Meanwhile with Zoro and Kaku.
The giraffe had already eaten the pills, and Zoro was being pushed back.
Not by a lot, but it wasn't something he could simply ignore like before, plus current Zoro was fighting with a nerf.
His ass was trying to imbue his shit with Ryo and make his sword stronger.
He hadn't yet awakened his Conqueror's Haki as far as he was aware.
{Soru}
Kaku would try to smack Zoro away, however, Zoro would block the attack with the blunt side of his blade.
The CP agent seemed faster than before, yet Zoro wasn't thinking of any of that shit — his thoughts were merely on coating his sword with Ryo and nothing more.
This stupid-ass giraffe would not stop him from reaching his goals.
Zoro would look confused... as he watched the giraffe sit down.
"The hell are you doing?" He was confused — what the fuck was that giraffe doing.
"By taking this shape, I cover for all my weaknesses and strengthen all my advantages as a giraffe," Kaku would say. Zoro didn't believe this bullshit.
He would watch as the giraffe began punching upward.
The hell was he doing?
{Rankyaku "Kiri Shigure"}
Well, my dear friend, the technique was quite simple really.
All he did was use Rankyaku towards the ceiling with all four of his limbs. There, the vast mass of small Rankyaku blades bounced back, falling like rain on the enemy, making the attack difficult to block, to inflict continuous damage.
That was the basis of the technique.
Zoro would switch his Haki output a bit, going from the 50/50 — which was practically the default setting — to something more like 70/30.
Having 70% of his Haki focused on blocking attacks, while the remaining would be used for him attacking.
By putting it like this, the Rankyaku did barely any damage to the swordsman, who was preparing an attack of his own.
Zoro then held his two swords horizontally above the shoulder and the other in his mouth in the same direction, and then performed a circular swing that launched three air-compressed projectiles spiraling toward his target.
{Hyakuhachi Pound Ho}
{Tekkai}
As Zoro's attack reached Kaku, it simply bounced off his skin.
His Iron Body being enough to tank the damage.
Zoro would frown a bit.
His output was way too loose.
He needed to pour more into his next attack.
Aight, he thinks he got the gist of it now.
As Kaku extended his neck, about to give Zoro the strongest neck he ever had...
Zoro would have his sword in front, defending himself from the blow.
This was getting a bit annoying. Zoro knew he was stronger than this guy, yet he couldn't beat him yet.
Steam seemed to be coming out of Kaku's body. Zoro noticed that Kaku was getting slimmer.
It suddenly clicked in his very slow mind.
'He is burning fat in exchange for power,' Zoro thought to himself. So the weakness of those pills was the same as Kairo soldier pills.
Which were weaker than Hody Jones' pills; however, they were better in every other way. They may not boost your raw power to brand-new levels, however they do not kill you or age you like that.
At the end of the day, they simply burn a shit ton of fat, and it only starts being a problem when you take them in excess — and even then, the drain on your life is slow. You will sooner die of organ failure due to your organs overworking before dying from old age.
Well, to be fair, Kairo family ninja pills were the better version of what that fishman would try to achieve.
That fact, however, wouldn't be relevant for a while — Zoro would mostly focus on winning his fight.
Meanwhile somewhere else...
Blueno could be seen holding Iceburg, a gun to the man's head, ready to blow his goddamn brain out. Granted, he had a mask on to hide his identity, but it didn't change the fact he was going to slime out his former mayor.
Well, it wasn't like he couldn't do it — he in fact could.
He had finished putting belt to ass to Paulie, and now all that was left was that mayor. He even faked the death of all his former teammates, making it seem like he slimed them out — well, the ones who were originally part of CP5, but you know, they didn't need to know that.
He was there for one reason: he needed the damn blueprint. The Holy Knight plan was simple — kill the Lunarian, slime out a bunch of people, blame it on the Straw Hats, and if need be, call a Buster Call on this island and make it seem like it was for the greater good.
Like come on, who wouldn't slime out their homie for the greater good? There are some people who would slime out their day one for a chance to speak with a 10 out of 10.
So for the sake of the world, he would have no issue sliming out this man... if he wasn't told where what he wanted was.
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