The Iron Fist of Love (3/3)

"Tekkai - Go!" Gakkai's blood and vitality bulged inside him, swelling his body into an inverted triangle that gave him significant intimidation, and he ran to Longinus.

"Kamisori!" Gion integrated Soru perfectly into her swordsmanship, making it possess both attack and speed, and the blade of the famous sword Konpira cut out in her hand seemed as terrifying as cutting through space.

"Kami-e - Slime!" In the face of the two's violent combined attack, Longinus steeply compressed his body like a piece of paper, but it was just the right amount of perfect dodging.

Gion and Tokikake didn't expect that Longinus could use Kami-e to such an extent, and were unable to withdraw their strength in time, so they rushed past without losing any momentum.

As the trio's bodies intersected in a straight line, Longinus' paper-thin body instantly recovered, both index fingers thrusting out simultaneously towards the left and right, even the air emitting an overwhelmingly low sonic boom.

"Shigan - Tekkai Jade!"

Tokikake's clumsy body and Gion's weak body were bounced off instantly, one smashing into the mountain and the other falling into the sea.

"Cough ... " Gion leaped out of the sea, choked on some seawater and said, half downcast and half admiring, "I sure have failed again, Longinus, you are a natural-born strong man, I wonder when I'll be as strong as you are ?"

"That's it for today!" Longinus said, finding Gion's clothes soaked with seawater and clinging to her skin, fully revealing her exquisite, graceful body, with a seductive whiteness beneath her delicate neckbone, which seemed to be half-hidden in a different way.

"Put it on!" Longinus sent his coat off in a smooth motion.

"Huh? Thanks ... thanks!" Gion hesitated for a moment before taking the coat and draping it over her body, her ears flushed a little with shame, and thanked in a low, inaudible voice.

On the other side, Tokikae emerged from the crumbling mountain, a hint of gratitude on his dirty face, "Boss Longinus, thanks to you, I was able to comprehend Tekkai so quickly fully."

"This is the result of your efforts. I've only accompanied you in a few actual battles. It's nothing. Besides, the battle with you is a process of filling in the gaps for me." Longinus smiled gently.

But Tokikake looked serious and said, "What Gregory said makes sense, there are a lot of people who work hard, so why should it be my turn to succeed? Only it's because I was luckier than most, with your guidance, Boss, that I was able to learn Tekkai so quickly and even make it to the beginning of Seimei Kikan as well."

Longinus shook his head, and even he hadn't expected that Tokikake, who seemed to have gotten organized after meeting Bone, had taken Gregory's brainwashing seriously to fit into their little group that wouldn't discriminate against him.

"Well, think what you like," Longinus turned away in a dashing manner, "This is the end of today's battle, we will meet here at the same time tomorrow."

"Whew, I don't know if Bone and the others are done with their training, Gion, you ... " Tokikake turned around to ask Gion what she was going to do, only to realize with hindsight that the other was wearing another set of clothes." ... Why are you wearing the Boss's clothes?"

"Huh? No, no ... it's nothing. I have things to do. I'll leave first." As if a frightened bunny, Gion tightened her coat and fled in a panic.

"Women, indeed, are complicated creatures to understand!" Tokikake pretended to shake his head before saying excitedly, "I seem to have gained another glimpse of a deeper appreciation for Brother Gregory's words. Only a man can truly understand the pain and perseverance of a man!"

...

"The end of 1500 of Age of Kaien, it's been a year, time flies ..." Longinus was whispering under his breath as he walked on his way home, and suddenly, a hazardous warning rose from his heart. He didn't even have time to think about why there was a danger in this headquarters. His body instinctively pumped his blood to the max.

"Tekkai - Go!"

Boom!

As if a ball had violently shot him, Longinus flew straight backward for thousands of meters, collapsing countless mountain boulders along the way before being able to stop.

Standing up through the excruciating pain in his body, when the second attack was about to fall that Longinus said helplessly, "Vice Admiral Garp, have I offended you in some way?"

The mighty fist stopped abruptly in front of Longinus' face, and the surge of the fist even made his face look like a knife had scraped it.

"Ahahahaha! Were you recognized so quickly? Little guy, your Kenbunshoku Haki is powerful enough." Garp said without a trace of embarrassment, then patted Longinus on the shoulder and asked, "How do you like the taste of old man's beloved iron fist?"

If it were anyone else, they might have cursed the idiot in anger in their hearts and dodged it with a few more sloppy words on their lips, but Longinus was the one who recalled it in detail before saying calmly, "It hurts! Ouch! Every cell in my body speaks the word, but surprisingly, the body doesn't hurt much. Painful but not hurtful, instilling the will to love, is this the secret of Vice-Admiral Garp's iron fist of love?"

Garp froze, then laughed out loud, "Hahahahaha! Little guy, your talent isn't comparable to those with dull aptitudes, and you saw through my moves with just one punch.

Saying that, Garp cursed again in frustration, "Unlike those other idiot brats who took my well-intended teachings as bullying, those guys don't even think about it, I'm at least a marine hero, so how could I do something so unreliable?"

Longinus, on the other hand, was groaning, "You're running out on a sneak attack without saying a word, it's not even close to being reliable by any means, okay?"

"Longinus, what do you think of the power of my love's iron fist?"Garp smiled nastily, living as a perverted uncle with a lollipop.

"Very strong! A fist imbued with conviction is so much stronger than an ordinary attack that it's like the difference between a swordsman with sword intent and an ordinary swordsman, one in the sky and one in the ground." Longinus commented objectively and fairly.

Garp is somewhat flustered by a slap on the ass and nods to himself.

"And, I suppose, if there can be an iron fist of love, then naturally there can also be an iron fist of anger or an iron fist of justice, right?"

"Not bad, you're quite good at getting one up," Garp teased, "So, do you want to follow the old man's training?"

Longinus hesitated for a moment before declining, "Thank you, Vice Admiral Garp, for your kindness, but I can't get away from Zephyr-sensei, so ..."

Garp waved his hand, moodily, "That Zephyr guy guessed it. Forget it, to tell you the truth. It was Zephyr who knew that you had almost completed your Rokushiki and specifically requested me to come and give you special training for a while, now, you won't refuse, will you!"

Longinus blinked, hadn't Zephyr-sensei always advocated protection against burglary and Garp?

Is this to see that he has nearly integrated Rokushiki, and his strength has entered a bottleneck, and that's why he asked Garp to hit ... to teach him?