New World, Latter Stage · Elbaf · tree of war · Sunny World
"Jiehahaha! Is this the genius with Innate Observation Haki?"
Golden Lion Shiki looked at Redfield with the eyes of someone looking at an unlucky bastard.
The unlucky genius whose clan was wiped out because of Fang Huo's prophecy and Rocks' recruitment.
Logically, this guy should be looking for a way to take revenge on the Rocks Pirates, but instead, he's actually joining them.
This feeling of joining one's enemy must be quite unpleasant.
"Golden Lion Shiki, bounty of 647 million Berries, the last of the Four King Executives of the Rocks Pirates."
Feeling Golden Lion Shiki's contemptuous and pitying gaze, Redfield spoke coldly.
He would surpass this Great Pirate sooner or later!
"Hmph! Quite the arrogant personality!"
Golden Lion Shiki heard the sarcasm in Redfield's tone; these new Executives were getting more and more arrogant.
I really want to cut him down!
"worororo! From now on, the Rocks Pirates will have five King Executives who have awakened Haoshoku!"
Rocks felt a sharp Haoshoku from Redfield and felt extremely satisfied.
This time, it finally wasn't those fakes like the CP0 Agents.
"Another Haoshoku user!"
Ganzi and Maron muttered with a bit of envy and jealousy; they also wanted to awaken Conqueror's Haki.
Now on the Rocks Pirates' ship, Rocks' attitude toward the King Executives with Haoshoku compared to other Executives was like night and day.
In Rocks' eyes, an Executive who hadn't awakened Haoshoku was as good as half a waste, not even qualified to kill the Gods Knights.
"You don't need to interfere in the private grudge between Redfield and me. Everyone should just treat Red as a normal new Executive."
Fang Huo introduced Redfield to everyone in the Rocks Pirates, but Executives like Stussy and Babel were still full of wariness toward him.
"gurarara, Redfield, I hope you can look forward. Your true enemy is the World Government, not Fang Huo."
Whitebeard Newgate, who had been looking forward to making friends with Redfield, didn't forget to warn the newcomer at this time.
"I know."
Redfield spoke calmly; he felt a strong sense of danger from Whitebeard Newgate.
This little giant's strength is formidable!
"worororo, while the Rocks Pirates are in their special training period, let me test your talent and potential."
Rocks drew his sword with interest, wanting to gauge Redfield's combat power.
"Just as well, I was just about to learn the Three Types of Haki from you, the world's strongest pirate!"
Redfield bore a deep-seated blood feud and was desperate to increase his strength.
After continuing to update intelligence with the West Blue Information Hunters, he mostly believed Fang Huo's information and speculations.
Those Celestial Dragons might not make a move on Red Line Island for another year or two.
In that case, he could just use his time in the Rocks Pirates to become stronger.
Then he could go to Red Line Island with the Rocks Pirates to deal with the World Government and those Celestial Dragons.
"Good momentum."
Rocks was very satisfied with the momentum of Redfield, a non-ability user; this guy had a bit of his own style.
Redfield specialized in swordsmanship and the Three Types of Haki, which indeed resembled Rocks' current path.
As Rocks' testing battle against Redfield progressed, Golden Lion Shiki discovered that this newcomer's combat talent was incredibly strong.
He was actually growing at a rate visible to the naked eye.
"Shiki, if you don't work a little harder, you might soon be surpassed by Redfield."
"Then you'll go from being the last of the Four King Executives to the last of the Five King Executives."
Fang Huo grinned, provoking this competitive young lion.
"Hmph!"
"He can forget about surpassing me; I'm going to suppress Linlin and Newgate too!"
Golden Lion Shiki spoke unhappily, then went to train his swordsmanship and Haki, continuing to further develop his Float-Float Fruit abilities.
"Without Devil Fruit abilities, swordsmanship and Haki grow very quickly."
Whitebeard Newgate watched the battle between Rocks and Redfield; he finally began to believe that this new Executive could fight him in the future using only Haki and swordsmanship.
"Don't underestimate a genius who wants revenge."
Even Fang Huo had to intensify his own training to keep Redfield from catching up.
He needed to challenge Rocks and Harald more often to master Conquerors Haki Infusion as soon as possible.
Otherwise, when the time came to attack the Celestial Dragons' Native Purge Competition, he wouldn't even have a chance to severely wound the Gods Knights.
"That brat Loki has Innate Haoshoku, Linlin has an iron balloon comparable to Innate Armament Haki, and now there's another one with Innate Observation Haki, Redfield."
"And Fang Huo has that unreasonable multi-fruit talent."
"There are so many monsters in this era!"
Bolo Gram couldn't help but sigh with emotion; he originally thought he was a genius for being able to easily break into the New World.
But after seeing the monster geniuses of the Rocks Pirates, he realized that even among geniuses, there was a huge gap!
The addition of the newcomer Redfield brought a slight change to the Rocks Pirates.
His frantic training dragged Golden Lion Shiki, Whitebeard Newgate, and even Fang Huo into this combat power race.
For a time, the training atmosphere among the Rocks crew soared.
Even the two Giant Princes, Loki and Hajrudin, joined the Rocks Pirates' high-intensity training.
---In the following period, in order to resolve the issues between Charlotte Linlin and the Giant Race...
Fang Huo took some private time to begin revealing Sister Carmelo's true identity to Charlotte Linlin.
Only by first making this iron balloon accept Carmelo's identity as a villain...
Could Fang Huo continue to make up stories to explain Linlin's various accidents to the Giant Race.
"How is it possible! How is it possible! Sister Carmelo is actually a human trafficker..."
"She adopted orphans just to sell us to the World Government..."
Hearing Fang Huo's words, Charlotte Linlin couldn't quite accept this fact, her emotions nearly collapsing.
If it weren't for the fact that Fang Huo had already suppressed Carmelo's soul and had replaced Carmelo as the most important person to Charlotte Linlin...
Otherwise, Linlin would likely have entered a state of madness by now.
"Her underworld code name was Mountain Hag, and she had even negotiated your price with CP Agents back then."
"Later, because she wanted your body with Admiral potential, she wanted to occupy it and join the Marine as a young genius with a legal new identity, becoming an Admiral step by step..."
Fang Huo wouldn't allow Charlotte Linlin to keep thinking about that old hag, Sister Carmelo.
He wanted to completely erase Sister Carmelo from Linlin's list of important people.
Upon learning this information, it took Charlotte Linlin more than half a month to slowly recover from her low spirits and several near-madness episodes.
In the end, she chose to believe Fang Huo's prophecy and gradually let go of her obsession with Sister Carmelo.
However, Charlotte Linlin still hadn't given up on her dream of establishing Totto Land!
Even without Sister Carmelo, she would still achieve her dream.
Without Carmelo, she still had Fang Huo!
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