Chapter 220: Human-Human Fruit · Model: Fighting God, Indestructible Vajra Body!
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
The sound of metal clashing resounded through the clouds; black-red Conqueror's lightning tore through the clouds in the sky constantly. Terrifying energy began erupting constantly by the second.
Little Garden's ground was collapsing constantly; hills and forests collapsed or were flattened constantly. Even the lava spilled from the volcano in the center of the island was often ground out by intense Haki before falling.
"..."
Now, the usually noisy Straw Hat crew were all silent as chickens.
Because the battle before them was almost overwhelming for them.
BOOM!
Now, the huge axe in Brogy's hand swung brazenly; intense Armament Haki drove the lava in the air to slash horizontally at Saru's waist.
Whoosh!
At the same time, Dorry's huge sword was like a poisonous dragon; the huge sword tip pointed precisely at Saru's face!
But facing the two's combined attack, the Kintoun under Saru's feet burst with terrifying speed, carrying his figure in a backflip to dodge from the gap of the two attacks.
At the same time, Saru swung the iron staff in his hand to the right with one hand.
The iron staff grew with the wind; the pitch-black staff body wrapped in intense Haki smashed on Dorry's right shoulder instantly.
"Ugh!"
The intense strike made Dorry groan instantly; his huge body was blasted back again directly by one strike—his legs left deep gullies on the earth, barely keeping himself from falling.
At the same time, while swinging this strike, Saru's figure didn't pause at all, riding the Kintoun appearing on Brogy's shoulder already.
The Jingu Bang in his hand shrank back to normal size now, blocking Brogy's huge axe with just one hand, while his other hand punched brazenly at Brogy's helmet-covered head.
"ROAR!"
At the same time that punch was thrown, a hideous tiger roar seemed to come from the air.
But Brogy's reaction was extremely fast too; while his huge head tilted sharply, his left hand swung the huge shield at Saru.
Next moment...
BOOM!
Fist and shield collided. Brogy only felt a majestic force coming through the shield—even with the shield absorbing force, his massive body was still staggered directly by this punch.
But just as his figure lost balance, Dorry's massive body appeared beside him again, pulling him back.
But just as the two stabilized, they saw Saru appearing before them again.
VMMM!
His figure soared abruptly; legs kicked out like a storm.
Every kick seemed like a cannonball; the shockwave generated turned boulders below into rubble and powder, then rolled up to the high sky by violent airflow!
Under the rain-like kicks, the two giants, even barely raising shields for defense, were still blasted back directly, flying out!
THUD! (x2)
Until the two figures fell to the ground, the huge sound shook the Straw Hats to recover.
"..." (x6)
They looked at each other, but no one could speak.
They didn't know what to say either.
From just now, what the battle before them displayed completely exceeded the scope they could describe.
Dorry and Brogy were undeniably strong.
As captains of the Giant Warrior Pirates once traversing the sea, continuous battles in the past hundred years made their combat skills reach perfection long ago.
Plus Giants' strength and innate physique, and their powerful Armament Haki... they almost had no flaws, truly perfect warriors.
But even so, facing that man wearing a monkey mask, the two were still suppressed.
Not a little bit suppressed, but visibly, comprehensive suppression.
In speed, Saru riding Kintoun was incomprehensibly fast.
In strength, Saru's thin physique could overturn the two giants every time in wrestling.
And the biggest gap was 'Martial Arts'.
Iron staff sweeping, length changing freely.
Fist techniques, palm techniques, kicking techniques—that Zodiac member seemed proficient in all combat skills, and always seemed able to find gaps and fleeting flaws in the two giants' attacks.
Combined with powerful Ryuo (Emission) and Conqueror's Infusion surrounded by black-red lightning, he could suppress the two giants steadily even fighting one against two.
If the two giants represented the limit of warrior skills after thousands of tempers.
Then Saru's battle could be called art.
Let alone the Straw Hats.
Even Dorry and Brogy on the battlefield now didn't know what evaluation to make for the opponent before them.
"Ha, this is truly... amazing power."
Feeling the pain from the tiger's mouth, the smile on Brogy's mouth didn't drop, but words carried distinct sighs.
"More than a hundred years passed, such a guy appeared on the sea?"
Feeling the pain churning inside, Dorry naturally knew what his best friend wanted to say.
Yes.
They didn't remember how many years they hadn't experienced this feeling of being completely suppressed alone.
No, to be precise.
Since becoming qualified warriors, the person bringing them this feeling... actually only one.
"Simply... exactly like His Majesty King Harald when young."
Yes.
Saru's power, physique, and Haki... almost reminded them of that Elbaf King, Harald.
As giant warriors growing up in almost the same era as Harald, Dorry and Brogy naturally knew his power best.
That King was an atavistic 'Ancient Giant', possessing strength and combat talent transcendent even among Giants, and supreme Conqueror's Haki.
Precisely because of this, that Giant King succeeded as King at the ridiculously young age of 45 for Giants—his strength even grew rapidly after becoming King.
Only before that Majesty would Dorry and Brogy be suppressed comprehensively.
So now...
"Truly nostalgic, Dorry!"
"Yes, Brogy."
The two giants said so.
What were they nostalgic for?
Comrades who returned home long ago?
Elbaf's fine wine?
Chief Jarl and Chief Yorl's snores?
Maybe all.
But perhaps, what they were nostalgic for...
Was the oppression when facing stronger ones, the years of fighting side by side, fighting heartily, and constantly becoming stronger when young.
So, they gripped their weapons tightly.
"Brother... about ready, right?"
"Oh—although not perfect yet, almost recalled it."
They looked at each other, then laughed loudly looking at that figure in the distant sky again. "Win against this rare powerhouse, then return home gloriously!"
Speaking.
Aura on them began to... rise abruptly!
Next moment...
BOOM!
Dorry and Brogy's figures disappeared from the spot instantly.
They appeared beside Saru again in almost exactly the same way.
Both attacking simultaneously—similar situations happened countless times in this battle.
But...
"!!!"
In this moment, Saru's eyes... flashed brightly!
Because in this instant, he could perceive, the two giants' attack...
"No flaws."
His internal murmur stated the source of power he displayed in the battle so far.
[Fusion Fruit - Zoan · Human-Human Fruit · Mythical Type · Model: Fighting God (Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Toushin) LV5]
[Fusion Materials: Giant-Giant Fruit (Kyoju Kyoju no Mi) LV5 + Mini-Mini Fruit (Mini Mini no Mi) LV4 + Fight-Fight Fruit (Toso Toso no Mi) LV5 + Gladiator Fruit (Kento Kento no Mi) LV5]
[Fruit Effect: Gather abilities of four fruits simultaneously]
[Effects by Level]
[LV3: Gain full fruit effects. Gain Giant physique strength. Gain ability to change body size freely. Execute various seen or learned martial arts freely. See through enemy flaws in battle; attacks on flaws ignore defense causing damage. Initiate duel against enemy; gain extra transformation and self-enhancement after winning.]
[Strength and physique change with body size, but causing huge burden on body. Stronger body can bear larger size.]
[LV4: ...]
[LV5: Fruit Awakening · God of Fighting (Toushin). Perform Awakening. Gain Ancient Giant physique. Gain 'Fighting Seals' as battle continues. Max four seals, shape adjustable freely, indestructible. Each seal significantly enhances all attributes. Enter 'Fighting God Mode' after all seals form. In this state, change body appearance freely, ignore control and negative effects, gain extremely significant all-attribute enhancement, martial arts reach peak perfection. Every attack ignores any condition causing massive damage to enemy body. All allies gain massive enhancement in Fighting God Mode. All above effects enhanced again when facing multiple enemies alone.]
[Extra Fusion Effect - Fighting God Domain]
[After condensing four Fighting Seals and entering Fighting God Mode, set up a Duel Arena nearby using four seals. Inside Duel Arena, user takes no damage, ignores any negative and control effects, and combat attributes like strength and stamina never deplete.]
[User can set Duel Arena terrain freely, but seals can be destroyed by attacks. Enemies inside can destroy seals to break 'Duel Arena'. Cannot leave before arena destroyed. Once fear or escape emotions arise, user's attack directly ignores defense causing 'Lethal Effect'.]
Yes.
This was the 'Fusion Fruit' Saru held—an unprecedented fruit fused from four fruits.
And part of its effect was the ability Saru displayed before.
His combat skills were almost perfect, his eyes could see opponent's flaws clearly, every attack targeting flaws was unstoppable, his strength even far exceeded the two giants.
Precisely because of this, he actually noticed some special points on the two giants in the battle just now.
That was some strange feeling, like resonance.
Whether strength, aura, speed... they were gradually becoming similar.
But before this, Saru could still see 'Flaws' in their attacks—as long as attacks came from two different people, there would always be subtle differences in timing, that was the flaw.
But, this time was different.
"Blue · Half Sun!"
"Red · Half Sun!"
This time, Saru saw no flaws—although attacks came from two directions, in his perception, it was almost like one person, absolutely no gap to dodge.
Even...
VMMM!
Armament Haki on their weapons seemed to come alive at this moment, beginning to spread.
They gathered constantly, even merging gradually.
That was...
"Hero's Secret Technique · Blue-Red Combined Strike..."
Roar fell; slash flying speed far exceeded any previous time.
Their merged powerful Armament Haki sealed all Saru's retreat routes completely at this moment.
Yes.
As captains of Giant Warrior Pirates, what 'Red Ogre' Brogy and 'Blue Ogre' Dorry were best at was never fighting alone—although their individual strength was indeed strong enough.
But the strongest was always when the two fought side by side.
Although due to not using it for a hundred years, they needed some time to adapt and recover.
But now, that power traversing the sea in the past could still be glimpsed from this strike!
"Hakoku (Sovereignty)!"
Voice fell; dazzling cyan and red light erupted where axe edge and sword edge passed.
That interwoven slash glow, as if they truly slashed out the sun's radiance out of thin air at this moment.
So...
BOOM!
Unprecedented terrifying shockwave exploded; the entire Little Garden shook again.
On the already devastated earth, violent airwaves sent countless giant dinosaur corpses flying into the sea instantly, even attracting the huge 'Island Eater' goldfish originally lurking near Little Garden.
Churning mushroom cloud rose abruptly; dust filled the sky.
"Cough cough... cough cough... wo... won!?"
Usopp coughed repeatedly due to huge dust, but then jumped up excitedly. "As expected of Master Dorry, Master Brogy... indeed they are the strongest, oh, although that Zodiac member is indeed very strong."
"Hey, that Mr. Saru... won't be dead, right?"
But now, Nami turned to worry about Saru again—if a Zodiac member died here, that would be big news shaking the sea.
But just moments later, they found something wrong.
Because now...
"Ugh..."
"Ah..."
They could see the two giants who swung this terrifying strike showing clear horror in their expressions now.
They seemed still exerting force, so massive power dispersed the sky-filling dust instantly.
And when dust cleared, the revealed scene... was also appalling.
Now, Saru's thin figure still stood on the Kintoun.
Dorry's huge sword edge and Brogy's huge axe edge slashed on his shoulders solidly without any cover.
But...
His body was truly... Unscathed.
Axe edge and sword edge trembled, proving the two giants were still using strength fully.
However, their sword edge and axe edge couldn't advance even a bit—they couldn't even scratch the opponent's skin.
"..."
Only now did Straw Hats realize one thing.
That was at the start of the battle, they actually witnessed Saru catching the two giants' attacks with bare hands.
Just that the subsequent battle was too appalling, so they completely forgot about that.
Besides that.
Reviewing carefully, they would also find.
Although the battle lasted until now, seemingly back and forth.
But thinking carefully, they seemed—never to have seen this 'Saru' truly suffer any damage.
Just then...
"Two big guys, good skills."
Saru spoke softly.
"Besides colleagues in the organization, not many can hit me like this."
"But unfortunately—just this level of power can't break my... Indestructible Vajra Body!"
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