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Chapter 299: Stop Humblebragging? Shiki: You Know Nothing of Garp's Power!
"Frog in the well?"
Shanks raised an eyebrow, his fingers tapping lightly on the table. He was one of the Four Emperors. The overlord ruling the New World.
To be evaluated like this by a former loser, even if the other party was the Golden Lion, made him somewhat unhappy.
"Senior Shiki."
"Although you've returned to your peak, isn't your tone a bit too big?"
"There aren't many things in this world that I, Shanks, can't see through."
Shanks poured himself a drink, his tone carrying a bit of the arrogance of an Emperor.
The Golden Lion ignored his rebuttal completely. He just looked at him like he was looking at a fool with those eyes bearing strange patterns.
"Heh."
"Can't see through?"
"Little Red Hair, you didn't look at all!"
Shiki slammed the table, rattling the ice cubes in the glass.
"You think I said I was 'too weak' just now to humblebrag?"
"To show off in front of you juniors?"
"Pui!"
Shiki spat fiercely, the expression on his face becoming somewhat ferocious, yet carrying a bit of lingering fear.
"What if I told you..."
"Just now at Marine Headquarters."
"I activated the Complete Body of these eyes, and even summoned a Godly Giant."
"And the result was that old bastard..."
"Shattered my Susanoo with one punch?"
The entire tavern instantly fell silent. Even Yasopp, who was drinking with Luffy, stopped his movements. Benn Beckman's hand holding the cigarette trembled slightly, ash falling onto his pants.
"Susanoo... I don't know what that is."
Beckman frowned, his voice low.
"But you said..."
"That old bastard?"
"Referring to..."
Everyone present held their breath. The person who could be called "old bastard" by the Golden Lion, and beat him so miserably... There was only one on this sea.
"Who else could it be!"
Shiki gritted his teeth, as if the name was right on his lips, scalding his tongue numb.
"Of course it's that old mad dog, Monkey D. Garp!"
BOOM!
Once this name came out. Shanks' hand stiffened abruptly, spilling a few drops of rum from his glass.
"Vice Admiral Garp?"
Shanks asked back subconsciously, then shook his head, a relaxed smile appearing on his face.
"Senior Shiki, did you drink too much?"
"Garp is indeed strong, known as the Marine Hero."
"But he's over seventy, right?"
"Although his Taijutsu is still terrifying, the decline of physical strength is an inevitable law of nature."
"Even if you just returned to your peak and were a bit unaccustomed..."
"You wouldn't be smashed by him in one punch through your strongest defense, right?"
In the cognition of Shanks and most pirates. Garp was strong. But he was also the afterglow of the old era. Even in the Summit War, that old man existed more as a spiritual symbol.
If they really fought. Current Emperors might not necessarily lose to a seventy-year-old man.
"Law of nature?"
Hearing these words, Shiki suddenly laughed. Laughing back and forth, tears almost flying out.
"Hahahahaha!"
"Goddamn law of nature!"
"In front of this shop, in front of this dungeon system, you talk to me about laws of nature?"
Shiki stopped laughing abruptly. His whole face leaned in front of Shanks. Those scarlet Sharingan stared dead at Shanks, his tone so cold it made one's bones chill.
"Little Red Hair, listen to me."
"That old thing, he also entered a dungeon."
"And..."
"I only recovered my legs and awakened ocular jutsu."
"That old bastard..."
"He obtained a [Sage Body]!"
Shanks was stunned.
"Sage Body? What is that?"
Shiki took a deep breath, seemingly calming the fear in his heart when mentioning this.
"It is a power..."
"That completely evolves his life level."
"His stamina, not only hasn't declined, but is even more abnormal than when he was twenty!"
"His physical vitality is so tough that even magma can't burn it!"
"The most ridiculous thing is..."
"He also obtained a Tremor-Tremor Fruit ability completely without side effects!"
Crack.
The glass in Shanks' hand shattered. This time, he really couldn't control his strength.
The amber liquid flowed down through his fingers, dripping onto the bar counter. But Shanks was completely unaware.
In his mind right now, only those few sentences Shiki just said were echoing madly.
Physical strength more abnormal than at twenty? Physical vitality off the charts? Tremor-Tremor Fruit without side effects?
Was this still human?!
"You're saying..."
Shanks' throat was extremely dry, his voice a bit off-key.
"The current Garp..."
"Not only possesses peak Haki and Taijutsu."
"But also possesses infinite stamina, and Whitebeard's ability?"
"Even... stronger?"
Shiki sneered, leaning back into his chair.
"Stronger?"
"Hmph, that old dog can now open the Eight Inner Gates!"
"When that punch came, he even shattered space!"
"I had my Complete Body Susanoo open, a Chakra giant several hundred meters tall!"
"With one punch from him, just one goddamn punch!"
"Beaten into slag!"
"If I hadn't run fast, the grass on my grave would be two meters high now!"
Hiss—!
A uniform sound of sucking in cold air rang out in the tavern.
The cigarette butt in Benn Beckman's hand burned his finger, but he didn't react at all. The chicken leg in Lucky Roux's hand fell to the floor and rolled several times.
All the Red Hair Pirates officers felt their scalps tingling at this moment.
This wasn't a question of strong or not anymore.
This was simply a horror story!
A peak Garp with infinite stamina? Plus the Tremor-Tremor Fruit?
This was practically fusing the World's Strongest Creature and the World's Strongest Man, and then super super doubling it!
"Gulp."
Shanks swallowed a mouthful of saliva. The calm and unhurried Emperor demeanor on his face had completely vanished.
Replaced by. An emotion named "horror."
"Th... This isn't good..."
Shanks muttered to himself. He suddenly felt this cozy tavern become somewhat eerie. As if some terrifying devil was hiding in the dark staring at him.
"It isn't good."
Shiki, enjoying the chaos, revealed that signature, gloating bad smile on his face.
He shook the glass in his hand and leisurely delivered another blow.
"By the way, little Red Hair."
"I remember back then..."
"It seems you were the one in East Blue who led Garp's precious grandson astray, right?"
"Hmm?"
"That straw hat was also given by you, right?"
BOOM!!! ⚡︎
This sentence was like a bolt from the blue. Striking precisely on Shanks' skull!
Shanks, who was originally just "horrified." His face instantly turned pale as paper!
Cold sweat. Big drops of cold sweat. Like a broken faucet, poured madly from his forehead.
Even Red Hair, known for his Conqueror's Haki. At this moment, was scared by this sentence until his calves cramped a little.
"Cough cough cough!"
Shanks coughed violently, trying to cover up his panic.
"That..."
"What do you mean led astray?"
"That was guidance! That's right, GUIDANCE!"
"I was guiding Luffy to pursue the dream of freedom!"
"This is a great inheritance!"
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