!
It took his punch head-on and…
Not even a scratch?
Garp's fist could easily shatter a mountain. The damage it caused when landing on a living creature was beyond imagination. Yet right now, the Nine-Tails had shrugged it off, as if nothing had happened, completely canceling out the force.
"Roar!"
The Nine-Tails let out a furious roar and flung Garp away. It wasn't injured, but the punch had at least left it with some pain.
"Zephyr, protect the civilians! Get them evacuated!"
Seeing Garp's strike fail, Sengoku quickly grasped how dangerous the Nine-Tails was. There were still dozens of islands in the Sabaody Archipelago, and this battle could spread across all of them—or even farther. They had to evacuate the people on the islands at once!
"Hold on as long as you can!"
Zephyr didn't waste words. As a man who carried justice, he hadn't been corrupted by the Celestial Dragons' power. At least in the hearts of the three of them, civilians mattered greatly.
They already knew how terrifying the Nine-Tails' power was. From its mouth, it could fire a massive energy blast that could probably sink an island with a single shot. Such destruction could not be allowed to happen here in the Sabaody Archipelago!
But just as Sengoku feared, the Nine-Tails began to charge up a massive energy blast in its mouth. The light didn't look like Haki, nor like a Devil Fruit ability, but it was clear—it carried terrifying destructive power!
"Garp!"
Sengoku shouted. Garp had been thrown into the ground, leaving behind a huge crater, but his body was as monstrous as the Nine-Tails. He climbed back out without serious injury. Hearing Sengoku's warning, his face turned grim.
This monster…
Where is it planning to destroy next?!
Sengoku slammed out a heavy palm strike. The powerful shockwave surged toward the Tailed Beast Bomb building in the Nine-Tails' mouth. At the same time, the beast swung one massive claw forward.
In an instant, a violent storm broke out!
Such… such terrifying power!
Sengoku's eyes narrowed. With just a swing of its claw, the Nine-Tails stirred up winds like a giant tornado, wiping out his shockwave in a heartbeat.
Then, the Tailed Beast Bomb roared out of its mouth, blasting toward the distant parts of the Sabaody Archipelago.
Armament Haki, full release!
Garp had already rushed to the spot the Nine-Tails aimed at. The moment the beast fired, he threw his punch. A massive wall of black Armament Haki seemed to harden in the air itself, colliding head-on with the Tailed Beast Bomb.
Boom!
The instant they collided, the ground—or rather, the giant tree roots beneath it—shattered all at once. Every building around them collapsed in the same moment, and the whole island shook violently. Garp roared as he pushed all of his Armament Haki into holding the Tailed Beast Bomb back!
And while it was locked with Garp, the Nine-Tails suddenly lunged forward.
Sengoku rushed to block it. His golden Great Buddha form stood tall, though still more than ten times smaller than the Nine-Tails.
He threw a massive punch, power and Haki surging together into a crushing shockwave, colliding with the beast's claw.
The clash split the earth apart, no less terrifying than Garp's battle with the Tailed Beast Bomb!
Boom!
Sengoku was slapped by the Nine-Tails into the ground, leaving a massive crater hundreds of meters wide and over a hundred meters deep!
But the Nine-Tails also stopped charging forward and even stepped back twice. The next moment, Garp's clash with the Tailed Beast Bomb finally came to an end. Garp threw a punch, and the bomb exploded in front of him. The huge blast swallowed him, and several beams of energy shot toward distant islands.
Zephyr, who was busy evacuating civilians, saw the energy blast coming and kicked it away with one strike, shouting loudly, "You two, watch what you're doing! You're making too much of a mess!"
Garp walked out of the explosion, covered in dust, and muttered, "Easy for you to say…"
His punches could easily smash a mountain, and his defense was even stronger than his attack. The Nine-Tails' attacks could also crush mountains, but thanks to Garp's punch weakening it, the follow-up blast didn't do much to him.
"This thing might be as strong as the wildest pirates in the New World, and it doesn't even get hurt."
Garp said this with some emotion to Sengoku, who climbed out of the crater and agreed, "Huge and fast… I just wonder if it fears seawater."
"Then let's find out!"
Garp grinned, and in a flash, he appeared above the ocean. He punched the surface with all his strength, sending his Haki deep into the sea to create a destructive push, making the water in front of him surge like boiling waves!
"Idiot! I'm still up here!" Sengoku cursed loudly. But the wave Garp created was aimed only at the Nine-Tails and didn't hit Sengoku's position.
"To really weaken a Devil Fruit user, you need to get half their body underwater. This isn't enough!"
Sengoku was worried about Garp using such a dumb method, and sure enough, the Nine-Tails slapped the air with one paw. The gust of wind it created blocked the wave before it reached the island and even sent Garp flying back with the leftover force.
Sengoku took the chance to rush forward and throw another punch. His fist was wrapped in Conqueror's Haki, and its power was no less than Garp's strike. Because of his huge size, it slammed into the Nine-Tails even harder.
The Nine-Tails was knocked back hundreds of meters. It stared at the glowing Sengoku and let out a furious roar, as another Tailed Beast Bomb began forming in its mouth!
"Damn it! Doesn't this monster ever run out of energy?! It can just use that attack as much as it wants?!"
Sengoku cursed in his heart, but there was no way he could dodge, because the direction the Nine-Tails was aiming at now…
Was Mary Geoise!
That was a target he absolutely had to protect!
The Nine-Tails was a beast that didn't care about the laws of this world at all!
"So strong…"
Far away, standing on the ocean, Genichi sighed from the bottom of his heart.
Whether it was the fight between the Nine-Tails and Sengoku and Garp, or…
What he was seeing right now—his skyrocketing emotion points!
"Positive emotion points: 6320"
"Negative emotion points:"
Because the power inside him was one-time use, and because he craved more power, he decided to do two draws while the Nine-Tails was still fighting.
One was for positive emotions, the other for negative emotions.
The first cost 1,000 emotion points, but the second…
Was a 100,000-point draw!