166. Snow's Ability

Marineford.

At the top floor.

Four people sat infront of Sengoku. Three of them were tall men wearing suits and the last one was an old woman.

The three men were the top powers of Marineford, Admirals.

The woman is not one to be looked down upon either, she is from the same era as Garp and Sengoku.

Her official position is tactical officer, Tsuru.

Sengoku said, "Shiki is dead. Leo has done great merits and I want to place him on the list of alternative admiral candidates. What are your opinions?"

Aokiji was the first one to speak, "I have no problems with that."

The other two didn't reply immediately. One of them wearing a yellow checkered suit said in a lazy tone, "Isn't this way too fast. He was only a captain for several months, then was promoted directly to vice admiral."

The other admiral wearing a red suit with a flower tattoo on his neck said in a rough voice, "He is too immature to be placed as an alternative candidate."

Sengoku didn't refute any of them and listened calmly. He then turned to Tsuru and asked, "What do you think, Tsuru?"

Tsuru said, "I think it's fine. He has proven himself over the past several months, and him being able to defeat Shiki means that he is qualified to be placed on that list."

"Hmph! An old man from the past, Shiki was nothing more than that."

The admiral wearing the red suit scoffed and said.

Sengoku stared at him and said solemnly, "Akainu, Shiki may not have been at his peak but he was still someone who contended with every top powers in that era. No matter how much he has regressed he was still be a force to reckoned with."

Akainu didn't reply. Kizaru and Aokiji also didn't speak anymore.

With none of them raising anymore objections Sengoku said, "It's settled, Leo will be placed as an alternative candidate."

...

A woman was running through a forest. She had two pistols in her hands.

Whoosh!

Suddenly a small rubber ball shot at her with tremendous speed. She agilely dodged it and raised a pistol and fired.

Bang!

The rubber ball was hit and it burst apart.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Before she could relax several more shot at her from every direction.

Soru!

She kicked off the ground and disappeared. With incredible speed she dodged the shots and fired.

Pop! Pop!

One by one the rubber balls were hit and smashed into bits.

However she failed to dodged one. Her body faltered for a moment, before she could steady herself several more rubber ball struck her.

Ow, ow, ow...

She cried out in pain and ducked her head.

The rubber balls stopped shooting at her. A figure walked out from the trees.

"Not bad. Your marksmanship and kenbunshoku haki has gotten better, however your busoshoku haki is still lacking."

The woman rubbed her back that was still aching from pain and said pitifully, "Sir, no matter what, I am still a woman, can't you be gentle?"

This was of course Leo and Violet.

Leo ignored her and said, "Only one more strengthening to go, with that your busoshoku haki should reach an acceptable level. Go rest for today, tomorrow is going to be a hard one."

Violet faltered for a moment when she thought about the strengthening process. However the benefits from it was astounding.

It had only been a week since the three of them started training, however a week completely changed them. Their strength reached a new level.

Their base strength shot through the roof. With the strengthening of their body, all other aspects also got upgraded. Their kenbunshoku haki and busoshoku haki had already reached basic mastery.

They now only lacked real time battle experience to completely assimilate these changes.

Leaving Violet Leo walked back to his residence. But he didn't head in and turned to the laboratory.

As he got in he saw Shinobu working with a table full of test tubes filled with different coloured potions.

"Is that the advanced strengthening drug?"

He asked.

Shinobu didn't turn around and replied, "Yes. I had to make a modified one for Violet since she is more focused on speed, though the pills I gave her would slowly change her physique, it's always better to have a better foundation. For the guys, well, just an ordinary strengthening would do. However three vials took me my entire collection of precious materials."

Leo sat down and listened to her. He was surprised and asked, "All of it?"

Shinobu placed the test tubes down and looked at him with a smile, "Do you think I can whip up something out of nothing? It took me many experiments just to come up with a formula. Then I had to adjust it over and over again so that it won't be harmful in any way. My entire collection is now gone, who's going to compensate me?"

Leo grinned and pulled her to him, then he kissed her, "I can compensate you."

Shinobu pushed him away and said, "I am working, don't disturb me."

Leo laughed and kissed her once more before leaving.

Just as he got out Snow glided from above and sat on his shoulder. She got even bigger this past week. Her feathers were as soft and pure as snow.

Kiii.

Snow rubbed her head against Leo's cheek and let out a happy yelp.

Leo scratched her chin and said, "You are getting bigger by the day, I am afraid you might crush my shoulder the next time."

Snow tilted her head as if trying to understand what he said, a second later she abruptly spread out her wings.

Leo was shocked when he saw what happened next.

Snow started to shrink. Her body got smaller and smaller and finally stopped when she was just thirty centimetres or so.

Leo eyes stared at what just happened. His mouth was hung wide open in shock. A second later he snapped out.

Holy shit!