The Super Grandpa

"We really need to modify this ship."

"Why"

" It doesn't have many canons."

"Why is that important?"

"Remind me what happened when we descended from skypea captain."

"Umm....we were attacked by marines who were waiting for us."

"Exactly."

"But enel and I handled them right?"

"Yes but you won't always be able to do it."

"But we don't have any money for an upgrade."

"The gold can be used to exchange for berries."

"Hmmm..ok then."

"Good."

"So where are we currently?"

"We are approaching a marine base near water 7."

"And why are we doing that?"

"Enel is adamant about getting a high bounty so he wanted to cause trouble."

"And why did I agree to it?"

"There is no food left because captain ate it all after fighting enel."

It seems she grew a spine. This girl who was actually a wimp is now talking to me as if I'm some kind of savage. Hmph! I am a modern man!

Looking at the base I didn't know why but I started to feel like this may be a bad decision.

"Full speed ahead."

I won't know until I try so I'll just ignore my guts, after all since when did I trust my guts rather than my brain. Currently enel was grinning like he's high as the marine ships started showing up once they spotted us. The ship leading all of them was a ship with a dog head design at the front.

Without a word, we both charged forward, enel using his lightning to somehow fly and fight the vice admiral while I used my [space hardening] to run towards their granary.

I was confident in enel's ability, the vice admirals don't even know haki so it should be easy.

Reaching the base I blasted the entire area with burst of haki and the marine soldiers aiming their rifles at me were knocked out cold.

Yup, this really is a very handy trick to deal with fodders.

I opened the doors and what greeted me was....meat. A colossal amount of meat and a few hundred sacks of rice. It really would've been a hassle to carry all these if not for my space manipulation. Using [compression] I miniaturized all the food and stuffed them in my pockets.

As I was about to head back, I heard a crash and right in front of my shoes was enel all beaten up.

Looks like someone strong is here.

"Bwahaha you've got some spunk 'long ears'!"

"Who're you geezer?"

"Oh is this the captain of the ember pirates? I've been wanting to meet you for quite some time."

"Why?"

"You're interesting that's why. Sengoku is having a migraine because of your shenanigans. I heard you're pretty strong but you won't be getting out of here on my watch."

Hello.....when did the genre change? Why is there an old man who gives off super powered grandpa in cultivation era vibe? Give me back the shounen vibe!

"Don't interfere in my fight captain, I'll kill this oldie."

"Hmm...brats these days really have no respect for their elders Bwahahaha.."

"You're no match for this guy, here take these and go back, I'll meet you guys at water 7."

".....Are you sure you can win."

"I'll only die if I get killed."

"Yes... that's what I meant.....when I asked the question...."

"Haa~ you uncultured kid. Just go back."

"You think I'll let any of you go?"

As enel blitzed away, the grandpa tried to chase after him but eventually stopped to block a haki clad fist coming his way.

"You still haven't told me your name."

"Garp....Monkey D Garp."

Monkey huh..the same name as Dragon and the same initial 'D'. Maybe he knows what it means. I'll ask him after I beat him up.

𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬!

The ground crumbled from the sheer force exerted by garp as he rushed at me. Usually these old men would be arrogant in their powers and let me have the first hit but it seems the genre really is shounen!

He charged at me with his fist packing enough force to break all my bones. I dodged the hit coming my way. The more power an attack has, the harder it is to change its trajectory midway. At least that's what I thought..

𝘗𝘰𝘸!

𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘮!

I crashed into the empty granary from the hit I thought I dodged.

Of course this guy also has good senses to anticipate my movements!

"You have a strong body kid."

I stayed silent and opened five of my gates. If it were my previous body, I could've only maintained this state for a few hours at most before collapsing, but now, even for 7 gates, I just need to conserve my stamina.

Garp seemed to be amused seeing my increased strength. Again, he charged at me but this time I didn't dodge. He would hit me anyway, so my only chance would be to take it head on and counterattack.

𝘉𝘢𝘮. 𝘉𝘢𝘮. 𝘉𝘢𝘮. 𝘉𝘢𝘮.

I kept hitting his fists trying to get the upper hand while he kept increasing the weight of his attacks. The fight continued for a long time with me being constantly pushed back while he seemed to be intrigued at my power.

It seems he noticed the bends in space.

I would use [stretch] to dampen his attacks. They should not even hit me but haki seems to even do the impossible as the punches still got through by tearing space to microscopic degrees.

My [compression] was always active on my knuckles, but even then, the old man's haki was formidable enough to defend against that.

I should be worried about this situation but I was elated. Enel couldn't help me grow so maybe he can...

That was the thought going on my head. I activated sage mode and my power spiked again, this time enough to put a scratch on garp's fist.

He was surprised yet again, I thought he would start questioning me again but instead he mumbled something about knocking me out forcing me to join the marines.

Oh hell no..

I rushed at him with my sage mode and this time all 7 gates opened. Garp crossed out his arms to defend but dodged the giant rasengan from above.

Kekeke....the old man really has good instincts. The one rushing at him was a clone. Though he seemed irritated by my sly tricks.

"Don't fight dirty you brat!"

I guess I should fight honorably if I want to get stronger...

"Sure, don't let me down old man."

"Now we're talking."

𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬! 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘮!

A series of explosions ran out as we exchanged blows. However this time, with haki, senjutsu, 7 gates and [compression] the fight was equal in terms of power.

It was still not enough as he kept using his senses to avoid and counterattack.

𝘉𝘢𝘮. 𝘉𝘢𝘮. 𝘉𝘢𝘮. 𝘉𝘢𝘮...

A rain of punches poured down at my body breaking my bones and rupturing my organs, however my mind was in a trance, it felt as if I was not in my body and simply controlling it using my will, as if my body was an avatar in a game.

The bones and organs healed back in a few seconds as I tried my best to win this fight. I could feel it. I was close to breakthrough.

Chakra needs to be molded in order to cast a jutsu but as days went my, I learnt to mold it instinctually and this fight made my progress accelerate.

𝘉𝘢𝘮. 𝘉𝘢𝘮. 𝘉𝘢𝘮. 𝘉𝘢𝘮. 𝘉𝘢𝘮. 𝘉𝘢𝘮..

If I can't stop you from predicting my blows the I'll just sharpen my movements to react instantaneously. The only way to do that would be to use my chakra as strings and turn my body into a puppet.

Muscle contraction is a passive process where we just will it to happen and our subconscious does the work. We do not actively control each and every muscle. However even this has a delay as our brain needs time to send the correct impulses. The only way to shorten this lag I hypothesized, is to use my chakra to control my muscles.

𝘉𝘢𝘮. 𝘉𝘢𝘮. 𝘉𝘢𝘮. 𝘉𝘢𝘮. 𝘉𝘢𝘮. 𝘉𝘢𝘮..

Making my spine saturated in chakra to make it stronger. Strong enough to carry all my impulses in an instant. Any error in the process would paralyze me but I know my healing factor will save the day.

I've been trying it for a few minutes. The first few tries were quite gruesome as I could hear my spine ripping into pieces from the strain. It's a good thing I blocked my pain receptors. But as the fight progressed as it had for the past 6 hours, I could control it better.

Movements got sharper and every move was directed according to my imagination. My body was now struggling to keep up with my mind but I pushed through.

𝘉𝘢𝘮. 𝘉𝘢𝘮. 𝘉𝘢𝘮. 𝘉𝘢𝘮. 𝘉𝘢𝘮. 𝘉𝘢𝘮..

Muscles started bleeding, blood came out of my pores and healed back to normal again.

I was losing stamina at a rapid pace but I still held on. The fight slowly started to flow in my direction as I reacted to every minute changes in garp-san's attacks.

This feat would've been impossible too if not for my eyes. Every twitch, every glance was captured by my eyes. My mind was overclocking from all the visual data.

Every time I changed my moves garp-san would change his before me to counterattack. But there was a limit to how much he could 'see'. 5 seconds was the limit up to which he could keep up with all my possible movements.

The only way to bypass this would be to envision every possible maneuvers he would take in 5 seconds and prepare to change mine's accordingly.

{A/N: it's basically bringing every possibility in a timeframe. like how they did it in mushoku tensei to counter rudeus's eye power}

𝘉𝘈𝘔!

And finally....my attack landed.

𝘎𝘳𝘪𝘯.

"You have too much faith in your future vision old man."

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I enjoyed writing this chapter. hope u enjoyed reading it.