Taro dove down from the sky and slashed at Edward Weevil with his blade.
"Weevil, dodge quickly!"
Miss. Bakkin screamed.
Weevil swung the Naginata in his hand a few times in the air, held it with both hands, and delivered an upward swing to meet Taro's Slash.
"Clang, crack, crunch!"
Weevil held the Naginata and stalemated with Taro's Slash for a while. Seeing that Taro was about to fall, he parried the Sword Qi to his side and then leaped to Bakin's side.
"Boom~"
Taro's Slash was deflected slightly, striking the edge of the mountaintop directly, actually shearing off a small half of it.
"Bang, splash~"
The sheared-off mountaintop fell into the sea, stirring up a burst of waves.
"Mama, Mama, is this person also part of that group who claim to be Papa's sons?"
Weevil held the Naginata across his chest, looking at Taro, and asked Miss. Bakkin in a tone that sounded mentally handicapped.
Taro immediately noticed the stitches surrounding Weevil's entire neck. Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible to survive such a wound where the head was completely severed.
Taro couldn't accept that a man like Whitebeard would have a son like Weevil.
After Vegapunk said that Weevil was an artificial human, he had even less psychological burden in killing him.
"This is a Marine, Weevil!"
Bakin leaned on her cane, wearing deep red lipstick, her old and distorted features looking particularly eerie in the night.
If Whitebeard really liked this woman back then, Taro would respect him as a real man—his taste was quite heavy!
"Marine? Mama, Mama, is he also going to say he's Papa's son?"
That idiot Weevil spoke again.
Taro didn't want to hear this moron speak anymore. He lifted thunderstorm,
"I'm here to kill you!"
After saying that, he didn't give them a chance to chatter and directly entered the Second Gear state, swinging a horizontal sweep.
Immediately following up, Armament Haki was instantly attached, while simultaneously driving Internal Energy to transform into Vibration Energy to enhance the blade.
Facing Taro's sweep, Weevil stepped back half a pace, then leaped up, slashing down vertically with the Naginata in his hand.
"Clang, sizzle~"
A crisp sound of metal meeting metal was followed by the collision of their Armament Haki.
Although Weevil had a very low IQ, both his strength and combat instincts were very strong.
For a moment, the two were actually in a stalemate.
"Conqueror's Haki Infusion!"
Taro's gaze sharpened, and the pure Internal Energy in his internal organs surged out, instantly transforming into Conqueror's Haki.
"Sizzle!"
Blue and red lightning suddenly erupted, and the powerful force directly shook Weevil back repeatedly.
Weevil spun his Naginata, thrusting the hilt into the ground with a "clunk," and retreated several more meters before barely stopping.
"And this is worthy of calling yourself Whitebeard's son?" Taro said disdainfully.
"Mama, Mama, I am Whitebeard's son, right? My mustache is also white!"
Weevil pointed at his mustache and shouted loudly.
Bakin hopped around, "Of course, Weevil, you are Whitebeard's only son!"
Then, she looked at Taro and roared, "Kill him, Weevil!"
For a moment, Taro wanted to kill this ugly old woman, Miss. Bakkin, first.
But thinking that perhaps Whitebeard really had loved this woman, he hesitated a bit.
He remembered that in the original work, the medical girls on Whitebeard's ship seemed to wear leopard print, and Bakin's coat was also leopard print.
However, Edward Weevil was an artificial human; he could kill him without any scruples.
Taro looked at Bakin with a dark face, "Ugly old woman, you'd better get far away and don't provoke me. This monster you created..."
Just as Taro said this, Bakin's expression changed drastically, "Weevil, kill him quickly!"
"Yes, Mama!"
Weevil gave a loud roar, his two thin legs suddenly exerting force, propelling his massive upper body into the air.
"Gravity Command!"
Taro lifted thunderstorm slightly, Internal Energy surged out, and after mimetic transformation, two cyan-purple vortices overflowed from his wrists. Immediately after, surging gravity suddenly descended.
Weevil, leaping into the air, only felt his body grow heavy and fell straight toward the ground.
"Bang"
He thrust the Naginata into the ground again, bracing his legs to resist Taro's gravity. It was hard to imagine that those two thin legs could actually support it.
Taro tightened his grip on the hilt, more Internal Energy surged out, and even more majestic gravity flooded toward Weevil.
"Thud"
Weevil finally couldn't bear it and knelt on one knee.
"Clang"
Taro took the opportunity to draw his blade and swung it twice,
"Hell Journey"
"Crack, crunch!"
The ground instantly cracked, and with a "boom," a large pit ten meters in diameter appeared with Weevil at the center.
Weevil fell in, but Taro's gaze turned cold; his Observation Haki could sense that Weevil was still full of vitality.
Seeing this, Taro sheathed his blade and slapped the palm of his right hand on the ground,
"Ground Parch"
Vigorous Internal Energy surged out, condensing in Taro's right arm. The cyan-white Internal Energy transformed into parching power, rapidly spreading from his palm,
"Boom, crack!"
The earth cracked and disintegrated one after another,
"Erosion Reincarnation!"
Taro shouted lowly again, and the Internal Energy vibrated even more violently. The cracked earth and rocks gradually turned to sand. The entire mountaintop gradually lost its vitality and began to sink slowly.
"Weevil, what are you doing? Hurry up and kill him!"
Bakin, who had already hidden far away, hissed and urged Weevil.
Taro frowned, sensing a strong energy reaction surging from the bottom of the pit,
"Desert Sunflower!"
Taro drove his Internal Energy again, controlling the veins of the entire sandified mountaintop, turning it into quicksand to bury the deep pit, vowing to swallow Weevil.
"Roar, roar!"
From the deep pit underground, a roar that didn't sound human suddenly came out. The sound was extremely penetrating and soul-stirring.
Taro didn't even have to think to know that Weevil must have used some kind of strengthening Move. He wouldn't wait for Weevil to succeed in strengthening.
Seeing that the current Moves couldn't solve Weevil, Taro leaped into the air,
"Yasakani no Magatama"
He crossed his hands, pinching his thumbs and index fingers together, rubbing countless Internal Energy into points of cyan light, and fired them into the pit.
"Ooo Roar Snort snort~ Roar-lu-lu!"
Roars came from underground again, this time even weirder. Hearing these strange howls, Taro's expression froze,
This cry sounds a bit like... a pig?
"Whoosh!"
A figure shot out of the quicksand with incredible speed, leaped high, and stretched its body in the air.
Edward Weevil is a Zoan-type Devil Fruit Ability user!
Looking at Weevil in his Beast-Human Form, Taro frowned. Weevil's face had become distorted and ugly, with his features squeezed together, looking very ferocious.
His palms were no longer five fingers but had become some kind of three-toed hooves.
His upper body became even thicker, his shoulders rose high, and his mouth also grew much larger, to the point where his neck was almost invisible,
"Weevil, let him experience the power of the Zoan-type · Ancient Species · Pig-Pig Fruit · Daeodon Model!"
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