Pirate: It’s not a phantom beast, it’s a phantom god!

Chapter 22 Seeing and hearing the domineering power

[Hmm? That energy again.]
La keenly sensed the energy emitted by the Armament Haki, and the nature of that energy was exactly the same as the one Kaido used at that time.

"Gah! It hurts! What kind of power is this?"

Osi covered his nose and looked at Burfat's calves and arms through the tears that seeped out unconsciously. He obviously noticed the existence of the domineering power.

"Hmm? Don't you know Haki, kid?"

"Should I know?"

Osi rubbed his slightly red nose, his tone carrying a hint of grievance.

"Oh~ In that case, let me, your senior, teach you!"

"Fishman Karate, Thousand Tiles Punch!"

Burfat, who had already roughly understood the other person's physical strength, had no intention of showing any mercy.

In an instant, countless fists wrapped in armed color domineering attacked Osi, but she dodged them one by one with her amazing dynamic vision and reaction ability.

"Don't hide! Getting hit is the fastest way to awaken your Armament Haki! Use your body to feel my Haki attack."

"Are you kidding me?! Only a fool wouldn't hide!"

"You're using this trick to trick me into getting beaten. You're 20,000 years too early, Minotaur uncle!"

Ossi jumped left and right, narrowly avoiding every punch.

"You little brat! In that case, let's use the Fishman Karate technique - Water Vapor Mysterious Fist!"

Seeing that ordinary attacks were unable to reach the opponent, Burfat decisively used the fishman karate he had been practicing.

Drops of water seeped out from his broad palms, and as he swung his fist at high speed, they instantly turned into mist, completely concealing Burfat's punches.

"Quack! How despicable!"

Osi, who couldn't see the direction of his opponent's punch, was hit so hard that he screamed and could only wave his hands to block it.

Ober, who was standing by, watched Osi being beaten around like a ball of dough. He took a step forward and couldn't help but rush forward, but was stopped by Zhan La's hand.

"Big sister? You..."

"Don't worry, such an attack can't hurt Osi." La is still very confident in Osi's physical defense.

"This is a rare opportunity. Let her experience the feeling of battle. This kind of thing will be inevitable in the future."

"Well... even so, it's not a good idea for her to keep getting beaten like this."

Although they bickered frequently, it was still hard for him to bear seeing Osi being beaten like a punching bag by a stranger.

"Right."

La thought about it and felt that just being beaten was not enough, so he reminded:

"Osi, don't use your eyes to capture the opponent's attack. Use your consciousness to sense the opponent's energy."

This is the method he figured out when fighting Kaido. It is to predict the opponent's movements by sensing the flow of energy in the opponent's body.

Now, this body with divine power flowing inside has extremely strong resistance and adaptability to external energy.

High resistance means reduced damage from energy attacks or even direct immunity. For example, La is completely immune to fire and other high and low temperature attacks.

High adaptability means that in terms of energy manipulation and energy perception, the three of them can easily do things that are difficult for ordinary people to accomplish or even unimaginable.

Just like the user of the Flame-Flame Fruit is completely unable to use flames to weave a piece of clothing that looks normal like Ra.

This is because there is an order of magnitude difference in the accuracy of manipulating one's own energy.

Back to the present, asking Osi to sense Burfat was actually asking her to make use of the fact that this body was very sensitive to energy changes, and to grasp the other party's movements directly without using her eyes.

But Osi, who was being beaten, had no time to carefully understand the meaning of La's words.

"What kind of energy is this? How do I sense it?"

“People, animals, stones…any object has energy.

Although it cannot be seen or touched, it can be felt, just like the divine power within us."

"You can now sense the flow of energy in your body, right? Try using the same method to sense the energy outside.

Don't worry, just close your eyes and let your body do what it wants. It's not that hard."

In order to make Osei understand more accurately, La said this in Chinese, so Burfat did not understand what she said. Otherwise, he would immediately react that what La said was the method of awakening the observation Haki.

It's just that La replaced the general term of sensing the "breath" of all things with the specific term "energy".

La carefully explained the principles of perception to Osi, and patiently guided him step by step to master the ability to perceive external energy, which was a bit like teaching a baby to walk.

Of course, if you ignore Riosi's screams of being beaten in the background.

"Close your eyes and go with your gut? Are you kidding me, Sister La?"

This comic-like response made Osi reflect on whether he had accidentally offended La.

"Forget it. I can't hide with my eyes open anyway. I'll give it a try."

With the idea of ​​breaking the jar into pieces, Osi closed his eyes, and then clearly felt that the fist hitting his body was even more painful.

One punch, two punches, three punches...shoulder, cheek, forehead...

[Perception, energy, feeling]
Gradually, after being hit countless times, Osi, who had become accustomed to the pain, began to notice that the fists hitting him seemed to have a little light.

[Is this the energy in the other person that Sister La was talking about?]
Osi, who finally got a glimpse of the trick, immediately focused his attention.

More spots of light appeared from Burfat's body, gradually spreading from his fists to his entire body.

In Ossi's consciousness, the figure of Burfat gradually became clear.

[No wonder his fists are so hard, it turns out they're wrapped in special energy~]
Osi, who discovered the difference between the light on Burfat's fists and that on his body, immediately realized the secret of Armament Haki.

So, she mastered the energy perception in a short time and immediately couldn't wait to blow the horn of counterattack.

"Haha! Your moves are useless to me. Now it's my turn!"

"Take my thundering cannon!"

Osi turned his head to avoid Burfat's fist, and then fired a mini thunder cannon with his left hand, hitting his abdomen accurately.

"Varied……!"

Burfat was caught off guard and was knocked away.

However, with rich combat experience, he twisted his body flexibly in the air and finally landed steadily, but white smoke still came out of his stomach.

"Hoo~ Did you defend yourself in time?"

Ossi noticed that the other party gathered energy in his abdomen before being hit.

This subconscious behavior was also honed by Burfat through countless battles.

[Did he awaken his Observation Haki first?]
Burfat stood up again and touched his aching stomach with a look of surprise on his face.

[I originally thought I could bring out the Armament Haki.

Incredible, what a gifted kid! No wonder Kaido recruited these little girls.]
"Hey! Uncle Buna, do you want to continue fighting?" Osi said, blowing his little fist.

"No need. I have a general idea of ​​your abilities. You are indeed worthy of the position of cadre."

"But you don't know Armament Haki yet, so it's still a little early for you to go to the battlefield."

Now that he had roughly figured out the opponent's strength, Burfat no longer had any interest in continuing the fight.

"Speaking of the lightning just now, are you a person with special abilities?"

The only thing that responded to him was Ossi's innocent face full of question marks.

"So, uncle, what have you been talking about? What do you mean by Haki? What do you mean by esper?"

"Could you please explain this to us, Mr. Burfat?

The three of us had been on an isolated island before, so these terms were unfamiliar to us.”

Seeing the two men stop, Laya stepped forward and asked them about Haki and people with special abilities.

After all, this seems to be related to the power system of this world, which is considered to be a relatively important thing.

"Well, judging from your clothes and age, you don't look like you would know these things. Come with me first."

As he said this, Burfat was about to lead the few people into his residence. Of course, before leaving, he did not forget to remind Dirk, who was already stunned, that he could leave.

(End of this chapter)