Seeing that Garp kept misunderstanding him, Da Hong suddenly grew irritated.
He jabbed a finger violently toward the sky, then clenched his fists and glared at Garp with wide, blazing eyes.
"Wahaha—alright, alright, don't get angry!"
Feeling that terrifying aura erupting from Da Hong again, Garp hurriedly laughed it off.
"I get it now. You're from the sky!"
Before the words had even fully left his mouth, Garp suddenly felt something under his foot.
He looked down.
And the moment he saw that he had stepped on a brand-new canvas sneaker, his pupils shrank violently.
Then, almost by instinct, he snapped his head up and looked at Da Hong.
At the exact same moment, Da Hong looked down at Garp's foot.
The instant he saw the sneaker being stepped on—
The aura around him exploded like a volcano.
His eyes turned bloodshot in an instant.
His skin flushed a deep red.
Wisps of vapor even began rising from his body—
As if he had suddenly entered Gear Second.
"Wahaha… that was careless of me!"
Garp didn't dare treat the situation lightly.
He immediately lifted his foot and hurried to explain.
"This old man didn't realize there was a sneaker in front of the sofa! Don't get mad—I'll pick it up for you right now!"
As he spoke, Garp bent down to pick up the shoe.
"Don't touch it!"
Just as Garp was about to make contact, Da Hong suddenly roared.
At the same time, he charged forward with lightning speed.
Faced with Da Hong's sudden berserk state, Garp immediately gave up on touching the shoe and flashed sideways to avoid him.
But—
He had still underestimated the rabbit's speed.
The very instant Garp slipped past him, Da Hong somehow twisted his body around in the middle of his high-speed charge—
Then lashed out with a clean, savage kick straight at Garp's face.
"…What the hell, that fast?!"
Garp's eyes widened.
There was no longer time to dodge, so he could only throw up an arm to block.
BOOM—
The instant they collided, a terrifying wave of force burst outward.
Then Garp was sent sliding backward uncontrollably.
With a heavy bang, he crashed into the glass display case holding the red sneakers.
The impact shattered the glass instantly, and the sneakers inside tumbled out.
"So strong!"
Garp didn't even have time to catch the fallen shoes.
Staring at Da Hong—who had now entered a state of full, blazing fury—his expression changed drastically.
"What kind of monster strength is this?!"
"ROAR—"
At that moment, because the red canvas sneakers had fallen out of the display case, Da Hong's eyes widened even further.
His aura surged outward like visible flame, roaring around his body with naked, violent intensity.
In the next instant, his figure vanished from where he stood.
And when he appeared again—
He was already filling Garp's vision.
"So fast!"
Still shocked by the rabbit's strength, Garp cried out again.
This time, unable to evade at all, he clenched his Iron Fist and smashed forward head-on.
BOOM—
With an earth-shaking blast, Da Hong's fist collided directly with Garp's.
In that single instant, terrifying shockwaves erupted from the point of impact, sending visible ripples across the air itself and sweeping outward over a hundred meters.
Then—
Garp, who had been backed against the shoe case, was blasted away like a cannonball.
He smashed straight through the ship's hull and flew toward a house on shore.
The impact punched a massive hole through the building, and the collapsing wreckage buried him beneath it in an instant.
The scene happened so suddenly that every Marine on the warship stared with bulging eyes.
"What just happened?!"
"What was that thing that got sent flying?"
"What thing?! Vice Admiral Garp got blasted away!"
"No way! That's Vice Admiral Garp! He's the man who chased the Pirate King all over the world—how could he possibly be sent flying?!"
"It had to be that Da Hong! I saw it go into the cabin with Vice Admiral Garp!"
Compared to the utter chaos among the Marines, Droopy on Kairo's ship remained absurdly calm.
With his napkin still tied around his neck, he calmly lifted his wine glass and took a leisurely sip at the exact moment the terrifying shockwave erupted from the cabin.
What made it even stranger was this:
The devastating blast, which should have swept across the deck, vanished the moment it reached Droopy's round table.
It disappeared without a trace.
Even the napkin around his neck didn't flutter.
Then an even more bizarre and astonishing scene unfolded.
Because of the violent shockwave inside the cabin, the roof was blown apart instantly, its pieces hurled up into the sky.
But before the Marines could even react, the green rabbit—who had been sitting across from Droopy—suddenly widened his eyes.
In the next moment, he shot to his feet in panic.
And the instant he moved—
Time itself seemed to slow down.
The shattered pieces of the cabin roof, which had already been thrown into the sky, suddenly appeared to freeze in midair.
The green rabbit took advantage of that impossible moment and began moving at a speed the naked eye couldn't follow.
He caught the flying wreckage, piece by piece, and returned each fragment to its original position.
In the span of a single blink—
The cabin had been fully restored.
It looked exactly as it had before, as if it had never been damaged at all.
The Marines on the warship were left wondering whether they had just imagined the whole thing.
After restoring the cabin at light speed, the green rabbit finally let out a long breath of relief.
Then, still a little shaken, he walked back to his seat across from Droopy.
The Marines might have doubted their own eyes—
But Droopy had seen everything clearly.
He hadn't expected the green rabbit to possess such an absurd ability.
To repair the cabin at light speed and restore it completely…
Lifting his glass once more, Droopy gave an unusually generous nod of praise.
"Green Rabbit, you did well."
Hearing Droopy—who rarely wasted words—praise him so directly, the green rabbit instantly broke into a bright smile.
No longer as stiff and timid as before, he happily raised his glass and clinked it against Droopy's.
Meanwhile—
After punching Garp flying once, Da Hong still had no intention of stopping.
His whole body burning with violent flames, he flashed forward again at the very instant Garp smashed into the house onshore.
In a blink, he appeared above the ruins.
"You really are unreasonable…"
The moment Da Hong landed atop the rubble, the ruins suddenly exploded apart.
Garp burst out from beneath them, leaping into the air.
"Rabbit, there's really no need for us to go this far just because of one sneaker, right?"
"Sure, you're strong—but this old man isn't easy to bully either. Let's stop here, alright? Wahaha—"
Garp's laugh cut off abruptly.
Because sometime during those words—
Da Hong had already appeared right in front of him.
His fist, as large and heavy as a sledgehammer, slammed straight into Garp's stomach.
Garp had never expected the rabbit to press the attack so mercilessly.
The instant that punch connected, a horrifying force surged through his entire body.
His eyes bulged.
And before he could stop himself, he coughed up a mouthful of blood.
"Wah—PFFT—!"
As blood sprayed from his mouth, Garp was launched flying once again—
Like a massive bomb.
He shot clear out of Foosha Village and crashed violently into a mountain behind the village.
BOOM!
This time, the Marines on the warship finally saw clearly who had been blasted away.
And as the thunderous explosion echoed from the mountain, the soldiers on deck finally snapped out of their shock.
"AAAAAHHH—Vice Admiral Garp got blasted away by a rabbit!"
"Battle stations! Prepare for combat!"
"Target: Da Hong!"
"On my command—ready!"
"Fire!"