"If you were to travel, where would you want to go?"

These words had originally had quite a bit of romantic meaning, but they weren’t a simple question to the people who had been battling Kuma. These words had left a not small psychological shadow on Luffy in the original plot.

And the one who had been hearing these words right now had been Drake, who had been planning to forcibly take Kuma away.

Drake had bent his upper body backwards in place, and his excellent dynamic vision had made Kuma’s arm movements seem like they had been put in slow motion.

And Drake had also seen the paw pads on Kuma’s palms in this process.

The Nikyu Nikyu no Mi had been a devil fruit that the Celestial Dragons had taken out as a prize for a hunting game during the God Valley incident.

It had just been that Kuma, who had been a prey at the time, had eaten it beforehand, and he had relied on the ability that he had just obtained to save more than five hundred people.

The paw pads that had grown on Kuma’s palms had been an embodiment of the devil fruit ability, and the essence of this ability had been the power to repel everything.

Drake hadn’t wanted to try that ability, which could have taken effect on concepts, with his own body.

Drake’s body had rotated, drawing out an arc, standing up, and Kuma’s other hand had also slammed down.

Boom! Crack!

Two sounds had rung out one after the other, and the first sound had been produced when Kuma’s attack had landed.

And the second sound... the location where the two had been standing before had been on the yardarm that had been hanging the sails of that giant mast that had been standing behind the mansion.

And a paw-shaped dent had appeared on the yardarm in an instant when Kuma’s palm had landed, and that sound had been the sound of the yardarm, which had been almost ten meters in diameter, breaking.

The giant yardarm had fallen together with the thick chains that had been tied to it, and such a large commotion had also made Moria and the Straw Hat Pirates, who had been battling below, notice.

Moria had been gnashing his teeth in anger, and both Kuma and Drake had been taking things too far, and it had been fine to fight, but what had been the point of tearing apart his ship!

But he hadn’t been able to afford to offend either of the two who had been fighting, so he had only been able to vent his anger on the Straw Hat crew.

Luffy and them hadn’t had the mood to think about the matter of Drake appearing here because of this, and they had had to put all of their strength into responding to Moria’s fierce attacks.

And in mid-air, Drake had also approached Kuma, surrounded by exploding flames, blasting a Fire Dragon’s Talon at Kuma’s body.

After a muffled sound, Kuma’s body hadn’t moved at all, and what had blocked Drake’s calf had been Kuma’s palm, which had had the paw pads.

Drake hadn’t held back with this kick, and it could have kicked over even a marine warship with one kick.

But Kuma had received it so easily, as if Drake’s attack hadn’t had any power.

And as the one who had launched the attack, Drake had sensed the strangeness within it even more clearly. He hadn’t had any feeling of having hit anything at all when he had come into contact with Kuma’s palm.

And the reason for this phenomenon had been that Kuma had used his ability to repel the power that he had been applying. In a sense, Kuma’s ability could also be considered a different kind of absolute defense.

"Pressure!"

Kuma had slammed out a palm again, and the air had been repelled by the paw pads on his palm, blasting towards Drake like a cannonball.

Drake had flown up directly, and a giant paw-shaped hole had appeared in the mist behind him.

Kuma naturally wouldn’t have let go of the opportunity, spreading his legs apart, blasting out a continuous large amount of air cannons with the posture of pushing his palms in sumo.

Drake had flapped the flame wings on his back, drawing out a flame arc around Kuma, throwing all of the air cannons behind him.

You still couldn’t see any expressions on Kuma’s face, but he had suddenly withdrawn his palms that he had been pushing out at a certain moment, instead slamming them towards behind him.

Kuma’s body had disappeared from where he had been standing, and he had appeared right beside Drake, raising his palm, slamming it down on Drake without any courtesy.

Kuma didn’t have any hostility towards Drake, so this slap hadn’t been aimed at harming Drake, and he had only wanted to slap him away to a farther place.

It was a pity that he had the World Government’s orders on him, or he would have run away directly when he had learned of Drake’s purpose.

Kuma’s thoughts had only strayed for about a second, and he had then had to concentrate his attention.

Drake had grabbed Kuma’s wrist, and he hadn’t been able to slam it down anymore. He hadn’t eaten the Bari Bari no Mi, but had instead eaten the Nikyu Nikyu no Mi, so only the paw pads on his palms could have displayed the ability.

Drake had used strength in his arm, and Kuma, who hadn’t been able to borrow strength in mid-air, naturally hadn’t been able to resist, and he had been thrown out by Drake directly.

Kuma had slammed towards the ground like a meteor, and just as he had been about to use his ability to repel the air to stop his body from falling, he had seen Drake chase after him, blasting a flying kick.

Kuma had only had enough time to cover the chest that he had been kicked with Armament Haki, but he had seemed to have heard the sound of the mechanical parts that had been implanted into his body breaking even so.

The accelerated Kuma had slammed into the ground solidly in the end, making the forest below him flip over directly.

Drake had chased after him right after that, and he had blasted a punch down with flames wrapped around his arm.

But after passing through the smoke and dust, Drake had seen Kuma, who had had blood hanging on his forehead, but had already stood up, hugging his hands together, and the distorted air between his palms had formed the shape of paw pads.

"Ursus Shock!"

After Drake had approached, the paw pad air mass had expanded in an instant, crashing into Drake’s body directly. It had made Drake feel like he had been crashing into a steel-made wall in a state of moving forward rapidly.

But surprise had then appeared in Kuma’s eyes, because Drake hadn’t been blasted away even after having been hit by his Ursus Shock head-on.

That had been natural, and Drake could have burned through it even if he had crashed into a steel wall.

The flames that had been surging out on the fist that Drake had blasted out had directly repelled the impact force that had been landing on his body.

And Drake had also taken advantage of this opportunity to approach Kuma, blasting several punches on him without any courtesy.

Kuma had also swung his arms, blocking Drake’s punches one by one.

Whether it had been the power on the punches, or the flames that had been attached on them, Kuma had repelled them without leaving a single drop, and Drake hadn’t been able to break through Kuma’s defense for a time.

Because of his gentle personality, Kuma hadn’t actually been good at attacking, and he hadn’t had the look of a "tyrant" at all. But Kuma could be said to have been among the best when it had come to defensive abilities.

After having collided for who knew how many times, a confident smile had appeared on Drake’s face.

After having tested it so many times, he had finally discovered the opening in Kuma’s ability.

Although this had been a world where physics had often been humiliated by devil fruits, some laws had still existed.

Resilience had been the most basic knowledge of physics in his previous life, and Drake had naturally not forgotten it.

And Drake had discovered that there had been a process for Kuma’s ability to take effect, and the paw pads on his palms had first deformed after contacting an external force, and they would have fully reflected the external force in the process of returning to their original shape.

Which was to say that the instant before the paw pads had begun to recover after deforming had been the opening in Kuma’s defense.

But even if they had known this point, few people could have captured that instant. And it had been unfortunate that Drake had once witnessed a technique that could have done this.

The flash swordsmanship of Edelweiss, and the current Drake could have completely replicated it.

Concentrating his attention completely had made Drake’s eyes transform into vertical pupils, and Drake’s arm had flickered at the instant that another punch had hit Kuma’s palm, making his paw pads sink in.

At that instant, Drake’s arm had completed the process of withdrawing after having blasted out, and Kuma’s outstretched arm, together with half of his body, had been leaning backwards directly, revealing an opening to Drake.

"Fire Dragon King’s Crushing Fist!"

Drake had taken a step forward, blasting his fist heavily on Kuma’s body.

The surging flames had flown out together with Kuma, crashing into that giant mast of Thriller Bark directly, breaking it in the middle.

The mast that had been falling had also smashed onto the corpse of Oars, the land-moving giant who had been fused with Luffy’s shadow, almost smashing Luffy’s shadow out from within him.

The unlucky Moria had suffered an undeserved disaster again!

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