Marineford, back mountain.
Here was a large grassy field, with occasional trees spaced out.
Luffy curiously looked left, then right, and finally fixed his gaze on Kyle, asking curiously:
"Kyle, what are we doing here?"
Kyle did not stop walking, nor did he turn his head, saying:
"You haven't forgotten the bet between me and your grandfather yesterday, have you?"
"Of course, I'm here to train you!"
"Although you have already joined the Navy, if your strength doesn't improve this week. . ."
At this point, Kyle's words paused, his steps halted, and he slowly turned his head, looking at Luffy with a half smile.
"Then you will have to go back to following your grandfather again. You should understand very well what kind of life that is, right?"
(⊙_⊙)?
Instantly, Luffy recalled some unpleasant memories, his face gradually turning pale, then he suddenly shook his head vigorously.
"I don't want to! I don't want to!! I absolutely do not want to keep following that old geezer grandfather of mine!!"
It's easy to go from frugality to luxury, but hard to go from luxury to frugality.
Before, following his grandfather, although it felt very hard, he could barely accept it after getting used to it.
But the problem was that Luffy, who had already enjoyed the excellent conditions of Marine Headquarters, would have to return to living that savage like life with Garp, constantly worrying about whether he would be thrown to his death or eaten by hungry wolves.
Sss!!
Just thinking about it made Luffy feel it was a hell.
He sharply looked up at Kyle, raised his right fist, eyes determined.
"I will definitely work hard to improve my strength, I want to eat delicious food every day!!"
"Hmm! Good, very ambitious!!"
Kyle nodded, then glanced around.
"Then this is the place!"
"We will train right here. I have a way to improve your strength. As long as you do as I say, I guarantee your strength will improve in a week!"
"It's just that the process might be a bit hard and painful. Can you endure it?"
"Of course I can!!"
Luffy nodded firmly.
He had just boasted to those marines last night that he would definitely become a powerful marine. How could he possibly back down today just because of so called hardship and pain.
And even if not for other vague reasons, meat was a real thing!
For the sake of meat, a little pain is nothing but a bit of wind and frost!
Kyle nodded again, his gaze sweeping the surroundings, finally settling on a stone. He walked straight over to it.
His arm pressed down, veins bulging, and he lifted the entire stone.
Kyle tested it. It was probably around a hundred jin in weight.
Just right!
He moved the stone in front of Luffy and said:
"Squat down!"
Luffy complied.
"Raise both hands!"
Kyle handed the stone over. When the full weight of the stone pressed onto Luffy's body, his face instantly flushed red.
Seeing he was about to topple to one side, Kyle immediately reached out to steady his balance.
Looking at Luffy's flushed face, he said calmly:
"Hold this stone up, and do frog jumps!"
"There is no set target for how many jumps you must do!"
"The only thing you have to do is persist, persist, and persist again, until you reach your absolute limit!"
"Of course, if you put it down before reaching your limit, I won't say anything to you. I'll just look down on you."
Kyle slowly squatted down, staring into Luffy's eyes as he spoke slowly:
"I would consider you a useless person who only knows how to talk, good at nothing except boasting."
Luffy stared intently at Kyle. The weight made him feel even a bit oxygen deprived, but he still gritted his teeth and squeezed out a sentence through his clenched teeth.
"I definitely. . . can do it! I don't just. . . talk with my mouth, I will. . . prove it with my actions!!"
Kyle showed a smile, saying softly with a laugh:
"Then I look forward to your performance!"
After speaking, Kyle slowly stood up and walked towards a tree, no longer paying attention to Luffy behind him.
He had said what he needed to say!
Based on his understanding of Luffy, this kid was a stubborn one. Although the provocation method was old, it was indeed very effective.
A stone of around a hundred jin was just at the threshold of Luffy's current limit.
Just right.
According to the teaching situations of the world's strongest teacher, Teacher Kaido, and the mediocre teacher, Silvers Rayleigh.
Battle was undoubtedly the fastest way to improve Luffy's strength.
But this method had a prerequisite.
That was Luffy's physique needed to be strong enough, durable enough, so that he could perform multiple comebacks.
Garp's Spartan style training method was indeed useful.
Otherwise, Luffy in the original story could not have had such tenacious vitality.
Rayleigh's mediocre teaching was actually just a joke.
The foundation Luffy built during those two years was very important. Without the foundation Rayleigh helped Luffy build in those two years.
His strength definitely could not have experienced explosive growth later on.
One's most basic physical strength is extremely important. It is like a foundation.
Only when the foundation is solid, can a tall building be erected upon flat ground.
Kyle walked to a tree and sat down, crossing his arms behind his head and leaning against the tree, a trace of excitement appearing on his face.
Next, it was time for him to check his rewards.
Just now, dealing with Luffy's matter, he didn't have time to properly look at the rewards for recruiting Luffy this time.
Kyle closed his eyes, his mind sinking into the system space.
He saw a pill the size of a longan, a purple colored sword, a purple lightning shaped pineapple, and a ball of red light floating quietly in the system space.
Kyle's gaze first fell on the pill, and immediately a description appeared before his eyes.
[Physique Enhancement Pill: After taking, will possess physique talent surpassing Big Mom, while greatly enhancing one's own physique, surpassing Big Mom at the same age!]
"Surpass Big Mom at the same age?!"
Kyle opened his eyes, bright light flashing in his pupils.
He didn't have a clear concept of the phrase 'greatly enhance physique', but if one pill could make his current physique stronger than Big Mom's at the same age, then he understood.
What was Big Mom's physique like as a child?
At age 5, she could kill a giant bear with one punch, severely injured a child of the Giant Tribe, destroyed a giant village in the same year, and killed an elder of the Giant Tribe.
Even among the many strong individuals with monstrous physiques in One Piece, Big Mom's physique in her childhood could be said to be the strongest.
It's a pity Big Mom didn't know how to properly develop this innate talent of hers, always thinking about having children.
Either having children or on the way to having children.
Otherwise, her battle record on Onigashima wouldn't have been so lackluster.
Kaido, also a Yonko, dragged Onigashima all the way, experienced the Nine Red Scabbards, the pirate alliance, his own unfilial son, and Luffy's three comebacks before finally being defeated.
His battle record was exceptionally brilliant.
In contrast, Big Mom was pushed back step by step by Law and Kid, and finally was blasted down into magma, which was quite humiliating.
If he could have a physique and talent surpassing Big Mom at the same age.
Heh heh.
Pirates?
Would you believe I could crush you with one hand?
A flash appeared in Kyle's hand, and the Physique Enhancement Pill appeared in his palm.
Without hesitation, he swallowed it in one gulp.
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