Chapter 71: Swords and Haki

*Creator’s Notice*

I’ve excellent news and dangerous information. The excellent news is that my definition of Haki takes into consideration 100% of the phenomenon displayed in One Piece (Together with Satan Fruits!). It is a thorough rationalization that agrees with each single utilization, and the usages not defined on this chapter will probably be defined in later chapters.

The dangerous information? When you don’t love the concept of Haki ending up like a cultivation LN, I can solely apologize. It isn’t my fault that that is the one rationalization that matches all usages!

Chapter 71 Swords and Haki

Rayleigh sat subsequent to a small bonfire on a riverside clearing with a stick skewering two giant fish being slowly roasted alongside the outer fringe of the hearth. His eyes had been nonetheless closed and his Wills continued to course of his expanded senses. Though it felt like a brand new language, the world didn’t communicate to him. It was extra just like the world merely added adjectives to all the pieces and he was making an attempt to determine what these adjectives meant.

It was additionally solely after these two weeks that Rayleigh realized that the brand new info he was perceiving by means of his newly expanded senses was much more than only a single language. The brand new adjectives he was discovering that had been connected to all the pieces had been completely different relying on what they had been connected to, although some comparable issues had comparable adjectives and plenty of issues had completely different teams of adjectives connected.

Persevering with to investigate them with out studying in regards to the bodily facet of Haki saved giving him a headache, so he usually saved his Wills occupied considering of different issues.

At first, Rayleigh didn’t fairly perceive what Mihawk meant when he stated that Commentary, Armament, and Conqueror’s Haki weren’t separate, however after spending two weeks interested by it, he realized what he meant.

The Pressure was the Pressure, however its expertise had been divided into three classes: Management, Sense, and Alter. Management was about controlling the internal workings of the physique, Sense was about sensing the world round you, and Alter was about altering the world round you.

Rayleigh realized that this was virtually precisely how Haki labored. Commentary Haki was too just like Sense, Armament Haki sounded very very like Management, and Conqueror’s Haki, one thing that required having the ability to use Commentary and Armament on the similar time, was virtually equivalent to Alter, one thing that required having the ability to use Management and Sense on the similar time.

Though Pressure strategies had been cataloged utilizing these three phrases, all Pressure strategies had been nonetheless Pressure strategies. In the identical approach, all Haki strategies had been Haki strategies, even when they could possibly be cataloged into completely different teams.

This led to an fascinating revelation. Somebody utilizing the Pressure might entry a myriad of powers, however the variety of issues that Rayleigh was conscious that Haki might do appeared extra restricted. Then once more, few knew what the Pressure might actually do as a result of the Jedi had been boring and restricted themselves to solely utilizing it ‘safely.’ Whereas analyzing this paradox, he arrived at a query. Did Haki have a Darkish Aspect?

If the well-known powers of Haki had been those that the world allowed its customers to wield, then what powers did the world frown on its customers taking from it? And what penalties had been there to utilizing these powers? The reply to this query truly got here fairly naturally and within the type of one other query. Why had been they referred to as Satan Fruits?

If Haki was the facility of the world and contained all issues the world contained, then you need to have the ability to use the facility of the world to do all issues that existed on the earth. Wasn’t that precisely what Satan Fruits granted? Did not Satan Fruits comprise part of the world and grant the one that ate it some measure of entry to that half?

This introduced up two extra questions. Might the facility granted by a Satan Fruit Consumer be gained by means of Haki with out the Satan Fruit? If it might, would doing it that approach bypass the curse since you wouldn’t be ‘stealing’ from the world, however utilizing it naturally?

Sadly, figuring that one out must wait till he discovered the best way to apply Haki to his physique.

As soon as the pair of fish completed cooking on the stick, Rayleigh picked up the finely roasted breakfast simply in time for him to leap out of the best way of a building-sized sword reducing by means of the place he had been sitting. A swimming pool-sized crater fashioned from the affect however the Humandrill Monkey King was already mid-swing to cleave the air-born Rayleigh in half.

Along with his eyes nonetheless closed, Rayleigh used Moon Stroll to dodge the titanous monkey’s fast swings whereas he blew on the fish in hand to chill them down earlier than he slowly began nibbling on them.

The Humandrill King roared in protest and swung much more wildly, not caring in regards to the timber and earth round him that had been destroyed by his rampage. When it stopped, he seemed round and noticed neither Rayleigh nor his mutilated corpse. His big ears had no downside finding Rayleigh’s location from the sound of chewing, however he heard it from above after which seen the stress on his scalp from the place Rayleigh had been sitting, consuming his breakfast.

With out considering, the monkey king smashed his empty hand at Rayleigh, solely to knock himself out when Rayleigh jumped away.

Rayleigh landed safely on the bottom because the Humandrill King collapsed. The realm was surrounded by the vast majority of the humandrill clan however every was disenchanted. Humandrills had Photographic Reflexes. They get stronger from watching expert fighters, however Rayleigh not often attacked and even when he did, it was actually primary stuff like palm thrusts or straight kicks. Humandrills might even imitate weapon intent and use low-level Haki, however provided that they noticed it used considerably just lately. The Humandrill King’s sword was gifted to it by Mihawk in order that he might have an honest sparring associate who turned extra expert as he improved himself, however that was over twenty years in the past and Mihawk had lengthy since outgrown the Humandrill King.

The Humandrill King recovered as Rayleigh completed his breakfast, however as an alternative of raging once more, he began making disgruntled monkey noises.

Rayleigh replied, “I do know, I am sorry. I am solely coaching to dodge proper now. However actually although, I’m very grateful on your assist. Because of your fixed assaults and ambushes, I’ve gotten to the extent of predicting your assaults forward of time, so I believe I’ve lastly completed this stage of coaching and may transfer on to the subsequent one.”

From a human’s perspective, it may need gave the impression of Rayleigh was taunting the monkey, however he was being utterly honest. Even with out entry to the Pressure, these guys had been good sufficient to grasp Rayleigh’s intentions and understood that Rayleigh was there to apply. In addition they understood that after Rayleigh was accomplished practising dodging, he would begin practising preventing, so that they had been keen to play with this new arrival who by no means killed them or stole their stuff.

The Humandrill King excitedly bought up and made all types of energetic noises whereas Rayleigh nodded with a smile, simply as excited as the enormous monkey king to start out his subsequent lesson.

The humandrills returned to the forest and Rayleigh walked into the pond that fashioned from the crater of the monkey king’s assault subsequent to the river. This pond was a wonderful place to scrub up after a couple of weeks within the wilds.

As soon as clear and dry, Rayleigh returned to Mihawk’s citadel and located the place he left his garments and sneakers. They’d been left untouched and had been high quality to place again on earlier than Rayleigh knocked on the door three extra instances.

The citadel door opened as soon as extra and Mihawk motioned for Rayleigh to observe him inside. However relatively than enter any room, Mihawk walked to the opposite finish of the citadel out the again door to a coaching space that had been arrange. Mihawk drew Yoru and said, “The quickest technique to really feel the stream of the world inside your physique is to expertise the stream of the world by means of the assaults of others. You aren’t to dodge, solely block. That sword of yours appears able to doing so.”

And not using a phrase, Mihawk break up the air between them with a slash that Rayleigh would have been unable to react towards if not for his expanded senses warning him in regards to the assault in time.

Rayleigh blocked the strike together with his sword, however Mihawk’s blade moved prefer it weighed tens of tons. The affect of his cutlass towards Rayleigh’s sword knocked Rayleigh again towards the citadel partitions. Even then, it was apparent how straightforward Mihawk was moving into his strike. He did not use his personal Haki, that was all from the sword itself, but that was nonetheless a couple of ranges above the Haki stress he felt from Surprise Girl. If Rayleigh used his Nen and Pressure to reinforce and amplify his physique, he would have the ability to take such a strike with ease, however with out entry to these, a multi-ton strike would have the suitable impact of a multi-ton strike.

As Rayleigh bought up, Mihawk defined, “The whole lot is part of the world, together with the physique. The stream of the world strikes by the need of the world. However we, as individuals of this world, are additionally part of that may. Our will is part of the need of the world, due to this fact our will can be able to shifting the stream of the world as we want.”

A heavy horizontal slash got here earlier than Rayleigh might see it however he might nonetheless block it in time. This one swatted him to the aspect into an already collapsed wall that may have been a constructing right here way back.

Mihawk didn’t have to inform Rayleigh to stand up, and every time he did, Mihawk whacked him again, down, or to the aspect. With every blow, Rayleigh felt his whole physique shake. He felt the stress of Mihawk’s sword pour by means of his physique.

As an enhancer getting crushed up, his physique felt innately rebellious on the therapy. He felt each cell protest on the stress being poured in. He felt a stress inside his physique effectively up in defiance and as Mihawk’s big cutlass got here down, Rayleigh instinctively directed that stress to stream into his strike as he blocked with an upward movement.

The clang of steel echoed triumphantly by means of the forest as Rayleigh’s guard barely remained unbroken. Mihawk, not wanting shocked in any respect, stated, “Proceed,” and began truly utilizing a small quantity of his personal Haki for the subsequent assaults.

On this approach, Rayleigh bought crushed up till lunchtime. Mihawk then went to make meals for himself and Rayleigh entered the Tavern to eat his personal lunch earlier than returning to get crushed up by Mihawk till the solar went down.

On account of his expertise with the Pressure, Rayleigh’s progress with Haki was very very like a Skilled Gamer who completed a completionist run of a recreation and began taking part in the sport’s sequel for the primary time. It was additionally what would occur if a Participant with enough Haki mastery died and made a brand new character. Even when he was ranging from scratch, his complete basis was sufficient to jump-start the coaching.

Nonetheless, this was solely potential as a result of Rayleigh had utterly minimize off his connection to the Pressure and the Empty Sword’s skill to reinforce the results of coaching additionally shined by means of. Rayleigh had examined his new senses when out of his Second Stage Zetsu and he confirmed that the presence of the Pressure actually muffled out the sensory enter from Haki. It was the distinction between pouring tea into an empty glass versus pouring tea right into a glass containing espresso and needing to maintain pouring till 99% of the espresso had overflowed out of the glass. It was potential, nevertheless it was much more wasteful and never practically as easy, and even then, the tea would nonetheless have a slight style of espresso that may most likely destroy the style of the tea.

As soon as Rayleigh’s Haki mastery was excessive sufficient, there can be no downside utilizing it with the Pressure, however for now, he would stay in his Second Stage Zetsu state to reinforce his coaching velocity.

The method of utilizing the stream of the world by means of his physique considerably reminded him of Enbu, the Monkey Martial method from the Toriko collection.

In accordance with Enbu, each cell had its personal particular person persona, likes, and dislikes, and would not often act collectively as a collective as a result of variations. Enbu used Willpower to regulate the actions of the cells to permit them to maneuver as a unified entire. One of many extra ridiculous makes use of of this was {that a} grasp of Enbu might have all his cells bypass the stream of gravity by turning the physique from a bowl that would comprise gravity to a strainer that allowed gravity to move by means of largely unimpeded.

Within the instance used, gravity was represented as a stream and the physique’s cells both resisted that stream or allowed it to move unimpeded, with a majority doing the previous until Enbu was used.

Rayleigh visualized the stream of the world by means of his physique in the identical approach, as a stream that was both resisted or unimpeded by means of his physique’s cells. Controlling the stream meant arranging a path by means of his physique that didn’t impede the stream to the place he wanted it to be. Arranging this path was not all the time straightforward and a few motions of the bodily physique made it simpler. It was not the identical path or technique he used with the Pressure, nevertheless it was comparable sufficient in idea.

Rayleigh’s solely downside was that even at this stage of proficiency, it wasn’t straightforward to merge flows. Mihawk’s swordsmanship solely contained Robust and Mild for a purpose. When Rayleigh tried to make use of a kind and method that appeared to permit the stream of wind and the stream of lightning on the similar time, his sword exploded.

Fortunately, he by no means made a restriction that may trigger him hurt if the sword broke, so he might make it once more by means of one other spherical of recitation of his Pressure Code.

Intentionally mixing completely different recognized flows into the identical strategies was not a easy matter of addition. Fortunately, Rayleigh might use his perception from different hobbies to help. Utilizing his expertise with cooking, Rayleigh might really feel out the proportions of which flows could possibly be added to others. It wasn’t all the time a 1:1 ratio. Utilizing his expertise with calligraphy, he might determine the best way to kind a method that would use the mix stream with out his sword exploding.

Whereas taking part in with the legal guidelines of actuality for a number of extra weeks, certainly one of Rayleigh’s Wills seen one thing within the Pirate Chat Room.

[Immortal Beauty: I found the Pirate World MC.]

[Invisible Man: Took you long enough. I found him ages ago and am standing right next to him. Don’t you see me?]

[Justice: Don’t tell me, let me guess. Is he a… Pirate?]

[Captain Jack: How do you know it’s him? Besides the fact that he’s seventeen now.]

[Wonder Woman: Are you gonna join his crew?]

[Immortal Beauty: He has main character plot armor. He just broke into a Marine Base, stole some stuff, freed a prisoner, beat up the Marine Captain, and when he left, the Marines stationed here saluted him.]

[Dragon Chef: … Yeah, that would do it.]

[Titan: I’m convinced. So who is he?]

[Justice: I’m guessing he’s not in the Grand Line yet.]

[Immortal Beauty: From the name he gave, I’m also pretty sure he is related to some very impressive people. I’ve also decided not to join his crew. He’ll probably catch up sooner or later, but he is really weak right now and I don’t want to wait and watch while he fights weakling after weakling.]

[Swordsman: Ummm… He’s not in the East Blue, is he?]

[Immortal Beauty: Why’d you ask?]

[Swordsman: Cause Mihawk went in that direction a few weeks ago.]

[Dragon Chef: Did Mihawk train you?]

[Swordsman: Yeah, I learned the horrible truth about Haki from him.]

[Titan: What, is it powered by devils?]

[Swordsman: Worse than devils. It seems to be a lazy rip-off of a Law Cultivation System that gets nerfed if the person using it is boring.]

[Captain Jack: Eh?]

[Titan: ?]

[Wonder Woman: ?]

[Dragon Chef: ?! What?!]

[Justice: Yeah, we’re gonna need more details.]

[Swordsman: Summary, Haki is the Law of the World. Observation Haki is understanding the Law of the World. Armament Haki is applying the Law of the World to your defense and offense. And Conqueror Haki is basically commanding the Law of the World.]

[Swordsman: Oh, and Devil Fruits are minor Laws that make up the world, stolen from the world. The curse is just the world punishing a thief.]

[Goddess of Ice: …]

[Captain Jack: I’m gonna sit down.]

[Dragon Chef: Are you being for real here? Like for real for real?]

[Swordsman: Yep. Also, you can use Haki to mimic the effects of Devil Fruits. You can apply fire to your punches, ice to your sword strikes, lightning to your kicks, etc by feeling out the related law and applying it into a technique.]

[Mimic: I think I know what he is talking about. According to some of the secret reports I’ve read, if a Devil Fruit user reaches a certain level of mastery, they awaken their Devil Fruit. I did not understand the context of this, but if Swordsman is accurate, that means if you can master the law associated with your Devil Fruit using Haki, you will attain far greater power.]

[Titan: Oh? It seems I will have to increase my training load.]

[Gravity King: How can I train more? I’m already using islands as barbells.]

[Fire Queen: Maybe by not making them weightless before lifting them Gravity boy?]

Rayleigh smiled and went again to his coaching. If the opposite Gamers can’t sustain with him, he may lose motivation sooner or later. He shared what he wanted to share so it wasn’t his fault in the event that they did not pay attention or ignored his recommendation. As for the world’s MC, Rayleigh questioned how the need of the world considered him. Since Haki had similarities to the Pressure, then this world’s MC was possible beloved by the Will of this world.

It did not matter an excessive amount of although. Rayleigh felt that he would see him ultimately.

*Creator’s Notice*

Once more, it’s not my fault that that is the one rationalization that is smart for a way all the pieces in One Piece works. How the hell can Sanji gentle his ft on hearth and totally prepare dinner enemies with a kick? Why can Zoro conjure the picture of tigers and demons together with his assault? Why can Brook apply Ice to his sword when his Satan Fruit solely offers soul associated powers? How does Fishman Karate work? Why can Luffy casually apply hearth to his fist? How does Nami’s Climitact truly work? How does Satan Fruit Awakening work? How can a sword made from metal minimize by means of a bigger block made from metal?

So yeah, this rationalization, prefer it or not, works for all noticed phenomena to date and possibly has sufficient wiggle room for future phenomena.

Rayleigh’s commentary Haki and his world senses are the truth is supercharged in comparison with regular Haki customers. The principle purpose is that his mind, which developed his whole life to make use of the Pressure and was enhanced by means of esoteric Pressure practices is simply wired in another way. In that state, Rayleigh whereas utterly minimize off from the Pressure gave his mind another which it took to utterly.

Subsequent chapter will probably be much less considering, extra doing. Gonna Montage straight to the Battle of Marineford the place the Marines, who know Rayleigh is Mihawk’s pupil due to the Marine Gamers, will ask Mihawk to ask Rayleigh for the enjoyable. Hoping to have it out Sunday.