The battle against Project Shiki was like looking in a mirror for Shiki, whose sword-wielding habits and preferences were exactly the same as his own.
Understanding and targeting are mutual; even when Golden Lion was fighting Project Shiki, he had a sense of awe.
[So that's how I used to wield a sword. That's impressive.]
[Hahaha, as expected of me, only I could unleash so many slashing waves in a row.]
The Golden Lion is usually a bit abstract. When he had the ship's rudder stuck on his head, he could think of himself as a chicken, and he would occasionally dance an abstract dance with his men.
It wasn't until Lyliana wielded her sword that the Golden Lion changed.
Lyriana now has three weapons: brass knuckles, greatsword, and warhammer.
Actually, she prefers using a hammer and knuckle duster. The greatsword is currently only ranked third. The reason she chose to use the sword is because she is not yet familiar with this move and has not been able to apply it in other situations.
"That's Roger's Divine Evasion. You actually know that move, but it's a little different."
The sword energy that Lyriana unleashed was not imbued with Conqueror's Haki, but rather with Armament Haki. If Shiki hadn't been so familiar with Roger, he probably wouldn't have been able to tell that this was a technique from the Divine Evasion.
After looking at Project: Shiki and his own similar wave-slashing technique, Shiki had already reached a conclusion.
"Have you ever made a deal with Roger? But you haven't quite mastered that yet."
Faced with Lyriana's slash, Shiki concluded that he was inferior to Roger, and then noticed something new was amiss.
"This girl looks a bit like that woman, Lingling."
Charlotte Linlin's childhood is a mystery; she perfectly demonstrates what it means for a girl to change drastically as she grows up, with each age stage revealing a completely different Charlotte Linlin.
The 68-year-old woman and the 28-year-old woman are not only similar, they are practically two different species.
The Golden Lion was familiar with Charlotte Linlin in her twenties or thirties. Looking at Leriana, he only felt a similarity, not that she was the same person.
Even twins will have different appearances and temperaments if they grow up in completely different environments. Thinking about how Oran knew the name Rocks, the Golden Lion had a very special idea.
"You wouldn't be having an affair with that woman Lingling, would you?"
Charlotte Linlin has a wide range of criteria for choosing a partner. All humans and demi-human races are her targets. Some of her husbands are not rare races. As long as they are pleasing to her eye, Charlotte Linlin will not mind having several children with them.
Golden Lion had seen Charlotte Linlin fight while pregnant; the so-called period of weakness simply did not exist for her.
But Charlotte Linlin had one unique characteristic – she left her husband behind to keep her child. Once the child was born, her husband became superfluous.
She's a ruthless woman who raised an entire pirate crew on her own. Golden Lion has never heard of anyone being able to take a child away from Charlotte Linlin.
"Never mind, that's not important. Your divine evasion is far inferior to Roger's. His move should be used like this!"
When it comes to Roger, Golden Lion gets worked up. In his eyes, a divine evasion without Conqueror's Haki isn't a true divine evasion. So he showed him what a slash wrapped in Conqueror's Haki really looks like.
This very incident, ironically, gave Leriana the opportunity to learn by analogy.
"So that's what it meant. Oh, I see."
Battle is always the fastest way to improve one's strength. Whitebeard went to sea to survive from a young age, and his education was self-taught.
It's already quite an achievement to write down the notes clearly. Although they include the techniques of entanglement, no matter how many times you read them, it's not as effective as experiencing them firsthand.
With the unintentional help of the Golden Lion, Leriana crossed a threshold.
Looking at his own hair falling from the sky, the golden lion was unusually shocked. This exaggerated talent even made him envious.
Although it was quite unfamiliar and unskilled, the second sword strike clearly showed a new change.
"I think I know where your confidence comes from. Having such a genius can certainly give you peace of mind."
Golden Lion suddenly lost interest in fighting, and from this behavior, it's clear that recruiting Oran is impossible.
Put yourself in their shoes; if you had someone like that around you, the Golden Lion would never join their ranks.
If that's the case, then the battle is meaningless, and continuing to fight here doesn't align with Golden Lion's own plans for the future.
"Since you helped me out, how about I give you some extra information?"
"Additional news? What?"
"Roger wasn't captured by the Navy; he was already terminally ill and didn't have long to live, so he chose to turn himself in."
"Confess. The Great Pirate Era. So that's how it is, Roger! You bastard! You still want to outdo me even with this?!"
Upon hearing this, the Golden Lion was stunned for a moment, then his expression suddenly changed.
First came joy, then anger, and finally a deep sense of resentment.
"See you later. I believe that when that time comes, you will take the initiative to come and cooperate with me."
As if suddenly enlightened, the golden lion flew towards the distant sky.
"Is this guy's thought process really abnormal? It's a pity, I was hoping to sell him something extra."
Piltover's prosthetics business is now world-renowned, yet Golden Lion, a man without legs, was not tempted.
Perhaps it wasn't that he didn't have the idea, but the matter related to Roger once again influenced Shiki's judgment, so he simply forgot about it.
Did Roger turn himself in?
Crocus also had doubts about Roger's surrender, after all, Roger hadn't told anyone what he was going to do after the Roger Pirates disbanded.
But considering what he saw in Laugh Tale, this actually seems quite reasonable. Oran has naval channels to know the secrets of this matter, and Crocus doesn't see anything wrong with it.
Leriana continued practicing the sword-wielding technique, striking while the iron was hot, intending to quickly familiarize herself with the feeling of wielding a sword while she still had plenty of energy.
The navy's preparations were largely useless; after leaving Firefly Island, Golden Lion vanished without a trace, as if he had evaporated into thin air.
"Dr. Indigo, is there any new progress in the research?"
"The island's ecological balance is maintained by a single plant."
"To put it simply, how many years will it take for my plan to be successfully implemented?"
"It will take at least 1015 years, or conservatively estimated, 20 years."
"Very well, then let's act again in 20 years. I will destroy the era that Roger started and use my own era to tell the world who is the strongest!"
Also, find a way to buy me a pair of feet; I'm still not used to using swords as feet.
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