Strongest Swordsman In One Piece - Chapter 241
Time flies so fast and it was already the year 1517 on the Sea Circle Calendar.
On January 2, at the Foosha Village in East Blue.
After his birthday yesterday, Portgas D. Ace, who is now a 17-year-old boy, according to his agreement with his two brothers. He will set sail at the sea at the age of 17, at this time on a boat with no cabin and only a canvas after saying goodbye to his adoptive mother Dadan, his brother Luffy and the villagers from Foosha Village, he officially begins his pirate journey.
If El doesn’t exist, the year 1516 will be Shanks year while the year 1517 of the Sea Circle Calendar will be Ace year. As ace will let an extremely dazzling stroke in the era of the great pirates, becoming a high-level logia devil fruit user that has not appeared in the sea for many years and making a sensation all over the world before entering the new world.
At the same time he will also receive more than a dozen invitations from the World Government as the last warlord of the sea which has not been filled in the past three years and at a young age, he can draw a tie a battle on Jinbe, one of the warlords of the sea.
If this world has a child of luck, then Ace is the child of luck this year.
Even if El’s arrival had cut off Ace’s fate with the Flame-Flame Fruit in advance, the luck on Ace’s side did not disappear.
Ace, who is blessed by luck and inherits the bloodline of Pirate King, will shock the world in other ways even if he does not have the Flame-Flame Fruit, and the speed at which he shocked the world was much faster and astonishing than the original.
When Ace strayed into the Sixis Island, rescued and got acquainted with Masked Deuce, he soon established the Spade Pirates and quickly became the new rising pirate group star in the East Blue.
However, Ace’s bounty in the East Blue did not break the record of more than 30 million berries, but only with a bounty of over 10 million berries before he brought his Spade Pirates into the first half of the grand line, then his bounty soared rapidly and when his second bounty was released, it has increased tenfold, becoming a supernova with a bounty of over 100 million.
While his 3rd bounty that was released directly broke through 300 million berries, surpassing Luffy and Eustass Kid three years later in the manga, with the bounty that was as high as 399 million berries, because his strength is too dazzling and it should not belong to the first half of the grand line, but to the second half of the grand like where the strong are common as clouds.
“The supernova who has mastered the three-type of haki, another monster from the East Blue, Explosive Fist, Portgas D. Ace.”
Ace’s performance quickly attracted the attention of ‘Big News’ Morgans who saw the potential of the next superstar in him, which make him use a news headline to let Ace’s name spread all over the first half of the grand line and even at the four seas.
Just as the news headline said, Ace was the same as El before he became the ‘Flying Swordsman’, because before he enter the new world, he mastered the three-type of haki, and have a new bounty that truly surpassed the Lightning Sword sorcerer, Kuina.
Now, El who has the Float-Float Fruit is already the youngest Pirate emperor, own the world-renowned City in the sky, and is already considered the strongest pirate in the world by the people.
With El’s ascent to the top, he began to keep a low profile and in the eyes of Morgans, the sea began to become boring again.
The appearance of Ace made Morgans excited, and he used his pen without hesitation to make Ace’s name resound throughout the world. As Morgans firmly believe that Ace will never let him down and he will definitely become the next superstar because if it wasn’t for Ace being a few years older than El, he would have gotten off to an even better start than El.
Just like how it only took two years for Koby to transform from a weakling to someone who mastered the two-type of haki and some of the navy Six styles (Rokushiki).
Ace awakened conqueror haki at the age of ten, then under the guidance of Garp, he is now not only a supernova who has mastered the three types of haki but also the advanced level of the armament haki, emission, and internal destruction.
Yes, under Garp’s teaching.
It has been said more than once, but after El’s killed the guide of the true Son of Destiny, it had a great impact on the world.
The people who were affected were not only Luffy, the true son of destiny, but also Ace, the son of the Pirate King.
Since Sabo’s ‘death’, Ace has changed from his previous violent temper to a gentle older brother. For this, he even deliberately learned etiquette from Makino in the Foosha Village.
At the same time, Ace also chose to bow his head to Garp and let him train himself in a real hell style because he knows very well that sooner or later. Luffy will have a fight with the Lord of the Sky, El and if Luffy loses, he will most likely face the same destiny as Shanks, he will be killed.
If he wants to protect Luffy, then he must have power beyond the Lord of the Sky.
Faced with his grandson’s first request, the sharp-tongue but soft-hearted Garp naturally taught Ace without hesitation.
At the same time, in the process of teaching, Garp also discovered that Ace had awakened the qualifications of a king early.
Since the rarest kind of haki has been awakened when Ace was ten years old, helping him to awaken and master the other two kinds of haki is an easy task.
Just like when training Koby, because of the big characters of justice behind him, Garp would not teach Ace the superhuman skills such as navy Six styles (Rokushiki) before Ace became a navy, but the basic use of three-type of haki, and advanced level of armament haki, Garp taught it to Ace without hesitation.
I don’t know if it was because of luck, or because of Ace’s innate talent and hard work, when he was sixteen years old, he had mastered the advanced level of armament haki.
The title of Explosive Fist was obtained when Ace imitates Garp’s Fist of Love which contains emission on the outer side and internal destruction on the inside, which makes smash everything to pieces.
No doubt, when Ace chose to bow his head to Garp to ask for advice to protect his younger brother, his reckless character in the original manga would change more or less.
Ace, who specializes in physique and haki, if he still joins the Whitebeard Pirates like in the original manga, then when he met Teach who becomes Dark-Dark Fruit users, it will be difficult for Teach to win in the battle like in the manga because the Dark-Dark Fruit is no longer Ace’s nemesis, instead, the side effect of double pain on the Dark-Dark Fruit will become Teach’s biggest weakness.