Before the words faded, the Blood-Mist Teaching Whip transformed into a spear and thrust straight at Kuma's chest!
"Bam!"
Kuma instantly activated his Paw-Paw Fruit ability, compressing air into a shield in front of him.
An admiral is no match for Rhett, let alone Kuma. If Rhett wants to beat you, you can't block it, and you can't escape it, Kuma. Just take the punishment!!!
Rhett is quite skilled at dealing with kids, heh heh
"First point!" Rhett's figure flickered in the blood mist. "If you like a girl, just say so! Watching you is so frustrating!!"
"Smack!"
Another whip struck Kuma's back, making him stumble.
Ginny cried out in surprise: "Rhett dear, Kuma dear, please stop fighting." (Rhett: This won't kill anyone, he muttered quietly.)
She tried to step forward to stop them, but Dragon held her back: "The teacher knows what he's doing."
"Second point!" Rhett flashed in front of Kuma and kicked him flying with a spinning heel kick.
"Stop trying to shoulder everything alone! Because you're still too weak. If you don't agree, prove it to me. Come on, fight."
The bar wall was left with a human-shaped hole.
Rhett looked at the big hole, his mouth twitching.
He instinctively glanced at Shakky.
Shakky gave him a bright smile, a thumbs-up, and pulled out an abacus, her fingers flying across it.
That made Rhett's mouth twitch even faster.
The three Kujaku sisters peered out the window and saw Kuma standing up from the rubble, dusting himself off: "...I understand now, Mr. Rhett."
Rhett looked at Kuma, who had assumed a fighting stance, and thought: "Good, that's it."
Who knows how angry Rhett got watching the original story, where the gentle Kuma was humiliated by the Celestial Dragons.
Sigh, take a deep breath.
Thinking about it makes me so mad. One of these days, I'll have to kill a few Celestial Dragons to calm down.
The joy of combat — the fight begins.
A Six Paths-level fighting a Kage-level is no big deal.
Kuma's figure slowly straightened up in the rubble, his usually calm eyes now burning with rare fighting spirit.
"Kuma dear..." Ginny clenched her clothes, but Dragon held her shoulder and reiterated: "Trust the teacher, and trust him."
Dragon had absolute faith in Rhett. How could someone who could point out the world's flaws be a sinister person?
Rhett tilted his head, blood mist surging around him: "Finally acting like a man."
"Pressure Cannon: Hundredfold!!!!"
Kuma suddenly raised his hand, compressing air into visible, distorted orbs in his palms, which poured out like a storm! The entire bar's backyard was instantly swallowed by explosive dust and smoke, the ground cracking like a brittle biscuit.
"Too slow."
Rhett's voice came from the smoke. The blood mist wrapped around Kuma's arm like a living thing and yanked him into the air—
"Boom!"
Kuma was slammed hard into the ground, but at the moment of impact, he slapped back with his paw.
His figure vanished instantly, reappearing behind Rhett, his air-compressed palm aimed at Rhett's back!
"Now that's interesting." Rhett didn't even look back, because there was no need.
The blood mist condensed into a ghost-face shield behind him.
The collision of the two forces made no sound. Everyone could only see the surprise on Kuma's face and Rhett's expressionless one.
That was Rhett's doing, of course.
"Mist World: Phantom Realm" (an enhanced version of Silent World)
Firecrackers go off every day in Sabaody. Do you think the Navy or the World Government could sleep?
The colorless mist had already spread to the surroundings when Dragon appeared.
From the outside, everything looked peaceful.
Kuma appeared behind Rhett again, his paw-padded palm aiming straight for his back.
If that palm strike landed, it would be enough to expel all internal damage from a person's body at once. However—
"Too slow." Rhett's figure dissipated, and his real body appeared above Kuma.
The blood mist condensed into a giant hammer and smashed down! Kuma raised his hands in a hurry. The moment the paw and blood hammer collided—
"Boom!!!"
A ring-shaped shockwave exploded, and the ground beneath them caved into a ten-meter-deep crater. Kuma's calves were completely buried in the earth, while Rhett used the recoil to flip back lightly.
Rhett had achieved his goal. As he landed, the blood mist transformed into nine wandering dragons that tightly bound Kuma.
A strange purple glow emanated from the mist. Kuma suddenly realized he couldn't repel the mist with his paw ability — it was seeping into his body through his pores!
Rhett, using his Mist-Mist Fruit and experimenting with Zephyr and Rayleigh, had made some progress.
Adding some hallucinogenic components, combined with the mist's spiritual suggestion,
Now, if a poison could be vaporized, Rhett could directly extract it.
He really hadn't been wasting his time studying with Crocus all these years.
Using the mist as a medium, he forcefully invaded Kuma's consciousness.
"Let me show you..." Rhett's voice echoed in Kuma's mind, "what true 'helplessness' means."
Let me reintroduce the original story: Ginny caught an incurable disease called "Blue Jade Scales" and was released by the Celestial Dragons.
She returned to the Sorbet Kingdom and entrusted her daughter Bonney to the island's elders. Ginny died shortly after calling the Revolutionary Army from the church, and Kuma arrived too late to see her one last time.
In this illusion, Rhett will make sure Kuma sees it. Hehehe!
Kuma's vision suddenly twisted.
Kuma stood in front of the dilapidated church in the Sorbet Kingdom, clutching a letter he had just received:
[Ginny has been released, but she has contracted Blue Jade Scales. Return immediately.]
Kuma's memories were temporarily blocked. Rhett couldn't alter memories yet.
Heavenly Taoist Rhett form: "I'll make you carry this burden!"
His paw-padded hand trembled uncontrollably. He immediately pressed his paw to himself, turning into a blur rushing toward the church.
Rhett: Come on, feel the pain I've experienced! The story that made me cry like a baby — you're going to pay for it.
In reality, Kuma began to struggle violently.
No way you're breaking free. That would make me lose face.
Pushing open the wooden door, he saw Ginny lying on a simple bed, her skin already showing an ominous blue-green tint.
In the corner, young Bonney sobbed in a nun's arms.
Hehehe!!! Yes! That's it! Hehehe!!!!! (Kuma gets sad here, I'll interrupt the reader's empathy for Kuma.)
"Kuma... dear?" Ginny raised her hand weakly. "How nice... that I could see you one last time... I wish this were all fake."
Kuma knelt by the bed, carefully wrapping his arms around her: "I-I'll find a doctor right now, just hold on. The Revolutionary Army has great doctors... they—"
He kept pawing at Ginny, hoping to push the illness out of her. But it was an incurable disease.
"It's no use." Ginny placed Bonney's hand in his palm. Her pupils were dilating, her last warmth fading.
Hehehe!!!!
(In reality, Kuma suddenly stopped struggling. Tears fell from his closed eyes.)
Just as Ginny's hand was about to drop, Kuma's memories slowly returned: "No... this isn't..."
He looked up sharply and saw the faint blood-mist pattern faintly visible on the church's stained glass: "Mr.... Rhett?"
Then all the images suddenly froze.
Rhett's voice came from the void: "Now do you see? The outcome of trying to shoulder everything alone—"
Rhett thought it was almost enough and decided to add fuel to the fire.
The scene switched to the laboratory in Mary Geoise, where a white-robed figure was extracting his organs: "Pacifista final adjustments begin."
"You couldn't even protect the one you love, Kuma!"
"Gah—!"
Just as Kuma was immersed in the illusion Rhett had woven—
"Kuma dear! Wake up!" Ginny shouted in the mist. Rhett's mist field was still active, so sound didn't travel.
But then Kuma suddenly struggled, showing signs of breaking free from the blood-mist bonds.
Rhett released Kuma. He's not a villain.
Kuma knelt on the ground, coughing up blood. Ginny rushed over and hugged him. This time, Kuma didn't pull away. Instead, he hugged her tightly.
Rhett just stood there quietly, watching the couple. Lock them down! Kuma x Ginny for life, ahhhhh.
Hehehe. Karma points +1.
Rhett dispersed the mist, crouched down to look Kuma in the eye: "Do you see clearly now, 'hero'? This is the future I see."
Kuma stared at Rhett with a fierce gaze: "I will never... let that future—"
"Promises are useless." Rhett suddenly grabbed him by the collar and pointed at Ginny, who was crying her eyes out. "Get married right now! Have ten or eight kids! And when the kids are born, the whole family will go tear down Mary Geoise!"
Dragon's notebook slipped from his hand and hit the ground with a "thud": "Old... teacher?"