Past vs Future

Shakky's Rip-off Bar

Looking up at the building in front of him. Tori smiled in excitement and proceed to enter with anticipation in his eyes.

When he touched the door and was about to enter. He felt a heavy pressure weighing down on him.

Tori felt his heart started to beat faster and his excitement rises up.

As he entered the bar, there wasn't any customer inside. The only people inside are the two figures he knew.

"Is this how you welcome your customers?" Tori said as his lips evoked into a smile.

The old man sitting drinking alcohol suddenly speak, "I didn't know that someone like you are interested in visiting this rip off bar. Or, are you here for something else"

Hearing the old man, Tori just shrugs his shoulder, "I'm just here because I was quite curious and wanted to see someone"

"And who are you looking for?"

Bam!

Tori slammed his club at the ground and said, "You, the Right Hand of the Pirate King, Silvers Rayleigh"

The air inside the bar suddenly solidified and a heavy pressure surrounded the two.

"If you two are gonna do something, just do it outside the bar"

Shakky who has been remaining silent suddenly speaks, "Young man, I don't know what your real goal is by going here. But I'm quite confident that what you're doing right now is not gonna be a good thing for you"

"Well...I don't really care," Tori lifted the club over his shoulder and said, "Because I'm strong"

"Hahahaha!" Rayleigh laugh, stand and walk out, before saying, "We'll see about that"

Tori then calmly followed him outside.

Outside the bar, two men one old and one young were facing each other.

A deafening silence surrounds the two as they just stare at each other with smiles on their lips.

"Since you don't want to make a move. Then I will move first" suddenly, Tori kicked the ground and his tall figure propelled towards Rayleigh while also swinging his club.

Rayleigh quickly reacted and draw his sword to block the attack.

Clang!

Two weapons collided and a strong force was released creating a gust of wind.

'Strong!' Rayleigh's eyes turned serious, he was surprised feeling the pressure pressing down to him.

He had already thought that Tori was strong. But he didn't expect that the strength was this much.

The ground beneath his feet showed a cobweb-like cracked.

"You're strong," Rayleigh said, "If it terms of physical ability alone, I might not be your match as I'm already an old man. However, if you want to defeat me. You must first surpass my haki"

Immediately, Rayleigh's free hand move quickly and punch towards Tori's defenseless body.

Tori's pupils condense as he swiftly moves to dodge back.

However

Peng!

A muffled sound came out and a large figure was sent flying across the area.

That figure was Tori, his mind was a little dizzy in his head, and there was some pain coming from his chest.

He looked down on his chest and remembered what just happened earlier.

It was clear that Rayleigh's fist didn't reach or touch his body as he quickly backed away. However, he was still hit and felt his inside was shaking because of the attack.

He stood up without any problem and said, "Haki huh?"

He then said to Rayleigh, "Just as I expected from someone like you"

He cracks his neck and spits on the ground with some blood spots before saying, "I felt that...just a little"

"Hahahaha!" Rayleigh said, "What an energetic young man!"

"Come!"

"As you wish!"

In just a short period of time, the already exchanged blows with each other countless times.

In terms of overall fighting ability, Rayleigh definitely is the superior one. He has mastered haki to an unprecedented level and his experience was vast.

Every time Tori would attack, he will have one or two counter to him.

Tori was blown again and again, but each time he was down. He would immediately jump back and attack again as if nothing happened.

With his tough body and strong tenacity, Tori endured everything. But each time he was hit, aside from pain, he was also gaining experience.

'This young man' Rayleigh sighs inside his mind.

Although he was never hit by Tori's attack even once. He could feel that the arm holding his sword was slowly getting numb.

Tori noticed that Rayleigh was somewhat spacing out and sneered, "Old man! Take this!"

Rayleigh wakes up from his daze by Tori's attack and saw a huge club with spikes heading straight towards his head.

He gritted his teeth and again, raised his sword to block the attack.

However, something unexpected happened.

When he blocked the club, he saw Tori's other hand have a bright blue light condense in it.

"Get blasted old man!" Tori shouted as the blue ball in his hand slammed in Rayleigh's body.

Boom!

A huge explosion happened creating waves of strong winds spreading across the Sabaody.

Swoosh!

In a marine battleship that just arrived at the Sabaody. Both vice-admiral Momousagi and Tokikake felt the waves of air hitting them and frowned deeply.

"Seems like there is another monster in the Sabaody" Vice Admiral Tokikake speak looking at the direction where the force came from.

Momousagi nodded at his words and said, "We need to move quickly and capture whoever is creating this force"

Her hands then subconsciously touch the hilt of her sword and a sharp light shines in her eyes.

In front of Shakky's Bar, a huge deep pit appeared. In the pit, Tori's tall figure was standing silently with a huge grin in his mouth.

Not far away from him just several meters. Rayleigh was standing with a dark expression on his face.

His clothes were tattered and his hair was scattered around. There were several burn marks in his body making him look miserable.

"Kahahahaha! Old man! Didn't expect that you're much tougher than you look like. I should have increased the power of the attack" with a wide grin on his face, Tori said.

Rayleigh didn't speak, but the heavy atmosphere surrounding him tells everything.

Naturally, Tori also noticed that something seems wrong on Rayleigh's expression. But he didn't care at all.

"Young man I honestly didn't expect that you can make me look at you seriously" Rayleigh speaks slowly, but his tone was cold and filled with indifference. "As a reward, let me demonstrate to you the power of someone that once stood beside the pirate king"

"I just hope that you can survive this attack"

Rayleigh simply raises his sword above his head and it was as if the whole world turned gray.

The winds stop blowing and the sound suddenly disappears. Then with a simple move, he swings his sword towards Tori.

Tori felt that he was being stared by death himself. But he gritted his teeth and stood proudly without any expression of fear in his eyes.

"With your strongest, let me receive it with my most toughest!" Tori shouted and his whole figure started to transform.

At the same time, the invisible sword attack finally reached him creating a long red vertical line from his head to the tip of his tail.