One Piece: The user of the Nen-Nen Fruit, who overturned the sea.

Barrett, transformed into a white tiger, let out a deafening roar.

"Combined!"

The inorganic matter that had been prepared beneath their feet was drawn together by a surge of purple energy, transforming into a purple torrent.

Barrett's mind enveloped the enormous white tiger's body.

In just a few breaths, Barrett's body had swelled to an astonishing size.

This is the strongest form resulting from the combination of the Fusion Fruit and the White Tiger form—the White Tiger Gundam.

But it's not over yet.

Barrett took a deep breath, and the power of the Momo-Momo Fruit circulated rapidly within his body, unleashing an invisible amplifying force.

"Momo - 100x Increase!"

Barrett's growl echoed across the training field.

The already enormous beast expanded rapidly under the hundredfold amplification of the Momo Fruit, and a moment later a giant beast tens of thousands of meters tall appeared in the sky above Beehive Island.

Inside the behemoth, Barrett sensed its enormous size and was overwhelmed with excitement.

The others were so shocked by the enormous beast that blotted out the sky that their jaws nearly dropped.

"This is just too much!"

Everyone on the training field stopped what they were doing.

Tesoro narrowed his eyes, golden arcs of electricity dancing wildly in his pupils.

Savi gasped, and involuntarily took a half step back.

Bages clenched his fists, his palms sweating.

Even the usually calm Lucci's expression changed slightly.

"Barrett is serious."

Barrett's lips curled into a ferocious grin, and his tiger-like eyes burned with a frenzied fighting spirit.

"Roy—!!!"

His roar was deafening.

"Take this punch—!!!"

Barrett swung his massive tiger claw, amplified a hundredfold, with ferocious force.

The air was torn apart.

It's not a metaphor; it's a literal tearing apart.

Where the tiger's claws passed, they tore through the air currents, creating a hurricane on Beehive Island—

Gravel, dust, and even large sections of the reinforced ground were torn up.

Before the punch even landed, the wind from the punch had already created a huge hemispherical depression in the sea behind Roy.

This is Barrett's full-force attack, a fusion of the material control from the Fusion Fruit, the physical strength of his White Tiger form, the hundredfold amplification from the Momo-Momo Fruit, and his own Haki amplification.

The four forces combined are enough to wipe a large island off the map.

"Hello!"

"Barrett! This is outrageous!"

Roy stood there, helpless in the face of this devastating punch.

He didn't want Wind's Nest Island to be rebuilt under Barrett's excitement.

Roy raised his right hand, activated the Soul-Soul Fruit ability, and immediately split his soul into three parts.

His own psychic field expanded instantly, enveloping Barrett. In a flash,

Roy appeared above Barrett's head, his left hand flickering with soul flames. With a slap, a fragment of Roy's soul surged into the giant beast's body.

Roy, also eager to try and replicate Big Mom's success, sought to transform the giant white tiger created by Barrett into a Homie.

Barrett, inside the behemoth, sensed the anomaly the moment Roy moved. Its giant claws, which had been under its control, suddenly paused the instant Roy's soul entered.

A will that does not belong to him is trying to wrest control of the behemoth from him.

Barrett grinned, unleashing his Conqueror's Haki and demonic energy simultaneously. Roy's wisp of soul energy instantly dissipated and returned to Roy's body.

"Looks like this won't work!"

Roy withdrew his hand, thinking to himself,

"Since the Soul-Soul Fruit doesn't work, let's try the Dark-Dark Fruit!"

With a thought, Roy's soul flame vanished, followed by a plume of black smoke rising from his body.

The black flames formed by the Dark-Dark Fruit, guided by telekinesis, directly penetrated the giant beast's body. When Barrett sensed the anomaly, the chains formed by telekinesis and the black flames bound Barrett's white tiger body.

The power of the White Tiger Fruit was instantly sealed into Roy's body.

The powers of the Fusion Fruit and the Momo-Momo Fruit also disappeared.

The once colossal Gundam, which blotted out the sky, instantly disintegrated, turning into clumps of inorganic matter that fell from the heavens.

High in the sky, Roy waved his hand, and the disintegrating inorganic matter gathered into a ball that floated behind Roy, bringing Barrett, who was sealed away, back to the ground.

The brief exchange of skills has come to an end.

Roy removed the black flame chains from Barrett's body.

The training ground was quiet for a while.

Barrett suddenly burst out laughing and gave Roy a thumbs up.

"Is this the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit? Roy, your power is getting more and more monstrous."

The atmosphere on the training field suddenly relaxed.

The tense air began to move again, and the sea breeze blew in from afar, carrying the salty smell of the sea and the dust stirred up by the battle.

Roy walked over to Barrett and reached out to pull him up from the ground.

"Of course! This is a Devil Fruit ability I decided on after much deliberation!"

"However, your combination of abilities has completely exceeded my expectations."

"The Fusion Fruit forms armor, the Momo-Momo Fruit amplifies your size, and combined with your inexhaustible Haki reserves, it's hard for anyone in this world to withstand your attacks!"

"You flatter me!"

Barrett grinned when he heard Roy's analysis.

And at this time.

Under a large tree at the far end of the training field, Hawkeye Mihawk silently watched the game.

From Tesoro testing the Gold-Gold Fruit, to Burgess shattering the sea with a single punch, to Savi's repulsive force explosion, and then to Barrett's devastating punch just now—he saw it all.

At this moment, he leaned against the tree trunk, his arms crossed in front of his chest, while Black Blade Night leaned against the tree root beside him.

A rare, subtle change appeared on that usually expressionless face.

It wasn't because Barrett's punch was so shocking, nor because Roy's defense was so exquisite.

It was because he sensed the gap.

It's not a vague gap in strength, but a concrete and real gap.

Barrett used the Fusion-Fusion Fruit and the Momo-Momo Fruit to unleash an attack powerful enough to destroy an island;

Roy used the combined power of the Triple Devil Fruit to create an even more unpredictable offensive strategy.

And what about him?

His swordsmanship remains the best in the world.

Yoru is still the strongest among the Supreme Grade Swords.

But his power comes from only two sources—swordsmanship and domineering aura.

Although he had honed these two powers to their limits, they were starting to seem somewhat weak compared to the combined amplification of Barrett's power and the multiple Devil Fruit stacking of Roy's power.

No matter how skilled one is with a sword, one can still cut a mountain in half with a single strike.

No matter how powerful the aura, it can still cleave through space by wrapping around the blade.

But now Barrett and Roy are demonstrating a combination of various abilities.

These powers are beyond the reach of mere swordsmanship and domineering aura.

Hawkeye looked down at Black Blade Night leaning against him.

His hand gently stroked the blade, his fingertips touching the fine lines on it.

Black Blade Night also seemed to tremble slightly.

"Night, can you feel it too?"

Hawkeye murmured, his fingers slowly tracing the blade, a long-dormant glint of something igniting in his golden eyes.

That was longing. A longing for something stronger.

"It seems that top-notch swordsmanship and domineering aura alone are no longer enough to break the shackles of this world."

Hawkeye straightened up, grasped the hilt of the Black Blade Yoru, and slowly pulled the Supreme Grade Sword from beside the tree root.

His golden eyes burned with fighting spirit, resentment, and a long-dormant competitive drive.

He turned and walked out of the training field.

Without turning back or greeting anyone, he simply carried the black sword Ye and walked steadily toward the intelligence room.