One Piece: My Spirit

Hawkeye and Charles came to an open space outside the castle. Hawkeye had already taken out his big black knife 'Ye', and Charles had already taken 'Xue Xun' in his hand.

"Don't you use that black wooden sword?"

Hawkeye frowned slightly when he saw that Shire was just a knife. In his impression, Shire in Marin Vandor swept the battlefield with two swords.

Charles smiled and said nothing, and Hawkeye didn't ask any more questions when he saw this. Before everyone could react, both Charles and Hawkeye shot at the same time.

clang!
The black knife 'Ye' which is as black as ink, and the 'Xue Xun' which is as white as snow, the two knives collided with each other and made a crisp sound!

At the same time, an invisible wind pressure spread from the two of them, and the surrounding sand and abandoned building stones were even blown away!

When Charles and Hawkeye came up to fight, they went straight to the real thing, and they didn't seem to have any intention of probing.

"it is good!"

Hawkeye couldn't help showing a little admiration and excitement on his face. With this sword alone, Hawkeye felt that it was evenly matched. It was a battle worthy of seriousness, and this was also the battle he longed for.

In the distance, Sauron's face was complicated, his fists clenched unnaturally. With the first strike alone, Sauron knew that the gap between himself and Charles had widened again. At least when he fought Hawkeye for the first time, Hawkeye didn't show such an expression.

Sauron was very familiar with the expression on Hawkeye's face at this moment, it was the expression he would only show when he met an opponent of his own strength!

In the first fight between Charles and Hawkeye just now, he could already feel the absolute strength of the opponent as the "world's number one swordsman".

The unpretentious one-knife, one-cut, one-punch, one-stab, but it seems to contain countless changes and astonishing power, that's right. Hawkeye's swordsmanship has already reached the state of simplifying and returning to the basics.

Hawkeye is often ridiculed that his "normal level A" is equivalent to someone else's big move, which is actually the best embodiment of Hawkeye's strength.

And now Shire also felt the horror of this "flat A is equal to a big move", just like when he was suppressed by Kuina's powerful force like a mountain, but Hawkeye was stronger than Kuina, because in addition to strength, every blow seemed to contain Hawkeye's 'momentum'!
In the battle between master swordsmen, besides the skills in swordsmanship, there is one more important thing is 'power', the sword power that belongs to one's own kendo!
Charles could feel the 'invincible' sword force contained in each of Hawkeye's blows, which was the 'invincible' sword force honed by Hawkeye in one fierce battle after another with the sword in his hand.

This is the strength of the 'great swordsman' standing on the top of the world. This 'invincible' sword power is the embodiment of the eagle-eyed mentality!

At this moment, Shire's black pupils became deeper and deeper, the "state of no self" under the "heart of mirror and still water"!
The collision between Shire's 'No Self' sword power and Hawkeye's 'Invincible' sword power, in the eyes of laymen, Hawkeye and Shire are just simple movements of one knife, one sword, one chop, one stab, one pick and one stab, pure kendo competition!
But in the eyes of Kuina, Sauron and the others, what they saw was the collision between their respective understandings of their own kendo, and at the same time, the collision between their sword moves!
The battle between Shire and Hawkeye has surpassed the skills of swordsmanship and has reached the power of the 'Doo of the Sword'!

While every attack of Hawkeye was perfectly blocked by Charles, he also took the initiative to create an opportunity to counterattack. The offensive and defensive transition between the two was dizzying.

Sometimes they compete for extreme speed, and within a few seconds, Shire and Hawkeye have fought back and forth hundreds of times!
From time to time, the speed suddenly slows down and the rhythm is changed. The swords in the hands of both of them are like a gap, which amazes the people watching the battle, and it is like an antelope with no trace of its horns.
"Is this the strength of the world's number one swordsman? Is something beyond skill the prerequisite for becoming a great swordsman?"

Sauron stared at the battle between Ciel and Hawkeye intently, and he forgot to shock Ciel's strength in his mind. Instead, he tried his best to comprehend, understand, and absorb the valuable experience of the battle between the two!

The same is true for Kuina, but because she has fought against Charles several times before, she has seen more things than Sauron in this battle.

However, whether it was Kuina or Zoro, they also found that although the two seemed to be evenly matched, in fact, Hawkeye had a slight upper hand, and perhaps the outcome would be determined here.

Newborn babies are full of curiosity and desire to learn about everything in the world, and now Kuina and Zoro are in this state.

As the two continued to fight, Charles felt more and more pressure from Hawkeye on the opposite side, like a lion slowly waking up.

Sure enough, this is not the full strength of Hawkeye!
But now this is not the full strength of Shire, but as time goes by, the state of the two will become more and more devoted, and it will be difficult to say by then.

Under the conscious control of Hawkeye and Shire, the battle between the two only took place in this small piece of wasteland, as if agreed, and did not spread to the surroundings at all, fully reflecting the two people's precise control of their own strength!

Hawkeye's unpretentious upswing sent Charles flying for a few steps before stopping, and Charles also stopped as if he had noticed something.

"Let's do it this time."

Under the astonished eyes of Sauron and Guina, Hawkeye suddenly said this, and then turned back to the castle, but before leaving, Hawkeye turned to look at Charles:
"Although you are an opponent worthy of my seriousness, you are a bit boring now that you don't have any intention of winning."

After leaving these words, Hawkeye left, leaving only the people looking at each other in blank dismay.

Charles smiled wryly and didn't know how to answer, because Charles knew that this was indeed his problem. As Hawkeye said, in this battle, Charles didn't have the heart of 'desire to win', or in other words, he didn't have the consciousness to win.

This is far from the determination and awareness that Sauron had when he challenged Hawkeye to win even if he had to die.

But this is also the difference between Shire and Sauron, Guina and others. Shire's goal has never been to become "the number one in the world".

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Xia Er looked down at a scratch on his clothes on the left side of his abdomen, and couldn't help sighing.