Momousagi and Hina were both frozen in shock.
He really ate it.
This guy actually dared to do it!
Momousagi's face turned exceptionally grim.
Hina's expression was full of disgust.
She swore to stay as far away from him as possible from now on!
Never speak another word to him!
Momousagi felt nauseous just thinking about it.
Her cousin was absolutely insane.
No, no!
She had to correct his twisted preferences!
She couldn't just let this continue!
This was beyond abnormal.
A complete and utter pervert!
She needed to teach him a lesson—beat some sense into him!
But that would have to wait until after the war.
Because right now, there was still a woman glaring at them with murderous intent.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Golden Lion had received Whitebeard's retreat signal.
His Float-Float Fruit could theoretically carry everyone away.
But the problem was—
The three in front of him weren't going to give him that chance.
Fighting all three at once? Even for him, that wouldn't be easy.
Trying to multitask and evacuate everyone at the same time? Nearly impossible.
Confronting Shiki, Kizaru—bruised and battered—was hiding in the back, frantically firing cheap shots.
Not that he wanted to stay back—he just really didn't want to go up front again.
Earlier, he had been the one holding Shiki off alone.
And he had gotten destroyed.
His skull had almost been split open.
And now they expected him to tank again? Yeah, right!
This was a major operation—and he wasn't even getting paid!
No way was he stepping up now.
His body felt like it was about to fall apart.
A long, bleeding slash ran across his chest.
He had already given it his all—wasn't being this injured enough?!
At the front, Kuzan wiped blood from his lips.
Before Zephyr arrived, he had been holding the line alone, and the pressure had been immense.
Zephyr, despite fighting ferociously, was actually thinking about Chiba.
That kid had just taken down Marco the Phoenix.
And after that...
He actually ate him—
Disgusting. Who knew he was that twisted?
Thank goodness he hadn't let him treat Ain back then.
Who knows how that would've turned out.
Could someone like that even have decent medical skills?
Zephyr highly doubted it.
Whitebeard, of course, knew that Old Lion was the key to their escape.
The two of them were subtly shifting the battlefield to merge their fights.
Whitebeard was trying to hold off five enemies at once!
Golden Lion didn't understand, but he respected the effort.
This was probably the best solution right now.
If he could just free up his hands, he could evacuate everyone in under thirty seconds.
He never expected the Marines to be this prepared.
They had three Admiral-level fighters tied up here.
This was just... unbelievable.
If Whitebeard had come alone, he would've been annihilated.
Meanwhile, in the crowd, Vir glanced toward Ace's location.
Kong was being barely held off by Yamato.
And Akainu had once again clashed with Ace and his brother.
History repeated itself in eerily similar fashion.
The gap between Akainu and Ace was still massive.
And Ace was already in a weakened state.
At this point, running was his best option.
There was no way he could win against Akainu.
"B-Big Boss... Did you really just eat human flesh?"
Chiba stared at Vir, his face twisted in discomfort.
It wasn't like he had eaten it, but since Vir was using his appearance, he had felt it way too vividly.
He had already vomited earlier.
And now, imagining the beating he'd get later, his head throbbed in dread.
Once Big Boss left—
Would his sister come after him?
Should he rat Vir out?
No, absolutely not!
Even if he got beaten half to death, he wouldn't betray Big Boss!
"Yeah, I ate it."
Vir's casual reply made Chiba suck in a sharp breath.
"Hiss— You like eating that stuff??"
Chiba's eyes widened in horror.
Was Big Boss actually a monster?
How could he even stomach it?!
But Vir just smirked.
"Weren't you the one who wanted to learn medicine from me? How much of my technique did you pick up just now?"
The question short-circuited Chiba's brain.
He stood there, dumbfounded, staring at Vir.
Technique? What technique?!
What part of that had anything to do with medicine?
If there was any connection, he'd eat his own damn shoes!
All he saw was swordsmanship and cooking!
There was nothing medical about it!
That was impossible!
But—
As as fate would have it...
It was treatment.
"What I ate was his injury. I don't have a habit of eating people." Vir said lightly again.
And this one fried Chiba's mind on the spot.
"What?!"
What did that even mean?!
Wounds?!
Vir ate his wounds?!
Wait, so... was that actually medical treatment?!
No way.
No freaking way.
Chiba's face twisted in disbelief, his eyes locked onto Vir.
He was desperately trying to convince himself.
That was treatment.
And then—
"HOLY CRAP! TREATMENT?! THAT WAS TREATMENT?! YOU STABBED HIM LIKE A DAMN PIN CUSHION! BOILED HIM LIKE SOUP! AND THEN ATE HIM LIKE SOME KIND OF SNACK!"
"AND THAT WAS MEDICINE?! WHAT THE HELL, BIG BOSS?! WHAT THE ACTUAL— SWEET GRANDMA'S GHOST! IS THERE ANYTHING MORE INSANE THAN THIS?!"
Chiba had a high tolerance for Vir's bizarre methods.
But this?
This was so absurd it looped back to being impressive.
What was there to say?
Nothing but "as expected of Big Boss"!
Nothing else to say!
Screw words—
Time to eat the damn shoe.
Chiba immediately yanked off his leather shoe and started gnawing on it.
He had wanted to learn from Big Boss.
But what exactly was he supposed to learn here?!
Swordsmanship?!
Cooking?!
At this rate, he'd learn everything except medicine!
The stabbing earlier had no rhyme or reason—just pure chaos.
Like Marco was Vir's sworn enemy or something.
And the boiling?
No idea if there was any medical value.
But damn, it smelled good.
What was he even learning at this point?!
But the real question was—
Did that kind of treatment even work?
He believed it was treatment now.
After all, Vir had no reason to kill Marco.
But that method?
Could it really heal someone on the brink of death?
It looked completely unreliable.
At this rate, Marco's corpse would be cold by now.
Did it actually work?
Even if it was Big Boss, Chiba still had serious doubts.
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