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'I actually got Hyōrinmaru? The strongest ice-type Zanpakutō! It seems my luck has been quite good recently.'
Hearing the system's voice in his mind, Ikki couldn't help but smile.
Hyōrinmaru was the strongest ice-type Zanpakutō. In the original Bleach series, Hitsugaya Tōshirō, the wielder of Hyōrinmaru, had shown extremely impressive performances when using it.
Although according to the original work, even if Hyōrinmaru could achieve Bankai, if the user wasn't strong enough, there might be situations like Tōshirō's where he couldn't maintain it for long.
But even so, its power was already formidable enough.
'Now that Hyōrinmaru has appeared, I wonder when I'll get Ryūjin Jakka. Though if Ryūjin Jakka is used when the user isn't strong enough, there may be a situation similar to Tōshirō using Hyōrinmaru.'
Ikki touched his chin, unable to help but wonder about these possibilities.
"Um, can I go now?" Law's slightly embarrassed voice sounded in Ikki's ear.
He didn't care how Ikki made his sword disappear, nor was he particularly sad about losing Kikoku. After all, he wasn't a pure swordsman—Kikoku was just a convenient weapon for him.
Right now, he just wanted to get away from Ikki, this troublesome figure.
"You can go. And thank you for the sword," Ikki said with a smile, gesturing politely to Law.
Law breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to stand up, Kalifa's words beside him made him instantly tense again.
"Ikki, do you want to let this man leave?" Kalifa asked.
"His bounty aside, his abilities are also what Perona needs."
As she spoke, Kalifa glanced at Perona, who was standing nearby.
Although Kalifa didn't have much affection for people with weak willpower like Perona, they were all on the same ship after all.
Perona had now reached the level where she could use her Zanpakutō's Shikai. As long as she could defeat Law, there was no doubt she would be able to obtain the Shikai ability of Tenken.
Perona raised her head and looked at Law, her right hand slowly moving toward her Zanpakutō's handle.
"Forget it," Ikki said.
"It would be a pity to let that guy's fruit disappear. On paper, his fruit is supposedly the most expensive Devil Fruit in the world. As for Perona's issues, we can find other people to solve them."
Ikki smiled and turned to look at Kid, Killer, and their group, who had stood up and were walking toward the auction house exit.
As if sensing Ikki's gaze, Kid, Killer, and the others suddenly frowned and quickened their pace.
Although Kid was arrogant, seeing Ikki easily overpower Law naturally made him abandon any ideas of confronting him.
"Perona, I'm leaving those people to you," Ikki said, patting Perona on the shoulder with a smile.
"Capture them."
"Hey! Am I going alone? No, it's too dangerous for me to do it alone!" Perona said, hugging Ikki's shoulders with an aggrieved expression.
"What's dangerous? Your Devil Fruit ability is effective against them. It'll be easy to capture them when they're caught off guard. Go quickly—if you don't deal with those people, you'll have double training sessions all day when we return to the ship today."
At this point, Ikki's expression gradually became serious.
"I... okay I will go." Perona immediately stood up and chased after Kid and the others upon hearing about doubled training.
"Ikki, let me go with her," Kalifa said, standing up and nodding to him.
"There are Celestial Dragons on this island. If you let that girl go alone, it might cause some trouble."
She quickly followed after Perona.
"Aren't you leaving yet? Do you want to stay and chat with me some more?" Ikki asked, raising his head to look at Law, who was still standing next to him.
"I'm... I'm going now," Law said with an awkward smile, jumping over his seat and running quickly toward the exit.
Because of the auction, most people hadn't noticed Ikki's situation. They were focused on bidding for the newly brought slaves.
"Five million berries! We want that dancer too!" Vivi raised her bidding card and called out loudly.
"Excellent! It's our bidder number 88 again!" the auctioneer announced.
"Five million berries! Does anyone want to raise the bid beyond five million berries? If no one raises the bid, this beautiful dancer will belong to bidder number 88!"
"Alright! No one is continuing to bid. This dancer belongs to bidder number 88!"
After the auctioneer finished speaking, everyone looked at Vivi in amazement. In just a short while, Vivi had successfully won three consecutive auctions.
When they saw that the bidder was also a beautiful woman, people made sounds of surprise again.
"That blue-haired woman is so rich. She's spending all those berries so easily."
"Hmph, what's so great about that? I need to save my berries for the big-ticket items. Otherwise, there's no way those dancers would have gone to her."
"Speaking of which, this blue-haired woman is quite stunning. I wonder how much she could be sold for as a slave."
Hearing this, Ikki frowned, and his Observation Haki quickly locked onto the speaker.
The next moment, his majestic Conqueror's Haki burst forth, directly enveloping the speaker's body.
The bidder who had mocked Vivi froze, then completely fainted with an expression of extreme terror.
"Ikki?" Vivi looked at him with some confusion.
"It's nothing, Vivi. Let's continue bidding," Ikki said with a smile.
"The old man on stage—we need to bid on him."
Hearing this, Vivi nodded and turned her attention to the silver-haired old man who had just been brought to the auction stage by the staff.
At that moment, the old man's eyes happened to fall on Ikki and his group.
'Silvers Rayleigh—finally appearing.'