As soon as Kai's words fell,
Garp froze.
Clearly,
he almost couldn't react.
Then, opening his mouth slightly, he subconsciously asked:
"You mean to say… you've already fully mastered the Rokushiki? All of them? Are you certain?"
Was this real or fake?
He had already mastered the Rokushiki?
In less than half an hour…
He himself had only demonstrated the Rokushiki once from beginning to end.
And yet—
this brat Kai had truly mastered all of them?
Was such a thing possible?!
Garp found it beyond imagination.
"Old man, watch closely."
Kai revealed a meaningful smile.
Next—
before Garp could even ask more questions,
right before his bewildered eyes—
Kai first performed Geppo (Moonwalk).
Bang! Bang!
Each step struck the air, producing sharp sonic booms.
Piercing.
Shrill.
Kai's body soared into the sky. With Moonwalk beneath his feet, he instantly shot dozens of meters above the warship, darting freely through the air in every direction.
It was as if…
the sky itself had become his domain.
Walking on air,
standing aloft.
High above, at dozens of meters, Kai then used Soru.
Whoosh—
With a light crack of air,
he took dozens of rapid steps midair. The explosive recoil caused his body to vanish in an instant, as if teleporting.
In that moment,
Kai's figure disappeared,
leaving only a fading afterimage, which quickly dissolved into the wind.
The next second,
he reappeared over ten meters away in the air. Moonwalk combined with Soru—his movements bore no trace of clumsiness. Instead, it was flawless, as if he had practiced thousands upon thousands of times.
"Let's try this next…"
"Rankyaku! (Tempest Kick)"
His eyes fixed on the endless sea dozens of meters away, Kai gathered power into his right leg.
Following the memory within his mind…
He kicked at high frequency, violently tearing apart the air currents.
A dazzling blue arc of light exploded from his foot.
"Rankyaku!"
A brilliant, razor-sharp blade of compressed air shot forth from his kick.
Boom!
With a thunderous detonation,
the slash crashed into the distant sea.
Deafening, earth-shaking.
The unleashed force cleaved the sea itself open, carving a jagged trench about five meters long and several meters deep.
At a glance,
it looked as though the ocean had been split apart!
The visual impact was overwhelming.
Splashhh!
Not only was the sea split, but towering waves erupted, surging in all directions.
Ripples surged, waves roared.
Even the entire warship, though dozens of meters away, rocked violently under the assault, throwing Marines off balance, sending them tumbling into the railings.
Seawater shot skyward,
raining down from above like a sudden torrential downpour.
Droplets the size of beans spattered across the ship, soaking the deck in a slippery sheen.
As one massive ball of seawater drifted in midair before him,
Kai gathered power into his fingertip and thrust forward.
"Shigan! (Finger Pistol)"
Puff!
With a soft sound,
the water sphere ruptured—
not exploding instantly, but pierced clean through by his finger, leaving behind a bullet-hole-sized cavity.
Before the sphere fully burst,
the only flaw was that one neat puncture left by his finger—
a testament to the terrifying force and speed hidden in that single thrust.
Even water itself had been pierced clean through…
without collapsing right away.
Finally—
Splash!
The water sphere shattered, dissolving into mist and scattering across the sky.
Next,
Kai smoothly executed Tekkai (Iron Body) and Kami-e (Paper Art).
One after another,
he demonstrated the Rokushiki in their entirety.
Not only was there no hint of awkwardness—
he wielded them with the polish of a Marine elite who had trained for a year or more, showing absolute mastery.
Before the scattered droplets had even fully vanished,
Kai stepped off the air with Moonwalk, chaining into Soru again and again, flickering madly across the sky.
Each flash of his figure struck the falling droplets, blasting them away before they could strike the warship.
At times, he appeared dozens of meters away.
At others, he was suddenly right back again—
his movement ghostly, impossible to track with the naked eye.
So fast!
Moonwalk combined with Soru…
he truly seemed to be teleporting.
After a short while,
Kai stepped down with Moonwalk and landed smoothly upon the deck.
Water beaded the boards underfoot,
soon to evaporate beneath the blazing sunlight above, vanishing into steam.
At this moment—
over a hundred pairs of eyes aboard the warship, dazed, shocked, and shaken, all turned toward Kai, unable to look away.
And Garp—
was utterly numb.
His throat felt dry, his mind blank, as he stared at his grandson.
"This old man believes it now.
My grandson, Kai…
this brat is a monster through and through!"
He couldn't help but draw a sharp breath, deeply shaken.
"In less than half an hour,
this brat has completely mastered the Rokushiki!"
"All I did was demonstrate them once!"
"Just one look,
and he mastered them without a teacher—every last technique of the Rokushiki!"
"In all my years,
I've never even heard of such a thing!"
"In the entire history of the Marines, for hundreds of years—
never has there been such a monster!"
His heart still quaking, Garp gazed at Kai as though he were staring at a beast.
"This brat Kai hasn't only shattered the record Aokiji once set…
No—this old man can say with absolute certainty.
For a thousand years to come, no one will ever break the record that this brat has just created today!"
"This record will stand for millennia!
No one will have the right to break it!"
"A genius!"
"This—this is what a true, peerless genius is!"
On this day,
Kai's display of heaven-defying talent had completely overturned Garp's understanding.
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