Looking at Grimm's holy and imposing appearance, Kuzan didn't say anything and exhaled a cold breath onto his right hand.
"Ice Blade!"
Kuzan condensed a weapon in his hand that was curved in shape but could still be seen as a sword. He used "Shave" and instantly rushed in front of Grimm.
"He's gotten faster!" Grimm could feel that Kuzan was starting to get serious.
Bang!
The sword and blade clashed, Holy Light and ice energy collided, and the two weapons trembled constantly. This situation lasted for about three seconds.
Then, Grimm's mouth curved slightly: "Your power is still not enough, Rear Admiral!" He suddenly exerted force, and Kuzan was directly pushed back.
Grimm pressed his advantage. Grimm's greatsword erupted with extremely dazzling Holy Light.
[Paladin's Judgment], an extremely powerful melee attack. Although he couldn't unleash sword energy, Grimm believed that this attack was definitely no less powerful than that of a Great Swordsman.
"Not good!" Kuzan felt an unprecedented crisis, even one he hadn't felt since he went to sea. "If I get hit, I'll die!" Kuzan thought to himself, glanced down at the ice beneath his feet, and then transformed into his Logia form and merged into the icy sea.
Boom!
Grimm's sword struck empty, and the greatsword smashed into the ice.
Crack!
The icy sea surface cracked from the point where Grimm struck, and spread like a spider web in all directions.
With just one strike, the ice surface for several kilometers instantly turned into ice floes and collapsed downward, and seawater shot into the sky from the cracks in the ice floes.
But soon, these ice floes were frozen again, and the sprayed water columns also froze, forming a very strange landscape.
"ICE BALL!"
Instantly, amazing cold air was released on the ice surface, and spread upwards along Grimm's legs. Grimm's legs were immediately fixed to the ice surface.
"An opportunity!"
Kuzan floated out of the ice, looked at Grimm's back, and suddenly charged, his ice blade condensed in his hand.
The opponent's body had the ability to heal no matter how many times it was injured. In that case, he would directly attack the most important part of the human body - the head.
Although he was a student taught by Zephyr and his style was very gentle, he didn't hold back in every battle in order to achieve his goal of "not killing." Now, he didn't want to hold back.
But even so, he found that his fastest attack was dodged by Grimm with a turn of his head.
Bang!
Grimm's greatsword fell from the sky and directly cut Kuzan's ice blade in half. Forced by the momentum, Kuzan retreated again, but it was too late.
A twenty-centimeter-long wound formed on Kuzan's chest, and blood spurted out!
"Tsk, one step too slow!" Kuzan didn't care about this shallow wound and directly froze it with ice.
"Well done, Rear Admiral, but I'm still faster!" Grimm said with a smile.
"That's right, but you seem to have forgotten something!" Kuzan said with a smile, "I won, Grimm!"
The ice spread rapidly upwards along Grimm's legs. In less than a second, Grimm's entire body was completely frozen in a huge ice ball.
"Is that so? I don't think so!"
Kuzan's heart tightened. What? He could still talk even after being frozen!
"Oh supreme Holy Light, please grant me strength, let me break through these shackles!"
[Blessing of Freedom] removes all control effects and makes you immune to any control effects for 5 seconds.
Crack! The ice shattered directly.
Grimm turned into a golden light, and in the next second, the Ashbringer was held to Kuzan's neck, who hadn't reacted at all.
"I'm not fighting anymore!" Saying this, Grimm deactivated his "Golden Sparkle" mode in Kuzan's eyes. In reality, Grimm's 30-second [Avenging Wrath], with a 3-hour cooldown, had ended.
And he heard the notification sound.
[Ding! Completed the mission "Kuzan's Invitation," Tavern function unlocked]
"Huh?" Kuzan's expression turned into that of a husky. What did that mean? This interesting battle had just begun.
Grimm took the opportunity to put the Ashbringer into his system space!
Watching the Ashbringer suddenly disappear, Kuzan sighed: "This ability is really convenient!"
Grimm turned around and walked towards the sea, saying to Kuzan's back: "Neither of our strengths have reached their peak. It would be less fun to kill each other now. Let's save this battle for later. We'll meet again."
Grimm walked further and further away, waving his hand to Kuzan's back: "The future is ours, Rear Admiral!"
Under the setting sun, watching Grimm's receding figure, Kuzan's heart suddenly trembled, and he muttered to himself: "The future... is ours..."
"What an interesting guy!" Kuzan touched his chest. The wound wasn't deep, but it was enough to leave a scar, etched on his chest for life!
However, Kuzan didn't hate scars. They were a symbol of a man.
Through this battle, Kuzan had come to a conclusion about Grimm: he wasn't a bad person. As for what camp he would be in in the future, he would worry about that later! But how was he going to explain this to Zephyr-sensei? So troublesome!
Soon, Kuzan returned to the Flevance branch base.
"Although I couldn't invite him, I still figured out some of his abilities."
Kuzan told Zephyr about his battle with Grimm and the analysis of Grimm's abilities that he had personally compiled.
"Extremely fast self-healing. That's the most appropriate way to describe Grimm's abilities. No matter how serious the injury, even if his heart or lungs are pierced, he can recover quickly. He doesn't have Armament Haki, but he can still hit me. He's skilled at using a greatsword to attack, I'm guessing he's a swordsman, and he seems to have a Devil Fruit ability. It should be a Mythical Zoan, the same type as Fleet Admiral Sengoku. That's all!"
Kuzan habitually scratched the back of his head and tilted his neck, continuing: "However, being able to heal all parts of his body is probably an exaggeration, because he dodged all my attacks aimed at his head during the battle. That's probably his weakness."
"His head, huh!"
Zephyr nodded. There were indeed a lot of Devil Fruits that could regenerate, but he had never heard of one that could regenerate and heal the entire body. There was always a weakness. Knowing the other party's weakness was enough to put Zephyr at ease.
Kuzan breathed a sigh of relief. He had finally completed his teacher's mission. He thought he was going to get scolded again. But then again, that kid was really interesting.
"Oh right, Zephyr-sensei, his purpose for going to sea is to seek revenge. The enemy's name is Kozuki Momonosuke?" Kuzan said at the end, "I shouldn't be wrong, right? Kozuki?"
"I know, you can go now!" Zephyr nodded.
"Tirion D. Grimm..." Kuzan touched his chin and walked towards his room, muttering to himself: "D..."
A dozen minutes after Kuzan left, several patrolmen walked in, saluted Zephyr loudly, and then told Zephyr that they had just seen Grimm leaving at the dock.
Zephyr reported what had happened here to Fleet Admiral Kong.
Kong said on the other end of the phone: "He's already left Flevance? It doesn't matter. Let the nearby Navy soldiers pay attention to his movements at all times. We must nip such a guy in the bud. Put a bounty on him, at least 50 million."
"50 million!" Zephyr laughed: "If Kuzan became a pirate, do you think he would only be worth 50 million? Kuzan fought him and didn't gain any advantage!"
"Hmph! If Kuzan really becomes a pirate, I'll personally arrest him!" Fleet Admiral Kong didn't like Zephyr's comparison!
"So, don't push him to become a pirate, because with Roger and Shiki, this sea is already chaotic enough!"
Therefore, Grimm wasn't wanted for the time being because of Zephyr's intervention, but presumably, Zephyr wouldn't be able to protect Grimm for long.
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