One Piece: Divine Bird Phoenix

Chapter 48 “The Rhythm of All Things”

"Grandpa is really being ridiculous." An was the first to speak to break the weird atmosphere.

"Ah la la, Mr. Garp is like this, just get used to it", Qingzhi explained for Garp.

"But it is precisely because of this that I have followed Mr. Garp since I was young."

"Even as a general, I still yearn for Mr. Garp's style of doing things."

"That's right!" An chuckled, "I guess it's hard for me to adapt to this kind of personality."

After the brief conversation, An came to the abandoned warship.

"It's time to start training." An took a deep breath, planted his feet firmly, lifted his arms into the air, and gathered strength between his fists.

Ann has no hidden powers.

"After all, this is about the training of your own iron fist."

He swung his fist with all his strength and hit the hard shell of the warship with one punch.

Bump bump bump...

A dull and loud bang sounded in the empty abandoned shipyard.

As a general, Kuzan is very sensitive to power.

"Ah la la, this power seems to be different from what the Warring States Marshal said", Kuzan thought in his heart.

He raised his body slightly and pulled down his blindfold. An, who was attacking the warship, appeared in Kuzan's eyes.

I saw the warship clattering as it was hit by An's iron fist.

Broken parts on the warship continued to fall, making clanging sounds.

Looking closely at An's fist, he found that An's fist was not injured at all.

Recalling his injured hands during practice, Kuzan exclaimed, "Ah la la, the newcomers nowadays are so exaggerated."

An ignored Kuzan's praise and devoted himself wholeheartedly to training.

When he threw the first punch just now, An felt a strange feeling in his heart.

It seemed that as long as he hit a certain point, he could blow up the warship with one punch.

Seeing that An ignored him, Kuzan put on the blindfold again and lay down.

Only this time, Kuzan was not sleeping, but thinking about what "justice" was.

As he saw and heard in the navy, Kuzan became increasingly confused about justice.

The iron fist was swung again and again, and a deep hole was punched out in the special shell of the warship.

But An couldn't find the point in her feelings no matter what.

If Garp were here, he could answer this question for Ann.

"Actually, the point that An feels does not exist on the warship in reality."

"It's a rhythm, or the fluctuation of all things."

"Just like a swordsman who can feel the breath of all things and can cut through steel."

"If An masters this rhythm, he can cause great damage to the enemy."

"This is why Garp is feared by the world."

Because being hit by Garp's iron fist is not as simple as pain.

The power brought by the rhythm will cause huge damage to the inside of the pirate's body, leaving hidden wounds.

……

The fists were waved continuously, and the warship trembled violently.

I don't know how long it took, but the speed of An's punches slowed down until he finally stopped.

Looking carefully, a big hole has been drilled into the huge warship.

The abandoned shipyard became silent.

"Ah la la la, it's really scary. In just a short time you have completed the task assigned by Mr. Garp."

I don’t know when Kuzan came to An’s side.

Looking at the hole-in-the-wall warship, Kuzan recalled in his mind: "I remember it took me three weeks to make the warship look like this."

The girl in front of me only spent one afternoon.

Hearing Kuzan's voice, An shook his head and said, "It's not done yet."

Um? How could it be? Haven’t you already penetrated it?

Grandpa said, "Blow it up."

"Blow it up?"

The smart Kuzan immediately understood the difference.

Ah la la la, it's impossible to blow it up!

Even Hawkeye could only cut it into pieces when he came, Kuzan mused.

No! An decisively rejected Kuzan's answer and then spoke firmly.

"I can feel that I can blow it up, but I can't find the key point."

"point?"

Kuzan looked down at An, and a thought came to his mind, "He is indeed the successor designated by Mr. Garp."

"At least I've never felt this way when practicing before."

Kuzan looked at An who was thinking and gave his own suggestions.

"Ah la la la, I remember hearing Adjutant Bogart say that once."

"A swordsman who wants to break through to the realm of a swordsman seems to want to feel the breath of all things and gain the strength to cut through steel just like you."

"Stop! Wait!"

An directly interrupted Kuzan's speech and asked: "What did you feel just now?"

Being interrupted by An, Kuzan didn't mind at all and replied: "The breath of all things?"

These five words, "the breath of all things", directly hit An's soul.

"That's right! This is it," An said excitedly.

"Just like all things have their own breathing, all things also have their own fluctuations."

"Ann calls this fluctuation a rhythm."

"As long as you can feel the rhythm of all things."

"Then you can find the point where the warship is."

"So that your own power resonates with the warship."

"To make the power burst out from inside the warship, this is the true meaning of "blasting it"!

After finishing his thinking, An stood in front of the warship.

Focused on what he saw and heard, he began to try to sense the rhythm of the warship.

Although the principle sounds simple, it is actually very difficult to achieve.

"It is different from Jianhao who detects the breath of all things and cuts off their connection to achieve the cutting effect."

"If An wants to blow up the warship, he needs to find the same rhythm point as his attack, thereby triggering an internal explosion."

"The difficulty of the two is not on the same level."

……

Time passed little by little, and An still found nothing.

The sun sets and the moon rises, light and dark alternate, and twenty days pass in the blink of an eye.

During these twenty days, An Wen did not move at all, his sight, hearing and color were fully activated, and he constantly felt the rhythm of the warship.

Even though An's physique was strong, it was beginning to be too much for him.

Kuzan never left An's side for the past twenty days, dutifully protecting An's safety.

The sun rises from the sea level, and its dazzling light shines on the Anhe warship.

The Anhe warship emits traces of ripples invisible to the naked eye.

The two come together to form a point of light under the rays of light.

"Dull and shiny."

found it!

It's now!

An shouted loudly, and the sound penetrated the entire abandoned shipyard and spread outward.

The light fist was waved out, carrying the power of the Security Department, and collided with the light spot.

click!

The sound of shattering sounded!

A moment later, the entire warship exploded from the inside out.

The loud noise made the students in the training camp clearly visible.

The warship exploded, and An continued to punch.

Kuzan looked at the warship fragments flying in the sky.

"I was thinking to myself, is this the power that I haven't realized yet?"

Looking down at An, he knew that this little junior sister's future achievements would never be lower than his.

……

Naval headquarters attic.

Hearing the huge noise, the middle and high-level navy generals who stayed at their headquarters dispatched one after another.

The light shot out, and the first person to arrive at the abandoned shipyard was General Kizaru.

People were already beating him at his doorstep, if he, a user with the ability to use the Shining Fruit, hadn't shown any signs of it yet.

This month's salary is estimated to be on the line.

The light spots converged, and Kizaru's tall and obscene figure was revealed.

"How scary! Kuzan, why are you here?" Kizaru's wretched eyes were lowered under his sunglasses.

Then Akainu, Momo Rabbit, Tea Dolphin, Ghost Spider, Flying Squirrel, etc., all the named lieutenant generals in the navy arrived.

Today, this abandoned shipyard ushered in the most glorious day since its establishment.

……