Chapter 9: Armament Haki.

After a while, Hiruma finally regained his composure and began to collect the scattered loot on the ground, ignoring the still-burning corpse beside him.

Apart from Bluejam's orange loot, the rest were the usual red ones.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining 320 Berri from the red-grade loot!]

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining...]

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[Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining the skill: Gunmanship, by opening the yellow-grade loot. The skill's initial level is being matched according to the host's talent]

As expected, it was almost impossible to obtain high-quality loot in the East Sea.

Bluejam's pirate crew had a bounty of 17.7 million Beli, with Bluejam himself having nearly 10 million in bounty. In the East Sea, where the average bounty was only 3 million, they were definitely an upstream pirate crew.

However, their loot was not as lucrative as the spoils from looting Ace, Luffy, and Sabo.

If it weren't for Garp and the fact that he could constantly farm loot from the three kids, Hiruma would have long found a way to set sail for the Grand Line.

"You two did well just now." Hiruma looked satisfied at Ace and Sabo.

After all, they had held onto their bottom line in the face of such a tempting offer.

Facing such a large temptation, it was already commendable to have come this far.

Ace and Sabo opened their mouths and lowered their heads at the same time.

"Okay, as a reward, I'll give you a real pirate ship tomorrow."

Bluejam was already dead, and tomorrow they could take care of his remaining subordinates and take over his pirate ship and treasure.

Ace and Sabo were overjoyed and ashamed of their past behavior. They were also extremely grateful that they hadn't lost themselves in the end.

"This is great! We can set sail tomorrow and become real pirates!"

After all, they were still children. Even if they usually behaved maturely, at this moment they were excitedly jumping up and down.

"Bang!"

But before Ace could finish his joyful jumping, a huge figure suddenly appeared and punched him in the head.

A big lump was visible on Ace's head.

"Ace! What did you just say?!"

"Bang!"

Another punch.

"I didn't hear you clearly. Say it again!"

Another punch was thrown, but it did not hit Ace's head.

A big hand blocked Garp's fist.

Ace, who was holding his head in pain, slowly opened his eyes and saw Hiruma and Garp standing opposite each other, neither giving in.

Curly and the others were already stunned, scrambling to find a safe place to hide.

How dare someone stop Garp, they were finished, this base was probably going to be rebuilt.

Curly and the others knew Garp's temper very well. Once he got angry, they would all suffer along with him.

Garp slowly raised his head and looked at Hiruma.

Hiruma was now very panicked.

But even if he was panicked, he didn't show any sign of it on the surface.

In fact, because of his max-level Taunt skill, his face involuntarily showed an expression that would make anyone want to beat him up.

"Although he is a disobedient kid, he also has the right to make his own choices," Hiruma spoke up.

Garp glared with his tiger-like eyes, and a long-standing iron-blooded momentum pressed down on Hiruma.

At that moment, he seemed to see mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

Countless pirate ships shattered, and countless pirates screamed in agony.

This was the killing intent that one would possess after killing so many people. It was truly terrifying!

At this moment, Hiruma completely abandoned the image he had of Garp from the manga.

Garp had been fighting for half his life and had killed countless pirates.

Even if he had a humorous and silly personality, he was still an experienced veteran of the battlefield.

A legendary figure in the Navy, The Iron Fist, Garp!

"I am his guardian, if I want him to join the Navy, he will join the Navy. Who are you? Do you have any objections?" Hiruma was now extremely nervous, afraid that the other party would punch him and send him flying.

In the face of Garp's pressure, Hiruma used his Conqueror's Haki directly.

An invisible force suddenly appeared from him, fully pressing down on Garp, but it did not affect anyone else at all.

Even Garp was momentarily stunned by Hiruma's strange Haki.

"This terrifying control..."

"But what is it with this intensity..."

In Garp's eyes, the other party's control and intensity were completely disproportionate.

While Garp was stunned, Hiruma reached out and pulled Ace towards him.

For some reason, Ace suddenly felt a feeling he had never felt before.

A feeling he had never experienced before.

Raising his young face, he looked at Hiruma's that he had always found extremely annoying. For a moment, Ace was stunned.

"I am his master, naturally, I have the right to participate in matters related to him!" Hiruma said loudly.

First, he had to put himself in a reasonable position, in case this old man doesn't follow the rules and knocked him down with a punch.

Garp already snapped out of it, about to take action, when suddenly a scream came from far away.

"Ah~ Grandpa, save me~ wu wu..."

It was Luffy, who was being chased by a black bear.

If it weren't for his rubber body, he would have died countless times by now.

Just as Garp retracted his momentum, a shiny purple color light appeared in Hiruma's line of sight.

This was the second purple loot in his life.

The last one was when Shanks lost an arm to the sea king and dropped purple loot.

Unfortunately, at the time, he hadn't had the chance to open that purple loot because the system confiscated it.

"Open!"

Hiruma exclaimed excitedly in his heart, afraid that the system would cheat him again.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining Armament Haki by the opening purple-grade loot.]

It's here! Finally got it!

Although Conqueror's Haki was very rare and couldn't be improved by normal training, it was different from Armament Haki.

"Humph! With my talent, at least..." he had a glimmer of hope that got crushed instantly, "well, it's still the lowest level 1."

But it's fortunate that he didn't have to owe the system a loot this time.

Looking at Luffy running towards him from a distance, and the black bear following behind him, occasionally slapping Luffy with its huge paw, like slapping a basketball.

Hiruma's mind stirred.

It was time to show off, how could he miss it?

Looking down at his feet, he kicked a palm-sized stone directly, and with a whistling sound, it hit the black bear.

Armament Haki?

Garp thought in his heart that the other party had mastered the three types of Haki.

Although the Armament Haki that was entangled with the stone just now was not very strong, its control was extremely terrifying, solid, and without any scattering.

It seemed that the other party intentionally controlled its strength just to scare away the black bear.

Garp came to this conclusion.

He didn't know that he was wrong from the beginning.

How could Hiruma intentionally control his strength? He was clearly doing his best.

But this level 1 Armament Haki could only do this much.

As for control, like Conqueror's Haki, the control was at its maximum.

Garp couldn't understand this extraordinary situation of Hiruma.