One Piece: The Legend of Beasts

Bang bang! Bang bang bang!

In a lush bamboo forest, there is an open space of about forty to fifty feet in size. Two people, one big and one small, are holding wooden sticks and having a competition.

Two wooden sticks of different lengths were swung and collided with each other, and a series of "bang bang" sounds were heard. The boy, who looked only nine years old, was sweating profusely and was gradually unable to hold on. His opponent was an elegant middle-aged man, who was waving a wooden stick casually in his right hand with a calm expression, obviously able to handle the situation with ease.

"What's wrong? Is that all?"

"Don't underestimate me!"

The young man shouted as if to increase his momentum, and swung a stick straight at the middle-aged man with such force that the young man casually dodged to the right, causing the young man to miss his swing and stumble forward. Taking advantage of this gap, the man raised the stick in his hand and chopped it down from the upper left, hitting the young man directly on the forehead. Before the young man could recover from his dizzy state, he kicked him again, sending him flying for a distance and making him fall to the ground. The stick flew out of his hand, spun rapidly in the air for several circles and landed beside him.

"You are still the same as always, relying only on brute force and ignoring skills." The man inserted the wooden stick into his belt and sighed helplessly with his hands spread out. Half a month has passed since I met this boy named Kaido. In order to wash away the shame of that day, the boy used training as an excuse to challenge me tirelessly every day. The man also agreed to his request on the condition that both sides could only use wooden sticks. In the end, every time ended in the boy's miserable defeat.

Of course, the man was used to such days. In a sense, he was quite interested in the little ghost.

"Damn it... bastard Kubota!"

Kaido touched the big swelling on his head. The burning pain spread all over his body, but it was far less than the humiliation he felt in his heart. He punched the ground hard and said angrily, "I quit!"

Kubota raised his eyebrows and asked with interest, "Quitting means you want to give up the challenge to me?"

"Forget about defeating you. I didn't even touch the corner of your clothes. What's the point of going on like this?!" Kaido sat on the ground dejectedly. His tone sounded very lost, as if he had given up on himself.

"……I see."

Kubota said calmly, striding forward, and before Kaido could react, he picked him up and threw him out mercilessly, causing him to hit a bamboo heavily, and the bamboo leaves rustled and fell down.

"It hurts! What do you want to do..."

Kaido fell to the ground, feeling an unprecedented pain in his back. Just as he was about to ask loudly, he suddenly looked up and met Kubota's eyes. His usual casual expression was gone, and his face seemed to be covered with a layer of frost.

The boy had been with Kubota for some time, but had never seen him show such an expression. He shuddered unconsciously and stopped talking halfway through his words.

"Then get out of here and die at the hands of an enemy you cannot overcome."

After saying these chilling words, Kubota turned around, put his hands behind his back, and walked out of the woods without looking back.

After a brief moment of surprise, Kaido shouted at him: "Hey! Don't leave! I was just talking casually!"

His voice was so loud that the flock of birds perched on the bamboo leaves were startled and flew away. However, Kubota continued to walk forward as if he was deaf.

Seeing that he didn't react at all, Kaido made up his mind, suddenly got up and ran forward, picked up the wooden stick that fell on the ground, and threw it hard behind Kubota.

The wooden stick flew forward with a sound of breaking through the air, and it went so fast that Kubota didn't even look at it. He caught the stick with his right hand, and swung it back with the same force. Kaido was startled and had no time to dodge. He could only raise his hands in front of his head to block it. Unexpectedly, the wooden stick passed him by and was firmly nailed into a thick bamboo pole, still shaking.

"Even though I defeated Kidomaru, he's still just a kid after all."

Kubota stopped and turned his head slowly. His expression was still cold, but his tone was much softer. "Go back to where you came from. I don't have so much time to play with you."

Kaido stood there in a daze. He wanted to say something, but his throat seemed to be stuck and he couldn't utter a word.

Seeing his expression, Kubota sighed slightly, then put on a stern face and said aloud word by word: "To you, I am just an insignificant enemy that you want to defeat.

"But you are only facing an obstacle. Are you going to give up like this? Are you willing to surrender to your enemy?"

He stretched out his arms and waved them forward, his tone becoming more and more excited: "Except for yourself, no one can make you give up, no matter how powerful your opponent is! Grit your teeth and survive to the end, there is no one in the world who can defeat you! Before you surpass me, don't give me that stinky face just now, kid!"

The sunlight shone through the lush bamboo leaves, casting spots of light that fell on the ground, illuminating Kaido's face, which was stunned by the man's series of words.

Everything that happened that day still haunts the boy's mind. Maybe what that person said was not necessarily from the heart, but because of this, it became the motivation for the boy to survive even at the risk of losing his life.

I don't know why, but ever since I found out his true identity, my breathing has become rapid. I can't stay calm at all, and I can't even exert 30% of my usual strength.

But there was one thing he was very clear about.

Only by stepping over this man can I climb to higher places.

——Before I ascend to the throne of the world's strongest power and change this filthy world, this unknown and secluded island is not the place for me to be buried!

The young man struggled to open his heavy eyelids, and his blurry vision gradually became clear and bright. The familiar figure standing on a high stone platform, whom he would never forget in his life, slowly came into his sight.

My whole body was in excruciating pain, my limbs felt as if they were not my own, and my muscles were twisted and deformed due to the strong impact... The pain brought by all this was nothing compared to having my dignity easily trampled underfoot.

His body trembled slightly as he felt a surge of strength coming from nowhere.

"Hey... you ponytail bastard... you're not qualified for turning your back on your opponent without even confirming that they're dead..."

An intermittent but extremely firm voice sounded in his ears. Vidruvius raised his eyebrows, slightly surprised, and slowly turned around to see the young man who had been knocked to the ground by him not long ago struggling to get up. Although his body was shaky and he could hardly stand, his eyes were full of fighting spirit again.

"This is incredible. I sealed all the acupuncture points on your body, but you can still stand up."

Vidruvi exclaimed, then sneered contemptuously, "But with your battered body and without even the weapon you are so proud of, what else can you do?"

"Isn't it obvious at a glance..."

The ground was soaked by the heavy rain. Every step was like stepping into a puddle. Kaido let the rain splash onto his trouser legs. He tore his tattered clothes to pieces and threw them aside. He walked forward with difficulty, step by step, grinning, "I will completely defeat you!"

Vidruvi was stunned by his answer for a moment. After a moment, he looked up to the sky and started laughing. His laughter echoed throughout the entire mountain range. "You really haven't changed from before! No! You are even more arrogant than before!"

He jumped down from the platform before his laughter died down, landing gently on the wet ground. He put his right foot in a T-step, and slowly turned his right hand from his chest to the top of his right foot, with his palm facing up and fingers facing forward. His left hand followed the movement of his right elbow and was placed under his right elbow, with his palm facing down, with a leisurely smile on his face: "I will personally crush your arrogance. This time, I will make you stop breathing completely."

"Not necessarily, hiccup!"

Kaido's body started to stagger since some time ago. He staggered a few steps, his face flushed, his eyes half-closed and half-opened, and he looked a bit sober. He muttered a few words: "That Stussy guy... the aftereffects of alcohol are so strong!"

Seeing his slightly funny posture, Vidruvius was a little surprised and thought, "Drunk? But it's been a while since he drank."

"I said...Ponytail bastard! Hiccup!"

Kaido pointed at Vidruvi, his eyelids drooped suddenly, and he stammered with a bit of disappointment, "To be honest, when I heard that you were a member of CP0, I was quite heartbroken! My former friends are actually going to kill each other! Hiccup!"

"How come this kid is so good at talking nonsense?"

Vidruvi was even more puzzled, but he did not dare to underestimate him. "Whatever, let's get rid of him in one go."

Thinking of this, his eyes condensed, and a violent aura swirled around him. He disappeared from the spot, and in the blink of an eye, he flashed in front of Kaido, turned 180 degrees, and slapped him from the bottom to the side with a backhand palm, as fast as thunder. Kaido dodged the palm as if he was drunk, and reached out to hug his arm that he had not retracted.

"what?"

This startled Vidruvi so much that before he could react, Kaido spun him around and threw him towards the rock wall. Vidruvi was not panicked by the sudden situation. He flew into the air to stabilize his body, stomped on the air to create a series of sonic booms, and rushed towards Kaido again, swinging a spinning palm to hit his head. Unexpectedly, Kaido suddenly lay back on the ground, crossed with Vidruvi in ​​the air, kicked his feet upward, and disappeared without a trace. At the critical moment, Vidruvi changed his palm into a fist, crossed his hands in front of his chest, and with a "bang", Vidruvi was kicked by a huge force and flew straight up into the sky. Kaido stood up in a carp-like posture, and walked around without a method in his drunken steps.

Vidruwe rolled several times in the air to eliminate the inertia, and landed steadily on the ground. He looked at the young man in front of him who had become lively again with full of doubts. His twisted muscles returned to their original state in an instant. He was confused and tried to sense Kaido's breath with his observation Haki. In an instant, his movements froze and his expression became much more solemn.

——It’s unbelievable that all the boy’s sealed acupoints were broken just now!

——Could it be that he becomes stronger as soon as he drinks?

Thinking of this, his tense heartstrings relaxed instead, and he looked at the young man who was in such an ugly state with a smile on his face: "You really surprise me again and again. I never thought that it was your alcoholic physique that helped you, although you hadn't developed such a trick when you were in the Woka Kingdom."

Kaido staggered a few steps, then stopped, and suddenly burst into laughter, rolling on the ground holding his belly: "Oh hehe! You can also make such an expression! Kubota! It's not like your usual self!"

"Why mention such a boring name?"

Before he finished speaking, Vidruvi kicked out several times, and a series of magnificent wind blades came towards Kaido. Kaido swayed left and right to dodge the wind blades one by one. Taking advantage of the gaps when he dodged, Vidruvi disappeared again and appeared behind Kaido, swooping down with a palm strike, slashing straight at the back of his head. Kaido didn't even look at it, and pressed Vidruvi's wrist with his left hand, quickly turned around and clenched his fists, and a fierce sky rocket pushed him back several steps, and then flew up with his right foot and kicked Vidruvi's chest diagonally.

Vidruvi stepped back a distance and patted his chest without changing his expression. At the critical moment, he used the "Iron Block", one of the six government techniques, in time, so he did not suffer any damage, but he also felt a slight numbness in his body.

"I admit that I underestimated you just now."

Vidruwe pulled his collar and sneered, "Then let's get serious. Except for a few strong men, no one can stop my attack."

"Burp! Oh, gurgle! Zhen clam? What is that? Can it be used as a snack?"

Vidruvius did not respond. He was simply speechless.

——This boy has become very good at irritating others.