"Purupurupuru, purupurupuru..."
On the Kirin, from the moment Zephyr's Den Den Mushi call ended, the Den Den Mushi in front of Rorschach practically rang non-stop. As soon as one call finished, another would immediately come in.
Not only was Kizaru's Den Den Mushi ringing, but Hina's Den Den Mushi and his own Den Den Mushi were also ringing.
One after another, it was like an exclusive concert for Den Den Mushi.
The callers were basically Marine generals.
Among them were Aokiji, Akainu, Garp, Momonga, Onigumo, Dalmatian, Doss, Deno, X Drake, Smoker, and Impel Down's Magellan and Ronse.
During the year he trained in Marineford, Rorschach had contact with most Marine generals, and their Den Den Mushi numbers were naturally exchanged often.
The only one that surprised Rorschach a bit was that old ghost Jonathan also called to inquire about the situation; he truly had no idea how Jonathan knew what was happening here.
After answering dozens of Den Den Mushi calls, even Kizaru, dozing on the ship's railing, found himself falling asleep, but Rorschach remained smiling and conversing with the callers from beginning to end, without the slightest hint of impatience.
It wasn't until sunset that Rorschach finally let out a long sigh and handed the wilted Den Den Mushi to the Marine soldiers behind him, telling them to feed them some food.
A fragrant handkerchief was offered from beside him, wiping the sweat from his forehead.
Rorschach turned his head and saw Hibari standing on her tiptoes. He couldn't help but smile, and just as he was about to say something, his already rumbling stomach let out a 'grumble grumble' sound first.
Outside the Kirin, on the sandy ground, incredibly large prey, after a full day of grilling, had been roasted by the soldiers until they were crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, dripping with golden fat. The rich aroma of meat permeated the desert for several kilometers around.
"Brother Rorschach, I knew you'd be starving when you woke up. Look, these are all prey we caught in the desert on the way to Rainbase. Go ahead and eat," Hibari said with a smile.
"Mhm. Let's all eat together." Rorschach patted her head, then turned to Kizaru, who was dozing on the ship's railing, and called out, "Uncle Borsalino! Dinner time!"
Kizaru was startled by his voice, his body swayed, and he fell backward off the Kirin, one shoe flying up and landing on the deck. Rorschach and Hibari exchanged a strange glance, then burst into uncontrollable laughter.
By now, over two hours had passed since Rorschach woke up.
The hundred soldiers who had fainted from losing their shadows had also long since awakened.
Even Law, who was exhausted, was being supported by Bepo as he walked out of the ship's cabin.
The sunset's glow, like a scrambled egg yolk, splattered across Alubarna's cracked desert ground.
A gentle breeze wafted across the desert, like soft hands brushing over them.
"To celebrate our survival, let's have a banquet!"
Facing the gaze of the crowd, Rorschach raised his wine glass high.
"Whoa-oh! A banquet! A barbecue feast!" Palmer lifted an entire wine barrel.
The soldiers' faces were beaming with smiles.
Seeing Hibari, Law, Hina, and the others gathered around him, Rorschach took a deep breath. Under their expectant gazes, he reached out and grabbed a three-meter-long roasted Banana Gator leg from in front of him.
Everyone's gaze followed the food in his hand. Eneru squinted, looking at their expressions, somewhat puzzled.
'Why are these people staring at that kid eating?'
Not just them, even that unfathomable Marine Admiral was watching Rorschach.
Eneru couldn't understand why eating would cause such a fuss.
But soon, he understood.
"Alright, I'm eating!"
Rorschach brought the huge piece of meat to his mouth and opened it wide.
Crunch, crunch, crunch...
The dense sounds of tearing and chewing, like sickles harvesting wheat, linked together without interruption.
After a phantom-like blur, the alligator leg Rorschach had just picked up, along with the hard bones encased in the meat, instantly vanished from his mouth, as if it had never been there.
His eating motion was like brushing his teeth.
The aromatic, charred pieces of meat were pulverized as if thrown into a shredder.
And Rorschach's mouth was the shredder.
As the first piece of meat went down, a trace of blood appeared in Rorschach's eyes.
So hungry...
Inside his stomach, stomach acid secreted frantically, completely digesting the ingested food in an instant, transforming it into pure energy that circulated throughout his body with the blood flow.
More, I need to eat more food!
Before Rorschach could get up and reach for the grilled meat in front of him, Hibari held out a four-meter-long alligator tenderloin in front of him.
Rorschach paused, then saw more Marine soldiers behind Hibari, all holding food.
These guys, they're really... cute.
No longer polite, Rorschach instantly transformed into a hungry beast, beginning a frenzy of eating that greatly shocked Eneru.
Devouring rapidly, chewing, swallowing, the meat brought before him by the Marine soldiers was all quickly swept away and eaten by Rorschach.
As he ate, his emaciated body, under everyone's astonished gaze, rapidly plumped up at a visible speed, quickly returning to its previous size.
The hideous scars on the surface of his body rapidly scabbed over and peeled off, revealing new, tender skin underneath.
In just a moment, only a single clear scar remained on Rorschach's entire body, specifically over his heart.
That area was also where he had sustained the most severe injuries.
As he ate large amounts, Rorschach's blood flow continuously accelerated, transporting the energy converted from food throughout his body.
His entire skin became burning hot and red, his body temperature rose, and steaming hot air puffed out from his pores, turning the sandy ground within dozens of meters into a misty expanse.
In the end, even the speed at which the two hundred Marine soldiers lined up to deliver food couldn't keep up with Rorschach's eating speed.
Everyone watched as he pushed Palmer away, stood up, and his body swelled, transforming into an eight-meter-tall Kirin Beastman. Faint electrical flashes shimmered on his body. With a flash, he pounced onto a thirty-meter-long Banana Gator and began to devour it frantically.
Watching Rorschach devour a thirty-meter-long giant beast, leaving only a skeleton riddled with gaps, in just a few tens of seconds, Eneru's squinted eyes widened.
Is this guy really not human?
This eating speed, this appetite, this digestion speed—how could a human possibly achieve this?
Rorschach ate faster and faster. In the end, he let out a long, resonant roar from his mouth. His sturdy, powerful body expanded again, instantly transforming into a sixty-plus-meter-long Kirin Giant Beast. Stomping with his four pillar-like hooves, he opened his blood-red maw filled with fangs and bit off half of a Banana Gator, swallowing it whole, astonishing and dumbfounding everyone.
"Is this the Kirin Giant Beast? It's the first time I've seen Major transform into his Mythical Zoan true form up close. It's truly breathtaking."
Even Palmer, who was ten meters tall, had to look up to see him, which showed how exaggerated Rorschach's size was as the Kirin Giant Beast.
"He's so cool! I really... I really want to ride him..." Hibari's eyes sparkled, staring at the Kirin's spacious back.
Unlike the admiration and envy of the soldiers, Eneru at this moment felt the increasingly immense thunder power within the Kirin.
That thunder, similar to the thunder he controlled, but containing terrifying energy that completely surpassed his own, could perhaps severely injure him with just a negligible spark of electricity.
"This guy is even stronger than before!"
"He's terrifying, Rorschach. This presence truly has the divine aura of a Mythical Zoan."
Kizaru pulled down his sunglasses, a surprised expression on his face.
On the other side, Rorschach, in his Kirin Giant Beast form, had devoured ninety percent of the food on the sandy ground.
The massive amount of food was transformed into immense energy, part of it repairing the physical damage from the previous battle, and part of it becoming electrical power stored in the cells of his body.
His massive body shrunk down to the eight-meter human-beast form. Rorschach looked down at his huge right hand.
With a slight clench of his fist, the surrounding air emitted crackling sounds as if under immense pressure. The air within dozens of meters became distorted, as if a special force field had formed around Rorschach's body, making his robust figure appear indistinct.
As he clenched his fist, the muscles along his entire arm instantly bulged like hills.
Thick bundles of sinews intertwined like twisted rebar, containing unimaginably terrifying immense power.
The dark blue scales covering his surface were dense, like a blue scale armor.
"Let me see if that vaguely achieved high-level Ryou is real!"
Rorschach's eyes narrowed, his intimidating vertical pupils contracting to pinpricks. He clenched his fists, mobilizing the vast power within his body, activating his Armament Haki, releasing it from within.
As the power was mobilized, a thick, palpable force, which Rorschach could clearly feel, poured out from within him, instantly covering his entire body, completely enveloping his eight-meter-tall, monstrously muscular frame.
An Armament Haki with a deep blue luster, forming an armor on Rorschach's body.
At first glance, it seemed no different from before.
But upon closer inspection, one would notice that the deep blue Haki armor covering Rorschach's body now had an additional characteristic compared to before.
That is, thickness.
If before, the Armament Haki covering him was merely like painting a layer of color on his skin, hardening his skin for defense, now it was like directly donning a full body armor of astonishing thickness.
Rorschach extended his right hand, looking at the deep blue armor that flowed like water in his hand, pushing away the surrounding air, extending two to three meters from his body with his movements, like a pressurized air shield, enveloping his body. The joy in his eyes grew.
"This is my high-level Armament Haki!"
Flow, destruction, penetration, shock, decomposition, impact, internal damage, coiling!
High-level Armament Haki possessed all these powerful and miraculous characteristics; it was a powerful force that all top-tier powerhouses on the sea had to master.
Many powerhouses from the old era, such as Garp, Zephyr, and Roger, firmly believed that Haki was a power that transcended all others.
To become a top-tier combatant standing at the pinnacle of the sea, comparable to a Marine Admiral or a Yonko, one must possess powers such as high-level Armament Haki, top-tier Observation Haki, top-tier Conqueror's Haki, Devil Fruit awakening, and an exceptionally strong physique.
And now, in terms of strength, he had broken through one of the requirements for top-tier combatants.
Thinking this, Rorschach couldn't hide his joy and couldn't help but unleash the boiling Armament Haki within him into the surroundings.
"Deep Blue! Armament!"
The next moment, under everyone's dumbfounded gaze, Rorschach, standing on the desert ground, became like a sea vortex containing endless seawater, continuously spewing out deep blue seawater.
Splash!
Massive amounts of deep blue Haki, centered on Rorschach's body, instantly covered the entire ground where everyone stood.
The massive hull of the Kirin nearby was also completely submerged, leaving Moria, who was on board, utterly stunned.
Within a thousand meters, it transformed into a flickering blue ocean.
The hazy light flowed past everyone's shins, making everyone present feel as if they were in the shallow waters by the sea.
Although a similar scene had also occurred in Spring Queen City.
This time, however, the feeling given to the Marine soldiers was completely different.
Powerful, vast, as heavy as a mountain, as expansive as the sea.
Even Kizaru pursed his lips, "This is... too terrifying, Rorschach."
Hearing Kizaru's voice, Rorschach chuckled. He took a deep breath, quickly retracted the massive amount of Haki he had released, then stomped his foot. His mountain-like, robust body lunged forward, causing the air in front of him to explode into a white shockwave.
His action surprised Kizaru, who was sitting cross-legged on a chair. Kizaru then twitched his mouth, shot up from his spot as if his rear was on fire, and, with a flash, flew into the distance.
"Old Man Zephyr just told you to rest for a while, Rorschach! Don't be reckless, I..."
"Uncle Borsalino! Quick! Fight me! I urgently need to know what kind of defense and attack power my high-level Armament Haki has compared to before!"
Rorschach had a radiant smile on his face, lightning and strong winds flickering around him, chasing Kizaru deep into the desert.
"This is such a headache; I really don't want to fight. High-level Armament Haki is no joke; getting hit would really hurt."
"Come on, come on!"
"That's why I keep saying, I hate battle maniacs the most! I wish I had just let Kaido take you away..."
"Yasakani Sacred Jewel!"
"Ah! You ambushed me..."
On the desert ground under the setting sun, someone's overconfident scream echoed.
(End of Chapter)
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