38. Getting the Haki Manual. Kaido Vs. Zephyr, start.

│3rd Person POV│

[Grand Line, New World, G5 Marine Base…]

Pfft—

Blood splattered, and a bloody slash mark appeared directly on Iris's chest area.

As he flew back from the blow, his body quickly reverted back to his Human Form before hitting the ground and laying there motionless.

If it were not for the rise and fall of the chest, one might even mistake him as dead.

"Sorry, it's challenging to control strength when stepping over an ant without hurting it." Ron said while showing remorse for injuring Iris to such an extent.

After glancing at Iris, who had completely lost his fighting power, Ron dispersed the sword condensed by the blue flame in his hand.

He looked at Zephyr and other Marines in the area not far away with an indifferent expression and said, "Everyone, I won this battle, right?"

As soon as these words came out, the entire area fell silent.

The Marines' eyes were filled with sadness, and even many of them looked despondent.

Iris had lost, signifying the Marines' defeat in this gamble.

Ron displayed such strength and attitude that proved that he was qualified and had the potential to become Whitebeard's heir.

Even though Iris appeared to be stronger than Ron initially, he was completely crushed, with no resistance at all.

This meant that Ron had the capability to fight and win against opponents stronger than himself, and this was when was just a fourteen-year-old kid.

With enough time and training, just what feats would he be able to achieve in the future? Not to mention he was even an individual capable of using Conqueror's Haki.

While thinking of this, some Marine high-ranking officials, who were initially looking at Iris' prone figure with sadness, focused their gaze on Ron, their eyes now filled with malicious intent.

Ron's potential was too powerful, posing a significant threat to the Marines if not eliminated.

"You little shits, do you think I don't exist?"

However, before the brainless Marines could take action, Whitebeard's contempt-filled words resounded.

The next second, a wave of Conqueror's Haki swept out from him.

"Ugh~!"

"Oohh~!"

Muffled sounds echoed as those with hostile intent toward Ron or ready to make a move were affected.

Facing Whitebeard's overbearing Conqueror's Haki, they made zero attempts to resist it, all lowering their heads, fearing Whitebeard would kill them.

Ron observed this scene silently and sighed in relief in his heart.

Whatever Whitebeard's motives may have been for calling him the future of the Whitebeard Pirates, at least he would really protect him from outside threats.

Thinking of this, Ron felt much better and his determination to prevent the disbandment of the Whitebeard Pirates in the future increased.

"That's enough, Whitebeard!"

At this moment, an angry voice sounded.

Looking toward the source of the shout, Zephyr could be seen stepping forward. While glaring at Whitebeard, he said, "This competition was our loss. You won the bet.

"So, take this Haki training manual. This manual contains the training method for learning the two common types of Haki."

While speaking, he took a medium-sized booklet from within his coat.

Zephyr's heart was filled with reluctance, not wanting to keep his promise, but under the current circumstances, he had no choice.

If surrendering the manual to Whitebeard implied that he would refrain from any further participation in the affair, he had no choice but to concede.

In this way, he would only have to stall the Beasts Pirates till the arrival of Akainu and other reinforcements.

As soon as he considered this, Zephyr threw the booklet towards Whitebeard.

"Good choice, Zephyr!"

Looking at the manual in his hand, Whitebeard did not retract his Conqueror's Haki immediately but opened it and checked it.

After confirming that there was no problem, Whitebeard withdrew his Conqueror's Haki and said, "Ron, come back! Our work is almost over here."

"Yes!"

Ron responded, and without any delay, he turned around and walked toward the area where the Whitebeard Pirates were.

"Men, come here and take Iris back to the base for treatment!"

Seeing this situation, Zephyr waved his hand and ordered.

"Yes!"

In an instant, several figures emerged from the crowd of Marines, quickly lifting up Iris, who was already in an extremely critical condition and then rapidly ran towards the Medical area of the base.

Although Ron controlled himself and did not go for a killing blow, the intensity of the attack was extremely potent.

If he could not be treated as soon as possible, Iris would definitely die.

"Zephyr, next is our fight."

At this time, Kaido stepped forward, holding his kanabo in his right hand and leaking an enormous amount of battle intent.

He knew very well that Zephyr's request to let the brats fight first was to delay their fight, but now that Ron had ended the battle, he was not willing to let him stall the fight any longer.

As one of the Four Emperors, Kaido was no fool. He also knew very well that the sooner this matter was completed, the better.

If it was delayed, then even if he defeated Zephyr, there would not be much certainty that the G5 base could be destroyed.

This time, his main goal was to destroy this base or even the existence of the entire island.

But he didn't want to destroy it directly. After all, there were too many Marines present on the island.

If he destroyed this place forcibly, then the Beasts Pirates would face the crazy retaliation of the Harcore Marines like Akainu.

Therefore, when destroying the base, he wanted to ensure that the Marine's people did not suffer too many casualties so that when the time came, the Marines like Sengoku would stop Marines like Akainu from retaliating.

"Kaido!"

Feeling the battle lust of Kaido, Zephyr's expression darkened.

He was a little helpless as he wanted to continue delaying their fight, but he had to step forward.

At the same time, he was also feeling regretful about his previous decision.

He should have agreed to Whitebeard's challenge of letting three of his students fight against Ron.

This way, even if they lost against Ron, they at least would have bought more time for the reinforcements.

Taking a step forward, Zephyr slowly said, "Bring it on, Kaido! I am afraid you will return disappointed today."

Hearing this, Kaido smiled. Returning disappointed? Who was he? He was Kaido, King of the Beasts, the Strongest Creature of the World.

Could Zephyr be even counted in the same class as him?

Not wanting to engage in more meaningless chatter, Kaido took a step forward and said, "Then let's see who wins and who loses.

"Thunder Bagua!"

He started with a big attack right away as he coated his kanabo, Hassaikai in Conqueror's Haki and swung it toward Zephyr without giving him any chance to reply.

'Good move! Initiating the battle with a big move like that. As expected from someone like Kaido!'

Seeing this scene, Ron involuntarily recalled the scene from the Canon World where Kaido had almost decimated the Worst Generation Pirates with a thunderous blow from Hassaikai.

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