Chapter 67: Mastering Fish-men Karate; Correspondence From Naval Headquarters~

"Okay Nami, let's get on with business.

Rifan smiled at Nami, then turned to Mikita and Robin.

"Now our pirate group has 5 members, and it can be regarded as a relatively formed pirate group."

"I think it's almost time to give the crew members further strengthening."

"Nami and Nojiko, I have already helped to strengthen them just now, and then it will be your turn."

"Robin, Mikita, let's start with you."

"Extend your hands."

Hearing this, Mikita, who wanted to become stronger, did her part and quickly stretched out her hand in front of Rifan.

Robin smiled, and also stretched out her hand engraved with the group tattoo.

Rifan took his hand out of Nami's arms, and put his left and right hands on Mikita's and Robin's hands respectively.

Then use his points and power-ups the two.

Mikita and Robin immediately felt the tattoo on their arms emitting strong heat.

[Rifan, you have started strengthening Mikita. ]

[Rifan, you have started to enhance Robin. ]

[Rifan, your talent 'Strengthen your partner, equal return' has been activated. ]

Now, there are only 3500 points left, and Rifan chose to use them on Mikita.

As for the scrolls that can help awaken the Primary Armament Haki, Rifan directly used them on Robin.

The scroll that can awaken the intermediate Conqueror's Haki is used on Mikita.

For Mikita, his first crew member and also the first person loyal to him, Rifan still favors her very much.

As for Robin, Robin already has a loyalty of over 60, so Rifan is not reluctant to use his points to help her improve her physical fitness.

And after seeing Nami's changes.

Rifan wants to try to strengthen Robin by "initiating a final invitation to Robin to give her future power".

[Your enhancement of Robin has been completed, and her personal attributes have been refreshed, please check it yourself. ]

[Pirates: Black Pearl Pirates]

[Name: Nico Robin]

[Age: 28 years old]

[Crew number: 02]

[Position: Archaeologist (Expert)]

[Physical: 510] 

[Physical Level: D-Class]

[Devil Fruit: Flower-Flower Fruit]

[Special Abilities: Primary Armament Haki, Primary Observation Haki]

[Loyalty: 67 (close friend)]

[Your strengthening of Mikita has been completed, and her personal attributes have been refreshed, please check it yourself. ]

[Pirates: Black Pearl Pirates]

[Name: Mikita]

[Age: 22 years old]

[Crew number: 01]

[Position: Pastry Chef (Skilled)]

[Physical: 10100]

[Physical level: B level]

[Devil Fruit: Kilo-Kilo Fruit]

[Special Ability: Primary Observation Haki, Intermediate Conqueror's Haki]

[Loyalty: 100 (Life and death go hand in hand)]

[Rifan, it has been detected that you already have primary Armament Haki, the 'Primary Armament Haki' you used on Robin has been converted into Marine Six Styles————]

[Rifan, it has been detected that you have intermediate level Conqueror's Haki, the 'intermediate level Conqueror's Haki' you used on Mikita has been converted into Fish-men karate, congratulations, you have initially mastered Fish-men karate. "

[Your personal attribute has been refreshed, please check it yourself. ]

"This time, I got Fish-men karate?"

"Humans using Fish-men karate, am I exactly the same as Koala of the Revolutionary Army?"

Rifan raised his eyebrows and opened his personal attribute panel.

As a series of reminders sounded in Rifan's mind, he could clearly feel that his physical strength was also being improved accordingly.

A few seconds later, when the strengthening was completed, Rifan couldn't wait to open his own personal attribute panel.

[Pirates: Black Pearl Pirates (Level 2)]

[Name: Rifan]

[Age: 25 years old]

[Position: Captain]

[Talent: Strengthen the crew, equal returns]

[Points: 0]

[Physical: 17000 points]

[Physical level: B level]

[Devil Fruit: Dark Fruit]

[Skills: Iron Body, Moonwalk, Tempest Kick, Finger Pistol, Shaving, Fish-men Karate]

[Special Abilities: Intermediate Armament Haki, Intermediate Observation Haki, Intermediate Conqueror's Haki]

'Among the Marine Six Styles, there is only one Paper Arts missing, so it is considered complete.'

'17000 points of physique, plus mid-level Armament, Observation and Conqueror Haki.'

'Adding Devil Fruit and Fish-men karate, I don't know what level I am in the sea.'

'However, I am probably the only person in the world who can use Devil Fruit and enter the sea to use Fish-men karate.'

Same as Dark Fruit, when Rifan uses his partner's Devil Fruit.

The sea and seastone didn't become his weakness. 

At this time, Rifan already wanted to see the shocked expressions of those powerful Devil Fruit users in the sea when they saw him using Devil Fruit power and Fish-men karate at the same time.

"Captain Rifan, I feel so strong now!"

"Also with this momentum, I feel like I can use my Conqueror's Haki freely!"

After receiving the power, Mikita said to Rifan with great joy.

"Right now, purely in terms of physical fitness, you're still ahead of Nami."

"You have to work harder in the future, Mikita."

Rifan smiled and stroked Mikita's golden hair.

As for Mikita, hearing that her physique was stronger than Nami's, she couldn't help but proudly puffed her chest out to Nami.

Not to be outdone, Nami also made the same gesture to Mikita, as if to say that mine is bigger than yours.

Mikita looked down at her own chest, and then at Nami's, feeling a sense of frustration in her heart.

"Is this the power of Armament Haki? It's really strange."

"Captain Rifan, thank you very much."

Robin let go of the Armament Haki in her hand, and said to Rifan with a smile on her face.

"Robin, can you use Armament Haki on an arm built with your fruit ability?"

Rifan asked.

"Well... If it's the arm attached to my body, it can be covered with Armament Haki."

"However, the arm that is farther away cannot be covered for the time being."

Robin shook her head and said.

"I see." Rifan nodded slightly, feeling a little pity in his heart.

He felt that if he could really grow a hand out of thin air on other people and use Armament Haki directly, then Robin's deterrence would rise to another level.

"By the way, Robin, regarding your strengthening, I plan to use the same strengthening method as Nami as much as possible in the future."

"So this reinforcement, I didn't allocate too many resources to you, I hope you understand."

Rifan said.

"Don't worry, Captain Rifan, I understand."

"It's better to say that you plan to help me in the same way as Nami, which makes me breathe a sigh of relief."

Robin raised the corner of her mouth and said softly.

"I also want to see what Robin will look like when you grow physically like Nami."

"So, I will also move closer to this goal."

"First of all, we have to find a way to get more Devil Fruit."

Rifan rubbed his chin and thought for a while, then said:

"Okay, everyone, take a good rest."

"Today's work is over, I have to go to rest first."

After speaking, Rifan waved to everyone, and returned to the room Nojiko had prepared for him.

When everyone saw Rifan leaving, they didn't disperse in a hurry, but chatted around Rifan.

Time passed gradually, and soon it was late at night.

A few days later, Naval Headquarters.

"Marshal, do you agree with Hina to go to sea again?"

At the door of the marshal's office, Hina knocked on the door of the office and walked in.

Because of dereliction of duty, when she took Rifan, the Black Pearl Pirates to East Blue, 

Hina couldn't help being relegated, and now she is introspecting at Naval Headquarters and cannot leave Naval Headquarters.

At this moment, when she got the news that Sengoku had asked her to come to the office, Hina, who thought her confinement was about to be lifted, rushed over as quickly as possible.

"You're here, come in first."

In the office, a voice very familiar to Hina sounded.

"Teacher Zephyr, you are here too."

Hina heard the voice and said to Zephyr.

Then she nodded to the two students Ain and Binz standing behind Zephyr.

Theoretically speaking, these two are still her kohai in terms of seniority. 

"Just came back from outside, but this time Sengoku called you over, not to talk about your  grounding."

Zephyr shook his head, motioning for Hina to look at Sengoku.

"Can't Hina leave Naval Headquarters yet?"

"Marshal, did you call Hina here for something?"

Hina frowned slightly, and looked at Sengoku with a puzzled expression.

"That's right, Hina."

"Colonel Mouse of the 16th Division of the East Blue Marine led the fleet out on a mission the other day."

"But until now they haven't returned to the branch."

"They seem to have mysteriously disappeared into the sea, unable to make any contact."

"We have analyzed and investigated East Blue's pirate group that may have caused Colonel Mouse and his party to lose contact."

"I found that most of the East Blue pirates who had the strength to make them lose contact are unlikely to encounter Colonel Mouse and his party in the past few days."

"They all have relevant information coming back from elsewhere."

"Of course, there are two pirate groups exceptions."

Sengoku clasped his hands and rested his chin, looking at Hina with a serious face.

Hina's beautiful eyes widened, and she immediately thought of Rifan and his party.

"Marshal, are those guys Rifan group?"

Hina swallowed, frowned and said.

Thinking that the colonel of the 16th branch of the Marine might lose contact because of her, Hina felt quite uneasy.

"After our analysis, the first pirate group is the relatively secretive Arlong Pirates in East Blue."

"As for the other one, it's the Black Pearl Pirates."

Sengoku said in a deep voice.

The loss of contact with the chief executive of a Marine branch is, to some extent, already a major event in the sea area.

In addition, this may be the work of the Black Pearl Pirates, who were judged by Sengoku to be dangerous pirates.

Therefore, Sengoku had to be a little more cautious.

"Could it be that it's really that guy Rifan?"

Hina clenched her fists, thinking of Rifan's words that he would not intentionally trouble East Blue with Marine, she couldn't stop her anger, she just felt that Rifan had cheated her.

"Hina, you said before, Rifan took all the den-den mushi from your ship?"

Sengoku asked.

"Yes, Marshal Sengoku! But why are you bringing this up?"

Hina asked with some doubts.

"Actually, before you came, I wanted to dial these den-den mushi to see if I could chat with that Rifan in person."

"It's just a pity that all the numbered den-den mushi in Marine cannot be dialed."

"Except for the numbered den-den mushi, though."

"Hina, you should also have a personal den-den mushi, right?"

"I called you here this time to ask you this question."

"If you've ever had your personal den-den mushi stolen by Rifan."

"I want to try and see if I can reach the guy on your personal den-den mushi."

Sengoku straightened up and looked at Hina seriously.

Among the den-den mushis in Marine, there are some den-den mushis that can be traced to the signal and location.

These things are not considered secrets at sea.

Therefore, many pirates will choose to discard them after getting Marine's den-den mushi.

So Sengoku was not surprised by the previous inability to dial the den-den mushi.

This time he called Hina over, also wanting to make a final attempt.

"Personal den-den mushis, of course there are."

"But Hina doesn't think Rifan will choose to keep my den-den mushi."

After a little hesitation, Hina spoke to Sengoku.

"Try, if you can get in touch with that guy."

"By the way, you can also confirm whether the fleet of the 16th Marine Division was destroyed by him.

"Also, I want to have a good chat with this newcomer pirate who recruited Nico Robin."

While talking, Sengoku pushed the den-den mushi in front of him to Hina.

Hina nodded slightly, taking the den-den mushi and dialing the number of her den-den mushi that Rifan took away."

After a while, a voice very familiar to Hina sounded.

"Hello, this is Rifan. Is the opposite Colonel Naval Headquarters, Miss Hina?"

Hearing the slightly teasing voice in these words, a vein popped out on Hina's forehead immediately.

"Bastard Rifan, thanks to you, Hina is no longer a colonel!"

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