One Piece: Honey Badger Speedruns the World

Looking at Goss's rosy and vibrant face, Reiju felt a surge of absurdity.

That was a mixed toxin powerful enough to kill a Titan! Not only did he not die, he even sneaked into Germa's absolute forbidden zone and was playing with that discarded helmet?

"It seems I underestimated you."

Reiju's eyes narrowed, her long legs tensing instantly, a dangerous aura emanating from her pink high-heeled combat boots: "But no matter what kind of monster you are, put that thing down! That's Germa's property!"

boom!

Reiju vanished instantly, a whip kick powerful enough to shatter steel plates, leaving a pink afterimage, heading straight for Goss's head!

There's no escaping it.

Moreover, the corrosive poisonous mist swirling around the combat boots made him realize that trying to take the hit head-on with his bare body would be certain death.

There was no time to think.

Goss's body reacted faster than his brain.

He suddenly raised his hands and slammed the heavy alloy helmet he was holding onto the top of his head, pressing it down firmly!

"Zzzzzzz—!!"

At the same time, in order to block Reiju's kick, Goss instinctively unleashed the hidden lightning within his body.

The purplish-black lightning instantly wrapped around his entire body, and of course, it also surged wildly into the helmet he had just put on, following his hair.

The prototype, which was unable to start due to energy depletion, lit up again after receiving Goss's high-intensity bioelectricity as its energy source!

[High-energy current input detected... System forced restart.]

[User's brainwaves detected... Emotional threshold: Extremely high!]

[Meets the conditions for domineering induction... Full power output!!]

when!!!!!

Reiju's combat boots slammed heavily into Goss's crossed arms.

But at the very moment of contact, a strange black shockwave erupted from the helmet without warning!

Buzz—! ! ! !

"What?!"

Reiju felt as if she had kicked a steel plate, rather than flesh.

Boom! Reiju was sent flying by the powerful impact, tumbling twice in the air before barely landing, her high heels leaving a trail of sparks on the metal floor.

She looked up in horror.

In the center of the laboratory, Goss remained in a defensive stance, his helmet flashing red light wildly and emitting a sharp, electrical hissing sound.

A black cloud of energy gradually condensed within Goss's body.

But just like with Professor Bista.

In Goss's perception, the invisible domineering aura that had just begun to take shape was instantly shattered by the high-voltage lightning surging within his body.

It's like trying to light a candle in a strong wind; the domineering aura simply cannot be stably condensed and covered on the skin's surface to form a hardened layer.

Failed?

Just as its domineering aura was about to dissipate, the helmet's forced induction magnetic field acted as the final mold.

Unable to take shape, that restless, gaseous will, under pressure, directly seeped into the surging lightning.

Goss clearly felt that the electric current, which was originally light, turbulent, and only possessed energy properties, suddenly became heavy.

That will no longer tried to cover the physical body, but instead chose to cover the electric current.

The originally ethereal lightning was forcibly given a physical structure by the domineering force.

Buzz—hum.

The purple arc of electricity within Goss's body quickly dimmed, condensing into a deeper black in an instant.

It was no longer simply jumping energy, but had become a fluid lightning paste similar to liquid metal.

"This feeling...this surge of power..."

"It's like turning your soul into armor..."

Goss suddenly opened his eyes. Even through the helmet, Reiju could still feel a crackling, thunderous aura.

Sizzle... Pop!

Goss's right hand, which had been covered in hair, suddenly turned completely black without warning.

It wasn't just true Armament Haki hardening with a metallic sheen like steel; purple arcs of electricity flowed and danced across the hardened surface.

"This...this is impossible!!"

Reiju cried out in disbelief, "That's Armament Haki?! This abandoned machine can really awaken Haki in people?"

She knew all too well the true value of being domineering.

For pirates, that's their ticket to the New World.

The power that Germa had been researching for decades but couldn't give to cyborgs was actually triggered the moment this man put on the helmet?

boom!

Just then, the overburdened prototype of the powerful guide could no longer withstand the voltage released by Goss and finally reached its limit.

With a loud bang, the black helmet emitted a plume of black smoke, burned completely, and slid off Goss's head in two pieces.

"Huff... huff..."

Goss was panting heavily, his whole body looking as if he had just been pulled out of the water.

He looked at his right hand, which was slowly losing its black color, and his eyes were filled with overwhelming joy.

Although it only lasted for a few seconds.

Although the machine had burned out.

But the feeling of mobilizing his will to cover his body, and the mysterious and domineering flow path, had been firmly memorized by his body!

It was as if someone had forcibly pulled his hand and made him write a perfect piece of calligraphy.

Next, he only needs to keep repeating this feeling to truly master the domineering aura!

Goss kicked away the scrap metal on the ground, looked up at Reiju who was staring blankly, and grinned from ear to ear:

"Thank you so much, Reiju-san."

He clenched his fist, feeling the Armament Haki coursing through his body with the flow of lightning.

In that instant, he instinctively tried to defend himself against Reiju's attack, and the thought that flashed through his mind was to make his skin as hard as steel.

After all, in the expressive power of comics, Armament Haki hardening is simply the skin turning black and hardening.

"But...that's not right."

Goss pinched the muscles in his right arm with his left hand.

Soft.

Skin is still skin, and muscles are still muscles; they do not undergo physical hardening like iron.

"It hasn't hardened?"

Goss frowned slightly and tried again to mobilize the power that had been forcibly drawn out by the machine earlier.

hum.

As I focused my mind, a strange sensation enveloped my arm.

This time, Goss saw it clearly.

It wasn't that his skin had darkened, but rather that there was an invisible, high-density layer of energy, like an unseen bodysuit, tightly covering the surface of his skin.

Because this layer of air is so dense and intense, external attacks feel like hitting steel.

"I see... The so-called domineering aura is indeed just a kind of aura, just as its name suggests."

Goss suddenly realized.

Since it is qi, it is a flowing energy body, not a fixed structure.

"No wonder……"

Goss watched the lightning dancing on his fingertips.

"No wonder it merged with my lightning so perfectly just now."

If the skin is hardened, then the lightning only flows on the surface of the hardened skin; the two are separate.

But since domineering aura is qi and lightning is electricity, both are forms of invisible energy.

When gas and electricity meet in the body, they do not repel each other, but instead blend together seamlessly.

Buzz—Buzz!

Goss had a sudden thought.

That invisible energy burst forth from his body once more, covering his arm, along with the electric current.

The originally violent but scattered electric current was compressed and made more substantial due to the envelopment and constraint of the air, resulting in a higher concentration of lightning.

Goss reached out and gently pressed his hand on the alloy experimental table next to him.

He didn't smash it with force, but simply controlled the lightning mixed with domineering power to make contact.

puff.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, nor molten iron at high temperatures.

The hard alloy tabletop dented silently, as if it had been punched in the face.

That's because the electric current acquired the mass of gas, transforming into a tangible hammer.

"That's right."

Goss clenched his fist, feeling that new sense of control:

"It's not about turning the body into iron, but about wrapping the body in air and lightning, turning it into something capable of shattering solid objects—the Thunder Armor."

Reiju looked at the helmet fragments scattered on the ground, then at Goss's arms wrapped in dark purple lightning, and bit her lower lip tightly.

Regardless of the many mysteries surrounding Goss, and regardless of the principle behind that strange black lightning, one thing is certain:

Right under her nose, he destroyed the property in her father's most cherished laboratory.

As Germa's eldest daughter and the person in charge of this mission, this was a dereliction of duty that she absolutely could not tolerate.

"I don't know what kind of incredible luck you had to find this kind of power..."

Reiju took a deep breath, the shock in her eyes quickly cooling, replaced by an even sharper killing intent.

She crouched slightly, and the "66"-shaped thrusters on her back began to emit a piercing, high-frequency hum.

"But as the intruder, you must stay here today!"

boom!

The airflow exploded.

This time, Reiju held nothing back.

The combat suit's acceleration device was activated at full power, and the person transformed into a pink lightning bolt that was invisible to the naked eye.

"Explosive Kick!"

Without any fancy probing, it was a direct, deadly attack powerful enough to shatter the rock face.

The combat boots, imbued with a high concentration of toxic substances and centrifugal force, appeared instantly on the side of Goss's neck with a piercing shriek that tore through the air!

too fast

If it were Gosz a few minutes earlier, even if he had seen the kick clearly, his body wouldn't have been able to block it, and the only outcome would have been a broken neck.

But now.

Faced with this deadly blow, Goss didn't even flinch.

He simply raised his right hand, which was covered in dark purple lightning, his five fingers spread, and gently blocked to the side.

when----!!

A resounding metallic clang echoed throughout the laboratory.

Reiju's sharp gaze froze instantly.

Her kick stopped in mid-air.

Between her boots and Goss's palm, the flowing dark purple lightning seemed to have become an insurmountable wall.

Her cyborg superhuman strength, which she was so proud of, vanished without a trace.

The highly toxic dust attached to her combat boots was instantly burned away by the violent lightning the moment it came into contact with that domineering aura, unable to penetrate even a fraction of it!