Not only that, but the two swords also possessed the swordsmanship memories of their original owners. It was precisely by relying on these two swords that Kozuki Hiyori's swordsmanship cultivation had improved by leaps and bounds over these years, slowly stepping into the level of a Great Swordsman.
Otherwise, it would have been impossible for her to so easily beat Gekko Moriah into submission.
No matter what, this hero of the West Blue had once stood against Kaido. Even if his strength had declined significantly now, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse, and he still had some foundation; he wasn't someone an ordinary expert could just beat down.
Carrying the two swords, Kozuki Hiyori walked toward the graveyard area, where her teacher, who was also a zombie, Ryuma, was located.
But just at this moment, Kozuki Hiyori lifted her head in surprise, vaguely hearing a roar from a distance. That was the direction of Hogback's clinic, and it seemed to be the sound of some stitched beast.
"Is there trouble at the door? Forget it, I'd better go take a look!"
In this Florian Triangle, every now and then, some stupid pirates would be lured by the treasure chests thrown out by Gekko Moriah.
As a place in the first half of the Grand Line that pirates from the New World called a paradise, the quality of pirates here was naturally not very high.
Most pirates, even when facing some zombies and stitched beasts, had no power to fight back and became shadow resources in Gekko Moriah's hands.
Kozuki Hiyori was noncommittal about Gekko Moriah's methods. After all, although Gekko Moriah wasn't a good person, most of those pirates weren't good things either.
It was just that occasionally there would be some tricky pirates that the three Monsters couldn't deal with, and at those times, Kozuki Hiyori would see the situation and conduct some actual combat training.
Walking towards the direction the sound came from, Kozuki Hiyori frowned slightly. There were quite a few stitched animals lying beaten on the ground, and even some Homies creatures to which she had given soul power.
Don't look at the atmosphere of Thriller Bark as not very good; in fact, the abilities of these crew members had a great deal of complementarity with Kozuki Hiyori's own Soul-Soul Fruit. Otherwise, Perona wouldn't have asked Kozuki Hiyori to be the fourth Monster.
Except for a certain invisible idiot, whether it was Gekko Moriah's shadow ability, Hogback's ability to create stitched beasts, or Perona's Hollow-Hollow Fruit ability, they could actually have great cooperation with the Soul-Soul Fruit.
Therefore, among the many stitched beasts, ghosts, or bat zombies and such creatures, some were the works of Gekko Moriah and his crew, and some had added ingredients from Kozuki Hiyori's Soul-Soul Fruit. The number of Zombie Homies, Ghost Homies, and Stitched Beast Homies on this ship was not small.
Having been imbued with the power of the Soul-Soul Fruit, the strength of these messy creatures had also increased a lot, and they weren't something ordinary pirates could deal with.
However, these modified creatures were now all lying on the ground. It seemed that this time, Hogback had encountered quite a bit of trouble.
The strength of the three Monsters was all garbage. The invisible idiot only did some human modification; if you don't count the Devil Fruit, his pure combat power... it's estimated that any Artificial Devil Fruit User under Kaido could easily abuse him.
Hogback was a completely ordinary person, just relying on the stitched beasts he modified to protect himself.
Perona's ability was very tricky, but she herself was just an ordinary, weak little girl; otherwise, she wouldn't have been scared fainted by Usopp.
In this situation, encountering an enemy capable of defeating all the stitched beasts, if these three Monsters encountered it, they certainly wouldn't get any benefit.
"Don't know where this pirate came from..."
Muttering to herself, Kozuki Hiyori arrived at Hogback's clinic and pushed the door open to walk in.
Just when she looked up and saw the person sitting in the clinic, she was still slightly surprised:
"Cavendish?! You guy, what are you doing here? Haven't you had enough of the lesson from last time?"
Sitting at the very top of Hogback's clinic was a young man with blonde hair, looking handsome and brilliant. Kozuki Hiyori naturally had a deep impression of him; that was the Captain of the Beautiful Pirates, who held the title of the White Horse Noble, and with whom she had dealt with once.
As for the reason, it was also quite funny; it seemed to be because her bounty poster was more popular than his... The news workers in the One Piece World were all top-notch paparazzi, and their capturing skills were world-class, better than most photo studios.
Therefore, the bounty posters of some pirates with outstanding appearances would often be collected as posters, and the person with the most collections of these bounty posters was Kozuki Hiyori, and she had surpassed the second-ranked Cavendish by a crushing margin.
Well, in this life, after Hancock was rescued by Vegapunk, she had been staying by Vegapunk's side and had never gone out to sea to be a pirate, so Kozuki Hiyori had snatched away Hancock's original position as the number one beauty.
Of course, there were fewer women among pirates to begin with, and not many who were beautiful, so Kozuki Hiyori easily became the number one beauty among pirates, but she certainly didn't have the status of the world's number one beauty that Hancock had in the original work.
In fact, if it weren't for the bonus of the Love-Love Fruit, even Hancock could only be considered one of the top-tier beauties, and compared to other beauties, she didn't have an overwhelming advantage.
After all, beauty is something that can only be considered a subjective impression, and different people have different preferences.
To get back to the point, the original Cavendish was a guy who was both narcissistic and liked to attract fans. Although the fan base between Kozuki Hiyori and Cavendish was different, Cavendish still felt that Kozuki Hiyori had stolen a lot of his limelight, and therefore had sought trouble with Kozuki Hiyori.
Naturally, Kozuki Hiyori hadn't been polite to him either. In terms of talent, Cavendish, who could become a Supernova without ever training, was definitely above Kozuki Hiyori. Even Kozuki Hiyori, after eating the Devil Fruit, was still inferior to Cavendish.
But Kozuki Hiyori, urged by a deep blood feud, practiced hard almost every day. In the early stages, she had Vegapunk's strengthening and training resources, and in the later stages, she could use the power of the Soul-Soul Fruit to get swordsmanship guidance directly from the famous swords in her hands. Compared to Cavendish, who was always unwilling to train, she was much stronger.
So the result was also very normal; Cavendish was beaten up severely. If it hadn't been for Kozuki Hiyori having no intention to kill, and Cavendish's own performance just being a clown, his head might have been lopped off.
However, since that time, Cavendish had never come to find trouble with Kozuki Hiyori again, so why did he run over today?
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