"Really?" Bonney's eyes widened in delight and heaved a sigh of relief at the same time, "Looks like I can avoid turning into an ugly monster."
"Really, how long will that man have to fight?"
"It's just an old guy from the previous era, can't they just get rid of him in a few moves?"
After speaking, Bonney complained and looked at Rifan, Shiki and Gion who were fighting in the sky.
She didn't know that Rifan had overheard their conversations.
As their captain, even during the battle with Shiki, he still uses Observation Haki to perceive the situation of Mikita and others, in case the Marine Vice Admiral will suddenly turn against Mikita and others.
After missing another chance to catch Shiki with dark water, Rifan shook his head secretly in his heart.
'This guy really utilized his devil fruit well.'
'Even the attraction of dark water is difficult to catch this guy. "
'Sure enough, I still have to think of other ways.
While thinking in his heart, Rifan used his Observation Haki to sweep over the marine soldiers that were hurt by the zombies.
After noticing that some of them had a more serious condition than Bonney, Rifan couldn't help but stop.
'High fever, coma, arrhythmia... so many symptoms?'
'I can't wait any longer, I have to end this battle quickly.'
Rifan stared at Gion, who was fighting Shiki, and shouted loudly:
"Woman, it's time to end this fight!"
As he said that, Rifan's aura began to rise continuously, and it reached a terrifying level in the blink of an eye.
'Is that…Gungnir?!'
Gion glanced at the aura on Rifan, only to feel that it was so similar to when Rise used the 'Lightweight Gungnir' before.
It's just that the aura on Rifan's body at this moment is dozens of times stronger than the aura on Rise's body at that time.
"Sure enough, you are Rise, Rifan."
"Now you can't make excuses."
Gion muttered to herself, with a little smile on the corner of her mouth.
The next moment, she also had a strong aura.
As Rifan's figure passed by her and neared Shiki, Gion swiftly unleashed more than ten flying slashes directed at Shiki. Each slash transformed into a sharp projectile originating from Shiki's vicinity, flying beside Rifan.
Shiki frowned, and quickly swung the flying slash with the sharp blade on his feet to offset Gion's flying slash.
Then high-strength Armament Haki condensed on the sword tips of both of his feet and stabbed straight at Rifan.
"Gungnir!"
Rifan let out a roar, and was unafraid of the sword tip on Shiki's legs and slammed a powerful punch.
Rumble!
After Rifan's fist collided with Shiki's swords, a deafening sound followed.
After that, invisible ripples began to overflow in all directions from the place where Rifan and Shiki collided.
Looking from a distance, the scenery between the two seems to have become a lot duller.
"Sure enough, you bastard can also use the Giant techniques too!"
"However, do you think you can really compete against me with your fist strength!?"
Shiki raised the corner of his mouth and said with a sinister smile.
"Hehe, you can only smile now, old man."
The corner of Rifan's mouth raised, and Armament Haki, who was at the internal destruction level, kept rushing towards Shiki along with the force of the Gungnir.
In the beginning, Shiki was full of smiles and confidence.
But soon, he felt something was wrong.
"This level of armament haki?! How is it possible?!"
Shiki's eyes widened, feeling the Haki pouring into his legs from Rifan's fist along the swords on his legs, he looked at Rifan in disbelief.
Although Shiki is powerful, his strength derives on his powerful devil fruit ability mastery, sword skills and Observation Haki.
As for Armament Haki, he didn't train it to the limit.
So seeing Rifan's armament haki, Shiki has a bad feeling.
You know, during the time when Gion and Rifan were fighting, he had already consumed a lot of his physical energy.
Rifan's sudden and powerful attack made Shiki unable to use other methods to resist for a while.
Shiki frowned, realizing that he could not gain an advantage in front of this move, so he immediately wanted to pull back.
However, how could Rifan give him such a chance?
They saw the blue veins on his fist popping up, the power of the Gungnir increased again, and more armament haki poured into his attack under the surprise eyes of Shiki.
The next moment, under Gion's surprise and Shiki's frightened and angry eyes.
The connection between his legs and the two famous swords was broken directly.
As for Shiki, he was driven by a terrifying force to continuously fly towards higher places.
"Don't mind me if I take it~"
Rifan took advantage of the opportunity to catch a famous sword that fell from Shiki towards him, and looked at Shiki who was spitting blood and flew towards the sky with a smile on his face.
Although he also wanted to continue chasing, but after using the gungnir with almost all his strength, he also appeared in a state of exhaustion for a moment, and wouldn't use powerful skills to attack Shiki.
Of course, there is also the reason for the woman who came behind him quickly.
"Rifan, are you okay?"
Gion looked at Rifan who quickly turned around and looked at her guardedly, and said helplessly.
"Of course I'm not good after that clash."
"By the way, instead of coming to me, why aren't you capturing Shiki now, that guy hasn't fallen yet."
"With your power now, you may be able to arrest him."
Rifan smiled, raised his hand and pointed in the direction of Shiki.
Gion frowned, looked at Rifan, and then at Shiki, caught in a dilemma for a moment.
She really wants to capture Shiki, but she is also like Rifan, she is worried that he will attack Marine when she is exhausted.
After all, Marine has defaulted on two deals with Rifan.
Judging from Rifan's words, he also has a high probability of revenge on the Marine.
Just when Gion was hesitating.
Shiki in the air suddenly turned his direction, and his body began to fall rapidly.
And came to where his crews and William's body were.
Rifan and Gion followed him with their gaze, and the next moment, both of them widened their eyes in surprise.
Because they saw that William, who was already lifeless, fully recovered after a flash of light.
'This guy actually took the risk of using resurrection coins at this time!'
Rifan's heart froze, and he immediately swung a thunderbolt towards William.
It's just that his thunderbolt was stopped by Shiki.
After talking to William for a few words, Shiki took a deep look at Rifan and Gion.
Then directly use the power of his devil fruit to take William and his crew to fly quickly to the distance.
Rifan frowned slightly, turned to look at Gion: "Aren't you going after him?"
Gion sighed and looked at Marine on the ground: "I want to chase, but I'm worried that after chasing, I will end up completely wiped out."
Rifan shrugged: "You should blame your Marshal Sengoku for that."
While talking, Shiki has already led his crew away.
Rifan could only shake his head regretfully.
In the presence of Gion, it is impossible for him to fight Shiki desperately to keep William.
But at this moment, the voice of copy space suddenly sounded in the minds of Rifan and all the people in copy space.
[In view of Golden Lion Shiki's escape, it is judged to be a defeat! Rifan, congratulations on achieving the achievement "the first reincarnator who defeated the legendary pirate special reward—skill scroll·Conqueror's infusion. ]
[Note: To use this scroll, Conqueror's Haki needs to be at least an intermediate level. ]
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'A skill scroll that awakens the Conqueror's infusion!? What a generous reward!'
'With this power, I don't know if I can keep Gion and the others.'
Rifan took a deep look at Gion not far from him.
After a while, he still shook his head.
Even with the power of Conqueror's Infusion, after a battle with Shiki, he doesn't have the confidence to defeat Gion.
Not to mention, now he still has more important things to do.
This is also one of the reasons why he is unwilling to continue chasing Shiki.
"...Marine woman, I am going to take care of my partner now, what are your plans?"
"Want to fight me?"
Rifan said to Gion while holding the famous sword 'Dead Wood' left by Shiki with blood on his hands.
"Call me Gion, Rifan, I won't call you Rise anymore."
"This time our mission has been accomplished."
"And met Shiki, which wasn't supposed to be in the plan."
"I also have no interest in continuing to fight with you."
Gion glanced at the situation of her Marine troops in the distance, shook her head, and said.
"In that case, I will leave first."
Rifan nodded to Gion, and then turned into a thunderbolt and charged towards Mikita and the others.
Looking at Rifan's thunderbolt, Gion's eyes became deeper.
'That Nami is also able to use the elementalization of lightning so how could he also use it at the same time?'
'Could it be that this man didn't eat the so-called Thunder Fruit at all?'
Gion shook her head, and landed among the Marine troops with doubts in her heart.
"Gion Vice Admiral."
When Vice Admiral Maynard saw Gion approaching, he immediately greeted her.
"How are the casualties, Maynard?"
Gion looked at the sailors being treated and asked worriedly.
"The situation is not very optimistic. There may be some kind of germs on those zombie monsters."
"Some weaker sailors have developed life-threatening illnesses after being bitten by the monster."
"For those who remained conscious, their good physical fitness prevented any significant harm from occurring to them so far."
Maynard explained.
Gion nodded slightly, her eyes fell on the wound on Maynard's arm.
"Did you get this wound from those monsters, Maynard?"
"Indeed, but I'm fine, Armament Haki seems to have some effect on fighting this virus."
"Is that so… It seems that these viruses don't have much effect on the strong."
"Gion Vice Admiral, what are we going to do next, do we need to continue to deal with the members of the Black Pearl Pirates?"
"Forget it, Rifan and the strength of the members of the Black Pearl Pirates, you have also seen that we may not be able to win if we continue to fight. Next, let's go back to Naval Headquarters with the injured and the dead soldiers' bodies ."
Maynard frowned tightly upon hearing Gion's words.
Although a little unwilling, he also understands that this is the best way at present.
In hopelessness, he could only obey Gion's order and summon the soldiers who can move to prepare for retreat.
Gion, on the other hand, turned around and looked deeply at Rifan's direction.
After looking at Crocodile who fainted beside Rifan and others, Gion thought for a moment, then walked over.
"Captain Rifan, here is some data I got from Bonney's wound."
"See if you can make a detoxification potion based on the formula given by Ada."
Chopper handed a piece of paper to Rifan and said seriously.
When Rifan heard Chopper's words, he immediately took the paper and read it carefully.
As the party involved, Bonney naturally kept her eyes firmly on Rifan.
Looking forward to his positive answer.
After a while, Rifan nodded and said:
"Chopper, you're doing great."
"Relying on these things will definitely be able to produce an antidote to neutralize the virus."
"Bonney, don't worry, I won't let a beautiful girl like you become a zombie."
As he spoke, Rifan patted Bonney on her head with a smile on his face.
Bonney heaved a long sigh of relief when she heard Rifan, who was the captain, speak.
Just when she was about to thank Rifan, Gion's voice sounded close to her.
"Rifan, can you hand over Crocodile to our Marine?"
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