehe~ Now all three of us have big colorful arms. The Egyptian God Cards Three Sisters have become the Age Beast Three Sisters.”
This arm that looked like colored drawing reminded her of a four-letter game she had played before.
Because they used their own divine power to replace the special energy in Haki, the Armament Haki that should normally be invisible became like ordinary body paint on La and the three of them, still clearly visible even without using Observation Haki.
“Our three Armament Haki look somewhat different from Kaido and Jin’s. It should be because we used our own divine power to replace that strange energy? But it feels a bit like exclusive skins.”
Obei said, looking at her blue big colorful arm.
“Isn’t it pretty good? I think it’s much better looking than their dingy black Haki.”
Aoxi was very satisfied with this style and began constantly fiddling with her red Armament Haki.
“Hey~ Obei, look at my magnetic field battle patterns!”
Several special patterns suddenly appeared on Aoxi’s forehead and cheeks, crimson and gold intertwining in an unusually bewitching way.
She had already begun imagining suddenly activating battle patterns in a fight to handsome-stun the opponent.
Obei ignored Aoxi and asked La: “Sister La, what exactly are the uses of Armament Haki? Is it just to counter those Logia ability users?”
“For now, there should be two uses.” La didn’t keep them in suspense and directly told the two.
“The first is that covering the body with Armament Haki significantly boosts both defense and attack power, similar to wearing a layer of armor.
The second is another use of Armament Haki that Kaido the Captain showed me during practice—it’s like liquid flowing directly into the opponent’s internals to destroy, even achieving non-contact remote attacks.”
La recalled Kaido’s Thunder Bagua—that kind of attack that was almost impossible to defend against without the same technique.
“Sounds not hard at all. Isn’t it just making the energy move? Easy to do~”
Aoxi took the lead in trying again, and as expected, she succeeded right away. The Haki that had covered her entire arm all flowed to her fist.
Going further, Aoxi gathered it all on her thumb and index finger, and at this moment, the Haki faintly emitted light.
“Hey, check out my Flick Flash!” Aoxi flicked her finger, and the ground under her feet was instantly struck with a neat round deep pit.
“Indeed, merely making the energy flow is no difficulty for us.” Obei beside her had clearly succeeded too, or rather, this was a technique they had already mastered.
“As expected~ For a genius like yours truly, Haki is just at hand. Sigh~ I really don’t know what in this world could stump me.”
“Life is truly lonely as snow~”
Aoxi clasped her hands behind her back and sighed to the sky at a 45-degree angle.
Mastering the dual-color Haki that Burufaruto and the others said was extremely hard to master, in just one morning—this made her feel a bit smug.
“Hmph↑ Passable, I guess.” Though Obei didn’t show it on the surface, she was a bit pleased inside too.
『Really want to see what expression that gloomy Masked Man Jin will have then~』
“Clap~”
La clapped her hands to interrupt their little mental dramas.
“Learning dual-color Haki stops here for now. The rest is up to you to slowly adapt to using it in battle.
In the afternoon, let’s do some slightly more challenging lessons. Now free activity, gather back here after lunch.”
“Yay!”
“Got it.”
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PS: Armament Haki is probably related to the ‘Substance P’ in bodies in the Pirate World, the substance contained in seawater and Seastone that makes ability users’ powers fail.
So Armament Haki should be, like chakra, a unique ability of people in that world.
