11 Chapter 11 (1/2)

[3 weeks later]

On the deck of a Marine battleship you can see a young boy trying to catch his breath and a man wearing a Marine coat watching the boy. Sage: \”(Huff)...(Huff) finally I managed to reach the beginner stage in Soro and Tekkai. Man that was way harder than I expected it to be.\” Bogard: \” Well what did you expect. You thought it was gonna be easy.

Sage: \” No, it's that I was able to make a lot more progress in the first week training Rokushiki, but after that it took me 2 weeks to reach the beginner stage in Soro and Tekkai.\” Bogard: \” It's not because you were slower Sage, but because in that first week you weren't wearing seastone cuffs and your right arm. In that first week you were spending pretty much every second of the day training Rokushiki, but after you put on the seastone cuffs it slowed down. Now do you know why that happened? \”

Sage: \” Yeah it's because seastone is a devil fruit user weakness. It causes to be unable to use their devil fruit powers and become extremely weak.\” Bogard: \” Yes exactly because you were weren't wearing seastone cuffs in the first week of you training Rokushiki. It allowed you to use it more often meaning you were able to train it more, but after you put on those cuffs you became much weaker naturally reducing how much your body could actually wake from constant usage of Rokushiki and because of that it reduced how much time you spent using Rokushiki.\”

Bogard: \” The fact that Garp also made you spend your afternoons training your observation haki meant that even though you spent a lot of time and effort training your Rokushiki.It wasn't as much time you spent training in your first week. Either way you still managed in less than 2 months to reach the beginner level in 2 of the six powers. You shouldn't be complaining so much.\” Sage: \” Yeah everything you said is true, but still I can't help it.\”

Bogard sighs seeing Sage being disappointed reaching the beginner stage in Soro and Tekkai in 4 weeks and just says, \” Sage go and wash yourself. We'll be arriving to Marine Fort in a hour and a half, so go and prepare yourself.\” Sage: \” Alright then uncle Bogard. I'll see you later.\” Sage then runs off into the his main cabin of the ship and walks into the bathing room. After half an hour he finishes and dresses himself and walks out of the main cabin.

A Marine soldier then walks up to him and informs him that his grandfather is looks for him. Sage: \” Oh alright then, but where is he.\” Marine 1: \” He's at the front of the deck right now.\” Sage: \” Oh alright then thanks for informing me goodbye.\” After bidding his farewells to the Marine soldier he walks to the front of the deck to see what his grandfather wants with him. Once he gets there you can see a tall man with a broad muscular frame sitting on the figurehead of the ship wearing a dog hat.

Sage: \” Oi gramps a marine soldier told me you wanted to see me, so what do want.\” Garp hearing his grandson behind him stands up onto his feet and turns to face him. Garp: \” Bwhahah Bogard told me that you reached the beginner level in Soro and Tekkai this morning.\” Sage: \” Yeah I did\” Garp hearing his grandson say it then jumps off the figurehead and looks at his grandson. Garp looks Sage in the eyes and then rushes him out of nowhere.

Sage seeing his grandfather rush at him isn't even surprised since he's been doing this ever since he started to train his observation haki rushes to meet him head on as well. They both throw a punch towards each other and their punches clash. Even though Sage can't hold a candle to Garp when he fights seriously. He can handle him as long as Garp doesn't use the full brunt of his strength. Sage can handle about 10% of Garps strength using his full power, but that's not including Garp or Sage using Rokushiki. It's both of them just using pure muscular power.

After their fist clash the force of their fist send shock waves they both jump back a few meters before going at each other again except this time sending in more than just punches, but also kicks. After fighting for a minute straight against Garp using all the power he has in his body. Sage uses Soro and because he used it so suddenly he managed to land a hit on his face making Garp send out a fist of his own except with a little more powers which sent Sage flying backwards and rolling on the ground until his back hit a wall.

Sage then stands up a little wobbly, but manages to regain his balance after a few seconds. Sage looks at his grandpa and says, \” Oi you stupid geezer why did you use so much strength in that punchand why did you aim it right at my face.\” Sage asks with a bit a bit of anger in his tone looking at Garp for a good answer. Garp seeing this doesn't even care and begins to laugh. Sage seeing his grandfather not answering his question, but laughing instead grabs a random broom that was on the floor and throws it at Garp who dodges it while laughing.