The Longinus Show

The crowd around them stared in horror, tormented by nightmares for three years, what a level of pain that was, and they now had some idea why Longinus was so much stronger than them!

No one doubted the authenticity of Longinus's words, for this was the best explanation for Longinus's calm and breezy reception of the big move's addition.

"Maybe ... Zephyr-sensei refers to the kind of people who are strong like Longinus when he says that!" They looked complexly at the upright back and muttered to themselves.

"All that cannot destroy me will make me strong!" Gion reflected on the words carefully, the light in her eyes growing brighter and brighter, "Since I can come out of this alive, I will walk back with the brightest form!"

"This talent, this mentality ..." Zephyr let out a slightly agitated breath and then looked guardedly at Dragon, "Don't tell your father about what happened today."

Dragon's cold mouth twitched slightly, "Can't hide what so many people know."

Zephyr looked around with solemn eyes, but eventually gave up on some unrealistic idea and ordered in a grave tone, "Forbid Garp from entering the boot camp from now on, save him from destroying the grounds at will again as he did before."

"Does Admiral Zephyr so highly regard Longinus, and does he have the potential to grow into the world's highest military power?" The surrounding instructors were surprised and helpless as they replied, "But if Vice Admiral Garp wanted to come in, we couldn't have stopped him!"

Zephyr cursed under his breath when he thought of how Garp always behaved. That older man had done that forced entry thing!

"Never mind, we'd better wait to indoctrinate Longinus about how dangerous Garp is first. And if he doesn't want to do it himself, no matter how cheeky that Garp guy is, he's not going to kidnap him by force, is he?" Zephyr nodded his head slightly and began to recall Garp's "good deeds" in his mind.

In the field, Tokikake couldn't believe it and said, "How is that possible? After three years of being tortured by nightmares, you should have gone insane already. I don't believe it. I don't believe, nightmare disorder ..."

Bang!

The speechless Tokikake was sent flying into the sky by a straight kick from Longinus, and then the fat body came crashing down.

This time, Tokikake didn't stand back up.

It's not a case of over-injury, and there's little such thing as over-injury for those with Zoan powers, as long as they don't die.

But the spiritual wounds are hard to heal.

In Tokikake's eyes, the fact that the ability he had paid such a high "price" for was unable to do even half damage was undoubtedly a devastating blow to him.

Returning to his human form, Tokikake fell to the ground with no life in his eyes, as if he had lost his goal.

Rather than exiting the stage, Longinus headed straight for the count, his day's performance needing a perfect ending.

Longinus stepped in front of Tokikake and snapped in an angry voice, "Are you still a Marine?"

Tokikake looked up at Longinus, his eyes lifeless as if he were looking at someone unrelated to him.

"I don't know what you've been through or what you're resisting rejecting. But remember, you are now a marine, a soldier who upholds justice, and if you can't devote yourself fully to the work of hunting down pirates and upholding the cause of justice, then take off that uniform you're wearing, because you don't deserve it!"

Although it was a bit disgusting to himself, it was good that Longinus was in a Kind Personality state, to begin with, and his words were instead filled with convincing power.

At last, there was anger in Tokikake's eyes, and he hissed, "How could someone like you, who has always been brilliant, know of my pain? I have put in countless hours of effort and longed for recognition, but why ... have I worked so hard and been so strong, and still, no one wants to accept me? Is it because of my disgusting, ugly face?"

"No, you're just plain gross!" Longinus had a slander in his mind and almost didn't take out Kizaru as an example.

"In this world of suffering, no one is easier than anyone else, and pain and despair are constant themes. You think you are grieving and suffering, but have you ever thought about the towns that have been destroyed and ravaged by pirates? Have you ever thought about the suffering people who have even dried up their blood and tears; the pain and suffering they have endured are a hundred times a thousand times more than yours!"

"You don't need to lecture me on this; you, one and all, have placed yourselves on the moral high ground, and naturally, you say everything is right. But when you have also experienced such pain, can you still be so easy to understate? Answer me!" Tokikake steeply burst out laughing.

"I'll tell you what, then!" Longinus' eyelids drooped, heavy and slow, he said.

"When I was nine years old, my village was massacred by pirates, and no one survived except me. For the next three years, I would re-experience that pain every day in my nightmares. Fortunately, that pain didn't knock me down, but rather made me grow stronger."

There was dead silence in the field.

No one could have imagined that Longinus, who they saw as powerful as he was, had such an unknown past.

Ask themselves, if they were in the same position as Longinus, could they defeat the nightmare in their hearts as he did?

If they had previously aspired to Longinus's might, at the moment, they were in awe of Longinus's persistence from within.

"I didn't know the boss had such a tragic past, but he never told us about it, he just always acted as solid support for us, and with a boss like that, I'm so ... I'm so touched!" Gregory was crying out in excitement, but instead of despising the people around him, they hid their envy.

"Maybe ... is the passionate and loyal person to make such a good boss."

"The same encounter as me?" Gion muttered to herself, then shook her head and sighed, "No, I'm so much luckier than him, at least ... I still have hope and Tsuru nee-san!"

Tokikake was shocked by what he heard. He mumbled his lips, not knowing what to say, and his mind, blinded by the demon, suddenly regained its clarity.

In the end, he was because the fear he had long suppressed after eating the fruit happened to explode today, causing his sensitive and inferior heart to go to the other extreme in a short time.

If he acted as badly as he had before, he wouldn't be taken seriously by Admiral Zephyr.

Right now, after returning to his old gentle and smooth self, the guilt and shame in his heart were pouring out in a steady stream.

"What the hell ... have I been doing?"

After recovering from his injuries, Tokikake stood up, and, to the stunned stares of the crowd of hungry people, it was Gyuto who stepped down from his seat and apologized, "I'm sorry for the trouble!"

Longinus also twitched his lips, thinking somehow, "Is it possible that this guy has two personalities?"