Half an hour after Hawkeye's raft sailed away, he suddenly looked up at the sky.
Rosen descended from high above, stopping a dozen meters above Hawkeye, looking down at him from above.
"Who are you?"
"It's a real shame I didn't get to see the famous scene of the black sword cutting through water," Rosen said with a smile, looking at Hawkeye.
Hawkeye didn't sense any aura from Rosen, yet he felt danger.
Every cell in his body seemed to be telling him that this old man was extremely dangerous.
"Let's have a match, I want to know the strength of the World's Strongest Swordsman," Rosen said, descending to be level with Hawkeye.
"The honor is mine," Hawkeye said, drawing his black sword. This man was worthy of a fight with him.
And this battle clearly couldn't be avoided by a unilateral refusal.
Hawkeye's slash arrived instantly. Rosen just floated there, letting the slash land on him.
Hawkeye was a bit surprised. That shouldn't be right!?
The opponent shouldn't have been unable to avoid it. Had his judgment been wrong?
The slash stopped in front of Rosen, then disappeared.
"What is this?" Hawkeye was bewildered.
"Come, shake my hand."
Rosen extended his hand. Hawkeye hesitated for a moment but still reached out. He quickly found that he couldn't get close to Rosen's palm.
"What's going on?"
"There's an Limitless / Limitless Void between you and me, so you need to use Armament Haki or a more Advanced technique to Breakthrough this Limitless / Limitless Void."
"I understand," Hawkeye said, retracting his hand and re-gripping his sword.
Black flames ignited on the black sword, and Hawkeye's aura suddenly increased several times.
black sword. God Slayer!
A domineering and peerless black slash was unleashed, as if to tear space itself.
Rosen still stood in place, letting the black slash come.
Swoosh—
The sea surface behind Rosen was horizontally cut, creating a thousand-meter-high wave.
At the same time, Rosen touched his neck, which had actually been severed.
Indeed, Limitless / Limitless Void is not omnipotent; there are still ways to Breakthrough it.
Hawkeye was even more surprised, because the opponent clearly had the ability to avoid or block, yet he chose to take the slash with his own body.
What was the point? Was it suicide?
"A very powerful slash," Rosen said.
"You..."
The bloodstain on Rosen's neck was healing: "I cannot be killed, or rather, it would require many fatal injuries to kill me."
"How can there be someone in this World who cannot be killed?"
Rosen came to the raft, spreading his arms: "Try it."
Hawkeye's black sword plunged into Rosen's heart.
When he withdrew the sword, the wound on Rosen's chest healed rapidly.
Hawkeye's pupils constricted, and he swung his sword again, this time directly splitting Rosen's head into two halves.
But then, Rosen's severed head grew back.
Hawkeye's shock at this moment was beyond words.
black sword. Thousand Slashes!
Hawkeye instantly cut Rosen into pieces.
But Rosen recovered once again, growing a new body, arms, and head from his legs.
"Whew... This is the first time I've been killed so thoroughly," Rosen exhaled.
"Are you a Devil Fruit user?"
Rosen grinned: "I am an Immortal Devil Fruit user."
"Is this what you call a match?"
"Alright, then I'll get a little serious."
Rosen flew back a hundred meters: "I'll only use one move!"
Six Paths. Shinra Tensei!!!
Rosen hadn't tried releasing this move on the sea yet.
And this attack was Rosen's full power burst in his normal state.
In an instant, a terrifying repulsive force stirred up a hundred-meter tsunami, spreading out in all directions.
Hawkeye's pupils constricted, and a look of horror appeared on his face. This power was simply too overbearing. He had no choice but to use all his strength to activate Armament Haki to resist this repulsive force.
The raft beneath his feet instantly vanished, and Hawkeye was blasted tens of thousands of meters away by the repulsive force.
In contrast, the tsunami stirred up by the repulsive force was not as terrifying.
At least for Hawkeye, the first wave of repulsive force was far more threatening than the tsunami.
It wasn't until more than ten minutes later that the sea surface finally calmed down slightly.
Rosen arrived above Hawkeye, looking down at the disheveled and ragged Hawkeye below: "Sorry, I seem to have used a little too much force."
Rosen looked down, Universal Pull!
The black sword, which had sunk deep into the seabed, was pulled up by Rosen and casually tossed to Hawkeye.
Hawkeye didn't know what to say at this moment.
"I lost."
Just as Zoro dared to face death, he could also calmly face death.
It was just a pity that Rosen was not a swordsman. He would have preferred to die at the hands of a stronger swordsman than himself.
Wood Release. Wood Breaking Technique.
Rosen's finger transformed into a piece of wood and fell in front of Hawkeye.
"As compensation for your small boat, goodbye."
Hawkeye looked at Rosen with annoyance. Did he have a grudge against him?
He felt as if Rosen was mocking him.
But that guy's abilities were too strange.
He claimed to be an Immortal Devil Fruit user, yet he could fly, use that terrifying tsunami-inducing ability, and even turn his finger into wood. Could such a combination of abilities truly belong to the so-called Immortal Devil Fruit?
Hawkeye sat on the piece of wood. Before long, a Marine warship appeared nearby.
Captain Rat was currently observing the sea with his binoculars.
Suddenly seeing a figure, Captain Rat's pupils instantly constricted.
Is that a person?
At the same time Captain Rat discovered Hawkeye, Hawkeye also discovered the Marine warship.
Whoosh—
Hawkeye leaped directly, crossing a thousand meters of sea, and landed on the warship's deck.
"Pirate!?" Captain Rat and the Marine officers all looked at Hawkeye warily.
"That black sword... Hawkeye! He's Hawkeye."
When a Marine shouted Hawkeye's identity, all the Marines on deck were so scared that they automatically moved away from Hawkeye.
At the same time, they also noticed that Hawkeye seemed to be injured.
His clothes were tattered, and he had wounds all over his body.
"Hawkeye, don't cause trouble! We... we are Marines," Captain Rat said nervously.
Hawkeye glanced at the Marines: "Take me to a nearby island."
"Just that request?"
"Otherwise? Or does anyone among you wish to claim my head?"
"No... we wouldn't dare..."
...
Marineford, Marineford.
Inside the Fleet Admiral's office, Sengoku put down the Transponder Snail, a look of surprise on his face.
Across from Sengoku, Borsalino was casually trimming his nails, with his legs crossed.
"Did something happen?" Borsalino asked casually.
"Hawkeye seems to have encountered a formidable enemy there and is severely wounded."
"Hawkeye? East Blue? Impossible, there doesn't seem to be anyone formidable there."
"It's also possible he came back to the East Blue from the New World," Sengoku said with a solemn expression.
The latter half of the Grand Line, the New World, can indeed circle back to the Four Seas.
And only the New World would have such a strong individual capable of defeating and severely wounding Hawkeye.
"Oh, how scary. Such a terrifying guy actually appeared in the East Blue."
"Go to the East Blue and see if you can find any clues."
"No, thanks. I don't want to run into someone who can defeat Hawkeye."
"Stop whining, that's an order."
"Why don't you send Vice Admiral Garp? The East Blue is his hometown."
"He's already in the East Blue, but he's injured now."
"Oh, how scary. Did he also encounter that powerful pirate?"
"No, he was injured by our Marines. It's said to be a Marine Captain named Morgan. Garp's head was struck by that Morgan, and he's currently recuperating."
"How about sending Sakaar or Kuzan for a trip?"
"They both have their own missions, and you haven't been on a mission for three whole months."
"I haven't been on a mission for three months because I'm fast, so I completed this year's missions three months early."
"Since you know you're fast, then you should go even more. In short, this is an order. Depart now."
"What a bother."
...
At this moment, the Going Merry had already been stolen by Nami and was sailing towards her hometown.
Rosen landed directly on the deck. Nami, who was at the helm, was startled when she saw Rosen descend from the sky.
"Old man, you can fly?"
"Yes, I'm a Float-Float Devil Fruit user," Rosen replied. "Where are our Captain and Swordsman?"
"Ah, well... they're still at the Sea Restaurant."
"Then where are we going?"
Nami's eyes flickered: "We agreed to meet at my hometown, Coco Village, so we're on our way to Coco Village now."
"That's perfect, I also want to see Coco Village."
"Old man, Coco Village is currently occupied by a group of Fishman. It will be dangerous. How about I take you to the Sea Restaurant first?"
"Fishman, huh? I haven't seen Fishman before. This is a good opportunity to see what they look like."
"Old man, didn't you hear me? I said they're very dangerous."
"I heard you, but I'm very strong."
"That's right, that's right, the old man is super strong!" Johnny and Joseph also ran out of the ship's cabin at this time.
"How are you two on the ship too?" Nami was astonished. She had thought she had stolen the Going Merry without anyone knowing.
Who knew not only had Rosen found her, but Johnny and Joseph were also hiding on the ship.
"We've been on the ship the whole time. We've been undergoing special training from the old man these past two days. Now we're super powerful too!" Johnny and Joseph were full of confidence: "Just a few Fishman, leave it to us. Miss Nami, old man, just enjoy the show."
"Is that so? Then I'll look forward to your performance," Rosen said, encouraging the two.
Johnny and Joseph, hearing this, felt even more confident. They now wished they could jump into the sea and fight the Sea Kings for three hundred rounds.
Only Nami was worried, as she knew the strength of those Fishman, especially Arlong the Fishman, who was beyond human ability to contend with.
------------------------
I've posted 70+ chapters in advance on Patreon.
Webnovel updates will still be daily, as usual.
It might not seem tempting right nobut who knows what the future holds?
[email protected]/TripleCrown
"And If you're enjoying it, drop a Power Stone for me!"