Near the waters of Amazon Lily, on an outlying island.
"Whew—"
Konohamaru let out a long breath, then suddenly his figure moved.
Swish! Swish!
Two massive snake tails, like logs, slammed down, directly crushing the rock he had been using as a foothold into pieces.
Maintaining steady breathing, Konohamaru spun one hundred and eighty degrees in mid-air, landed upside down with one hand on the ground, pushed off forcefully, and leaped back into the air.
Bam!
Almost the next moment after his movement, a sweeping strike from a massive naginata brought a fierce gale. Simultaneously, a Haki-infused slash radiated outward, cutting down over a dozen large trees in half.
Konohamaru's figure was agile. His body, having just begun to grow, moved like a monkey, still dodging precisely and steadily under the attack.
Most crucially, his eyes were covered with a cloth strip throughout the process, and his ears were even preemptively plugged with cotton.
One could say that unless Konohamaru could perceive changes in air temperature or smell with his nose or tongue, he was basically no different from a blind man.
Hiss hiss—
The moment he dodged the slash, countless green pythons rapidly coiled toward Konohamaru from all directions.
Looking closely, one could see that these 'pythons' were actually all composed of strands of light green hair.
But although they weren't living creatures, the constricting force of these snake hairs coiled together was no less than that of those fierce pythons.
Just crawling over rocks, the snake hairs left several deep grooves gouged into the stone.
Konohamaru wasn't panicked. After a few steps, he found himself surrounded front and back, left and right by the snake hairs. So, when one snake hair attacked, he simply stepped on its head and leaped up.
However, the snake hairs seemed to be waiting for this moment.
The instant Konohamaru's feet left the ground, dozens of snake hairs abruptly raised their bodies and then shot toward the sky, forming an impenetrable encirclement net in mid-air.
Tap, tap...
Konohamaru's figure moved quickly, his feet continuously kicking off the snake heads. Yet the snake hairs' resilience exceeded imagination; they could still withstand his kicks and continue tightening the net.
Finally, he could resist no longer and raised his hands in surrender.
"I can't do it anymore, I can't!"
"Without using Ninjutsu and Chakra, I'm simply no match for the two Big Sisters!"
Konohamaru removed the cloth and cotton, feeling himself being slowly lowered by Sandersonia using her hair, and let out a long sigh.
"Sigh... At this rate, when will I ever be able to help Naruto-Aniki?"
After Naruto left Amazon Lily to find Stussy, perhaps out of boredom or for some other reason, Hancock had a sudden idea and asked her two sisters to train with her 'little brother-in-law', Konohamaru.
Regarding their elder sister's orders, the two princesses naturally had no objections.
And Konohamaru was, of course, very happy about the two big sisters actively offering to spar with him.
He wasn't like that certain precocious and prematurely bald little kid, thinking about anything inappropriate.
Even in the original work, after Konohamaru consulted many 'learning materials' to master the [Harem Technique], he still remained quite naive about relationships between men and women.
To him, the Harem Technique and Sexy Technique were useful techniques, but that was all.
To test Konohamaru's strength level and determine subsequent training methods, the three had sparred once before.
The result was somewhat unexpected.
Konohamaru, having mastered the basic applications of Armament Haki, could actually briefly suppress the two princesses single-handedly when combining Ninjutsu with Taijutsu.
In fact, if he used techniques like Multiple Shadow Clone Technique and Rasengan, he could even injure them.
This was understandable… after all, in terms of actual combat achievements, Konohamaru had defeated the Level 6 Impel Down criminal, Byrnndi World before receiving training from the two skilled fighters.
This greatly surprised the princesses.
'Truly worthy of being the child brought up by Naruto-nii… What terrifying talent.'
Upon learning Konohamaru's specific strength and knowing he was currently struggling with Observation Haki, they devised this training method.
Of course… on the condition that Konohamaru couldn't use Chakra to enhance his physique, nor could he use Ninjutsu.
Plus, he had to block his vision and hearing, relying solely on pure combat instinct to dodge. The difficulty immediately increased.
Sure enough, under these restrictions, Konohamaru, who could previously suppress the two princesses, immediately found himself on the receiving end.
However, his growth rate also genuinely shocked the two princesses.
"It's only been a few days, and he can already hold on this long?"
Marigold set her naginata aside and slowly transformed back from her snake-man form.
"Really impressive, Konohamaru-kun."
Sandersonia seemed to like Konohamaru a bit more than her sister. Her action of manipulating the snake hairs to lower him was only half complete when she suddenly changed course and directly stuffed him into her embrace.
Holding Konohamaru, Sandersonia vigorously rubbed his head.
"Ah... so cute. I wonder how many girls Konohamaru-kun will charm when he grows up."
"Mmph... mmph... ha! Ha!"
Konohamaru finally struggled free from the two soft mounds, breathing heavily several times to calm his heart rate.
"Sandersonia-nee, don't suddenly hug me like that! Honestly!"
Konohamaru's face showed no shyness from intimate contact with the opposite sex… instead, he remained innocent, simply feeling that his big sister was teasing him.
These two big sisters were indeed very kind, and their teaching was very professional, but they always liked to tease him from time to time, which gave Konohamaru some trouble.
"Hehe..."
Sandersonia, who saw absolutely nothing wrong with treating a little boy this way, smiled and was about to say more when suddenly a distant bell tolled.
That was the bell that rang in Amazon Lily when someone important arrived. Normally, aside from the Empress's ship returning, it only meant...
"It's Naruto-Aniki!"
"Naruto-nii is back?!"
The three looked at each other, then tacitly headed toward the edge of the island together.
This place was very close to the main island of Amazon Lily… returning wouldn't take long.
…
However, when the two princesses and Konohamaru took a small boat back from the outlying island to Amazon Lily, before they could even feel happy, they suddenly felt a suffocating oppressive pressure sweep across the entire island.
"So... so uncomfortable..."
Konohamaru instinctively clutched his chest, feeling like he couldn't breathe.
"It's... Nee-san's Conqueror's Haki..."
A cold sweat also broke out on Marigold's forehead. This indiscriminate surge of Conqueror's Haki was also very unpleasant for her.
"Such an intense aura! Is Nee-san... angry?"
Sandersonia nervously looked at the large number of Amazon Lily warriors who had already fainted around her, the corners of her eyes involuntarily twitching.
'Why did Nee-san suddenly release such powerful Haki? Was it because of the bell just now?'
'Hadn't the person come as Naruto-nii?'
'Or was it an enemy attack?'
Clearly, waiting here wouldn't yield answers. The three decisively made a decision and, enduring the island-wide Conqueror's Haki impact, quickly ran toward the center of the island.