#86 - Chapter 86 Domineering? Practice it in the next life!
“Target confirmed.”
“It's Hyuga Tenhao, no doubt.”
Kalifa adjusted her glasses, glancing briefly at Hyuga Tenhao before retracting her gaze to avoid drawing attention.
Similarly, Foz-Foz, Jabra, and Bruno did the same.
However, though they averted their eyes, upon seeing Hyuga Tenhao appear and begin to approach Donquixote Rosinante, their eyelids lowered slightly, and the muscles beneath their military uniforms tensed, like apex predators preparing to pounce on their prey.
Concealing all sharpness to avoid alarming the prey, yet poised to strike.
“Tenhao, over here.”
Upon seeing Hyuga Tenhao, Donquixote Rosinante didn't wait but strode forward to greet him.
“Long time no see.”
“Rosie.”
Seeing the excitement and joy on Donquixote Rosinante's face, and the favorability rating hovering near 90, Hyuga Tenhao smiled.
Speaking of which.
Rosinante, from whom he'd intercepted the surgery fruit, and Trafalgar Law, were the first friends he made in the Naruto and One Piece worlds, and also the closest.
Even his teacher, Hyuga Hizashi, only had a slightly higher favorability rating.
It wasn't until later, when he overturned the main house and seized power, that Hyuga Natsu and Hyuga Hizashi's favorability ratings truly soared, even reaching the threshold for the gate of time and space.
Exceeding 90 points.
Reunited after a long separation, and with the other party bringing a bunch of souvenirs he wanted, Hyuga Tenhao was genuinely happy.
“A month, it has been quite long.”
“But it's okay.”
“I've been promoted to Commodore and have my own warship, so I can come see you anytime.”
Donquixote Rosinante deliberately tugged at his coat of justice in front of Hyuga Tenhao.
Wealth and honor not shared are like wearing brocade at night.
He'd been promoted, so he had to show off to his best friend.
“Wearing the coat of justice, you really do have the air of a Commodore.”
“By the way.”
“Where's Law?”
Hyuga Tenhao complimented him, then asked about Trafalgar Law.
“He didn't come.”
“Because you mentioned it, he's been obsessed with Haki.”
“So after returning to headquarters, I sent him to the naval academy.”
Donquixote Rosinante revealed Trafalgar Law's current situation, then suddenly his gaze sharpened as he sized up Hyuga Tenhao, even gesturing with his hand:
“You, what's going on?”
“I remember when we first met, you were only a little taller than my knee, now you're almost up to my waistline.”
After scrutinizing him for a while, Donquixote Rosinante noticed that Hyuga Tenhao had changed quite a bit since the last time.
In terms of height.
Although he wasn't yet 1.7 meters, he was about 1.65 meters.
Much taller.
“It's clearly growing taller, but coming from your mouth, I can't be happy at all.”
Hyuga Tenhao smiled helplessly.
Although Donquixote Rosinante's words seemed harsh, they were actually quite kind.
The reason he said that was because Donquixote Rosinante was 4.35 meters tall.
Even if he grew to 2 meters, he would only just barely exceed Donquixote Rosinante's waistline.
“It's okay, I'll make you happy right now.”
Donquixote Rosinante grinned, reaching into his coat of justice pocket and pulling out a kraft paper bag:
“Look!”
“What's this?”
He waved the file bag in front of Hyuga Tenhao.
“Haki?”
The moment Hyuga Tenhao saw the kraft paper bag in Donquixote Rosinante's hand, his eyes lit up, and he broke free from the “depression” of being mocked about his height.
“That's right.”
“The training methods for Armament Haki and Observation Haki, as well as some Haki usage techniques, are all in here.”
“With your strength, even without someone to teach you, if you practice on your own, it shouldn't take long to master Haki.”
Donquixote Rosinante looked smug.
“Thank you, Rosie.”
Upon hearing this, the smile on Hyuga Tenhao's face was brighter than even Dracule Mihawk's Black Sword Yoru.
“What's there to thank me for.”
“Do we need to say such things between us?”
“Even Law and I owe our lives to you. If you hadn't personally led us out of the birdcage, Law and I would have died at the hands of Donquixote Doflamingo a month ago.”
Speaking of the debt of saving his life, Donquixote Rosinante's words were filled with deep gratitude.
As he spoke.
He handed over the kraft paper bag containing the Haki training methods.
Seeing this, Hyuga Tenhao didn't stand on ceremony and reached for the kraft paper bag.
“Move!”
Behind Donquixote Rosinante, more than ten meters away, Foz-Foz's concealed, fierce gaze had been fixed on Hyuga Tenhao.
Seeing that the other's attention was completely focused on the kraft paper bag, his slightly lowered eyelids suddenly lifted, his appearance unchanged, but the feeling he gave was completely different from before.
If he was a dormant beast before, now he was a snarling tiger.
“Shave!”
Without Foz-Foz speaking, as CP9 members, they didn't need any verbal communication. With just a glance, they burst out from the navy ranks like tigers pouncing on their prey.
This stillness and movement perfectly illustrated what it meant to be as still as a virgin and as swift as a rabbit.
For the three who were proficient in the Six Styles, thirty meters was just a step away.
Their speed was so fast that even an arrow couldn't compare, only a bullet could describe it.
Whoosh
As Donquixote Rosinante heard the sound of rushing wind beside his ears, three figures had already brushed past him.
“Finger Pistol!”
In a flash, Foz-Foz, Jabra, and Bruno all raised their hands and extended their fingers. In the instant before Hyuga Tenhao was about to receive the kraft paper bag from Donquixote Rosinante, three fingers, like bullets piercing through the air, were imbued with the power to penetrate metal, striking three parts of Hyuga Tenhao's body.
Bang bang bang
Accompanied by three sounds like bullets entering flesh, Hyuga Tenhao's lungs, abdomen, and right leg, a total of three places, were pierced by the three fingers.
“Haki, huh?”
“Train in your next life!”
Foz-Foz stabbed his finger into Hyuga Tenhao's right chest, his eyes filled with fierce, cold light, staring straight at Hyuga Tenhao's face, which was pale with horror from the sudden assassination.
“You, you guys.”
Faced with this sudden change, watching his benefactor being assassinated in front of him by the navy he brought, Donquixote Rosinante's eyes widened, his face showing all sorts of complex expressions.
Astonishment, anger, and confusion.
He didn't understand why the subordinates he brought suddenly turned on Hyuga Tenhao, but in less than a second, he recognized their identities from the martial arts techniques Foz-Foz and the others used.
