"What a fine 'punching bag' they've sent me!"
Garp stood on the surface of the sea using Moonwalk, grinning as he watched the massive tsunami rushing toward him. His rows of white teeth gleamed in the sunlight.
From his vantage point, the towering wave, hundreds of meters high, seemed to stretch from the heavens to the earth. In comparison, Garp looked like a tiny ant standing before such a natural disaster.
Yet, there was no trace of fear or hesitation on his face. Instead, it was filled with excitement and eagerness.
"Hssss————"
Garp took a deep breath, gathering strength within his body. An overwhelmingly fierce and domineering aura erupted from him. With a slight movement, the sound of his bones cracking echoed like thunder. His limbs and spine tensed like a fully drawn bow.
"Hah!"
With a loud shout, the terrifying man began to exert force with his arms. Veins bulged, and his muscles coiled as if they were about to burst. The dark luster on his arms visibly concentrated onto his right fist. Perhaps due to the excessive compression of Haki, faint red lightning began to crackle around it, distorting the surrounding light and shadows.
"Fist Bone·Iron Fist!!!"
The massive black-and-red fist tore through the air in front of him, creating an ear-splitting explosion as it collided with the oncoming super tsunami.
[BOOM!!!!!!!!]
It was impossible to describe the sound—was it thunder? A volcanic eruption? Or just a muffled roar? In that moment, it felt as if everyone's ears had stopped functioning.
But everyone—the pirates, the marines, and people from all over the world—saw it clearly.
In an instant, just a single moment, the enormous wave in front of Garp's small figure vanished. It disappeared, as if it had evaporated into thin air.
Yet, it seemed as if the remnants of the tsunami were still being slowly torn apart by the force of his punch—or perhaps not.
However, at this point, no one was paying attention to the tsunami anymore. All eyes were on the overwhelming force of Garp's punch.
After dispersing the super tsunami, the remaining force of the punch split the sea in two, continuing to surge forward with dark red lightning, crashing toward the distant pirate ship that resembled a whale.
"It's the Whitebeard Pirates! That's the Moby Dick!"
The reporter's nerves were already numb. Everything he had witnessed today was beyond astonishing.
As he stared at the screen, he saw a towering man standing on the "whale's head," holding a naginata. The reporter muttered to himself, "He's here too?"
In truth, since the era of Rocks, the man most regarded as the strongest pirate wasn't Golden Lion Shiki, nor was it the Pirate King Gol D. Roger, or even Big Mom Charlotte Linlin.
It was this man, standing at 6.66 meters tall, with his iconic white crescent mustache and golden curly hair. He possessed the power of the strongest Paramecia-type Devil Fruit, the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
The captain of the Whitebeard Pirates, Edward Newgate! "Gurarara, your fist is as hard as ever, you bastard!"
Edward Newgate faced the surging fist wind with a hearty smile, simultaneously raising Murakumogiri, one of the 12 Supreme Grade Swords in his hand.
As the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit within him activated, a milky white halo appeared on the crescent blade of Murakumogiri, a phenomenon of vibrations reaching their peak.
At the same time, Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki were also applied, and streaks of purplish-red lightning began to burst forth.
It was clear that even 'Whitebeard' had to take Garp's 'Iron Fist' seriously! "Old man," Marco and others behind him, along with the people of the world, watched in stunned silence as Murakumogiri slashed out like lightning.
The tremor power and dense Haki on it clashed with the surging fist wind less than twenty meters from the Moby Dick, instantly creating an extremely wide dark hole on the sea surface between them.
The fist wind and vibrations wrestled with each other, with black-red lightning and purplish-red lightning wildly intertwining. The surging waves of air almost solidified into a wall, continuously pushing back the oncoming seawater.
Moments later, the remaining force of the fist wind was directly dispersed by the vibration power.
At the same time, in the White Sea seven thousand meters above, invisible to all, the sea was already in turmoil, like boiling water, with countless creatures bursting like balloons.
Far above the Red Line Continent, in the Holy Land Mary Geoise, Imu watched this scene on the projection screen and couldn't help but feel a sense of awe.
In his previous life, some people thought that as long as one could control seawater or create huge waves, they could thrive in this world, countering this ability user or instantly defeating that character.
But in reality?
In the original worldline, 'two years ago,' Luffy and Zoro could already join forces to blast open a 'tunnel' over a hundred meters long on a super tsunami known as the 'Water God,' allowing a Sea Train with more than twenty carriages to pass through without a single drop of water touching it.
With such terrifying power, what use are waterfalls or waves? Aren't they all just scattered into spray with a single blow, perhaps leaving a rainbow in their wake? Some even said that if it weren't for Aokiji's Ice-Ice Fruit ability during the Marineford War, the two tsunamis raised by 'Whitebeard' would have been enough to annihilate all the Marines, including Akainu and Kizaru.
Now, thinking about it, how laughable.
Hundreds of meters high tsunamis are nothing more than tools to set the mood and decorate the scene for the top-tier fighters of this world.
As for waterfalls, big waves, and water walls, any pirate with a bounty nearing ten million could easily shatter them. For example, Buchi of the future Black Cat Pirates in the East Blue could stomp and shatter hundreds of square meters of rock.
It's true that if water covers more than half of a Devil Fruit user's body, they will feel weak, but the prerequisite is that the water can actually touch them. If a person's punches and kicks are powerful enough to generate surging wind pressure, or if their abilities are sufficient to counter it, or if their speed is enough to dodge, then what use is the water?
Ninety percent of this world is seawater. Whether pirates or Marines, they will essentially spend their entire lives living and fighting at sea.
In addition to the extreme weather conditions of the sea, few people in the world could match their experience in dealing with massive waves.
It could be said that playing with water in front of the world's top experts was like showing off one's meager skills before a master—utterly humiliating.
"Gurararara!"
Edward Newgate, also known as Whitebeard, looked at Garp, who was standing on air and flying high in the distance, and laughed loudly, "Garp, I'm here to confirm one thing. As long as you answer, I won't interfere anymore!"
"If I answer, will you believe it?"
"Yes!"
"Hmph, but I have no obligation to answer a pirate," Garp replied disdainfully, showing no respect for the pirate emperor before him. He threw his head back and laughed wildly.
"Hahahaha, no matter what you ask, my only answer is my fists!"
Hearing this, the crew of the Whitebeard Pirates grew furious, feeling that this bastard Garp had no respect for their father.
"Is that so? So it was all a lie."
Edward Newgate suddenly said something that made Garp's expression change drastically. Garp quickly turned his head to look at Sengoku behind him, frantically signaling with his eyes that he had truly said nothing! "This idiot!"
Sengoku, who had already returned to his normal form after keeping an eye on BIG MOM, sighed helplessly, covering his head with his palm. They had been tricked.
Fortunately, the distance between them was far enough that Whitebeard's voice wouldn't reach the Image Snails of the Publicity Department.
"Worororo, how could such a grand scene be without me!"
At that moment, a mythical Azure Dragon descended from the sky, reeking of alcohol and laughing maniacally as it dove toward the two large cargo ships at the center.
"BIG MOM! Whitebeard! The ONE PIECE—I, Kaido, will take it!!"