“Testing the new strength”

The persecution continued for a few minutes. Yamamoto had planned to take him to a more remote area, as he did not want to draw the attention of the whole Ilisia Kingdom.

Boo Kong did not specialize in speed, so Yamamoto was able to barely gain the lead and not be overtaken.

He stopped and looked in the direction of his pursuer who arrived moments later, *I need to work on my speed* thought Boo Kong somewhat embarrassed to lose to an unknown person from a realm that belonged to the weaker oceans.

"I told you to stop! I'm from the Marine identify yourself!" exclaimed Boo Kong.

*He still doesn't know my identity* thought Yamamoto, although this was obvious from the start since if he had recognized him he wouldn't be chasing him because Yamamoto proved to beat the vice admirals with ease.

"I am a free citizen of the Kingdom of Ilisia, why should I?" said Yamamoto trying to put on an indignant tone.

"Having a hood that covers your face in broad daylight and running away the moment he called, you out doesn't make you look like a normal citizen of this kingdom" said Boo Kong countering Yamamoto's argument.

"You have a point... Fine, I'll take off my hood" said Yamamoto as his hands went to his hood.

Boo Kong nodded in satisfaction at this, he didn't believe this person to be the Fire Demon, for if this was the case ¿Why would he run away? Only by snapping his fingers could he kill him.

As Yamamoto was about to take off his hood, he kicked the ground which kicked up a large amount of dirt that flew towards Boo Kong and blocked his line of sight.

Then, putting all his strength into his twins he lunged at Boo Kong and slammed his fist into his stomach.

Boo Kong's eyes were hit by the dirt, and before he could wipe his eyes he felt something hit his stomach causing him pain and sending him flying into a tree.

CRASH!

Yamamoto frowned as he noticed that his hit didn't do much damage, although his strength and speed sent him flying a few meters.

He could easily tell that Boo Kong was someone who specialized in brute strength and defense because of his huge body. As for speed, it seemed to be his weakness, as he couldn't keep up with it when it was chasing him and also couldn't react to this attack, although the earth it threw at him played an important role.

Yamamoto did not use his fire power for one simple reason. If he used his logia powers his identity would be discovered, and it would be weird if he couldn't kill him easily. So he decided to wait for the right moment to make a deadly attack with his fire powers.

One detail was that Yamamoto had reached 70 points out of 100 in his devil fruit mastery. In these days of travel, apart from raising 1 point in his Spiritual Power, he also trained his Devil Fruit, although it was more about control and trying to raise the temperature of his flame.

Exercises that could be performed on a ship without setting it on fire completely.

With this progress, he went up 0.1% to 12.7%. Since he found his purpose in this world, he felt his training improving faster than before.

Yamamoto deduced that this person must be a rear admiral, so his strength must be around 20 to 30 points, although his speed is very low, even so, this is relative since there are marines who have high ranks and weak strength as in the case of Nelson.

If his power has an average of 20 points it would already be greater than Yamamoto's strength, but he decided to fight for the powers that give him fruit logia since the rear admirals do not know how to use haki. So in the case that Boo Kong could hit a mortal blow he will use his intangibility and problem solved.

"Bastard because you attack out of nowhere!" exclaimed Boo Kong as he stood up and touched his big stomach feeling some pain.

*This man is suspicious, I'd better stop him quickly for questioning* thought Boo Kong as he lunged towards Yamamoto unwilling to give him time to make another attack.

*He's slow* thought Yamamoto as he prepared to dodge Boo Kong's attack. Bumping fists was not an option, as he knew Boo Kong had superior strength to him.

When Boo Kong reached Yamamoto's side, he hit with his huge fist straight to Yamamoto's head. The speed of the blow was not great, it was more trouble to dodge it because of its huge size.

Yamamoto ducked nimbly and the moment the fist passed over his head, he threw a hook straight to Boo Kong's chin.

PUM!

The hook hit Boo Kong's chin knocking him several meters backward, when Boo Kong was about to crash into a tree again, he managed to control his body and stop.

"Tsch these annoying punches" said Boo Kong feeling a little pain in his chin.

*His defense is high...* though Yamamoto, deduced that to hurt him he would need to have a strength of about 25 points.

*I must target weak areas of the body* thought Yamamoto.

"Take this!" shouted Boo Kong as he easily plucked the tree next to him and threw it at Yamamoto with all his might.

As the tree was about to crush him, Yamamoto kicked it sending it away, however, when his sight cleared he saw Boo Kong almost next to him.

Boo Kong threw his two huge fists at Yamamoto, but this time he couldn't dodge it by ducking.

One option to easily dodge this blow was to use his intangibility from his devil fruit, but this would give away his identity and still Boo Kong was without serious injuries.

When both fists were about to hit him, Yamamoto jumped, but it wasn't a normal jump, when he was in the air he jumped again as if he was touching an invisible platform in the air that allowed him to jump again.

"What!?" exclaimed Boo Kong in surprise seeing how Yamamoto rose in the air and dodged his fists.

BOOM!

Boo Kong's fists hit the earth creating a large crater and a wave of dust.

Yamamoto did not miss his chance and from the air, using his fingers he aimed at Boo Kong's eyes.

As he was in a more advantageous position and Boo Kong just missed his attack, he managed to stick two fingers of each hand into his eyes.

"AARGH!" cried Boo Kong in pain as Yamamoto buried his fingers deeper and deeper into Boo Kong's eyes with all his might.

After a few seconds Yamamoto pulled his fingers out of Boo Kong's eyes and as he did so he kicked him with all his might.

Upon feeling that Yamamoto had removed his fingers from his eyes, Boo Kong began to scream in pain and touch his eyes which were no longer there, "My eyes! I can't see!" Boo Kong shouted in desperation in his tone.

Being in this pitiful state, the kick that Yamamoto threw at him hit him squarely and sent him flying again, only this time he crashed into a stone cracking it to the point of almost destroying it.

The technique to walk in the air is possible thanks to his spiritual power and this technique was in the manual he had bought. These days that he was traveling he managed to train with difficulty in the small room of the boat. He still did not manage to float in the air without difficulty as when he used 50% of the strength of Yamamoto's template.

It was more like a kind of Geppo, but it did not require physical strength to perform it.

With practice he would be able to fly in the air without problems, he would only need to practice more and have more spiritual power to prolong it for a longer period of time.