The most courageous pirate hunter

"Jie Jie Jie Jie~"

"Your forehead doesn't seem very firm."

The knees kept colliding, each impact like a meteor hitting the earth, deafeningly loud.

Hermes laughed wildly, his right shoulder forming a powerful impact as he slammed into Katakuri, causing Katakuri to groan and blood to spill from the corner of his mouth.

Katakuri remained silent, having gotten into the swing of things, and instead of using any other techniques, he went head-to-head with Hermes. Hermes did the same, engaging Katakuri in a physical confrontation.

The sound of the two colliding was more shocking than a bolt from the blue.

With the final collision of their foreheads, the two simultaneously released each other, spitting out a mouthful of blood, and then flew backward, dizzy and disoriented.

The rocks crashed to the ground, leaving deep furrows as they lay among the rubble. Katakuri shook his head and coughed incessantly, his vision blurring; it was unclear whether he had suffered a concussion.

I don't feel very good.

The opponent's defense was beyond his expectations.

not far away.

Hermes crashed into a building, lifted the rubble off his body, shook his head to stand up, spat out the blood from his mouth, and cracked his neck.

Very cool!

High-temperature steam continued to erupt, and Katakuri, who had also stood up opposite them, vanished once more.

Chapter 104 [Mini Form (Sweeping the World灬丿Ah New +3)]

Boom kaka.

A terrifying storm swept around, and the entire dark, rolling sky seemed to swirl as if it had been turned upside down. Two figures clashed back and forth, their forms indistinct, and each collision felt like a meteorite falling.

Hermes plummeted diagonally and crashed heavily into the mountainside, causing the ground to shake and rocks to fly everywhere.

Bleeding from the corners of the mouth.

Pulling his body out of the mountain, his chest heaving and his breathing slightly rapid, he landed on the ground and looked at Katakuri emerging from the smoke and dust in the distance.

At this moment, Katakuri drew his trident from his body, which gleamed coldly. He had to admit that he couldn't defeat this man with physical skills alone.

He was at a disadvantage in the collision.

The opponent's attack directly targets the inside of the body, making it very difficult to deal with.

He probably won't be able to hold on for long.

The opponent's defense was unexpectedly thick; ordinary attacks were simply insufficient to inflict fatal damage. It was time to get serious.

Katakuri wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, planted his trident in the ground, and stared at Hermes.

"Jie Jie Jie~"

Hermes chuckled.

He pulled the mini watermelon knife off his neck, and in the blink of an eye, it grew to two meters long, flowing with a purplish-white liquid in his hand. What followed was a real fight.

For an instant.

The sound of metal stomping on the ground rang out quickly as Katakuri, trident held at an angle, rushed towards Hermes, and at the moment of close range, the trident struck with lightning speed.

The impact that ruptured the eardrum.

The purple-white watermelon knife collided with the trident, creating a powerful air pressure that whipped up a vast cloud of dust that quickly obscured visibility.

"Drooping glutinous rice".

Katakuri stomped his foot, and sharp spikes emerged from the softened ground around him, striking Hermes rapidly.

Hermes vanished, and the ground instantly collapsed.

Katakuri looked up and saw a donut appear on his right shoulder, from which a thick fist suddenly slammed out.

Hermes vanished again, simultaneously unleashing two kicks that instantly transformed into two sixty-meter-long streaks of lightning that swooped down.

Thick smoke and dust continued to spread.

In a flash, Katakuri appeared above and behind Hermes, his trident piercing and tearing through the air with a spiraling force.

Hermes felt a chill run down his back as his tangled hair transformed into long snakes once more. But then Katakuri abandoned his trident, his right leg lengthening as he forcefully swept towards Hermes.

Lift your knee and ram it.

As Hermes was sent flying by the mountain force once again, the watermelon knife in his hand was aimed at Katakuri, instantly growing to sixty meters in size.

This was something Katakuri hadn't expected.

Sharp pain in my right shoulder.

Even with Armament Haki to defend himself, he was still pierced and crashed into the mountainside. Blood quickly stained his upper body, and Hermes lay on the ground, panting heavily.

I could feel the watermelon knife getting stuck and wrapped in Armament Haki.

His mind moved.

The watermelon knife shrank, but before Katakuri could catch his breath, it grew back to its original size and was grasped by Hermes, who then cleaved it down with a simple, powerful blow.

Katakuri endured the pain and dodged immediately.

Hermes followed closely behind, wielding a sixty-meter-long watermelon knife in his right hand, and began hacking wildly at Katakuri, a scene that was quite impactful.

Katakuri would occasionally use his trident to defend himself, and occasionally use the power of his Devil Fruit.

"call out..."

The gravel and soil were easily cut through. Hermes seized the opportunity and appeared in front of Katakuri in an instant. The shrunken watermelon knife in his hand gleamed coldly, and he swiftly and accurately slashed at Katakuri's kidney.

Ding! ! !

The trident and the watermelon knife collided, sending sparks flying. The powerful force caused both to lose their grip on their weapons and be sent flying backward.

Katakuri reacted quickly, scrambling to his feet and charging toward Hermes. At the same time, ten donuts appeared above his shoulders, from which ten fists the size of water tanks shot out.

Hermes performed a backflip and landed on the ground. The next moment, the ground beneath his feet cracked and rose up, and his entire body transformed into a purple-white light, like a ray of light that shone for a fleeting moment.

One after another, the rice-sized fists exploded, and Katakuri's pupils shrank. He sensed a huge threat. Hermes appeared above his face, maintaining a size of five millimeters, and threw a punch without giving Katakuri a chance to react.

puff! ! !

The terrifying force acted on his face, and Katakuri's upper body was blasted into the ground in a way that defied common sense. He then moved sideways in the ground, leaving a huge trench, before blood spurted from his mouth and nose and his head buzzed.

Just as Hermes continued his attack, the ground around him transformed into thick, sharp spiky rice cakes, all aimed at him.

Hermes handled the attack with ease and closed in again.

not good.

Katakuri felt a chill run down his spine. He only had time to cover his chest with Armament Haki before he bent over like a shrimp, his face contorted and his eyes bulging. Then, the storm pressed down and he transformed into a rocket that shot up from the ground.

Hermes, five millimeters in diameter, was in hot pursuit.

"Grilled rice cakes."

Katakuri couldn't stop coughing up blood, and the upper part of his right hand turned into a mochi that kept compressing, wrapped with Haki that surged down, but Hermes easily dodged it by simply turning to the side.

It vanished in an instant.

Hermes appeared above Katakuri, still maintaining a distance of five millimeters as it crashed down. Had Katakuri not used Armament Haki to defend itself, it would have been pierced through.

Rumble.

An earth-shattering explosion.

The ground within a radius of several kilometers rapidly rose up and shot out in all directions, with cracks and ravines spreading outwards, and the entire crater was trembling.

The most central.

Katakuri was deeply embedded in the ground, forming a large crater, and his face was covered in blood; he was seriously injured.

Hermes descended from the sky, hovering three feet off the ground on a lunar walk, still maintaining a five-millimeter size, the steam generated by the return of life hissing.

This move is called Mini Mode.

As the name suggests, it involves maintaining a minimal size and combining it with Life Return for a swift, accurate, and ruthless strike, making it difficult for even opponents with Observation Haki to defend against.

It's really too small.

Hermes thought Katakuri would be easy to defend against, after all, in the original work, Katakuri had the ability to foresee the future, which was practically his natural counter.

Despite fighting for so long, the opponent hasn't shown anything particularly special.

Or perhaps Katakuri hadn't yet awakened his ability to foresee the future at this time.

"The glutinous rice ball is chanting."

The dust cleared.

Katakuri stood up from the crater, and more than thirty donuts appeared in the sky behind him, from which a large number of mochi arms emerged, all covered in Armament Haki, and blasted toward Hermes.

Hermes vanished from his spot and went upstream against the attack.

"hateful."

Katakuri felt troubled for the first time. His Observation Haki was too difficult to lock onto, and his opponent was not only small in size but also moved extremely fast, making him practically without any weaknesses.