13 Chapter 13: Ace, The Defenseless.

Life became exciting and fulfilling for everyone, whether it was for Hiruma or for Luffy and his friends.

Every day they could feel their progress, and every day they were tired enough to fall asleep while holding their milk bottles.

Of course, with the power of Hiruma's Milk-Milk Fruit, even when the three little ones fell asleep, they would still drink from their bottles in their dreams. A strange thing indeed.

Curly and her group also enjoyed a comfortable life, not having to worry about the three mischievous little ones at all.

They didn't even have to worry about food, as Hiruma naturally led the three little ones on hunting trips.

Living without a care, they had an early retirement.

The only thing that Luffy and his two companions were not satisfied with was that, even now, they couldn't land a single hit on Hiruma no matter what methods they used.

In the hearts of the three children, Hiruma had left an unbeatable impression.

In the blink of an eye, a month had passed.

Perhaps due to his training, or perhaps due to the power of the Milk-Milk Fruit, the improvement of the three little ones was not small.

Ace and Sabo were both only ten years old, while Luffy was only seven.

But except for Curly, everyone else in her gang was no longer a match for the three little ones in terms of strength, speed, endurance, defense, and even accuracy.

"Luffy, your punch is too slow, too weak, and not accurate enough!"

"With your current skill, how can you still say your fists are like a pistol? They're more like water guns."

Hiruma, as always, was very sarcastic.

"Sabo, how many times do I have to tell you, Dragon Claw Fist isn't used like that. That's not Dragon Claw, that's Cat Claw!"

In this month, his progress was obviously more significant than that of Luffy and his friends. Not only did he make great progress in attributes and skill levels, but he also gained two new skills.

They were Cooking and Dragon Claw Fist.

[Host]: Hiruma

[Strength]: 51

[Speed]: 48

[Physical Fitness]: 62

[Skills]: Swordsmanship lv8, Marksmanship lv10, Taunt lvMAX, Conqueror's Haki lv1, Boxing lv15, Navigation lv8, Armament Haki lv1, Swimming lvMAX, Cooking lvMAX, Dragon Claw Fist lv9

[Devil Fruit]: Milk-Milk Fruit

Cooking was obtained as a battle loot and was raised directly to the maximum level through the system's matching with his talent.

Indeed, besides his battle talent, he was exceptional in other other aspect.

He was proficient in Taunting, Swimming, Babysitting, Cooking, and more.

As for Dragon Claw Fist, it was a loot dropped from Sabo. There were no surprises about its the initial level, it started at level one; same as the other battle related skills.

Dragon Claw Fist was a boxing technique Sabo would become the most proficient in the future, so Hiruma decided to teach it to him early.

"Ace, how many times have I told you? You can't just focus on attacking and completely ignore defense."

What worried Hiruma the most was that Ace was the fastest at improving.

Ace's personality was too extreme, which led to his combat style being equally extreme.

He didn't consider defense at all when fighting, just attacked, attacked, and attacked.

This wouldn't work. Against weaker opponents or enemies with similar strength, even those slightly stronger, this combat style would be fine.

He could achieve the most significant results in the shortest amount of time.

But when facing enemies much stronger than him, the drawbacks became apparent.

For some time now, Hiruma had been training Ace's defensive awareness.

If things continued like this, the tragedy of the Summit War might happen again.

"Master, isn't the best defense just a good offense?" Ace argued with a smile.

Hiruma pointed his finger, and a milk bottle appeared in Ace's mouth.

The milk bottle was not the small one that could be finished in a few minutes like before.

This milk bottle was as big as half of Ace's body.

Rather than a milk bottle, it was more like a milk barrel.

It was Hiruma's Milk-Milk fruit skill: A Big Bottle of Milk To Shut You Up.

Holding the big milk bottle, Ace couldn't say anything but gulp it down.

"You little devil, listen to me. Just attacking blindly won't work if you want to defeat your enemies."

"Life is the most important thing. If you lose your life, how can you defeat your enemies?"

...

Hiruma began to lecture at length, trying to change Ace's mindset.

"Hoo--"

Ace finally finished the milk and breathed a sigh of relief before saying, "I'll just find a Logia-type fruit to improve my defense in the future..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Hiruma pointed his finger again, and Ace had no choice but to continue drinking from the big milk bottle.

"Luffy, come over here." Hiruma waved to Luffy.

Luffy was quite envious of Ace, who could drink so much milk in a row.

He happily ran over, thinking Hiruma was going to give him a big milk bottle too.

"Bang!"

Without saying a word, Hiruma punched Luffy in the head.

"It hurts so much!" Luffy cried, tears almost falling out of his eyes.

Hiruma's punch just now was infused with Haki, and it was max-force Armament Haki.

Unfortunately, his Armament Haki level was still only at level one.

"You see, Devil Fruits are not invincible. The Gomu Gomu no Mi Fruit gives Immunity to physical damage, but if Armament Haki is used, it can still cause damage."

"The same goes for Logia-typr Devil Fruits. If Armament Haki is strong enough, it can capture the body of the user, causing damage or even killing them!"

Although Ace's gaze changed slightly, it was still clear that he didn't think much of it.

Hiruma was not in a hurry either. This was Ace's personality.

It was impossible to change completely in a short time.

Besides, he was not planning to completely change Ace's personality.

He just wanted the other party to pay a little more attention to defense in order to avoid being killed by Akainu in the future.

"Well, since you said you want to get a logia-type Devil Fruit in the future, let's take the Flame-Flame fruite, a logia-type Devil Fruit, as an example."

Hiruma changed his teaching method.

Influencing the other person in a subtle way on things that interest him.

"If you have the power of that Fruit, how would you develop your power?" Hiruma asked.

Sure enough, as soon as he brought up the topic, not only Ace, but even Sabo and Luffy became interested.

"I can use the power of flames to cause explosions, turning my arms into flames to attack enemies. I can also use flames as bullets to attack, form a flame spear to attack, or condense the flames into a super large fireball to attack..."

Ace was excited after drinking his milk, but no matter what he said, he was always lacking a word: defense.

Even Luffy, this little guy, knew that he could become balloon-shaped by inflating himself to defend, but in Ace's mind, there was no concept of defense at all.

After some discussion, although Hiruma didn't completely convince Ace, he at least made the other person have a preliminary awareness of defense.

"Okay, let's stop here today. Ace, think about it more after you go back, and tell me at least one way to defend with flames tomorrow." Hiruma began to assign homework.

"Sabo, carefully understand the Dragon Claw Fist and find ways to cause maximum damage with minimum force."

"Luffy, you... you drink more milk."

Waving his hand to give Luffy a large bottle of milk, he went back to his room to rest.

He originally wanted to remind Sabo not to run around.

One is because according to the newspaper, the Celestial Dragon Saint Charlos will not arrive until three days later.

The second reason is that compared to Ace and Luffy, Sabo was the most obedient.

He has not caused any trouble for almost a month, so Hiruma did not pay too much attention.

Just as he returned to his room to rest, a rumbling thunder sounded.

"It's going to rain." He looked up at the sky.