In Kenji's Marine career, he had only faced Whitebeard directly twice.

One time was near Kubo Island, which ended in a chaotic battle, and Kenji barely engaged Whitebeard in close-quarters combat, only attacking from a distance.

The other encounter was this current battle.

As for earlier times, he had encountered Whitebeard quite a few times, but those couldn't be called 'engagements.'

After all, it's hard to call a situation where 'someone else punches your warship away' an 'engagement,' at least Kenji wasn't that thick-skinned.

In fact, before his system awakened, Kenji had a clear understanding of his strength: he was just a relatively strong Marine Vice Admiral.

A Vice Admiral of such strength could be sent flying by a full-power Tremor Punch from Whitebeard.

And because of this, Kenji was very curious about the power of Whitebeard's serious Tremor attacks, but in the past, his strong survival instinct suppressed his curiosity.

"Reaching higher places indeed allows one to see different scenery."

Kenji looked at the rapidly approaching vibrating light, able to clearly see the surging tremor power within and the spatial oscillations it caused along the way.

Observing tremor waves at such close range gave Kenji a novel feeling.

Of course, he wasn't just observing. His hand movements and the release of his power were unaffected.

When Whitebeard's naginata, carrying fierce power, swung down above his head, Kenji's right fist was already wrapped in a rich, dark red light, enveloped by the flowing Conqueror's Haki.

Immediately after, Kenji met Whitebeard's blade with his Conqueror's Haki-infused fist.

Voom!!!

The fist and sword clashed in mid-air, and in an instant, all sound in the nearby space was stripped away, leaving only the vibrations of the air itself, which, upon impacting a person's body, would be 'heard' as a booming sound through bone conduction.

At the center of the battlefield, the clash of the two Conqueror's Haki continued, with more and thicker arcs being unleashed by the Conqueror's Haki Infusion.

Originally, the arcs that had spread from their previous collision had gradually subsided.

Oden and the other samurai outside the battlefield had just caught their breath, eager to see the battle situation after the arcs subsided, curious about how spectacular a battle between top-tier powerhouses could be.

What met their eyes, however, were even more arcs, and each of those arcs was as thick as Mount Fuji (the highest mountain in Wano Country).

They looked like they could destroy the world.

"Is this meant to destroy Wano Country?" Oden was furious, and also somewhat regretful.

"Why did I lead Whitebeard here?"

He blamed himself, slapping his thigh.

Fortunately, this time the arcs still didn't spread too far, mostly circling the battlefield.

Such arcs with boundaries looked like they were delineating the battlefield, and at the same time, they were crackling warnings to those outside: Go home and sleep if you have nothing to do, don't come out of curiosity, or you might lose your life!

In fact, if anyone dared to risk their lives and enter the arcs at this moment, they would immediately suffer a combined assault of Conqueror's Haki and tremor power.

Even with Oden's strength, facing the combined attack of these two forces, it would be difficult to retreat unscathed.

In the midst of the battlefield, as Kenji and Whitebeard's battle reached a fever pitch, the clash of their powers was extremely intense, and the chaotic tremor waves distorted the arcs, forming various strange phenomena.

At the center, Kenji's fist was still clashing with Whitebeard's naginata from a distance, reaching a stalemate for a time.

This stalemate, for Whitebeard, was actually somewhat unacceptable.

After all, he not only used the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit but also attached Conqueror's Haki to his blade.

The combination of the two powers was not as simple as one plus one.

And at this moment, Kenji was blocking it, which meant that if Whitebeard had only used tremor power, or Conqueror's Haki Infusion, would he have been unable to block Kenji's attack?

"Why aren't you using the power you used before?" Amidst the stalemate, Whitebeard suddenly spoke in a deep voice, demanding.

Whitebeard's perception was very keen. He noticed that what Kenji was using was not the Conqueror's Haki Emission from before, but just ordinary Conqueror's Haki Infusion.

After all, Whitebeard himself was proficient in this power, so he could easily distinguish it.

He felt very dissatisfied. The other party clearly possessed a stronger power, yet refused to use it, which was somewhat disrespectful.

So, why was Whitebeard so sensitive and had such thoughts?

Because not long ago, he had fought Oden, intentionally not using his strongest power during the battle.

That moment was exactly like this moment. It was a boomerang, so to speak.

However, Kenji, for some unknown reason, did not directly respond to Whitebeard's question, but instead chuckled and brought up something seemingly unrelated.

"Long time no see, you seem to have gotten more irritable, Newgate!"

At this, Kenji paused, as if recalling, and nodded slightly.

"Last time on Kubo Island, you were also like this... hmm, right, last time you almost broke Kubo Island."

Kenji recalled the terrifying crack that ran through Kubo Island, which almost caused the island to disintegrate on the spot.

Whitebeard didn't understand the meaning of Kenji's words and was very annoyed by his rambling, saying angrily, "Stop talking nonsense and get serious!"

"Heh heh." Kenji chuckled, the intensely surging dark red light illuminating his face with shifting light and shadow.

"Getting old, you know, comes with some old-age ailments..."

"Old? You?"

Whitebeard looked at the face younger than his own, yet claiming to be an 'old man,' He immediately wanted to punch him.

"No, that's not what I wanted to ask... He changed the subject again..."

Whitebeard looked annoyed, about to speak again.

Just then, he suddenly sensed an extremely violent force rapidly rushing from both sides of him.

He was very familiar with this power, it was the Conqueror's Haki Emission he had just encountered.

At this moment, the two streams of Conqueror's Haki bypassed the front, avoiding Whitebeard's naginata, which was condensed with Conqueror's Haki and tremor power, circled widely from both sides, and finally slammed into Whitebeard's back.

"You... ambushed me?!"

Whitebeard's eyes widened, and he quickly retreated, trying to dodge the two Conqueror's Haki.

He knew very well that if those two Conqueror's Haki hits landed on his back, he would likely struggle even to get up.

After all, he didn't have Charlotte's incredibly tough Steel Balloon Physique.

The next moment, Whitebeard retreated quickly, but the two streams of Conqueror's Haki followed him like shadows, relentlessly.

"Heh heh, I'm an old man fighting a young lad like you, so what if I ambush you?" Kenji looked at Whitebeard's flustered appearance, smiling quite happily.