บท 32: Sea Rhinoceros
Somewhat believing in Blaize's words, the Bullseye pirate captain commanded his crew to depart. A pirate jumped into the water to open the valve connecting the resin bubble.
As soon as he had done that, the bubble ballooned enveloping the entire ship. The ship soon sank into the water completely.
Unlike before, none in the Bullseye crew showed excitement. Only stifling silence ensued.
Unbothered by the silent atmosphere, Blaize explored the beautiful scenery with his eyes as it's his first time traveling undersea. It somewhat thrilled him, thinking of meeting the exotic monsters that roam the sea.
Furthermore, there are also fish-men and merfolk who live underwater. Beside him, Gion also marveled at the site of the undersea world, observing the huge roots, pretty fishes swimming around them.
She commented, "It's beautiful!"
"Yes. But we had only seen the tip of the iceberg. Once we descend further, we will see more impressive stuff." Blaize laughed.
At that moment, the captain of the Bullseye pirates shouted: "Look out for the descending current. We don't want to be swept by Deep currents."
Clearly, the captain is also the navigator of the ship, and he seems good at that. As for Blaize, he knew about the currents from the original series.
Remembering something, Blaize looked around. Noticing this, Gion asked: "What are you searching for?"
"I heard the simplest way to travel undersea is to capture a sea monster and let them tow a ship. So I am looking for a monster that's strong enough to tow this ship?" Blaize nonchalantly replied as if it was an effortless thing.
But the pirates who heard the sentence shivered in fright. 'He's crazy!'
As for Gion, she reprimanded. "Blaize-kun, why are you always looking for an absurd way to achieve a task? Furthermore, we are underwater it's a fatal weakness of devil fruit users."
"Don't worry about it. Look around for a large monster, I will take care of the rest." Blaize waved his hand.
They come across a few sea monsters but none of them are to his liking as they were either small or not good looking.
Just as he was frustrated by this, a Giant Sea Rhinoceros crossed their ship whose size is smaller than Kraken tamed by Luffy during their journey.
"That will do," Blaize excitedly cried. "Oi, you guys know how to prepare a Flutter kick coating, right?"
"Yes," A pirate replied and began to arrange one for him.
Flutter Kick Coating is a type of coating used on people instead of ships. When a person is coated, the bubble forms a spherical shape around the person from the knees up, with a thin coating from the leg down.
Just like with Ship coating, the people are able to withstand great pressure as long as they are in the bubble. It even allows people to leave the ship, to do things like engaging someone or something in combat.
This coating can benefit Devil Fruit users by enabling them to move and fight underwater, although this may be somewhat compromised if the ability user's combat style requires a part of their body to leave the bubble.
In the meantime, Blaize stretched his hand and a red-orange spear materialized out of intense heat, twirling at incredible speed.
As soon as he used his devil fruit powers, the intense heat affected the surroundings, and thawed the cold temperature around the ship, reversing it to normal.
The pirates on board were once again stunned by Blaize's display of power. They all wondered, 'Who is he? Why we haven't heard of him before?'
"Go!" With a command, the spear shot forward in lightning speed and pierced the rhino's leg. Thankfully, the resin bubble didn't pop.
The attack wounded the beast but it didn't deal any damage aside from irritating it. The giant rhinoceros set its sight on the ship and let out a thunderous roar.
It then stormed towards the ship. With a huge body, a single attack is enough to destroy the entire ship and pop the bubble coating.
Having his hip tied to the rope, Blaize left the ship coating and faced the huge rhino in the sea under the dumbfounded eyes of pirates.
Encountering such a freak of a person, they even began to doubt whether their decision of entering the New World is correct or not?
A brave pirate gathered his courage and asked Gion, "Miss, who are you two? With such abnormal strength, there's no way you guys are some nameless individuals."
"We are Marine recruits without any rank!" Gion replied with a smirk while her lips curled a little making her even more attractive.
The brave pirate nodded his head in understanding and turned to his captain, "Captain—"
Before he could express his thoughts, the captain of the Bullseyes pirate interrupted: "You don't have to say anything. After dropping them off at Fishman Island, we are returning to our hometown."
Strangely, the pirates joyfully accepted the plan with a loud cheer. Witnessing their performance, Gion was speechless.
'Should I also follow Blaize's method it seems to work well with the pirates!' She considered. The pirates admitted their defeat without even a fight, it gave her a strange sense of enjoyment.
Coming back to the fight, the sea Rhinoceros sped towards Blaize while trying to attack him with its huge horn. It was like trying to kill an ant with a long sword.
But Blaize confronted the attack with nothing but a fist. He hardened his body with Tekkai and punched at the incoming horn.
'Bang!' When the two attacks collied, it generated a huge sound and shockwave spread in every direction even rocking the pirate ship along with its residents.
"He's crazy! What is he trying to achieve by confronting it head-on? He's going to get himself killed." Bullseye captain yelled, supporting himself.
The aftermath of the collision is obvious, Blaize was shoved back along with his resin bubble which was wildly spinning with no control.
Stabilizing the resin bubble, Blaize looked at the still angry Rhino and thought, 'My 'Tekkai' skill isn't strong enough, it needs further development.'
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