296- Egginhard VS. Ethan

●Author: How are you guys? I hope you are fine. Did you miss me, after all it's been about a month since the last update.

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"Egginhard, you make people wait. Do you think you're the main character?" Kaiser said in a joking manner upon seeing the world's strongest swordsman arriving late. "Or maybe you were so nervous to fight the strongest man in the world that your feet were trembling making you unable to walk?"

'Kaiser-sama, can you stop provoking people? You put us in an awkward position if you provoke everyone. What will we do if everyone unites against us?' Although the vice captain showed no expression, he was worried about the captain's actions. His captain provoked two emperors before Ethan appeared, then provoked Ethan as soon as he appeared, and now he provoked the emperor who arrived late.

"That's the same bad attitude as it's always been... Actually you're still the same guy who provokes people!" Egginhard looked at Kaiser coldly and then moved toward Ethan.

Ethan looked at Egginhard' appearance and smiled while thinking, 'He's hiding his true appearance.'

Egginhard is a tall man with white skin and black hair. He is a man of average appearance and there is nothing special about his appearance. He wears open jackets that show his chest and black pants.

Egginhard did not care about the other party's provocation , just narrowed his eyes and asked Ethan, "Are you ready? If you're ready, let's start and finish this quickly. It's annoying to be surrounded by a bunch of humandrills."

"Yes, there are a lot of humandrills here." Kaiser grabbed his chin and looked around. Except for the pirates belonging to the Four Emperors, there were a large number of pirates and swordsmen who wanted to watch this battle and there were some journalists who were not afraid of losing their lives among the audience.

"You are among them!" Egginhard scoffed and turned his attention back to Ethan.

"Bastard!!" Had it not been for the vice-captain, Kaiser would have rushed to fight Egginhard.

While this was happening between Kaiser and Egginhard, Ethan looked at the crowd around him, picked out one of the swordsman, and asked him to approach.

The swordsman was frightened but did not dare to disobey the orders of the strongest man in the world so he quickly approached him.

As he approached, Ethan politely asked, "Is it okay if I borrow your sword?"

The swordsman's eyes twinkled and he handed his Ōdachi to Ethan and then returned to his places to watch the duel.

He would certainly brag to his grandchildren and children in the future that the strongest man in the world borrowed his sword in order to fight the strongest swordsman in the world.

Egginhard who saw this became annoyed, "What does this mean?"

"It's a sword duel, isn't it?" Ethan smiled as he pulled the Ōdachi from it sheath, "So I borrowed some swords for that."

"This is not a duel of the sword! It is a battle in which we use all our strength and our best methods to determine the victor." Egginhard pulled out his sword and this sword is of the rank of Saijo O Wazamono, "And also my sword is one of the 12 best swords in the world so even if you have the same swordsmanship skills as myself, the quality of our swords will already determine the outcome."

Egginhard tries to tell Ethan to stop playing with useless swords and use his true power, whether demon fruit or physical abilities. In fact Egginhard does not know if Ethan has a Devil Fruit or not, but he was sure that Ethan is not a swordsman because he does not carry any sword and borrowed one from the crowd.

"It's okay, I'll play with you with the sword!" Ethan chuckled and motioned for Egginhard to attack him.

Ethan, whose sword talent had reached the limit, wanted to test his skills and talent against Egginhard and did not mean to insult or ridicule him by defeating him with a sword of lower quality borrowed from the crowd.

Actually Ethan didn't want to make this duel long but he really wanted to discover what his sword talent had to offer.

"Let's see where your arrogance will take you!" Egginhard held the sword with both hands, and the moment the words fell, both knees slightly bent, as if he stepped on a spring and ejected directly.

"What a fast slashing attack!" Ethan pupils contracted violently, but he did not move slowly at all, holding the Ōdachi with both hands and swinging it violently towards the other side.

Before the crowd could react, the sword and the Ōdachi had already fiercely collided together.

BOOM!

The constant earth exploded beneath their feet, and the steel - hard rocks shattered into gravel, the wind stirred, the debris soared, and the two fighting men rushed toward each other again without any hesitation.

However, the spectator on the island is a stroke of bloody bad luck.

They did not expect the two people to directly fight at the middle of their conversation, too late to withdraw from the battle circle; the people were affected by the battle. The unlucky people directly got blown into the sieve by the debris that accelerated countless times.

What made them feel more depressed was that the two were fighting too fast, not to mention observing and learning; they couldn't even keep up with the two's residual shadows.

"This is too exaggerated, is it not enough for me to hide ten kilometers away from the beginning?" An unlucky pirate was injured even though he was very far from the battle area.

When the crowd is riotous to escape, the fighting on the battlefield is also continuing.

Under the augmentation of Armament Haki, the already white blade shows a dark black-like lustre.

Egginhard's swordsmanship never relies on harshness to win, but overwhelming strength and speed to defeat the enemy.

On the other hand, Ethan did the same.

His swordsmanship is calm and orderly, but the speed and power of his attacks are very frightening and the choppy, and the blue-colored slashing strikes are like a tidal wave, pressing on the opponent in wave after wave.

To pretend to be sick, he took the initiative to restrain some of his power. However, even so, he still has the advantage in the strength to suppress Egginhard completely.

Ethan uses slightly higher power and speed than Egginhard so he has an advantage over him.

"You are better than I thought, I haven't experienced such an enjoyable fight for a long time!" Egginhard, slightly gasping for air, his body's jackets has long been torn and tattered.

"The warm-up is over, you should also be a little more serious, right?" Unlike Egginhard, Ethan's breathing was normal and regular as if he didn't make any effort, causing everyone watching to be surprised and think the same thing, 'Isn't this guy supposed to be sick? Why does he look so healthy and so strong?'

'Aren't you supposed to pretend you're sick? You don't look like someone with an incurable disease.' Emma sighed, looking at Ethan.

'what? Do you want me to pretend I'm tired?' Hearing Emma's voice in his mind, Ethan began to mimic Egginhard' way of breathing.

But everyone who saw this thought that he was mocking Egginhard.

Well they're not wrong because Ethan is trying to make him angry and take out his true strength or show his true form.