The Longinus Show (Another)

The people around the crowd stared in horror. Having been tormented by nightmares for three years, and what a degree of pain that was, they now understood somewhat why Longinus was so much stronger than them!

No one doubts the truth of Longinus' words, for this is the best reason to explain Longinus' breezy approach to the Tokikake's trick.

"Perhaps... what Zephyr-sensei said, that kind of really strong person is meant to be people like Longinus!" They muttered as they looked at the upright back with a complicated gaze.

"All that can't destroy me will make me strong!" Gion thought about the words, and the light in her eyes grew in intensity, "Since I can come forward alive, I will surely make my way back with the most honorable of all!"

"This kind of talent, this kind of mind..." Zephyr uttered a slightly impressed breath, then looked warily at Dragon with his eyes, "Don't tell your father about what happened today."

The corners of Dragon's cold mouth twitched slightly, "There is nothing you can do to hide from him when so many people know about it."

Zephyr looked around seriously, finally gave up some unrealistic idea and ordered in a serious tone, "In the future, Garp is banned from entering the boot camp, so he won't destroy it again as he did before."

"Longinus is so well regarded by Admiral Zephyr. Does he have the potential to grow into the world's highest power in battle?" The instructors around were surprised in their hearts and also replied helplessly, "But, if Vice Admiral Garp wants to come in, there is no way we can stop him!"

When he thought of Garp's usual way of dealing with people, Zephyr cursed him. That was the thing that he could do!

"Forget it, we should first instill into Longinus about the danger of Garp. If he doesn't want to, how shameless is Garp going to be to tie him up, right?" Zephyr nodded slightly and began to recall in his mind about Garp's "good deeds".

In the field, Tokikake said with disbelief, "How is it possible? After three years of being tormented by nightmares, you should have gone crazy long ago. I don't believe it, I definitely don't believe it, Akumu Shōkōgun..."

Boom!

Before the words were out of his mouth, Tokikake was knocked into the sky by a straight kick from Longinus, and then his plump body came crashing down.

This time, Tokikake did not regain his feet.

It's not that the injuries are so bad. There is almost no such thing as too much injury for Zoan users as long as they don't die.

But the wounds in mind are hard to heal.

In Tokikake's eyes, he paid such a large "price" for the ability but could not even cause half damage. This situation is no doubt a devastating blow to him.

Tokikake, who returned to his human form, lay on his back on the ground, with no interest in his eyes, as if he had lost the goal of the chase.

Longinus did not exit the stage but walked straight to Tokikake. He still needed a perfect ending to his show today.

Longinus walked up to Tokikake and scolded in an angry voice, "Are you still a marine?"

Tokikake looked up at Longinus. His eyes did not waver, as if he was looking at someone who was not related to him.

"I don't know what kind of past you have had, and I don't know what you are really struggling against the rejection. However, please keep in mind that your current identity is a marine, a soldier who upholds justice. If you are unable to devote yourself to the job of hunting down pirates and upholding the cause of justice, then take off the uniform you are wearing, because you are not worthy!"

Although the speech is somewhat of disgust himself, the good thing is that Longinus had started with a kind personality mode, and it filled his words with convincing power in turn.

There was finally anger in Tokikake's eyes, and he said in a hoarse voice, "How would people like you, who have always been honorable people, know my pain? I once also put in countless efforts and longed for the recognition of others, but why... why I have worked so hard and strong but still no one is willing to accept me? Is it because of this disgusting ugly face of mine?"

'No, you're just plain creepy!' A sarcasm came from the heart of Longinus, who almost didn't have to bring out Kizaru as an example.

"In this world of pain and misery, no one is easier than anyone else, pain and despair is the eternal theme. You think you are wronged and painful, but have you ever thought about the towns destroyed and ravaged by pirates? Have you ever thought about the suffering people who have even dried up their blood and tears, whose pain and suffering is a hundred times or a thousand times more than yours!"

"You don't need to teach me this. One by one, you all put yourselves on the moral high ground, so naturally whatever you say is right. But when you have also gone through such pain, can you still be so light-hearted? Answer me!" Tokikake broke out abruptly and shouted.

"Then I will tell you!" Longinus said with a heavy, sluggish voice as his eyes lowered.

"When I was nine years old, my village was massacred by pirates and no one survived except me. For the next three years, I would re-experience that pain every day in nightmares. Fortunately, that pain did not knock me down, but instead made me keep getting stronger."

The field was deathly silent.

No one could have imagined that Longinus, who was so powerful in their eyes, had such an unknown past.

If they were in the same position as Longinus, would they be able to defeat the nightmare in their minds as he did?

If they were yearning for the might of Longinus before, at this moment, they are in awe of Longinus' persistence from the bottom of their hearts.

"I didn't expect there would be such a tragic past for our boss, but he never talked to us about it, just always acted as our solid backing. With such a boss, I'm really... I'm just too moved!" Gregory was actually so emotional that he cried out, but the people around him not only did not despise but also vaguely revealed the color of envy.

"Perhaps... is this kind of people who value justice and righteousness can make such a good boss!"

"The same thing that happened to me?" Gion muttered, then shook her head again and sighed, "No, I'm so much luckier than him, at least... I have hope, and Tsuru-nee!"

After Tokikake listened to it as if struck by thunder, his lips were no longer sure what to say. The mind, blinded by his fiends, suddenly regained clarity.

In the end, he is merely afraid because the long-suppressed fear after eating the fruit has just exploded today so that his inferior and straightforward heart in a short period is driven to another extreme.

If he were as bad as he acted before, he wouldn't be valued by Admiral Zephyr.

At this moment, after returning to the previous gentle and calm, the guilt and shame in Tokikake's heart was a source of unending influx.

"What the hell... have I done?"

After almost recovering from his injury, Tokikake stood up. In the eyes of the blank stares of a whole audience, he was performing his dogeza and said regretfully, "I'm sorry to have given you trouble!"

Longinus also twitched his mouth and thought to himself somewhat, "Is it true that this guy also has two personalities?"