What's With The Brother Syndrome?

Amid the dust, Gion gradually stepped out, her left shoulder stained red with blood, her soft jade arms like snow-roots drooping helplessly, presumably unsustainable in this battle.

"You're right, any change can happen in battle, and asking the enemy for confirmation is even more foolish!" Gion looked serious, held the hilt of his sword in her right hand, and walked towards Longinus again.

"You want to continue?" Longinus' brow furrowed, "The difference between a two-handed sword and a one-handed sword, as a swordsman, you should know better than me!"

"If it's a battle, then we have to fight until one side falls! What's more, I learned at a very young age that no swordswoman, because of the limitations of power, has ever been able to become the world's greatest swordswoman. But to achieve that goal, my swordsmanship has always been based on skill and speed. And power doesn't affect me as much as it does others."

"So, please keep fighting me!"

"The world's greatest swordsman? What an ambitious goal, and I have no reason to say no to a true swordsman like you."

"The mercy of the enemy is the shame of the swordsman!" Gion had a bright smile on her face as if she hadn't laughed so happily in a long time, "Thank you for recognizing my faith and not pitying me because of my injury."

"Next, I'll be fighting with all my might, Death-Circus!" Gion was light on its feet, like a spirit swimming among the flowers, with a strong sense of beauty in every move.

However, hidden beneath the splendid dance was one decapitation after another, an attack that was so inwardly focused that it didn't even break the ground that passed along the line, as if it were a gentle breeze without any power.

Longinus's eyes glazed over, and he bounced away with a short leap to the left.

However, the ground he was standing on before exploded, and the blasted earth debris shot around like bullets, creating countless holes in the ground.

Longinus was not surprised by this result and was preparing to surprise with a violent assault when his keen eyes suddenly noticed that the thin needle-like blade in the air was approaching. It was the secondary attack born from the cutting blast.

With no time to think, Longinus quickly leaped into the air, narrowly avoiding the hidden kill.

The sonic boom that pierced the air from that space beneath him made Longinus' gaze drop cautiously, almost carelessly!

"Is that still dodged? Longinus, he sure is strong!" Gion sighed in her heart, but instead of becoming discouraged and pessimistic, the battle intent in her heart intensified.

"Death - Moonlight song!"

Soft silver-white cutting blows came from the Gion's hand on the Konpira, no longer silent this time, but like a cold, bright moonlight sprinkling down, directly covering all ranges, leaving Longinus with nowhere to hide.

"The range of the attack has become larger, but the cohesive power has been dispersed accordingly. And an attack of this magnitude doesn't work anymore!" Longinus's blood energy bulged all over his body, and he swelled his body a few points and rushed up against the rain of swords.

When the moon-like blade hit Longinus, it made a golden sound and was bounced off, leaving only a few white marks on Longinus' body.

"Shit!" There was no time to ponder why Longinus's physique was so strong, Gion's famous sword in his hand swung out again, "Death-Round Dance ..."

Gion swung her sword fast. However, Longinus ran more quickly than her, and in the violent contraction of Gion's pupils, Longinus appeared like lightning in front of her eyes, blasting down with an explosive punch.

"It ends here, Falling Star!"

Gion instinctively turned offensive to defensive, crossing her long sword in front of her.

The moment the fist collided with the sword, noisy waves abruptly erupted as ripples continued to rush around like waves.

In the next moment, the sword began to bend, the stalemate broke, and Gion's weak body instantly blasted into the mountain at the edge of the playground, directly buried in the ruins of the shattered mountain.

"Gulp!" The crowd witnessing this scene only felt chills down their backs. Longinus didn't have any idea of mercy!

"By the way, is this the end of the fight?"

"I guess so ... Gion isn't like a Zoan Ability User like Tokikake. After all, the ability to recover is limited."

"It's pretty desperate to be in the same session as these three monsters."

"I see that if we split into three echelons this session, Longinus is the first echelon, Gion and Tokikake are the second echelons, and all of us remaining are the third echelon."

"No, I mean, shouldn't we be saving lives right now?"

"Damn, I almost forgot that Gion-san is still buried under the rubble!"

However, when they reacted, they found that Longinus had already carried Gion out of the ruins.

"Boss, is she okay?" Gregory asked with wariness.

He had heard that Gion and Vice Admiral Tsuru in this headquarters were as close as sisters. Vice-Admiral Tsuru himself was a Grand Staff Officer and a decades-long comrade with Admiral Sengoku and Vice-admiral Garp. So if he offended Vice-Admiral Tsuru badly, he might be wearing small shoes someday in these next three years.

"Don't worry, I have a plan, she'll be in bed for a few days at most, she won't get in the way." Longinus walked to the infirmary with Gion's soft boneless body in his arms, his mind not as calm as it appeared.

Although he shouldn't be blamed this time, Vice Admiral Tsuru was a woman after all, and women were not creatures who liked to be reasonable.

"That's good, that's good!" Before shouting in a dream-like voice, Gregory said, "Boss, you can stay in a fight of this magnitude. How much better are you than us?"

The surrounding recruits were also horrified, and there could not have been any more doubt about the idea of placing Longinus alone in the first echelon.

...

What Longinus feared didn't happen.

Vice-Admiral Tsuru, who was the headquarters staff's head, had a thorough understanding of the matter. She was not the kind of person to be unreasonable, so she let Longinus leave after understanding what had happened.

Half a day later.

"Gion, how's your body? Feeling better?" Vice-Admiral Tsuru greeted with concern.

"Tsuru nee-san, I'm fine. It's just some flesh wounds, but Longinus, he's powerful, he even managed to stay back at a time like that!" Gion said with flying eyebrows as if she still remembered the previous battle.

"Oh, you, what nonsense!" Vice-Admiral Tsuru said with impatience, "You know you're not an opponent, but you're still trying to be strong enough to fight the other side."

"Hehehe!" In front of Vice-Admiral Tsurugi, Gion's cool goddess image was gone, just like a petulant little girl "I'm fine, aren't I? Besides, Admiral Zephyr has also said that if you take more losses now, you'll shed fewer tears when you fight the pirates later."

"Well, you're right anyway," Vice Admiral Tsuru said helplessly, "So what have you got this time?"

"Compared to Longinus, I'm still so inexperienced in combat that I'm not nearly as good at improvising. Also, his mind is so far beyond mine that I can't at least be as calm as he is when it comes to Tokikake's abilities. And also, compared to Longinus ..."

When he saw that Gion never stopped talking about Longinus, Vice Admiral Tsuru felt a "thump" in her heart. Could this girl be suffering from the syndrome they told me about last time?