ALL NOVEL Chapter 33: Infinite Protrusion
Bang!
Nanashaku Jitte fell to the ground, shattering the floor and raising dust and smoke around them.
Smoker's brows were tightly furrowed.
The attack that seemed almost certain to succeed ended up failing, and now he even lost track of his opponent. It was not just a matter of his moves being seen through.
What's more important is how Gawain disappeared so suddenly.
"Shave?!"
"Or devil fruit ability?!"
"Neither!"
Gawain's voice came from his ears, and Smoker suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. He turned around and saw a ghostly phantom coming from a distance.
"Pussyfoot Maneuver!"
A violent and swift thrust pierced through Smoker's body in an instant.
Even though he transformed into smoke in advance to avoid Gawain's attack, he lost sight of the target in the next instant.
The white smoke that was originally used to limit Gawain's vision now became a limitation for himself. Smoker came to his senses and looked around in horror.
"This speed, a devil fruit?!"
"No, he did it with his flesh, but to be able to do this with a human body..."
Smoker was halfway through his words when another loud shout came from the distance.
"Infinite Protrusion!"
A faster and more violent thrust passed through the dust and smoke again, directly breaking up Smoker's body, which had just been condensed.
"This kind of attack can't cause any harm to me. What else can it do except delay time?"
"Are you stalling?"
Smoker suddenly realized what was happening and felt a sense of urgency. However, as soon as he took action, he found that what was waiting for him was Gawain's almost endless thrusts…
Whoosh!
The body condensed again and again but was dispersed in the next moment.
In just a few breaths, the almost continuous attacks completely suppressed Smoker.
If it weren't for his ability to be immune to physical attacks, he would have died countless times already. Realizing this, Smoker felt extremely humiliated.
The opponent's speed is too fast.
Even his eyesight could barely see a blurry black shadow, and he had no means of countering.
"If I had mastered the Observation-Haki, I wouldn't be so passive!"
Recalling Zephyr's instructions before leaving the headquarters, Smoker couldn't help feeling a little regretful, but he quietly clenched his hands tighter.
As the offensive became more intense, Gawain felt that his moves were becoming smoother.
The Pussyfoot Maneuver move requires extremely high physical fitness. It just so happens that his physical fitness is far superior to Kuro's, and he also has an ultra-fast nerve reflex speed that Kuro does not have.
The degree of completion of the Pussyfoot Maneuver is naturally higher, and the speed is far faster than that of Kuro!
With the newly acquired sword, Guanze Masamune, even the simplest thrust would unleash unimaginable power. The criss-crossing cuts in the harbor were the best proof of this.
With the combination of the two, Gawain became more adept at this tactic of suppressing his opponents with incredible speed.
If Smoker was not a Logia fruit user, he would have almost no ability to counterattack against Gawain's endless thrusts.
This was a move that Gawain developed based on Kuro's indiscriminate attack, a move that was unique to him and that allowed him to suppress his opponents with speed!
Infinite Protrusion!
A thrust attack that was driven by extreme speed.
The fight turned into a one-sided beating from this point on.
The captain of the guard team, who came to the harbor to investigate the war situation under Gaza's order, was stunned when he saw this scene.
All he could see was endless white smoke and a white-haired man made of smoke, which was constantly being broken up and reassembled. The white smoke accumulated in the harbor seemed to be completely torn apart by some invisible creature!
"What on earth just happened?!"
"The Kamaitachi from the legend of Wano Country? The evil wind that reaps lives?!"
"I... "
Although the scene in the harbor was truly outrageous, the captain of the guard still recorded it truthfully and passed the information in the harbor to Gaza through Den Den Mushi.
"Captain..."
Gaza raised her hand to her forehead:
"I asked you to look for Gawain, but you tell me about an invisible thing, marines, and white smoke?!"
"No."
Kuro, who was standing next to Gaza, reached out and patted her shoulder: "The invisible thing he was talking about must be Gawain."
"Major Gawain is a Kamaitachi?"
Gaza was even more confused.
Kuro said expressionlessly: "You can think of it as a super-fast movement ability."
"Is that so?"
Gaza is relieved: "So it seems that Gawain is the one who has the upper hand right now?"
"The upper hand? Of course, he has the upper hand!"
The corner of Kuro's mouth twitched. From the guard's description, how could he not understand that Gawain's control over Pussyfoot Maneuver was even higher than his own?
Isn't it a bit outrageous that a pirated version is better than the original?
However, thinking of his awakened Observation-Haki, Kuro still has confidence in himself.
Only after having come into contact with the power of Observation-Haki can one understand the huge gap between having and not having. It is no exaggeration to say that the gap is a dimensionality reduction attack.
"Gawain, the time when I surpass you is not far away."
"Mr. Locke?"
Gaza looked at Kuro in confusion, and the latter immediately returned to his calm expression and said:
"Are there any other ships that can leave the harbor? Our identities are sensitive, and we cannot have direct contact with the Marines."
Gaza was stunned for a moment, then shook her head:
"We originally had spare boats, but we just received a report that those boats had already been taken away by the refugees and..."
Seeing Kuro's brows gradually frowning, Gaza saw his concerns:
"If you are concerned about the Marines's follow-up search, I can help."
"Without a search warrant, even the Marines can't do anything to the lord's house."
Kuro's expression softened, and he said to Gaza: "That's troublesome."
"This is what I should do. After all, we will still need your strength to maintain stability around Raven Harbor."
"Um."
It's getting late at night.
In the harbor, the sea breeze gradually rose, blowing away the endless white smoke.
After fighting for dozens of minutes, the two men gradually became exhausted. At this moment, they stopped tacitly and faced each other from a distance.
Gawain was sweating all over and breathing heavily.
To be honest.
He really has no way to deal with the Logia Fruit user now.
The Logia Fruit, at this time, is basically a dimensionality reduction attack.
Even if he used a trick like Infinite Protrusion, he could at most hold Smoker back.
It's not like he didn't try to snatch the Nanashaku Jitte from Smoker's hand. After all, that thing is a natural nemesis for people with Devil Fruit, and if he gets his hands on it, it will directly kill the game.
But Smoker had been prepared for this. As soon as Gawain showed his unusual interest in the Nanashaku Jitte, Smoker threw it into the sea with a simple and neat move.
The reaction is scary fast!
Little did he know that at this moment, Smoker felt like he had eaten shit.
It's like a ghost!
This guy even knows that the top of his weapon is made of Sea Prism Stone!
There's an undercover agent in the Marine!
If he hadn't thrown it quickly, that thing would have turned into a sharp blade to stab him!
But at this moment, a whistle sounded on the sea in the distance, and a huge warship cut through the wind and waves and sailed into the harbor.
Gawain turned his head and saw a figure standing on the deck; even in the dark, he could still see it with his sharp eyesight.
The person who came was Tashigi, with short blue hair and slightly dull square-framed glasses, holding a long sword.
Behind her was a group of marines armed with live ammunition.
"It's time to go."