"Buggy, aim for that ship!" Chronos yelled at Buggy, mimicking Monkey D. Luffy's tone from later generations.
"Oh! Okay! Okay!"
Buggy fumbled to load the cannonball and fired a shot directly at Garp's battleship.
"Boom!"
The cannonball arced perfectly through the air, then splashed harmlessly into the water...
"Hahahaha, Roger, your pirate crew's aim is terrible, aren't they? Kuzan, give them another one!" Garp laughed heartily as the cannonball perfectly grazed his ship, then ordered Kuzan.
"Yes~ Pheasant Beak!"
Kuzan, still sprawled on the ship, gave his boss a resentful look. Feeling his stamina recover slightly, he conjured an ice bird and shot it out. In the future, he vowed never to use his big moves easily again unless absolutely necessary; they were too taxing on his body!
"Useless fool! Watch me!"
Seeing Buggy was completely ineffective, Chronos had no choice but to step up himself. He activated his Devil Fruit ability, transforming his right arm into crystalline rock, and leaped into the air to meet the incoming ice bird.
"Bang!!!"
As Chronos's right fist met the ice bird, a loud bang followed. The entire ice bird was shattered by Chronos's punch, turning into a shower of ice and vanishing.
"Chrono, well done!"
Everyone on Roger's ship cheered loudly as Chronos easily destroyed the ice bird, waving their towels in excitement.
"Huh? What kind of Devil Fruit is that?"
Garp wasn't particularly bothered that his loyal subordinate's ice bird was destroyed. After all, the sea was frozen solid; unless Roger and his crew grew wings, they weren't escaping today. However, he was curious about Chronos, whose right arm was transformed by a Devil Fruit. He'd been sailing the seas for half his life and had never seen this Devil Fruit before. It looked a bit like a Paramecia-type Stone-Stone Fruit, but he knew the user of that fruit, a great pirate who was still active on the seas!
No matter, he had a way to test it!
"Hey, Roger! What Devil Fruit did that brat eat?"
That's right! Garp's method was to just ask directly. He couldn't be bothered to use his brain...
"Damn it, Garp! Why should I tell you!"
Roger refused Garp's question. He would never admit that he didn't know what kind of Devil Fruit it was either.
"Haha~ Then I'll just have to find out myself!"
With that, Garp used Moonwalk and lunged at Chronos. The massive fist grew larger and larger in Chronos's eyes. With no time to dodge, Chronos had no choice but to cross his right arm to block.
"Bang!!!"
"This hardness is much greater than the Stone-Stone Fruit!" Garp said to himself, looking at Chronos, who had been knocked back onto Roger's ship.
"Chrono, are you okay?"
Shanks and Buggy, who had been waving towels on the ship, quickly helped Chronos up.
"Garp, you can't bully my subordinate like that; I can't just pretend I didn't see it!"
Seeing his subordinate being bullied by Garp, Roger drew his sword, "Ace," from his waist and unleashed a burst of sword energy at Garp.
"Vice-Captain, what do we do next?" Buggy turned, trembling, and asked Rayleigh.
"Panic for what? We have so many super-giants on our ship! On Garp's side, besides him, only that Afro guy is worth watching. Let's all go; we can stomp them to death!"
"Chrono's right! With so many of us, why should we be afraid of him?... Jabba, prepare to sail!"
Roger, who had exchanged a few blows with Garp, retreated back to the ship and adopted Chronos's words. Just as Chronos thought they were about to engage in an all-out battle with Garp, Roger's latter half of the sentence took a sharp turn.
Chronos's face darkened. Damn, no wonder their captain would become the Pirate King in the future; with a face like that, he was clearly destined for great things.
"But Captain, we can't sail on this frozen sea!" Jabba peered through his sunglasses at the frozen sea, shrugging his shoulders in dismay.
"Leave it to me!"
Chronos clenched his left hand around his right wrist, aimed his right hand at the frozen sea, and gathered energy in his right palm.
"Take this, Great Ball Rasengan!"
Instantly, a blue energy blast surged towards the sea. The immense energy obliterated the ice like a decaying force, carving out a clear path. Only then did Chronos restore his arm to its normal state. Hmph! He hadn't been wasting his time all these days; he had gradually developed other abilities of his Devil Fruit.
"Chrono, well done! Jabba, let's go!"
"Damn it, Roger! I'll catch you next time!!!" Garp shouted, unwilling to give up as the Oro Jackson grew more distant.
Then, Garp angrily clutched his aching right fist and walked into his ship's cabin.
What kind of Devil Fruit did that kid eat? It was so hard. Could it be another Mythical Zoan, like Sengoku's? Never mind, he'd report to headquarters first!
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