9 "Yamamoto vs Zephyr"

Zephyr was hit and sent flying several meters by Yamamoto not because he was underestimating the old man in front of him, but because he did not expect the speed and explosion that Yamamoto achieved from one second to another, even so, thanks to his Haki of observation and weaponry he could cover himself and only be pushed several meters, without visible wounds on his skin.

Yamamoto didn't waste a second and took advantage of the time it would take Zephyr to get back to him, after all, they use Geppo to move in the air, a technique much slower than Shunpo.

Looking in Graydle's direction, since he was the only one he didn't recognize so he must be much weaker than Kizaru, he launched himself again using Shunpo towards him. Kizaru seeing that Yamamoto looked at his partner quickly used his light speed to support him.

This time, because of the distance between them, Kizaru could reach him in time without losing against the Shunpo thanks to his light speed. At this, Yamamoto exclaimed in a hoarse tone, "Get out of my sight!".

As he finished his words, an immense spiritual pressure shot out of his body, which focused mainly on Kizaru, the latter felt his whole body become heavy and as if something invisible wanted to crush him to smithereens.

"H-haoshoku haki!?" Kizaru whispered with difficulty as he tried to withstand the great pressure.

This was not haoshoku haki, but it was Yamamoto's Reiatsu, one of the ways to use it is to stun someone with the great pressure of it, although he did not have a spiritual power of 100, with the 50 he had, it was enough to stop Kizaru who was still a young vice admiral.

When he managed to stop Kizaru, Yamamoto resumed his path towards Graydle, the latter thanks to the second that the old man stopped, was able to react and attacked with his grayish arm.

"Don't underestimate me!" Graydle exclaimed somewhat angrily, as he knew immediately why Yamamoto was headed towards him as the first target.

His grayish arm melted and expanded into a large area, as if it was liquid metal, trying to completely cover Yamamoto.

"Devil fruit?" Yamamoto whispered as he saw that the liquid metal was about to cover him.

"It's useless" He added in a cold tone while in his right hand he concentrated fire.

Yamamoto with his right hand in the form of a blade, performed a precise vertical cut with great speed and strength, imbued with the flames of the mera mera no mi.

"Hitotsume: Nadegiri" Yamamoto whispered, as he finished that sentence Graydle was cut in half cleanly unable to do absolutely nothing to defend himself from Yamamoto's attack.

[ DING You have killed a vice admiral rewarded with 3 skill points and 300 merit points!]

Vice Admiral Graydle's split body fell straight into the sea lifeless and unaware of how his attack failed and at what point he was cut in two.

This happened in a few seconds, the archaeologists, seeing how a vice admiral of the navy died in such a horrible way, looked away from such a grotesque scene, Olvia covered Robin's eyes so he wouldn't look, Saul was dumbfounded by Yamamoto's martial prowess.

*Damn old man, can't you kill him in a less horrible way?" thought Clover as he looked at Robin a little worried.

The attack Yamamoto used is the initial release of Ryūjin Jakka's Zanpaku-tō, but he used it using the mera mera no mi. And not having the template at 100% it was much weaker than the original, even so, it killed a vice admiral like it was no big deal.

"Damn old geezer!" Young Kizaru exclaimed angrily as he saw one of his companions die in front of him.

Usually, Kizaru is unconcerned and somewhat lazy, but seeing his partner being killed made him angry like seldom before.

Using his speed, he threw himself with all his might at Yamamoto, in one of his hands he created a sword of light, *Hmph better if you come and get me* thought Yamamoto was satisfied that he didn't have to go looking for him.

He really wanted to take care of both vice-admirals first, as he felt that Zephyr had greater strength than him at the moment, although with his otherworldly techniques and Yamamoto's 50% experience, it was possible to give him a fight, if he had a fly like Kizaru constantly attacking him at the speed of light it would be much more difficult.

Yamamoto closed his fist and with all his strength he hit Kizaru's light sword, but before his blows hit, Zephyr arrived at a great speed and hit with his fist imbued with haki towards Yamamoto's, pushing Kizaru aside.

PUM!

Both fists collided and created a shockwave, Kizaru was repelled by the shock a few meters away, *He sure came fast* thought Yamamoto somewhat annoyed at not being able to kill Kizaru. As his life depended on this fight, he would not have the mercy he had with Akainu and Kuzan for being characters in the anime.

After a few seconds, both were pushed back, even so, Yamamoto was repelled more meters than Zephyr and could feel in his fist a great pain, *Yes there is a big difference between vice admirals and admirals* thought Yamamoto looking at his fist.

Zephyr dominates the weapon haki almost to perfection and thanks to this he earned the nickname of "Black Arm", so his physical strength backed with the weapon haki is one of his greatest powers.

Faced with this confrontation, Yamamoto knew immediately that it was useless to try to compete in hand-to-hand combat, so he had to take advantage of his devil fruit and his techniques that use spiritual energy.

"Your task is to give me support, you are no opponent for him, stand aside and use your great speed to make attacks at the right time" Zephyr ordered Kizaru in a cold tone. His expression was always the same even when he saw Graydle's death.

"Yes sir" Kizaru nodded suppressing his anger and retreating to the side to wait for the right moment to attack.

*Although I could send Saul to face Kizaru, I remember that in the anime he was defeated in a crushing way by Kuzan...* Yamamoto thought while deciding whether to ask Saul to take care of Kizaru or not.

Zephyr did not leave time to think and threw himself directly toward Yamamoto with both fists imbued with Haki, before the imminent attack Yamamoto expelled from his mouth a large amount of fire, which took the form of a giant ball of fire, of a much larger size than Zephyr.

He decided to attack in this way, remembering the characteristic fireball from the anime Naruto, although this one was much more powerful as it had a much higher temperature.

BOOM!

The fireball hit directly at Zephyr who did not dodge it and caused a huge explosion, which left flames in the sea at a high temperature. This was not enough to stop Zephyr who continued heading towards Yamamoto, this time his whole body was covered with haki weaponry.

Zephyr's marine clothes were in ashes except for his pants that somehow were saved, arriving at Yamamoto's side at an incredible speed he punched with both fists towards him.

Yamamoto knew he could not dodge this attack, as Zephyr's speed exceeded his own and he would not be caught off guard again by the Shunpo, *Good hit me squarely* Thought Yamamoto accepting Zephyr's blow.

PUM!

Both fists hit Yamamoto, however, he was again unharmed, thanks to the activation of one of his critical block cards. Leaving his body undefended, Zephyr's punch that was using all his strength was really deadly, so the card was automatically activated.

*What?" thought Zephyr in shock as his fists hit an unbreakable bar.

Yamamoto took advantage of this second of Zephyr's shock and struck at him using both fists imbued with fire.

PUM!

One fist hit straight into Zephyr's face and the other into his chest, sending him flying and doing a great deal of damage, even leaving a burn mark on his face and chest.

SWASH!

Zephyr fell straight into the water, Kizaru who was waiting for the right moment to attack Yamamoto didn't understand what had just happened when it seemed that Zephyr had finally hit Yamamoto his hit faded away as if he had no damage at all, *That was similar to the first attack I did from a distance* Kizaru thought.

Saul who was watching the battle from the ship, couldn't understand how first Zephyr beat Yamamoto in a confrontation, and then Yamamoto didn't even need to take cover for Z's attack.

*It really worked...* Yamamoto thought with a little sweat on his forehead, he didn't know if, with his 50% strength, Zephyr's attack would be deadly in his body, so he let it hit him without defending himself, betting that the card would activate.

Although he spent a system card, he couldn't think of any other way to manage to stop Zephyr's attack, since if he used Kidō he doubted he could stop it, and as for using his devil fruit, Zephyr had come out almost uninjured from his fireball.

He also noticed that there were 20 minutes left on the card, so he needed to finish this fight as soon as possible.

*Well it's time to use that* Yamamoto thought quickly heading in Kizaru's direction and taking advantage of the fact that Zephyr was still in the sea.