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

Chapter 35 The Wind Rises
"Hey, Obe. What do you think Sister La will teach us this afternoon?" Osi put his two little hands behind his head and kicked the stones on the ground boredly.

"How should I know? But since my elder sister said it's a bit difficult, it must be very difficult... By the way, hasn't that guy Jin come back yet?" Ober looked around, trying to find a certain figure.

"Why are you looking for that masked man?" Ossi asked in confusion.

"Of course I'll let him taste my Armament Haki Iron Fist! That guy hit me over 281 times yesterday, and this time I'm going to give him back every hit."

Oubey said with some gritted teeth.

"My motto is: tooth for tooth, blood for blood, a thousandfold!"

"No way, you're too stingy! Even though that guy was ruthless, he was trying to teach us."

"Shut up! I clearly told him to stop so I could think for a while, but he just kept banging on my head as if he didn't hear me. He really thought my head was a wooden fish!

Knocking it once will earn you some merit, right?!"

"I'm telling you, that guy is a sadist!"

"Okay, okay, even if you want to take revenge on that guy, he's not on the island now~" Osi was still nonchalant. Anyway, she wasn't hit that many times yesterday, so she wouldn't hold a grudge.

"Since that guy is not here, you can practice with me first. When I become proficient in it, I will beat him so hard that he will be looking for his mask on the ground." Ou Bei said with a clenched fist.

"Pfft~"

Osi imagined in his mind the scene of Jhin crawling on the ground rummaging around looking for his mask, and couldn't help laughing.

"Well, I just happened to want to see what kind of face he has under that mask. Let's go back to the training ground."

Osi's character is always so impetuous and his execution ability is full. He just pulled Obei with his backhand and ran in the direction they came from.

……

In the shattered training ground, two figures, one red and one blue, stood facing each other. A burst of meaningless drums...

Well, it was quiet, there weren't any drums, but the lines still had to be read.

Lan: "How many times have we fought?"

Hong: "It's hard to say. All I remember is us fighting."

Hong: "It's time to put an end to this, Ouba! Once and for all!" The red armed color domineering climbed up his hands, and golden lightning roared between his arms.

Ou Bei smiled slightly, and his left arm wrapped in blue domineering power emerged from his sleeve, and the black gale instantly tore through the air.

Two small figures collided rapidly, the red and dark blue fists faced each other in the air, and the space made a sharp explosion.

boom!
The poor ground was plowed again. The land within dozens of meters around the two people had sunk several meters and was full of cracks. There was no doubt that the playfulness of the two young gods was disastrous to the earth beneath their feet.

……

La, who was learning knife skills with Cook at this time, suddenly looked up in the direction of the training ground, and then continued to cut the steak as if nothing had happened.

"what happened?"

"Nothing, there might be an earthquake soon. Daddy Cook, please be careful not to spill the soup."

"Another earthquake? Wasn't there an earthquake this morning? The new world is truly unstable..."

……

"Damn it, such brute force!"

Osi found that he was actually suppressed by Ouba, who was slightly smaller than him. This was not a suppression of domineering strength but a simple suppression of power. Ouba was obviously stronger than Osi!
Ossi's body was being pushed back little by little, and two deep grooves appeared on the ground under his feet.

"Damn it! I won't lose to a little brat like you! You're just an Oubey, watch me push you back!"

Osi roared, then took a deep breath, and more and more golden thunder began to wrap around his arms.

But just as Osi was about to gather strength to push back, Obe suddenly stopped and dodged her punch by moving sideways when Osi's balance was unstable.

"Varied--"

The white and tender right fist, wrapped in a destructive gust of wind, hit Osi's face directly.

"God's Fist Crushing Blow!"

"Quack~~~~"

Osi was knocked flying and flew close to the ground for hundreds of meters before crashing into a large stone wall and finally coming to a stop.

"Tsk~ Did you manage to prevent it? It really is that terrifying intuition..."

Without the joy of a successful strike, Ober felt that Osi raised his hand to block his attack at the last moment.

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts..." Osi covered his cheeks and pulled himself down from the rock bed.

Even though she had defended herself, Obery's blow still made her face swell up. The arm that blocked Obery's fist was trembling slightly and she couldn't exert any strength.

"What a shame! My hands are so black!" Osi rubbed his left cheek and said incoherently.

"You're just stupid. You actually fell for this tactic that can only fool children."

"Kuwu, the chicken is burning with brine, and the nest can be mended!"

Osi kicked the ground hard, transformed himself into a red rainbow, quickly crossed hundreds of meters and came to the top of Ober, then clasped his hands and smashed down on Ober's head.

With his amazing dynamic vision, Obei caught Ossi's movements and immediately jumped out of the way.

The violent attack landed, and the surrounding area suddenly rolled with air waves and filled with dust.

"Something's wrong! Ossi's attack can't be this powerful."

Ou Bei, who hadn't even landed yet, immediately noticed something unusual about Osi's attack. It seemed she wasn't trying to hit him at all, but was trying to... raise dust?!

"hey-hey!"

In the smoke and dust, Osi instantly locked onto Ouba's position with his terrifying intuition and observation Haki.

"Taste my return gift! Superconducting Wave - Thunder Cannon!"

The golden breath of thunder came into Ouba's sight, its diameter much larger than her body.

He immediately curled up his body, crossed his arms to protect the front, and guessed Osi's intention in advance. Obe took the blow with the most perfect posture.

A slight burning sensation and numbness swept over Oubey's body. This attack did not seem to be strong.

Just as Ou Bei was wondering, a red figure had already rushed behind Ou Bei.

"Seven hundred and fifty thousand horsepower of strength, Osi Thunder Fist!" The small fist, carrying golden thunder, struck Obe's back, knocking the Earth Hero into the ground with one punch.

Boom!

As if Mother Earth was responding, smoke and dust dozens of meters high rose from the ground and were clearly visible even on the sea in the distance.

"What's going on? Is there another earthquake? Wasn't there just one?"

"Isn't the volcano under the sea about to erupt?"

"Two earthquakes in one day isn't uncommon in the New World..."

"Closing the stall quickly, it will be troublesome if a tsunami really hits soon."

"But I just opened my stall... Hey! Don't take advantage of this opportunity to eat for free, little brat!"

……

"oi~Are you okay?" Osi squatted beside the deep pit and called out loudly.

More than ten minutes had passed since Oubey was beaten into the ground, but there was still no sign of him climbing out.

"It's okay." Oubey's calm voice came from below.

"Oh my god! If you're alright, come up here! You've been lying there for so long pretending to be a cuckold? You scared me!"

Hearing that Ou Bei was fine, Osi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

She wasn't worried about how badly she'd hit Oubey. She'd held back on that punch, and with his body defense comparable to hers, it would only hurt slightly. Osi was mainly worried that Oubey would lose his temper and go to La to complain.

"You can't spit out ivory from a dog's mouth! I just suddenly discovered a problem."

Oubey jumped to the ground, straightened his messy hair, and then said, "Osi, did you find anything during our fight just now?"

"Um... fighting, is it fun?"

"Tsk~"

"Okay, you talk, I'm listening."

Seeing that Ossi had stopped joking, Oubey said seriously, "In our previous fight, apart from the one at the beginning, did you use Haki again? I mean, the Haki of Armament Haki."

This was a question that both of them had just subconsciously ignored.

"Huh?! Okay, it seems like there really isn't one! Weird, why?"

Osi found it a little difficult to understand that he seemed to have completely forgotten this new skill in the subsequent battles.

"Because the pace of battle is so fast, we tend to subconsciously overlook Haki, a power that requires energy conversion before it can be used, compared to the power we already have at our fingertips.

This is true for you, who fight on instinct, and for me, who fight to keep up with you."

Osi didn't let him wonder for too long, and Obei directly gave the answer he had obtained during the ten minutes of enlightenment in the underground dragon field.

"Yeah, that's true. It feels like changing the game and resetting the controls, but still subconsciously rubbing the controller the way I used to.

Observation Haki, which is similar to the direction keys, is okay, but light and heavy attack combos like Armament Haki are really hard to get used to for a while."

Osi immediately understood what Obei meant in his own way.

"So, we need to change our approach. We need to slow down the pace and not use our power. We should fight purely with Haki, making sure every strike is filled with Haki."

"okay!"

So after a period of silence, the residents of the town were hit by the nth earthquake of the day.

In the cafeteria——

"Ouch! My soup!" A waiter was shaken by the earthquake and poured the whole can of salt into the soup.

Many people around were also startled by the sudden vibration.

"There really was another earthquake. How did you guess that, Miss La?" someone asked.

"It's nothing. I just thought there would be aftershocks after an earthquake, so I just gave a reminder. I didn't expect it to really happen." La made up an excuse.

"Then, will there be aftershocks?"

"Hmm... maybe~" La sensed the situation of the two little ones and found that they were having fun. They would probably continue to play for a while.

"Bang~Bang~"

Old Cook knocked on the pot with an iron spoon and reminded: "Everyone, be careful not to spill the soup. Now continue cooking. It will be lunchtime soon."

“Yes!”
"Dad Cook, come and try the soup I made." La filled a small bowl with his own work and handed it to Cook.

Old Cook took it, but did not rush to taste it. Instead, he took a look at it first and then smelled it.

"Hmm~ The color is bright and the smell is refreshing."

Only after confirming that both the 'color' and 'fragrance' were acceptable did he pick up the spoon.

At this moment, Old Cook seemed to have returned to the days when he tasted dishes for the aristocrats on the aristocratic cruise ship, serious and strict.

"Hmm?! This smell?"

Old Cook took a quick bite and his eyes widened immediately.

To be honest, he had been involved in cooking all his life, but this was the first time he had encountered such a situation. This little girl in front of him must have made this soup for the first time, but the taste...

"how?"

"It tastes good. No, it should be said to be very good." Old Cook first gave his own evaluation, but then changed the subject -

"But... why does this soup taste exactly like the one I just made?"

"?"

The other party's question also made La feel confused.

"Because I did just as you taught me, didn't I?"

"That's not what I meant." Cook shook his head.

"Even if you follow my steps, no two dishes will taste exactly the same. Let me tell you, even I can't make it taste exactly the same twice."

As a top chef, Cook's tongue can sensitively distinguish very subtle changes in taste in food. The taste of this bowl of soup he made completely overlaps with the pot of soup he just demonstrated!

But La was still puzzled: "As long as all the ingredients that make up the two soups are the same, then the taste will naturally be the same, right?
I just copied all your steps one by one, including the temperature of the fire, the amount of seasoning, the time, the ingredients, and even the direction and strength of stirring, etc...."

This is a completely correct conclusion. Since the ingredients that make up the two soups are exactly the same, why should the taste be different? However...

"But this isn't right!"

After recovering from his initial surprise, Old Cook immediately spoke in a decisive tone.

There was no trace of joking in his tone, as if he was defending something sacred and inviolable.

"La, you must understand that you can't become a qualified chef by just mechanically copying other people's dishes. A chef who can stand on his own feet must find his own cooking style!"

At this time, old Cook did not know that this was a teaching that would make him regret it in the future.

Even all the members of the Beasts, including Kaido, will have to show their teeth together in the future~
Looking at the determined old Cook in front of him, La nodded. "Don't worry, Dad Cook, I will find my own cooking style."

"Hahaha, then old man, I'm really looking forward to that day! But for now, you still have to watch carefully and learn well! When it comes to cooking, I'm no slouch!"

……

In the new world, twelve thousand meters above the sea, there is a floating island.

"Hot breath!"

Kaido in dragon form breathed out a breath of dragon directly towards the island below.

"Hahahaha! Kaido, you little brat got a pretty good fruit!"

"But we still have to respect our seniors! Chop!"

The immense sword energy directly cut through the heat. From the separated flames, a figure emerged.

The man held a sharp sword in each hand hidden in his wide sleeves, and had a cigar in his mouth. His long, fluffy golden hair was draped behind him like a lion's mane. His strange eyebrows were sharp and thin, and his sharp eyes were full of arrogance and unruliness.

Just standing there, he exuded an unparalleled aura of dominance.

"Stop talking nonsense! What on earth do you want me to come for—Shiqi!"

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(End of this chapter)