Beating Smoker Mercilessly! Roger's Astonishment!
"White Devil Ba... Bawang, hurry up and surrender! You are bound to lose this battle!"
"Without Busoshoku Haki, even if I stood here and let you hit me for half a day, you wouldn't be able to touch me!"
"Come on! Hit me if you can! I want to have a one-on-one duel with you today, do you dare to accept the challenge?"
Smoker laughed arrogantly.
If he hadn't been afraid that Chu Bawang would cut him in half with a single slash, he would have loved to solidify his body and strike a pose with his hands on his hips, laughing out loud.
Aren't you super arrogant?
Come and hit me!
Hehe... Without Busoshoku Haki, you simply can't touch me. I ask you, are you mad?!
Chu Bawang gave Smoker a peculiar look.
Where on earth did he get the confidence to assume that he didn't know Busoshoku Haki?!
"Smoker, this was your own request!"
Chu Bawang rolled up his sleeves, swung his fist, and smiled, "A fist as big as a sandbag can smash you to death with a single punch. Are you sure you want me to hit you?"
"Come on! Just step forward! Hit me! If you don't use your full strength, that means you're not giving me any face!"
"Smoker, I have to say, that expression of yours is really asking for a beating..."
"Stop dawdling and chatting, are we going to fight or not?"
Seeing that Chu Bawang was dragging his feet, Smoker became even more certain of his guess that the latter couldn't use Haki.
"Sigh, well then. In all my life, I've never heard such a bizarre request."
Shrugging his shoulders, Chu Bawang strode forward with the momentum of a dragon and a tiger.
With a fist the size of a sandbag, he smashed it straight toward Smoker's aged face.
BOOM!!!
The massive execution platform echoed with muffled collision sounds.
The smile on Smoker's face froze instantly, and his complexion turned the color of a pig's liver.
Clearly transformed into smoke, he suddenly seemed to regain physical mass, and his entire body was sent flying backward!!
Thud, thud...
CRACK!
Along the way, he smashed through three or four earth-and-stone buildings before finally halting his momentum, becoming embedded straight into a wall.
His entire body, like freshly made gelatin, slid down the wall limply and collapsed onto the ground...
---!!!
The naval officers, who had thought victory was in the bag and were ready to humiliate Chu Bawang, were so shocked their eyeballs almost popped out of their sockets!
The entire execution platform fell into such a dead silence that you could hear a pin drop.
Almost everyone, including Tashigi and Buggy the Clown, was no exception.
They all instinctively rubbed their eyes~~
Could this be an illusion?!
Looking closer again, the person sliding down the wall was indeed Captain Smoker...
"This... how is this possible?!"
The marines were dumbfounded.
Captain Smoker was a Logia-class Devil Fruit user!
He was hailed as invincible in the East Blue!
How could he be sent flying so far by a single punch?!
"The sins we bring upon ourselves can be endured, but the sins we commit against ourselves are inescapable. Just watching such a solid punch makes my stomach hurt!"
"I wonder if this guy is going to be beaten to death with a single punch by Ba... Bawang..."
Roger's mouth twitched slightly.
You insisted on acting cool, Smoker, how do you like it now?
Acting cool invites lightning strikes, serves you right!
Chu Bawang raised the corners of his mouth, put his hands behind his back, and said nonchalantly, "In the past, Lu Zhishen beat Zhen Guanxi to death in three punches; today, I, Chu Bawang, cripple Smoker with a single strike."
Roger: "..."
Another pretentious show-off, arrest him, take him away!!
"You... you actually used Busoshoku Haki."
Crawling out from the ruins, Smoker was covered in injuries, panting like an ox.
The gazes of the crowd involuntarily fell upon Chu Bawang's fist...
Hiss!
---!!!
Everyone drew a sharp breath of cold air!
Oh my god!
It actually was Busoshoku Haki!!
This guy looked only like he was in his teens, yet he had already cultivated Busoshoku Haki?
"Terrifying talent."
Smoker's expression was extremely ugly; his entire worldview had been shattered.
At his current age, he was approaching middle age, yet he had only just managed to touch the threshold of Busoshoku Haki~~
And look at the level of Busoshoku Haki on Chu Bawang's fist...
They say there is no harm without comparison.
With this comparison, Smoker's heart felt utterly chilled and pierced through.
Have I lived the first half of my life for nothing?!
(Dog: I feel offended, thank you and your entire family!)
"This guy clearly mastered Advanced Busoshoku Haki, yet he's been playing the pig to eat the tiger here..."
Upon seeing Chu Bawang's blackened fist, even Roger could no longer remain calm.
Initially, he thought Chu Bawang's Busoshoku Haki was just at the introductory level, or at best cultivated to a decent degree.
But seeing the terrifying Haki Chu Bawang unleashed in that instant, along with that precise control and striking power~~
Even the top tier of people in the world only reached around this level.
Roger himself belonged to this category.
The only exception was Iron Fist Garp, who had fought him to the death and shared a mutual love-hate relationship...
That guy was a ruthless powerhouse capable of [Haki Emission].
"Wasn't Smoker taught a lesson a bit too miserably? Even just watching it gives me a stomachache."
Buggy the Clown felt terrified inside, secretly rejoicing over his wise move earlier.
Fortunately, his strategic plan hadn't been wrong; otherwise, another person would be paralyzed on the ground right now.
No, an entire pirate crew...
As someone who used to be an intern pirate sailing with Roger, his experience was naturally not something ordinary people could compare to.
What Buggy couldn't fathom was how Chu Bawang, at such a young age, managed to cultivate Busoshoku Haki to such a terrifying extent!
You must know that even with extremely high aptitude for Haki, cultivating Busoshoku Haki was exceedingly difficult!
"Smoker, this was your own request. Don't blame me for beating you up so miserably!"
Chu Bawang shook his hands, dispelling the lingering Advanced Busoshoku Haki, and walked calmly toward Smoker.
The backup marines brought by Tashigi instinctively cleared a path.
It wasn't because they were afraid.
It was just that neither side had surrendered, and they had no right to interrupt the mutually agreed-upon one-on-one 'duel'!
Moreover, Chu Bawang had thoroughly subdued them with his raw strength!
When everyone realized they didn't even possess Logia Devil Fruits, how could they possibly have the qualification to participate in the battle between Chu Bawang and Smoker?!
"Busoshoku Haki... and at a very high level. It's definitely not something that could be cultivated overnight!"
Watching Chu Bawang close in step by step, Smoker's distorted facial features squeezed out an expression of sheer disbelief:
"White Devil Ba... Bawang! Could this bastard have started cultivating right from his mother's womb?!"