I, Am Justice! (1/3)

"Of course, it's also because I do think highly of you. Otherwise, I wouldn't care about Zephyr's guy's request." In the end, Garp added an arrogant remark.

"Whew!" Longinus took a deep breath and didn't make much of a childish gesture, but nodded calmly and steadily, "I understand, I will do my best to be trained by you, Vice Admiral Garp."

"There's no need to be too nervous, with your talent and belief, it won't be too difficult to learn my Iron Fist, what's difficult is what level you'll be able to apply it to in the future!" Garp found a reef and sat down casually.

Longinus, on the other hand, stood by and listened.

"There are quite a few people in this headquarters who have trained with me, but most of them are unable to use the true power of Iron Fist, and the only one who can fully comprehend the essence of Iron Fist is instead my son, Dragon."

But soon, the look of pride on Garp's face turned to discontent again, "It's just a pity that Dragon guy preferred to make any changes on top of my Iron Fist. He wanted to change it, but he even changed it to a finger-pinching-sissy boxing style, I was so angry that I just violently hammered him then."

Longinus' mouth twitches, and Dragon's self-improvement is the Ryusoken that Sabo would have done in the future, right?

To improve the iron fist that contained love into the dragon claw fist, which shattered power, it was evident that Dragon's faith and courage had been far superior to ordinary people from an early age. Such a genius creation was admirable to the average person, but unfortunately, his father was not an average person.

"Wait, Dragon's resistance to power may come from his father's brutal rule, right?" Longinus suddenly thought, "In that case, it's not likely that Luffy's initial desire for freedom was similarly due to Garp's high-pressure education, is it?"

Thinking of this, Longinus couldn't help but respect Garp. Frankly, this was the most unpredictable man in the pirate world!

Seeing Longinus with an odd look in his eyes, Garp was surprised, "You use that look ... Oh! You're trying to say I'm going off-topic, right, hey, young people today are just impatient."

"Then I'll go on, the strength of my Iron Fist lies in conviction, only those with incomparably firm belief can genuinely bring out the power of the Iron Fist. Precisely that's why I'm optimistic about you. You also have an incomparably strong belief within you. If you can instill your belief into your fist, then that's a real Iron Fist! "

"So, the most important thing about the so-called Iron Fist is not any training method of power generation, but rather the powerful belief of upholding one's own beliefs and moving forward!" Longinus said in retrospect.

"Yes, as Zephyr told you, true strength is within, and the most direct proof of this is Haki!"

"Haki?"

"Haki is a potential power that all humans possess, it's natural, and it's not hard to uncover if you find the right method."

"Are you asking why Zephyr is making you wait three years since Haki is not difficult to uncover, and even in the third year, there are still not many people who are qualified to practice Haki?"

"Is ... related to what Vice Admiral Garp says about your convictions?"

"That's right. If you enter the New World, you will find that Haki is not at all a rare thing, even some of those pawns will get a hand or two at it, but correspondingly, those people's control of Haki is rare and not enough to be feared at all. The root cause of this problem is that they don't have a strong heart or a firm belief, and they can't tap into the latent power of Haki."

"That's why the camp used a year of extreme training, a year of fighting to the death, and a year of consolidating so those recruits can understand where their own beliefs lie before they're exposed to the power of Haki."

"Ahem, it seems to have gotten a little off-topic again," Garp was in the middle of his speech, and suddenly realized that he was a bit off-topic again. He quickly brought the topic back, "I'm saying all this to tell you that just as Busoshoku Haki can be transformed into invisible armor, powerful beliefs can likewise be personified into power. In this regard, those swordsmen have an advantage over us because they are pure enough that all their means are on that sword, and it's easier to instill their beliefs into it. Of course, there's no need to envy them too much, as once they lose their weapons, most of their strength is useless."

Longinus nodded. There were not many people who could personify their beliefs in another memory, such as Vista's Flower Sword, Foxfire Kinemon's Foxfire Flow, Zoro's Asura 'Kiki Kyutoryu', and Sanji's Diable Jambe. However, there were indeed far more than a few who could do that so that you could see the swordsman's advantage in that regard.

"Now, it seems that the belief that Vice Admiral Garp is talking about maybe the same thing as the sword potential, powerful enough to reflect the inner self into reality, powerful enough to have a supernatural effect on the surroundings. So much so that it's no different from the ability of the Devil's Fruit to ordinary people."

"Or is the devil's fruit itself a powerful belief not belonging to itself, and it is those who are not strong-willed enough to be influenced by the power of the fruit?" Longinus shook his head and mocked himself, "What's the point of thinking about that now? It's not even something I should be touching at this stage."

"Longinus, now try, little by little, to instill your faith into your fist, and try to remember the expectations contained in the punch I just punched you with!" Garp said, his eyes growing dangerous, his raised iron fist seeming to leap a little.

Longinus's mouth twitches, and he can't help but mourn for Dragon and the unborn Luffy, so Garp's so-called teaching is to beat you up and then let you experience it for yourself?

Soon, Longinus dismissed the distractions to ponder.

"That identity of Apophis can use the sword potential, but that is pure because that soul is the host of the Seven Stars Sword, and the use of the sword potential is just as good as the body's instincts, which is not very helpful to my current situation."

"So, in the end, it comes down to finding out what my own beliefs are?"

"Surely you're still not impressed enough? This next punch, I will make you feel the deepest love, ah!" Seeing that Longinus seemed to be in a trance, Garp "smiled" and raised his fist.

However, Longinus remains oblivious to the reaction.

"I am Longinus, and I am Aaron, the Aaron who was once good but hated his ignorance. I have known since that day that goodness does not mean weakness; justice does not mean ignorance. I will reward the good, punish the evil, sanction it all. My will is justice, I... am justice!" The radiance of paranoia in Longinus' eyes grew more robust, "So, my fist ... should be the fist of justice!"

Justice is inherently a man's perception of himself. No matter how others perceive him. As long as he steadfastly believes that he is on the side of justice, he can tap into the same powerful forces from a faith perspective!

Paranoid justice … but more powerful!

Boom!

Longinus' fist came after him, and as Garp stared at it, his glowing "holy" fist came up against his face.