One Piece: Honey Badger Speedruns the World

As the evening sun shone through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows into the villa's spacious living room, it illuminated the expensive mahogany table with a golden glow.

Of course, what's even more dazzling are the stacks of brand-new Berry junk piled on the table.

"Sailing is not just about staring blankly at the recorder's pointer; it's more about sensing the emotions of the wind and the clouds."

Nami held a pointer in her hand and was pointing at the complex ocean current chart hanging on the blackboard, explaining it in great detail.

She seamlessly switches between the demeanor of a "caring older sister" and a "shrewd female instructor," especially when she sees the huge tuition fee on the table, her voice becomes exceptionally sweet and clear when lecturing.

Goss sat opposite him, seemingly listening intently, but his gaze would occasionally drift to the sky outside the window, sensing the subtle flow of electrical charges in the air.

"Hey! Goss! Are you listening?!"

Nami keenly noticed the "student's" distraction, slammed her baton on the table with a "bang," and stood angrily with her hands on her hips.

"This is a high-end private lesson worth 100,000 Berries per hour!"

"This is exclusive intelligence about the climate of the New World. How can you survive on the high seas with this attitude?"

"Listen, listen, be aware of emotions."

Goss lazily raised his hand and pushed a stack of banknotes toward Nami: "That was a good talk. I'd like to hear about the part about the 'New World Anomalous Magnetic Field'."

Nami's anger, which was about to erupt, vanished the moment she saw the money. Her eyes instantly turned into the shape of Beryl, and she revealed a sweet, professional smile as she deftly stuffed the money into her pocket.

"Since Boss Goss is so eager to learn, then I'll teach you everything I know! Come on, let's look at this picture..."

Although Goss himself did not intend to become a navigator, he knew very well that someone had to know about navigation, otherwise it would be impossible to make any progress on the treacherous seas.

After the class, Goss took off his coat and walked to the center of the villa's courtyard, feeling relaxed.

Mia, who had been waiting there, gripped a pair of longswords she had hastily bought from a weapons shop, her eyes sharper than ever before.

Goss casually picked up the scabbard from the ground.

"Come on, Mia."

"Ah ah!"

Mia let out a sharp cry and suddenly pushed off with her feet. But the force was too great, and her petite body was launched like a cannonball, moving so fast that even she was startled.

boom!

She originally intended to attack from the side, but because she couldn't stop herself, she stepped into a shallow hole in the ground and almost lost her balance and crashed into the wall.

"Too fast... I feel so light..."

Mia panicked and adjusted her balance, swinging her twin swords wildly due to inertia.

Although the strike was incredibly powerful, generating enough wind pressure to tear the carpet, it was completely haphazard, almost like a child wielding a sledgehammer.

"Don't let power lead you astray. You control the knife, not the knife dragging you along."

Goss stood still, not moving an inch.

"Again! Use the move Uncle Vista taught you today!"

Mia let out a sharp cry, crossed her twin swords, and mimicked Uncle Vista's movements from her memory, flicking her wrists as she attempted to unleash the magnificent "Rose Dance."

Clang!

However, the reality is cruel.

When her blade struck Goss's defenses, it did not produce the expected continuous offensive.

Instead, after the first impact, her small wrist couldn't withstand the huge recoil force and her movements were directly deformed.

"Don't stop! Do it again!"

Goss gave her no chance to catch her breath, the scabbard sweeping across with a whistling sound.

The blow was powerful and heavy, and Mia instinctively wanted to raise her knife to block it, just like before. But the moment she raised her arms, the cold touch in her hands made her pause for a moment.

It's unstoppable...

Why is the knife in my hand so heavy? Why is it trembling?

At this critical moment, a thought suddenly flashed through Mia's mind: it's because I'm "grabbing" it.

I treated it as a piece of dead iron used for parrying, as something external to me, which is why it felt so heavy and why it seemed so distant from me.

Not a weapon...

If it were my fingers, or my arm, would I feel they were heavy?

In that instant, Mia abandoned the idea of ​​gripping the hilt of the knife to fight back.

Instead, she relaxed her tense fingers, no longer forcibly controlling the trajectory of the knife, but instead extended her senses along the lines of her palm all the way to the cold tip of the blade.

Don't try to move it, but rather...feel it. It is my bone, it is my flesh.

Since it's part of the body, let it flow in accordance with its breathing!

call--

As Goss hurled a heavy blow at her, Mia's body suddenly became unusually supple.

Instead of resisting, she seemed to have lost all her bones, following the trajectory of the blade, her whole body spinning lightly like a cherry blossom petal blown by the wind.

clang!

This strike, devoid of its previous stiffness and heaviness, possessed instead a natural and seamless clarity.

The twin blades struck Goss's scabbard with precision, producing a clear and resonant sword cry instead of the dull thud of metal clashing.

"what?"

Mia was stunned.

Just now... she didn't feel the weight of the knife at all.

It felt as if she had simply swung her arm casually, and the blade had found the perfect position on its own.

It turned out to be like this...

There's no need to imitate anyone. Just treat it like an extended claw, and it will tell me where to go.

Having grasped this subtle, tactile sensation, Mia's gaze changed.

Those eyes, which had been somewhat flustered due to tension, now became as serene as the white moon.

She no longer tried to aim with her eyes, but closed them and simply used her skin to feel the flow of air and her fingertips to feel the desire of the blade.

Clang! Whoosh—clang!

The blade flashed again.

This time, there were no deliberate moves, nor any awkward transitions.

The two knives seemed to come alive, transforming into two wings of light extending from her body, drawing gentle yet deadly arcs in the air with her breath.

It wasn't until the night was deep that Mia, drenched in sweat, collapsed onto the grass.

Although exhausted, with his fingers trembling slightly, his eyes, gazing at the starry sky, shone brighter than the stars themselves, filled with excitement for a new realm of swordsmanship.

Goss leaned against a tree trunk not far away, watching this scene quietly, without disturbing her joy.

From a stiff imitator to a rudimentary swordsman who has grasped the basics of man and sword as one... it only took a short afternoon.

Looking at the younger sister who was still grinning foolishly, completely unaware that she had actually activated the "Number One Cheat in the Entire Sea".

Goss stroked his chin, his gaze deep.

This exaggerated growth curve can no longer be simply summarized by the word "genius".

The reason he was able to progress so quickly was most likely because of the influence of the Human Path. After unlocking his strength in the afternoon, he quickly learned how to use it.