Mount Colubo.
In the dense forest, a huge wild boar rolled its eyes and dropped to the ground.
Luffy, Ace, and Sabo, each holding a pipe, stood around the wild boar, discussing what to do with their kill.
"Let's hurry and take it back to our secret base and have a barbecue!" Luffy swallowed hard, his eyes sparkling.
Hearing this, Ace shook his head and flatly refused. "No! We should just deal with it right here... our secret base doesn't have a kitchen."
"Yeah! Why don't we just eat outside from now on! Otherwise, the base will definitely get messy, and it'll be a hassle to clean up later." Sabo nodded in agreement.
Ever since Garp came to Dadan's House half a month ago and gave the three brothers a severe beating, letting them personally experience the iron fist of love, they were in agony!
The three brothers had long since decided to become Pirates and had no intention of becoming Marines...
Therefore, to avoid living under the shadow of Garp's fists from now on, they could only choose to run away overnight, leaving Dadan's House, and built a wooden house on top of a large tree deep within Mount Colubo, using it as their secret base.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
A series of heavy footsteps, coming from far away and getting closer, entered the ears of the three brothers. They looked in the direction of the sound and saw a huge grizzly bear with a large scar over its right eye running towards them.
Ace frowned and said in a deep voice, "This is bad! This guy is eyeing the wild boar we just hunted."
"Ah! Do we have to run away?" Sabo sighed softly.
Luffy looked at the grizzly bear that was almost upon them, his face clenched with frustration. "Damn it! This is our dinner!"
"Let's just run away quickly first!"
Sabo grabbed Luffy's right arm and was about to run away. He recognized this grizzly bear; it was the same danger level as the big tiger that was the Master of Mount Colubo!
That big tiger often clashed with the grizzly bear, but neither side could do anything to the other.
"Oh dear! So you three little ones are here, I had quite a search..."
A familiar voice suddenly came from the sky. The three brothers looked up and saw a silver-haired young man wearing a black suit, with black wings on his back, and a cigar in his mouth, descending from the sky.
"Sephiroth, you're here... Great! Quickly help us chase away that grizzly bear, it wants to steal our food."
After seeing the silver-haired young man, Luffy immediately shouted happily.
"Oh~! Is that so?"
Sephiroth landed lightly on the ground, right next to the wild boar's carcass.
Seeing this, the grizzly bear standing on the other side of the wild boar's carcass immediately stared at him with unfriendly eyes, baring its fangs.
Roar!
Seeing that the human was unmoved, the grizzly bear roared in anger. It stood on its massive hind legs and swung its huge paws at the silver-haired young man, the blows whistling through the air.
The next moment.
To the astonishment of the three brothers, Sephiroth grabbed the grizzly bear's right arm and, facing its bulk, performed a clean over-the-shoulder throw!
Boom!
The grizzly bear's body, weighing several tons, slammed into the ground, creating a crater. The bear's head hit the ground, and its eyes bulged. Blood spilled from its mouth; it was utterly dead.
Luffy's eyes sparkled, and he praised loudly:
"Sephiroth, you're amazing!
We can have extra food tonight!"
"What terrifying explosive power..." Sabo said in surprise.
After defeating the grizzly bear, Sephiroth turned to look at the three brothers. He clapped the dust off his hands and spoke in a teasing tone:
"You three little ones, you're growing up!
You've even run away from home now..."
Hearing this, Ace immediately crossed his arms and pouted:
"If we keep staying there, Garp will beat us to death sooner or later!"
"Who told you to say you wanted to go out to sea and become Pirates right in front of old man Garp? It's a miracle he didn't beat you to death on the spot!" Sephiroth sneered.
"So, are you here to take us back now?"
Ace frowned, a hint of wariness in his tone.
"Machino said the weather is going to get colder and asked me to bring you some clothes..."
Saying this, Sephiroth drew the butcher knife tucked at his waist, opened his personal space, and threw a basket of clothes to Ace.
Luffy still remembered the all-tiger feast Sephiroth made for them last time he came to Dadan's House. The incredibly delicious dishes were still fresh in his memory.
So, he immediately chuckled:
"Sephiroth, stop talking about that... Let's quickly make dinner!
I want to eat meat!"
"No, there's something else I need to say...
A while ago, old man Garp asked me to train you properly... Hehehe!"
"..." x3
As soon as these words were spoken, the three brothers fell silent, simultaneously taking a step back and looking at Sephiroth with wary eyes.
"Well~! Why are you looking at me like that? Originally, I didn't really want to train you... But, you can't even beat a bear, that's just too embarrassing!"
"This bear is an existence similar to the Master of Mount Colubo, it's normal that we can't beat it, right?" Ace said with a dark expression.
"The three of us can beat wild boars, crocodiles, and rhinos, that's already pretty strong, okay!" Sabo quickly agreed.
Luffy tried hard to use his not-so-smart little brain and loudly retorted:
"Yeah! Yeah!
We're still kids. If we were adults like you, Sephiroth, we could definitely beat it!"
"Tsk! Don't worry, I won't be like old man Garp, bullying the young and just randomly pounding on you..."
As he spoke, black bats split off from Sephiroth's body, quickly forming a soft, cute silver-haired little boy about one meter tall.
His appearance looked exactly like a child version of Sephiroth. If older sisters saw him, they would definitely want to dote on him!
And that was indeed the case...
Don't ask, because there are always girls who like to overwhelm cute little boys!
"This is a clone I created using my ability... Its strength is probably about the level I was at when I was eight or nine years old! You can all come at once. As long as you beat it, you won't have to train!"
Hearing this, the three brothers exchanged glances and nodded in unison.
"Beat him up!" they all shouted. As soon as the words fell, the three brothers swarmed forward, swinging their fists and feet at the silver-haired boy, ready to knock him down immediately. However... In just one exchange, the three of them were beaten senseless by the silver-haired boy, unable to even stand up. Luffy covered his highly swollen right cheek, complaining tearfully:
"So painful! So painful!... Why are his fists as painful as Grandpa's? I'm rubber..."
Ace covered his left cheek and said indignantly:
"D-Damn it! How could you have been so strong when you were a kid!"
Sabo: "..."
Sabo, lying on the ground, reached up and touched the shoe print on his left cheek. He really wanted to ask:
Why did he use fists on Ace and Luffy, but only kicked him directly, and even kicked him in the face...?
Beating up the son of Pirate King Roger, punching the future Pirate King, kicking the future second-in-command of the Revolutionary Army...
The sense of accomplishment is indeed different!
Sephiroth looked at the three brothers lying on the ground, his lips curled into a grin that reached his ears, letting out a villainous laugh:
"Geh geh geh!"
"I told you, it's just that you're too weak! I was that strong even when I was a kid!" Sephiroth said shamelessly.
"..." x3 In fact, this boyish Bat Clone only looks weak on the outside; killing a Pirate with a bounty over 100 million is absolutely no problem! You should know, let alone eight or nine-year-old Sephiroth, even seven years ago, before he ate the Vampire Fruit, he wouldn't just be unable to face Ace and Sabo, even against the weakest of the three brothers now, Luffy, he would be beaten until he was looking for his teeth all over the ground! After all, he wasn't born with extraordinary physical talent... It was only because he ate the Vampire Fruit, combined with using the butcher knife to help condense Haki, coupled with super regeneration, and constantly washing and tempering his body with Haki of Armament, that he gained his terrifying strength today! But... Now that his fist is bigger, what he says is the truth! No arguments accepted!