"You almost hurt my subordinate!"
Smoker said to Major Raine, a cigar dangling from his lips.
"Haha! This is also a lesson!"
"You're such an unlikable guy!"
"What?! You have an opinion! Your tone of voice is also annoying! You, Smoker."
Major Raine had been holding a grudge against Smoker for his good cigars. This Smoker's cigars were more advanced than his own.
Given Smoker's tone and his own resentment, Major Raine directly said to Smoker, "Smoker, how about we have a match?"
"You guy, alright! Let's do it!" Smoker glanced at Tashigi and immediately agreed. His subordinate couldn't be bullied by others so easily.
At the same time, he also wanted to stretch his body. It had been a long time since he had met such a strong opponent.
"Colonel Smoker, is this alright?" Tashigi asked, a little worried.
"It's fine, just a little exercise! Don't you agree, Major Raine?"
"Exactly, we're just sparring."
Seeing that both of them said it was just a spar, Tashigi also relaxed.
As soon as Major Raine and Smoker were about to spar, more people came to watch.
One of them was a terrifyingly strong swordsman; that slash from earlier was still fresh in everyone's minds, its immense power still inspiring fear.
The other was Colonel Smoker, a Marineford Colonel who had arrived in Loguetown, suppressing countless pirates from the East Blue on their way to the Grand Line. Their match instantly ignited everyone's curiosity.
"Come on! You, Smoker, don't you dare cry later!"
Seeing Smoker smoking such good cigars, the flames of jealousy had already risen in Major Raine's heart. This time, he would teach this Smoker a good lesson.
"Hmph! Kid, you're the one! Don't surrender so quickly!" Smoker was very confident in his abilities.
Then, both sides quickly began to fight.
At the start of the battle, Smoker took out his Jutte. His weapon contained Sea Stone, which would instantly incapacitate any Devil Fruit user who touched it.
But Major Raine was not a Devil Fruit user. He directly drew his sword and clashed with Smoker's Jutte.
"This guy, such great strength!"
Major Raine directly clashed with him using his weapon. Smoker now fully understood Major Raine's strength.
Seeing his attacks were ineffective, Smoker instantly elementalized his entire body, his feet turning into smoke, and he continuously swung his Jutte at Major Raine.
"White Fist!"
At this moment, Smoker's other hand turned into smoke and fiercely slammed towards Major Raine.
Major Raine held his sword in one hand, blocking Smoker's Jutte swings, while his other hand instantly became covered in a dark Armament Haki, colliding with Smoker's incoming White Fist.
'Bang!' Smoker's elementalized White Fist was immediately sent flying.
"Smoker, did you forget that Armament Haki can hit the body of a Logia-type user?"
After saying that, he directly covered the sword in his hand with Haki, forming a black blade, and swung it towards Smoker's body.
Smoker constantly used the Jutte in his hand to block Major Raine's attacks. After elementalizing, the smoke he transformed into had no air resistance, allowing him to continuously swing the Jutte in his hand, launching a storm-like offensive against his enemy. However, Major Raine's continuously upgraded physical strength also gave him strong endurance, and he remained unyielding in the face of Smoker's attacks.
"These two are monsters!" Seeing the battle between the two constantly clashing like a storm, the onlookers were completely stunned. If they entered such an attack, they would probably be defeated in an instant, but the two in the arena constantly parried the opponent's attacks, looking evenly matched.
In the arena, Smoker, while using his elementalization to attack Major Raine, was also continuously swinging the Jutte in his hand. After this period of time, he was already feeling a bit of physical exhaustion.
"Phew! This guy, is his stamina still so good?! Like a monster."
Smoker launched another strong offensive against Major Raine, and seeing that it was still blocked one by one, he also began to slowly stop his attack rhythm.
As soon as Smoker's attack rhythm slowed down, Major Raine noticed it.
"His stamina is probably running low," Major Raine thought silently to himself.
Major Raine instantly sped up the swinging of his sword and launched a counterattack against Smoker.
The smoke formed by Smoker's elementalization, when he launched an attack, had no air resistance, allowing him to continuously attack with less stamina. When facing someone of similar strength, under his storm-like offensive, they would quickly be defeated. At the same time, his weapon was inlaid with Sea Stone, so even when facing a Devil Fruit user, if they were hit once by his attack, they would be captured.
However, when facing such a powerful opponent with ample stamina, his Devil Fruit consumed a lot of stamina. If he didn't defeat his opponent within a fixed time, then it would be his weak period.
"Hoo hoo!"
Seeing Major Raine still acting as if nothing had happened, continuously swinging his sword, Smoker also felt a bit powerless. This opponent had powerful Haki, lasting stamina, and strong swordsmanship. Coupled with his current low stamina, he wanted to surrender directly.
And Major Raine, seeing Smoker's attack speed getting slower and slower, and detecting his intention to surrender, immediately used his sword move.
"Smoker, your offense is over, now it's my turn.
Ittoryu, Instant Slash."
Haha, you want to run? Not that easy. You had such a good time hitting me earlier, now let me show you a thing or two.
Next, a silver-white light continuously and rapidly slid around Smoker, and Smoker occasionally let out cries of pain.
"Colonel Smoker." Tashigi called out worriedly, looking at the scene in the arena.
After the silver-white stream of light dispersed, Smoker appeared before everyone, with two large panda eyes and his Marine uniform tattered into strips.
"Hahahaha!"
Seeing Smoker's appearance, some of the surrounding Marines couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"What are you laughing at? All of you, go train!" Smoker roared loudly.
"Yes!" The Marines present responded and quickly walked away. If they didn't leave, Smoker would lose his temper.
"Major Raine, you didn't even give me any face in front of my subordinates."
"Haha! Smoker, you beat me up for so long just now, of course I have to return the favor!"
"You scoundrel!"
Fortunately, Tashigi, seeing Smoker's uniform torn, had already gone to his office to get a new Marine coat and came to his side.
Smoker immediately took the coat Tashigi handed him and put it on.