g!!

  Sparks flew as the csh of ons filled the air.

  The three-meter-tall Blood Fox Yasuo, wielding his massive, Haki-coated bde, unched a powerful strike.

  However, Dal—who stood at an imposing five meters tall and had a youthful face—met him head-on.

  The sound of g bdes echoed as Dal held his ground effortlessly, his strength f Yasuo to stumble back.

  Though Dal couldn’t match the raw physical power of siblings like Thor or Sif, the traits he ied from his mother’s Three-Eyed Tribe bloodline, bined with the Lunarian and Giant bloodlines from his father, made his physique anything but ordinary.

  At just eleven years old, he had already mastered Observation Haki—which granted him the ability to foresee the future—and Armament Haki, giving him the edge to face Blood Fox Yasuo, a pirate with a bounty of 235 million berries, head-on.

  “Mind-reading? Could this be the legendary ability of the Three-Eyed Tribe?” Yasuo muttered, his eyes fixed on Dal’s third eye. The glow from it sent shivers down his spine.

  “Take a guess,” Dal replied with a smirk, his tone pyful yet fident.

  But there was no pyfulness in his swordsmanship. His strikes were precise, swift, aless, aiming to overpower his foe.

  g! g!

  Steel met steel as the two figures cshed in a heated battle.

  Every strike from Yasuo was met with equal ferocity, and Dal’s bde danced with a fluid grace that belied his age.

  Both fighters exged blows at breakneck speed, their movements sharp ahal, resembling a deadly dance where her gave an inch.

  “Blood Fox Ssh!”

  In his hybrid form, Blood Fox Yasuo snarled and leaped back, gathering power in his bde before ung a devastating ssh through the air.

  The bzing arc of energy screamed toward Dal with immense force.

  “Tsk…”

  Dal’s expression remained calm, as though he had anticipated the attack.

  He tered immediately, sshing his sword to release a green-tinged arc of energy.

  Boom! Boom!

  The two sshes collided in midair, erupting in an explosive csh that shook the grouh them.

  Dal’s gaze sharpened.

  The fmes on his back extinguished as he shifted into his maximum offeate.

  “Night Demon Assault!”

  The bde in Dal’s hand glowed ominously as he unleashed a massive crest-shaped ssh that cut through the air like a guillotine.

  It shot forward with terrifying speed and power, hurtling directly toward Yasuo.

  “Damn it!” Yasuo’s face turned pale as he hastily raised his bde, coating it in Haki to defend against the ining attack.

  g!!

  The impact sent Yasuo skidding backward, his feet tearing deep grooves into the ground.

  The sheer force of the ssh left him trembling as he roared, veins bulging in his arms while he struggled to deflect the energy.

  Finally, with a desperate yell, he hurled the attack to the side, sending it crashing into the ground and leaving a deep scar in the earth.

  But before he could catch his breath, Dal was already upon him.

  With a powerful fp of his bck wings, Dal accelerated with lightning-like speed, closing the distan an instant.

  g!

  Sparks erupted again as Yasuo barely mao raise his sword to block. However, Dal’s bde grazed his neck, leaving a thin line of blood where the keen edge bit into his skin.

  Yasuo’s pupils shrank in terror.

  “This kid… his speed… it’s unreal.”

  For the first time, he felt the cold grip of death looming over him. Sweat dripped down his face as his body trembled.

  “What’s the matter? Is this all you’ve got?” Dal taunted, his tone dripping with mockery. “A 235 million berry pirate? How underwhelming.”

  “You little brat, don’t uimate me!”

  Flushed with rage and humiliation, Yasuo roared as he charged at Dal with everything he had.

  g! g!

  Their bdes cshed again, but it was clear who held the upper hand. Yasuo was being pushed further and further into a er, uo match the overwhelming skill and speed of the boy before him.

  In the distance, Fire Camity Afar hovered in the sky, from afar. Seeing that Dal, even without using his Devil Fruit abilities, still held the upper hand, he decided not to intervene.

  “Prince Dal’s swordsmanship… truly impressive!”

  Even Afar, a seasoned warrior, couldn’t help but marvel at Dal’s performance.

  “This isn’t the kind of strength an eleven-year-old should have. Even at twenty-ohis level of power would be sidered a rare genius.”

  “Tch…”

  A fsh of lightning, and Thor’s figure appeared nearby. Watg Dal fidently dominate his fight against Blood Fox Yasuo, Thor clicked his tongue and smirked.

  “Hmph, Dal is always showing off…”

  Whehor sparred with Dal, his younger sibling never hesitated to rely on his Devil Fruit abilities. Without them, Thor could easily overpower him with brute force.

  Whoosh…

  Suddenly, something blurred past Afar. Ag on instinct, he reached out and caught an old piece of animal hide in his hand.

  “Huh? Is this a treasure map?” Thor leaned closer, his eyes lighting up with curiosity.

  “Ihis symbol was ononly used by Captain Jack, the infamous pirate from the past. This must be a treasure map he left behind.”

  Examining the weathered map, Afar nodded. “It seems Prince Dal must have taken this from the pirates and tossed it over here.”

  “‘A mountain turns when water turns, water turns when mountains turn, mountains turn with water, and one might catch the mooh the sea…?’”

  Thor squinted as he read the cryptic phrases on the map aloud, looking utterly puzzled. “What nonsense is this? it even be decoded?”

  “The loarked on the map aren’t very precise…” Afar expined with a shrug. “Those phrases are probably key clues. Without solving the riddles, finding the treasure will take time. That’s likely why the Blood Fox Pirates couldn’t find it before we arrived.”

  “Makes sehor nodded in agreement.

  He transformed into lightning and shot up to an altitude of several thousaers, sing the entire Baskenny Isnd from above.

  “A whirlpool? ‘A mountain turns when water turns?’”

  Soon, he spotted a massive whirlpool he isnd’s cliffside.

  “But what does ‘water turns with mountains’ even mean…? Hmm?”

  His eyes widened as he gazed out toward the distant o. There, a faint glowing sphere of light suddenly illumihe sea’s surface. But just as quickly as it appeared, the light dimmed and vanished into the deep.

  “What the…?”

  Thor frowned, fog his sehe aura emanating from that source was far beyond that of a typical Sea King, and it was moving rapidly into deeper waters, growing fainter as it disappeared.

  Bleam