One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

Layers of cloud patterns and cherry blossom designs covered his left shoulder, left arm, and left chest, making Akainu appear even more stern and unsmiling.

Black Horse was slowly brewing tea, carrying a steaming teapot in his hand.

"Did you orchestrate the deaths of the Roswald family?"

As soon as Luo Xia knelt down, he was so frightened by the words that came out of Akainu's mouth that he froze.

Akainu took the cup of hot tea that Kuroba had prepared and sipped it.

"You are far more daring than I imagined."

Luo Xia felt like he was sitting on pins and needles, staring at the table in front of him and occasionally stealing glances at the black horse sitting opposite him.

This gesture made the black horse, who was pouring tea, smile.

"Alright, kid, stop pretending. You even dared to kill a Celestial Dragon, who are you trying to fool with this cowardly act?"

As he spoke, he picked up the hot tea on the table and threw it at Luo Xia.

The scalding hot tea overflowed the teacup and splashed onto Rorschach's face.

"call."

An invisible air current swirls the spilled tea, causing it to gather back together and flow into the teacup.

The teacup landed steadily on Rorschach's outstretched right hand.

"You're getting more and more skilled at using your abilities."

Black Horse chuckled and shook his head, pointing at Akainu and saying, "If Sakazuki and I weren't best friends, do you think I would help protect a daring murderer like you?"

“I’m sorry, Uncle Sakazuki, I’ve caused you trouble. I…”

Rorschach still couldn't quite figure out Akainu's thoughts.

“I have already learned about your attitude toward the World Government from Hibari.”

Akainu's imposing face never reveals what he's thinking.

He looked at Luo Xia, who was bowing his head and remaining silent, and suddenly asked a question.

"Do you know what the World Government has always been wary of, the so-called Will of D?"

"The Will of D?"

Rorschach was taken aback, not expecting Akainu to ask him this question.

He recalled the speculations people made when he read comics in his past life.

"It's probably something like bloodline, dreams, hope, or dawn."

"It is the spirit of resistance."

"Based on your current thoughts and actions, you can definitely be said to have awakened this so-called fighting spirit, and you are already a qualified lamp. It's just that the flame of this lamp is not strong enough, and the range of illumination is not wide enough."

"But if the light becomes too conspicuous, it will be extinguished..."

Akainu's deep voice echoed in the attic, causing Rorschach's heart to tremble.

"Are you surprised that I would say such things?"

Akainu put down his teacup, picked up a pair of scissors, and began pruning the branches of the potted plant next to him.

"This is no secret."

"If you stand high enough, you can sometimes see through many things at a glance."

"Just being able to see through things doesn't necessarily mean you can change them to suit your wishes."

"Uncle Sakazuki..."

Rorschach was genuinely shocked this time.

I was shocked by how clearly Akainu saw through things.

The Akainu before me was quite different from the rugged image depicted in the manga.

On the surface, he appears to be a tough soldier who is clueless about human relationships, inflexible, and only knows how to go down a single path to the bitter end.

In reality, he was an extremely meticulous person, a commander with both wisdom and courage.

If he hadn't been so extreme in his personal beliefs, he would have had far more supporters in the Navy.

"Don't take the lives of those few trash too seriously, and don't underestimate the Celestial Dragons as a whole."

"In the eight hundred years, no one knows how many lights have been lit up."

"But they have always ruled the world."

"Don't underestimate the Navy's sense of justice, and don't be too trusting of people."

"Alright, go out. If you really want to change the world, then change yourself first and become strong as soon as possible."

"Yes, Uncle Sakazuki."

Chapter 158 Electrical Forging

"Everyone, get ready!"

"Relax your muscles! Focus your attention!"

"Rorschach, let's begin."

In the square of Marineford, hundreds of elite marines who had emerged from the training camp stood in neat rows in a square formation.

Everyone was wearing only boxer shorts, revealing their muscular physiques.

Luo, Gross, Bepo, and several others were prominently featured, standing at the very front of the formation.

Zefa, dragging a heavy mechanical arm, stood side by side with a silver-haired boy who was 2.7 meters tall, with a piece of seaweed in his mouth.

Both the old man and the young man exuded an imposing aura as heavy as mountains, making the elite marines in front of them feel a heavy weight on their hearts, as if a huge boulder was pressing down on them, giving them an indescribable sense of suffocation.

"Everyone, concentrate! Don't blame me for not warning you beforehand."

Wearing a large cloak of justice, Rorschach gave a shy smile and gently raised one index finger.

Accompanied by the crackling noise of electricity, a flashing ball of light gradually appeared at his fingertips, growing larger and spreading into tiny arcs of electricity in the air.

"Muscle spasms caused by electric shock may lead to loss of urinary and fecal incontinence."

His shy smile and gentle voice sounded to the elite marines like the gaze and murmurs of a devil.

"100,000 Volts - Electric Current Forging"

As Rorschach pointed his index finger forward, all the soldiers felt a chill run down their spines and their entire bodies tensed up instinctively.

The next moment, streaks of silvery-white arcs of electricity spread from mid-air, instantly transforming into a large net spanning a hundred meters in diameter, covering hundreds of shirtless marines.

The invisible electric current easily penetrated their proud, tough muscles, rapidly destroying muscle tissue. This allowed them to achieve their training goals, which would normally require a lot of time, in just a few seconds, exceeding expectations.

"Ahhhh!"

However, these hundreds of people in front of us were elites selected from thousands of branches and bases through layers of selection.

A mere 100,000-volt electric shock wouldn't be enough to bring them down.

"Two hundred thousand volts."

Luo Xia watched with a smile as Luo's facial muscles twitched wildly, and he was tempted to use his camera to capture Luo's superb facial expressions that changed more than ten times in a second.

"Three hundred thousand."

As the electric current gradually increased, some of the hundreds of people standing in the line began to succumb to the shock, their bodies convulsing and their eyes rolling back as they collapsed to the ground.

The electric current immediately flows back into the bodies of those who have not yet fallen, stimulating their muscles, blood vessels, bones, and nerves.

Time passed little by little.

When the current emanating from Rorschach's fingertips exceeded one million volts, among the hundreds of people in the formation, only Rorschach, with his fists clenched, was still gritting his teeth and enduring it.

Bepo and Gross couldn't bear the pain of the electric current destroying their muscles, and although they hadn't reached their physical limits, they chose to lie on the ground and give up.

"Not bad, your physical strength has improved rapidly, Luo!"

Looking at Luo, who had recently undergone a second growth spurt and grown a few centimeters taller along with him, Luo Xia's smile became even more pronounced.

"Stop talking nonsense! Continue!"

On Luo's bare chest, the skull tattoo twitched violently, his veins bulged, and his muscles bulged and tensed. He involuntarily used one of the six techniques, the Iron Body, to resist Luo Xia's electric current stimulation.

"Then I won't hold back. Don't get shocked so badly that you lose control of your bladder and bowels; that would be too embarrassing."

"A five million volt discharge!"

Luo Xia spread his five fingers, and five silver arcs of electricity shot out instantly, intertwining to form an electric net, which descended upon Luo Xia's head.

"Crack!"

With a sharp crack, Luo Mantou's short hair stood on end like needles, his eyes widened, black smoke billowed from his mouth, and he was instantly frozen by the electric shock, falling to the ground like a wooden stake.

"Major... Major!"

Bepo was so frightened that all the bear fur on his body stood on end.

"Don't be nervous, this guy isn't that fragile."

Luo Xia walked up with a smile and pressed his hand on Luo's chest.

A slight electric current surged out, causing Luo's chest to tremble.

"Cough! Cough! Cough!"

A violent cough immediately came from Luo's mouth; his forehead was covered in cold sweat, and he couldn't help but gasp for breath.

"Not bad. If you can withstand five million, hmm, ten million volts of electric current stimulation next time without using the iron block, I think you're not far from awakening Armament Haki."

Rorschach chuckled and patted Rorschach on the shoulder, then stood up and looked at Zephyr, who had a satisfied expression on his face.

"Professor Zephyr, what do you think of this method? Isn't it a bit too harsh?"

"It is a bit too simple and crude." Zefa's lips curled up slightly. "Using electric current to destroy muscle tissue and then ingesting nutrients to rapidly increase muscle strength is equivalent to greatly reducing the time cost of training."

He looked at the marines who had been electrocuted and were lying on the ground.

"But it works very quickly. As long as they can hold on, their physical fitness can be greatly improved in a short period of time."