On the sandy playground of the Navy Elementary School, a green figure quickly slashed around a young man armed with a katana.

Take a closer look, it turned out to be a green mantis with a height of about one meter seven, wielding two long forearms to attack at the long knife in the young man's hand at high speed.

This scene amazed some of the junior students around, especially the mantis's arm shining in the bright sun, revealing a slight metallic luster, which made their eyes glow.

It's so cool, there is wood! As for the young man who seemed to be struggling to support himself, he was completely ignored by them.

However, the Navy parents and teachers who stood beside these innocent children paid more attention to the teenager, and the appreciation in their eyes was even more obvious.

"That's a good kid, he should win."

Smoker looked at the battle in the distance and suddenly said lightly.

"Huh? yes, that Mentex looks amazing, but it's not as good as you! Tina replied proudly, there is no stronger Smoker in the entire Navy Elementary School!

Smoker glanced at Tina: "I don't mean that idiot, but Byron......" This little girl's eyesight doesn't seem to be enough.

"What?! How could it be, Tina could see clearly, that Byron hadn't moved since the beginning! Tina was not convinced, and continued to evaluate his Byron: "His movement speed and frequency of swinging knives are not only several times worse than Mentes, but even his strength can only be five or five times higher than Mentes, how can he win!" ”

In the end, Tina seemed to feel that it was inappropriate for her classmates to say this, and added: "But he is a non-capable person, and he can hold on to Mentes for so long, and he can be regarded as capable." ”

Smoker didn't interrupt Tina's long talk, listened to Tina's words quietly, and when she finished, began to explain: "The victory or defeat of the battle is not only about the speed and strength of the two sides. Wisdom and skill also account for fifty percent. After a pause, he continued: "Why did Byron stand still? It's because he knows very well that he is far inferior to Mentes in terms of agility! “

"Standing still, he doesn't need to compete with Mentes for speed, and only needs to block the opponent's slash and small dodge, so that the disadvantage in attack speed will be greatly reduced. After all, compared to Mentes's big opening and closing, Byron needs to make much less movements, which naturally makes up for the weakness in frequency. “

"What about his strength, Byron's strength doesn't have an advantage!" Tina continued to disagree, and the little girl began to place a small white hand on Smoker's waist.

Smoker was naturally aware of the movements of the girl next to him, which made him smile wryly.

He knew that if the next answer could not convince Tina, then the flesh on his waist would have to go through another rotational movement.

"Do you think it's something to be proud of when an animal-based capable person is even more powerful than a non-capable person?" Smoker looked at Mentes with disdain, another fool who relied heavily on the fruit's abilities.

The insect fruit mantis is a green giant mantis type, but it is an animal fruit! No matter what form the animal fruit takes, it will more or less strengthen the physical fitness of the person with the ability.

Although the praying mantis species is not a power-type animal-based fruit, even so, it is much stronger than the physical foundation of a non-capable person!

But what about this Mentees? Ya and Byron are in strength! This shows that he is not consciously exercising his physical strength at all, and he is completely eating the old bottom of the devil fruit!

And he has maintained the beast type battle from the beginning to the present, you must know that among the three forms of the animal fruit, the beast type is the most physically demanding form.

So Smoker guessed that first of all, he probably didn't develop his ability to the point of being a beast at all, and the textbook explained that the human-animal form is the best fighting state for those with animal fruit abilities, not only the physical consumption is much less, but also the ability to be used more flexibly, such as making only a certain part of the body beast or something.

Or maybe this Mentex actually knows the form of a man and a beast, but he believes in his own strength very much, and thinks that he can rely on the strength of the beast form to quickly solve the battle.

But...... It was now close to thirty minutes before the battle began, and judging by the level of mentees' panting, his physical strength should be running out.

Thirty minutes of beast-like state is equivalent to thirty minutes of elementalization of the whole body of a natural ability, even if he does this, his physical strength will have to consume more than half!

But even so, this Mentes does not use the human-beast form, so he is so sure that Mentes did not develop the fruit ability to the human-beast form.

"Tina, look at Mentes and Byron's panting."

Following Smoker's instructions, Tina noticed that Mentes was not only sweating and panting all over his body, but also that his body was much slower than before, judging from the frequency of his arms and the speed at which he circled Byron.

And that Byron, although his face was also red, and his face was dripping with sweat, but his breath was still so calm, and as for the efficiency of blocking and the dodge of his body, it was the same as before.

"Noticed?" Smoker asked.

"Hmm!"

"This Byron is not only very good at swordsmanship, but it is also obvious that he has undergone a lot of training physically, and what is even more rare is that he is very calm and not impatient." Smoker commented: "He is already very good among his peers. I even suspect that he had already planned the battle based on Mentes's situation. "After all, they all belong to the same naval elementary school, this circle is not very big, and there are only a few people with Devil Fruit abilities, and it is not very difficult to understand the basic character and ability, it depends on whether you have a heart or not.

At this time, Mentes also found that his physical strength was about to be exhausted, which made him gradually anxious in his heart, and he originally wanted to rely on his own ability to quickly solve the battle.

But he didn't expect that his crazy attacks were all blocked by the inconspicuous long knife, and in the full thirty minutes before, he even began to think that Byron's block had reached the point where the needle could not be inserted and the water could not be splashed.

Originally, I thought that I could make the opponent mess up in a circle at high speed, and find some opportunities and gaps to defeat the enemy with one move.

But this kid who is the same age as himself has a calm personality like an uncle, not only his movements are not affected by his dazzling body in the slightest, but those two pairs of eyes are also calm as usual.

"No, we can't go on like this!"

"Swing~"

After Mentez and Byron fought again, he immediately used the shock to distance Byron, and he was ready to bet all his hopes on the next move!

The surrounding students were very inexplicable when they saw that the two sides of the battle suddenly stopped and confronted each other, and they didn't know why they stopped fighting.

"It's time to decide the winner."

At this time, in the marshal's room, which was located on the highest floor of the Fortress of Justice on Marin Fando Island, the Sengoku General suddenly said to the image on the wall.

If you look closely, there are six people sitting in this small office.

Marshal of the Navy - Cyborg. Empty, Admiral - Sengoku, Navy Instructor - Zefa, Hero of the Navy - Karp, and three Vice Admirals Kuzan, Sakasky, Polusalino.

Each of them was a prominent figure in the Navy Headquarters.

"It's time to decide the winner."

At the same time, Smoker on the other side also said lightly, and Tina, who was beside her, immediately focused on the playground after hearing it.

"Look at my shadow clone!"