Clang!
Four longswords collided, and sparks burst from where the blades met.
Strawberry was clearly taller than Morin, yet in this clash, he was the one forced back again and again.
Their moves were identical, but the gap between their physiques was simply too vast.
Strawberry stepped backward through the air with Moonwalk for more than a dozen steps before finally dispersing Morin’s terrifying strength.
At that moment, both of his hands were already slightly numb.
If their swords had not been coated in Armament Haki just now, perhaps their blades would have been ruined by that single collision.
“Come again, Strawberry!”
Morin pointed his twin swords at Strawberry once more.
Strawberry let out a roar and used his two-sword style again, charging toward Morin.
A dense series of blade clashes rang out across this sea.
Unfortunately, the only ones watching this battle were the three Boa sisters and those Chimera Ants that barely possessed any intelligence.
The three Boa sisters watched the fight.
Morin and Strawberry were clearly two different people, but gradually, in their eyes, they seemed to become two completely identical figures battling each other.
Whether it was their movements or the essence of their swordsmanship, Morin had become exactly the same as Strawberry.
It was as if two disciples from the same school were sparring.
No, that was not right.
It was more like he was fighting his own mirror image.
“Impossible!
You actually copied my swordsmanship?”
The more Strawberry fought, the more alarmed he became.
He had seen many terrifyingly talented monsters on the sea, and he had even fought face-to-face against a Pirate Emperor before.
But he had never heard of a monster like Morin.
Half an hour ago, Morin had clearly been an outsider who did not even know the proper way to hold a sword.
Yet now, his swordsmanship had already reached the same level as Strawberry’s.
What a terrifying thing this was.
In just half an hour, Morin had completely learned his swordsmanship!
“No, no, no.
I learned your swordsmanship.”
Morin corrected Strawberry’s words.
He did not know whether it was because Morin himself was naturally gifted, or because after eating this fruit, he had inherited the potential of the Ant King Meruem.
After Morin captured a pirate, he only needed three days to master the language of the One Piece world.
And after merely watching that pirate with a bounty over one hundred million use Moonwalk, Morin learned Moonwalk as well.
Morin still remembered the shocked expression on that pirate’s face before he died.
That expression was exactly the same as Strawberry’s current one.
“Is that so?
Since you’ve learned my swordsmanship, I wonder if you’ve also learned my flying slash?”
Strawberry took a deep breath, then swung his twin swords and released a cross-shaped slash.
Flying slashes were the dividing line between swordsmen and master swordsmen.
There were countless swordsmen on this sea, but master swordsmen capable of releasing flying slashes were few in number.
Morin could copy his sword techniques, but Strawberry refused to believe that Morin could even copy his flying slash.
“Hurry and dodge, Lord Morin!”
Seeing the slash rapidly closing in on Morin, Boa Hancock shouted anxiously.
Before she was captured, she had heard on Amazon Lily about how terrifying a swordsman’s flying slash was.
A flying slash was an advanced swordsman’s application of Armament Haki.
By using a blade, one could materialize Armament Haki and turn it into a sword-like force, allowing the blade’s edge to be released outward as a long-range slash.
This kind of attack could easily cut through steel.
It was not an attack a body of flesh and blood could withstand head-on.
Looking at the slash already arriving before him, Morin showed not the slightest hint of panic.
Then, he assumed the exact same starting posture as Strawberry.
“No way.
Has this monster even learned flying slashes?”
Such an absurd thought appeared in Strawberry’s mind, but in the very next moment, that thought became reality.
As Morin swung down his twin swords, a cross-shaped slash identical to Strawberry’s flew out.
Boom!
The two flying slashes collided.
Even the thick carapace of the Chimera Ant beneath Morin’s feet was cut open.
The slashes flew into the sea, raising waves more than ten meters high.
“So this is the power of a flying slash?”
“A flying slash actually has such destructive power.
No wonder swordsmen are called the profession with the strongest offensive power on the sea.”
Morin felt the state he had been in when using the flying slash just now.
After mastering flying slashes, Morin could now be considered a master swordsman as well.
“So strong!
As expected of Lord Morin!”
Seeing Morin use a flying slash to cancel out Strawberry’s attack, the three Boa sisters began cheering.
In their eyes, a Marine rear admiral was already a powerful figure on the sea.
They never expected him to be so helpless before Morin.
“An illusion.
This is definitely all an illusion!”
“Don’t think you can use your Devil Fruit ability to affect me, Morin!”
Strawberry felt as if his entire worldview had suffered a severe impact.
Like a madman, he launched an attack at Morin.
But now Morin had already mastered all of his swordsmanship, and his physique and Haki were even stronger than his.
The moment Strawberry exchanged blows with Morin, he fell completely into disadvantage.
If Morin had not wanted to try learning his swordsmanship just now, perhaps the battle would have ended the moment it began.
“Oh my, you actually defeated Strawberry.
How terrifying.”
Just as Morin placed his blade against Strawberry’s neck, a lazy voice suddenly sounded from the warship.