Pirate: This Marine has two Rinnegan.

A sickening sound rang out as Qianhe gripped Lan's foot tightly, preventing it from advancing any further.

It didn't even last two seconds before the storm foot vanished from Qianhe's hand.

"How could this be?" Barton's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

Before he could react, Qianhe also suddenly drew an arc with one leg.

hum!

A dark blue blade, wider and longer than before, was unleashed – it was Chiga's Tempest Kick.

"It's over. I absolutely can't stop this level of Tempest Kick," Barton thought in despair, closing his eyes.

After a while, realizing that he seemed to be alright, he quickly opened his eyes and found that Qianhe's foot was blocked by a white-haired figure.

The white-haired figure was Smoker. Seeing that the situation was getting out of control, he finally decided to step in and stop the farce.

However, Smoker, who blocked the Tempest Kick, did not have an easy time. Chiga's Tempest Kick did not dissipate in less than two seconds like Barton's low-level Tempest Kick earlier.

Thus, a strange scene appeared in the center of the huge dining hall: Smoker, with white hair and sweating profusely, was pushing against a dark blue hollow blade with both hands, slowly retreating backward.

Smoker was starting to feel the strain and quickly turned around to yell at Barton, who was still standing there in a daze.

"Get out of here now!"

Upon hearing this, he snapped out of his daze and hurriedly scrambled away from the spot.

*Poof!* Smoker's body was split in two. Chiga's attack passed through Smoker and flew towards the wall at the end of the cafeteria, finally disappearing after a door was added to the cafeteria.

"Such strength... truly lives up to its reputation!" Smoker, whose body had been split in two, was filled with apprehension upon seeing the destruction caused by the Tempest Kick.

As a Logia-type Devil Fruit user with the Smoke-Smoke Fruit ability, he wasn't actually dismembered; he had just entered an elemental state to evade the Tempest Kick attack.

"Natural elementalization? It's quite similar to Hozuki Suigetsu's water transformation technique." Chiga thought thoughtfully as she looked at Smoker's body, which was emitting white smoke on both sides.

The white smoke gradually merged together, and Smoker returned to his full state. He looked at Chihiro and spoke.

"Let's stop here. He was in the wrong this time and paid the price. As students, let's not cause any more trouble!"

Chiga chuckled softly upon hearing this, looking at Smoker with a mocking expression.

"Don't you think too highly of yourself? If you really wanted to stop it, where were you just now? Now you're showing up to play the good guy? You think you're worthy?"

Smoker's face darkened; he knew things were going to get complicated today.

Chapter 21 Chiga vs. Smoker

"Does it really have to be this way?" Smoker asked gravely.

He didn't want to fight because the reason for the fight was dishonorable and even ridiculous.

At the same time, he felt very regretful for not stopping Barton's foolish behavior in time, which angered Uchiha Chika.

"You think this is the end without even an apology? Who gave you that confidence? Is it some so-called Logia-type Smoke-Smoke Fruit?"

Chiga clearly wasn't going to let it go so easily. Today, he was going to fight Smoker, the strongest student in the upperclassmen, which would save him a lot of trouble later.

Smoker, too, had his own pride, and he got worked up after being mocked by Chiga repeatedly in public.

"In that case, let's have a fight! Uchiha Chika!" Smoker couldn't hold back any longer and challenged Chika.

"If you had said that earlier, it would have been fine."

Chiga stretched and beckoned to Smoker with his finger, indicating that he could begin.

"You arrogant bastard! White smoke emitter!" Smoker unleashed his full power, his lower body transforming into a thick plume of white smoke as he charged toward Chiga.

"White Fist!"

Smoker also turned his arms into smoke on the way, and his fists quickly extended using the properties of smoke. His fists turned black and were covered with Armament Haki, and they flew towards Chiga.

Chiga's body swayed slightly, and Smoker's attack was easily dodged.

"It's not over yet!" Smoker remained calm. His two fists, which had just missed, quickly turned around and flew back in mid-air, striking Chiga directly from behind.

"Chika! Watch out behind you!"

With a gasp, Ein, who was in the crowd, saw that Smoker's attack was so strange and quickly called out to warn him.

Her friend next to her gently tugged at her sleeve, thinking to herself, "My dear friend, neither of these two is easy to mess with, so you shouldn't get involved!"

Chiga remained standing still, her Rinnegan slightly open.

Shinra Tianzheng!

Bang! Before Smoker's fist could even touch Chiga's body, it was blasted into scattered smoke by a sudden shockwave.

After a while, the wisps of smoke slowly gathered at Smoker's wrist, gradually solidifying and returning to the shape of a fist.

"A Paramecia-type Devil Fruit user?" Smoker felt that Uchiha Chika was becoming increasingly troublesome; the shockwave from earlier clearly countered his Smoke-Smoke Fruit.

"If you think so, then so be it." Chiga was too lazy to explain to him. A black vortex appeared in her palm, and she used Universal Pull on Smoker.

Smoker's body jolted as he was suddenly pulled over by Chiga.

"Damn it, what is this?!"

This time, Smoker didn't suffer the same fate as those who had been absorbed by Chiga before, because Chiga didn't grab him by the neck this time.

Just as Chika reached out to grab him, he turned into smoke again, his head separating from his body, and he performed a split action on the spot.

Chiga had anticipated Smoker's elemental transformation, but remained calm, simply forming several hand seals with one hand.

Wind Escape·Big Breakthrough!

Chiga exhaled a gust of wind, causing the cafeteria facilities to sway and some people around to lose their footing and fall over.

Smoker, the target of the direct attack, was blown into countless wisps of white smoke, drifting everywhere.

After a while, the white smoke coalesced into a human shape. The first thing to appear was Smoker's pale face. He stared intently at Chihiro and questioned him.

"It's wind again? It's definitely not the same power as the shockwave from before. Did you eat more than one Devil Fruit?"

Smoker was uncertain and slowly condensed the white smoke around his body. The breakthrough he had just made still had a significant impact on him, a smoke-man.

“You can think of that as ninjutsu.” Chiga didn’t take the opportunity to finish him off, and just watched as Smoker completed the reconstruction of his body.

"Ninjutsu? You're a ninja from Wano Country?"

"Wano Country? Heh, what kind of trash is that? Do they even deserve to be called ninjas?" Chiga scoffed disdainfully, then his expression turned dangerous.

"I've had enough fun. Now, I have a question for you."

"what?"

"Does a Logia-type...bleed?"

Upon hearing this, Smoker instinctively retreated frantically, but Chika was faster than him.

Without warning, Chiga appeared behind Smoker and grabbed at him.

"It's useless. No matter how strong your attack power is, it's all in vain without Armament Haki!"

Seeing that Chiga didn't make any special moves this time, Smoker relaxed slightly and made a sarcastic remark.

"Is that so?" Chiga touched Smoker's shoulder, and then a transparent circular shield appeared, enveloping Chiga and Smoker together.

Rinnegan, Preta Path, Sealing Technique Absorption Seal

Smoker was horrified to discover that he couldn't use the Smoke-Smoke Fruit's abilities, as if his limbs had been severed and were missing nerve connections.

"Let me go!" This illogical situation completely panicked Smoker, who could only try to alleviate his fear by shouting loudly.

As another application of the Preta Path, the Sealing Technique Absorption Seal is different from absorbing the opponent's physical strength or chakra. It can absorb the opponent's techniques and has a certain sealing effect.

Chiga's Hungry Ghost Path cannot directly absorb the ability from the ability user without the help of the Human Path to kill the ability user, but it can use the Sealing Technique Absorption Seal to temporarily seal the opponent's ability through close contact.

With one hand restraining Smoker and pinning him to the ground, Chiga produced a black rod in the palm of her other hand and thrust it sharply into Smoker's right shoulder.

With a soft thud, Smoker's right shoulder was pierced by a black rod, blood gushing out. The pain spurred him to frantically activate the power of the Smoke-Smoke Fruit.

However, the result was devastating. Even though Chiga had already dispelled that damned shield, he still couldn't use his abilities normally.

To be precise, most of his body had already been transformed into elements, but the shoulder area remained completely unresponsive, as if it weren't his own.

When he tried to pull it out with his other hand, he felt a wave of powerlessness as soon as he touched the black rod, let alone pull the black rod out of his shoulder.

The black rod, created in the palm of a Rinnegan user using Yin-Yang Release, has the function of blocking or disrupting the flow of energy within an opponent's body.

Those who possess the Rinnegan can even use it to manipulate corpses, creating powerful Six Paths puppets like Nagato.

"Behave yourself, or your wound will only get bigger if you keep struggling like this," Chiga kindly reminded Smoker, who was lying on the ground in a pitiful state.

"What's going on?! Stop it, all of you!"

A shout signaled that Zephyr had arrived at the scene.

Seeing the dilapidated cafeteria, Chiga standing there, and Smoker lying on the ground, Zephyr felt a headache coming on.

"Someone, please tell me what's going on."

Ai Yin shook off her roommate's hand, stood up, and said loudly.

“Mr. Zephyr! It was the older students who provoked us first, and it was Barton who struck first, which is why Chiga retaliated!”

Zephyr nodded, then glanced at Smoker on the ground.

"What's going on with Smoker?"

"Teacher, I'm fine. I just had a normal sparring session with Chika. I'm really sorry for causing such a big mess."

Smoker endured the excruciating pain and explained, word by word.

Chiga looked at Smoker with surprise, her attitude towards him changing considerably.

After retrieving the black rod, Chiga helped Smoker up and explained to Zephyr as well.

"Yes, Teacher Zephyr, it was my fault. I didn't control my strength and hit too hard!"

Zefa also breathed a slight sigh of relief. To be honest, both of them were his most prized disciples, and he couldn't bear to punish either of them.

"You personally take Smoker to the infirmary! Also, you two will be responsible for the damage caused!"

“Yes!” Chiga and Smoker quickly replied.

"Barton! You started this trouble, you're punished by running 100 laps around the track! If you don't finish today, you're out of training camp!"