One Piece: Starting with Breathing Techniques

At noon, the sunlight on Flame Island was particularly dazzling, filtering through the trees and casting scattered patches of light on the ground.

From deep within the woods, a series of snapping sounds suddenly came from the trees.

Looking in the direction of the sound, they saw a huge tiger strolling leisurely, surveying its territory.

This giant tiger looks no different from an ordinary tiger, but its size is far from ordinary.

It stands five or six meters tall and is at least seven or eight meters long, almost the same size as an ordinary elephant, and looks like a moving house from a distance.

Its brownish-yellow fur is extremely textured, and its shiny hair reflects a faint fluorescent light in the bright sunlight.

As one of the masters of this forest, it has never encountered an evenly matched opponent since its birth.

The giant tiger walked into the sunlight, leisurely stretching, but suddenly felt a darkness before its eyes.

Isn't it a sunny day now?

By the time it realized something was wrong, its needle-like fur stood on end, and it hissed and retreated hastily, it was already too late.

"Oni-maki-ken!"

A gigantic fist carrying a terrifying aura descended from the sky, its surface swirling with a rich, deep black color.

It was clearly Armament Haki enveloping him!

The giant fist arrived in an instant and slammed hard onto the tiger's head.

boom!

With a crisp "crack!" sound of bones breaking, the giant tiger's eyes rolled back, and it collapsed helplessly to the ground, blood oozing from the corner of its mouth.

A colossal giant displayed a lightness disproportionate to its size, landing gracefully on the ground without making much of a sound.

The giant was twenty meters tall, with striking orange hair and beard that resembled a lion's mane.

He was wearing a worn-out black shirt and gray jeans, with a relatively small cowboy hat on his head.

Giants Lieutenant General Saul!

However, compared to when he was in Ohara, Saul had many more gruesome burn scars on his face and body, and even his right leg was missing, replaced only by a simple wooden prosthetic.

Sauro released the Armament Haki from his right hand and was about to go forward to deal with the giant tiger's corpse when his five senses, enhanced by Observation Haki, suddenly detected something unusual.

He immediately turned around and looked at a patch of grass in the woods.

"Who's there? Show yourself!"

A jet-black Armament Haki instantly appeared, enveloping his right fist once more.

With a rustling sound, the bushes were parted, revealing Kiro's figure.

Kilo stood on the grass, looking up at Sauro, which occupied most of his field of vision, and was somewhat amazed.

This was the first time he had ever seen Sauro since he came into this world.

Standing at a towering 20 meters tall, Kilo had to stand on tiptoe to barely reach Saul's ankles.

"Sauro, I've finally found you!"

Sauro looked down at Kilo, somewhat puzzled.

Upon closer inspection, he was certain he had never seen Kiro before.

Having only recently drifted to the island, Saulo was not very familiar with the outside world and naturally had not seen Kilo's arrest warrant.

"Who are you……"

Suddenly, Saul was startled and stared intently at Kiro's clothes.

He recognized Kiro's clothes, especially the intricate pattern on the collar of his shirt.

He was very familiar with that pattern; he had seen it on Olvia's clothes when the Ohara expedition team was captured.

That is......

The symbol of the scholars of Ohara!

"Wait, you're a scholar from Ohara?!"

Sauro's eyes widened, and his tone unconsciously carried a hint of shock.

He casually deactivated his Armament Haki, bent down, and looked at Kiro with some excitement.

Kilo nodded. "That's right, my name is Kilo. I used to be a scholar on Ohara Island."

"We've been looking for you for a long time, Saul."

Sauro's eyes lit up with excitement, and he was about to speak when he keenly noticed the unusual tone in Kiro's words.

"Wait, 'we'? Didn't you come alone?"

Kilo nodded, a slight smile playing on his lips.

"That's right, someone's been insisting on seeing you these past few days. Thank goodness you're still on this island!"

"...Wait, who is it?" Saul scratched his head.

If someone wants to see me...

Aokiji wouldn't say that, and Olvia is already asleep in the ruins of Ohara.

Wait, could it be...?

Saul's eyes widened, and he was about to ask a question when his gaze caught sight of a petite figure darting out from behind Kiro.

"Law, Robin?!"

Sauro's voice was filled with disbelief as he stared blankly at the little face that had become teary-eyed.

"Sauro." Robin pursed her lips, walked up to him, and looked up at his large, scarred face.

"I...I really want to see you!"

"I'm so afraid that I'll never see you again!"

A scene flashed through her memory: Saulo, to protect her, faced Aokiji alone and was frozen into a motionless ice sculpture.

Robin had thought she would never have the chance to see her best friend again.

Looking at the giant with many scars and even missing a leg, Robin felt a lump in her throat and quickly jumped into Saul's carefully held palm.

Saul was stunned. He clenched his hands together, looked at Robin whom he held in his palms, and his eyes welled up with tears.

Suddenly, he let out a strange laugh.

"Hey, come on, hee hee hee hee!"

"Robin, really..."

"Thank you for your hard work!!!"

Those rough, huge hands seemed unusually gentle at that moment, carefully embracing the sobbing little girl.

Seeing the two embracing and weeping, Kilo shook his head, turned and walked away, leaving the time for the two to reunite.

He hadn't walked more than a few steps when he suddenly frowned and rubbed his eyes.

"Damn it, why did Crocodile get into my eyes?"

……

After a moment, Kiro looked at the two people in front of him who had regained their smiles and nodded.

"So, this is the current arrangement."

"We're ready to take you to the Grand Line."

"What do you think, Saul?"

Saul looked at Robin, who was staring at him expectantly, and pondered for a moment.

"I've already defected from the Navy, so there's no way I can go back to my normal life."

"However..." He suddenly hesitated, looking troubled.

"With my size, I'm afraid I can't travel on the boat with you."

"Besides, I'm very likely already wanted by the Navy, which would implicate you!"

Upon hearing this, Kiro looked at Robin with some surprise.

"Robin, haven't you told Saul yet?"

Robin nodded somewhat embarrassedly, clearly still caught up in catching up with Saul and hadn't yet explained Kiro and her specific situation.

Kiro pulled out two wanted posters and a newspaper, handing them to Saul. "What a coincidence, Robin and I are also wanted, but you don't need to worry about that."

"And you don't need to worry about your size, I've already prepared for that." Kiro nodded, looking Saul up and down.

The Ryuga could definitely fit Saul.

Moreover, he had a bold idea.

Since Capone Bege has the ability to help, perhaps we can use the Castle-Castle Fruit to trap Saul inside the castle.

That would be even more convenient!

Saul took the two wanted posters, and the first one that caught his eye was Robin's bounty of 7900 million Berries.

The headline on the newspaper next to it read:

"Shocking! An eight-year-old demon child in such danger?!"

The following exaggerated description portrays Robin almost as a heinous monster, capable of any evil deed.

"Damn it, how dare they say such things about you!" Saul felt his fists harden just from reading those descriptions.

I wish I could tear those rumor-mongers' mouths apart.

How dare you bully such a poor little girl like this!?

Immediately afterwards, Saul looked at Kiro's bounty poster.

He nodded after seeing the string of numbers.

"Thirteen million Berries, that's not a small amount..."

Suddenly, his eyes widened, and he brought the wanted poster close to his eyes, carefully examining the numbers on it.

"Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands..."

"…100 million……?!"

"How many?!!"