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This is a possible scenario for the Hachinosu event during Egghead arc.
As much as it was nice to see some fighting moves from Garp, Oda always goes for these contrived moments such as Garp being injured early by protecting Koby who fell for a stupid trap and such. For me, it makes the event less enjoyable as you know that the character cannot really do his best and because it is like WB. It is equivalent to going to a football match, only to have your favorite player be injured in the most stupid way at the beginning of the match and thus being unable to perform as usual. This is what I felt for Garp. Why can’t we finally have a legendary character that goes all out and is defeated after a long hard fight? For example, Silvers arrived and flexed his haki, BB just retreated. No fight. If you know what i am trying to say.
So here is a possible way this side arc could have been handled, even though I think this event deserved to be a whole arc.
As in the original, we have Koby in the middle of escaping. The Marine team in charge of rescuing Koby is introduced. Then Garp entered the island with an attack called Galaxy Impact. Of course, this is more impactful, and many fodders pirates are defeated and buildings are destroyed. No need for panel showing pirates complaining after Garp said his strength is not what it used to be. It was a way for Oda to make a joke here, but it was not landing for me. So yeah, Garp arrived, defeated a lot of fodder pirates, and destroyed a lot of the buildings there. As in the original, Hibari gets unexpectedly frozen by Kuzan, who finally makes his entrance.
Of course, the dialogues between Kuzan and Garp are kept the same. As expected, Kuzan tried to freeze Garp, but it had no effect. Garp easily breaks free and uses a strong attack called Blue Hole on Kuzan. (We do not need fodder background pirates to react and comment. The thing that bothered me as usual is the offscreen. This should not be done for major characters and i know there is a lot for Oda to handle but sometimes i saw him wasting so many panels on unnecessary characters reacting and commenting that i asked myself why these characters are being showed while we are not getting a complete Law vs BB fight.) After Garp has thrown Kuzan very deep in the ground. Kuzan is hurt, coughing a little blood, and had to shield himself to prevent further damage. As Kuzan is making his way up, Garp is a loose cannon and is destroying everything. The giant San Juan Wolf had to intervene, but his size just made him the easiest target. Garp destroyed this giant with precise powerful punches, and the knockback effect is enough to send the guy flying and falling into the sea.
Vasco shot tried to attack Garp with some fire balls but got easily countered. Garp used the defeated fodders pirates as shields. And later Garp used the same burning pirates as projectiles to attack other pirates on the island. This also started a huge fire on the island that other pirates are trying to put down. Since he tried something and it did not work, Vasco shot prefers to continue drinking than continuing the fight for now. He will just observe from that moment. As Garp and the other marines are ready to retreat, Kuzan arrived to face Garp again. As usual, we get the little flashback of Garp and Kuzan training together.
As Koby is escaping, Koby uses his observation haki to detect Shiryu and Koby easily avoids the trap set by the commander and his pirates. He took this opportunity to defeat the fodder pirates easily, but he has trouble dealing with Shiryu. Thanks to his observation haki, he can predict Shiryu to some extent but as the fight continues, it is becoming difficult to sense Shiryu. Helmeppo and Grus are fighting the huge number of pirates that keep coming from all sides; they need to prevent the pirates from overwhelming them and interfere with Koby’s fight.
Shyriu is the most dangerous as expected; Koby needs to escape, but if he lowers his defense at any moment, it may prove fatal. He is barely dodging attacks by Shiryu and has light injuries on his back and left arm. The wounds are not deep, but he cannot afford to keep getting wounded as he may lose too much blood. In a desperate attempt, Koby hits the ground with a powerful imbued haki punch, raising a lot of dust in the process and destroying a good part of the ground beneath him. The earth-shaking effect causes a lot of opening as the fodder pirates are unable to keep their balance. Shiryu is unable to have a clear view on Koby due to the dust, but it is only for a short moment. Koby uses this little opening to his advantage. The dust made Shiryu clear fruit also less effective. At this point, it was difficult for Helmeppo and Grus to detect Shiryu even though they used their observation haki, which is not as refined as Koby. With Koby’s help, Grus and Helmeppo can track Shiryu now by just watching the dust movement in the air. Grus uses his power to create some Golems to fight for them as Helmeppo and he would need their 100% focus. Koby uses hand signals to notify his partners, and they all use a combined attack on Shiryu. Sadly, Shiryu is on another level and manages to block their powerful combined attack, but the knock back effect stills sends Shiryu flying meters away. Though their attack was not 100% effective, it did allow them to repel this monster.
Koby, Helmeppo and Grus then proceed to fight their way to the ship. The golems created were already overwhelmed by the huge number of pirates, and some are haki users now. They were focused on Shiryu for not more than 1 minute, but this was enough for them to be surrounded now. Things are getting difficult, but these pirates are still fodders. On the positive side, it is just a mild inconvenience.
Meanwhile, Garp and Kuzan are facing each other. Both launch at each other and punch each other to the face, with Kuzan using a special technique called Ice Glove. They clashed and were sent flying meters away from each other. As they are in midair, they both recover quickly and manage to land on their feet, and they are both still standing, facing each other. Both faces are seriously injured and bleeding, but they are still ready to fight.
Meanwhile, the remaining marine team is helping the people to get on the ship. But suddenly Pizarro decides to make his move by creating a giant hand to crush the ship. In an instant, Garp speeded blitz Kuzan. Garp landed a heavy punch, sending Kuzan to the ground before going straight to Pizarro’s head. As Kuzan was caught off guard, he took some damage from the punch. At that moment, Garp moves so fast that the shockwaves left behind are enough to destroy some of the structure, and fodder pirates too close are blown away. Garp landed a Galaxy Divide to Pizarro’s giant island head; this knocked Pizarro out as it was a critical attack, and again the large size made him an easy target, and he took the full attack. Pizarro is unconscious, but his massive hand is still a threat to the ship and since Pizarro was knocked out, his hand is currently falling and will crush the ship. Garp is panting and is annoyed as his endurance is no longer what it was. He needs like 5 minutes to recover due to this heavy exertion. He cannot do a follow up attack to go for the massive hand, but he has neutralized this guy for a moment to prevent further interference to the ship’s escape. As Garp is breathing heavily, we can also see Garp smiling as he knows Koby will have his back.
As the hand is getting dangerously closer to the ship, Koby requested Helmeppo and Grus to cover him as he rushed to the ship's location. Koby uses Honesty Impact which is strong enough to destroy a major part of the hand, thus saving the ship. At this point, the fodder pirates were severely demoralized by the action of Garp crushing Pizarro’s island head, but seeing Koby crushing the hand of Pizarro was the final nail in the coffin. They just retreat, running away as their lives matter more, thus allowing Helmeppo to rescue Koby and Grus to protect the ship. Grus uses his power to protect the ship from the large rocks which were not broken completely and Helmeppo catches Koby midair. They all landed safely on the ship. Koby is exhausted and needs his friends to help him stand. At this point, Garp said his final orders and requested them to leave. Some marines are crying and some are frustrated, but they are still forced to obey the order. We then have this shot of Garp standing between the ship, which is slowly leaving, and Kuzan.
Kuzan vs Garp continues. Kuzan tries to freeze the ocean but is immediately blocked by Garp, who has recovered a bit at this point but is still breathing heavily. Garp punched Kuzan in the process, but it is clear Garp is reaching his limit, Kuzan even commented that this punch is not as strong as the ones earlier. But Garp is still an experienced fighter, and this is clearly shown. Garp and Kuzan are in a standstill, exchanging blows like in a boxing match. They aim to knock the other opponent out, but they also are dodging each other's blows; it is like a dance. As Garp is a strong haki user, Devil fruit abilities are mostly useless against him. In thoughts, Kuzan is reflecting ways to neutralize Garp. The issue is mostly the tremendous raw strength Garp has gained other the years of training. As a fact, he cannot just block Garp’s attacks as he took cheap damage, and there is mostly severe knock back effect. His raw strength may have diminished, but it is still significant. His speed and reflexes have not diminished greatly as he can still move at very high speed, though he cannot do it on demand now. But his endurance seems to have diminished the most. He has been wheezing a lot since this fight started. Kuzan is thinking of exhausting Garp; he has observed the little pause Garp took earlier. He knew in a fight of raw strength or hand-to-hand fight; he would not be able overwhelmed this guy, but in an endurance fight, he sure would win.
His team having successfully escaped, Garp goes all out, and it is shown by the massive destruction caused. Every blow of Garp is sending a short/medium range shockwave attack and as Kuzan is doding the attacks, these shockwaves are causing further destruction to the surroundings. It seems Garp read through him, so here the longer this fight goes, the more damage this place will sustain. He knows Garp is tired, but how long will it take to completely exhaust this guy? This is a bet that is hard to pull now. Kuzan is frustrated and he needs to put an end to it. As Kuzan is also trying to protect the island. Kuzan is distracted for a short moment, enough for Garp to use this opportunity. Garp punches Kuzan, but Kuzan easily shields himself. Kuzan took this chance to land a solid counterattack, a direct hit to Garp’s face. Garp is hurt, spitting a lot of blood and some teeth, but he comes to his senses quickly. Since Garp’s fist also has already been in contact with Kuzan’s face at this point, Garp just needed to add some extra force to send Kuzan flying. Kuzan may not take a lot of damage from this, but he was repelled. Kuzan is sent flying some meters away at high speed, and Garp falls on one knee.
But Garp cannot catch a break; Shiryu and Vasco make their entrance to keep the pressure. As Vasco shot is shooting fire balls at Garp, Shiryu is launching long range slash attacks. Garp is having difficulties to dodge all these incoming attacks and is taking some light injuries in the process. Range attacks are effective against Garp, but as Garp is dodging, he is also closing the distance with his opponents. At some point, Garp took a slash attack on the chest. Garp is heavily injured, bleeding a lot. Shiryu took this opportunity to attack Garp by getting closer. Shiryu stabbed Garp. He wanted to just incapacitate the old man, so he did not go for a fatal attack. Though injured, Garp took this opportunity to grab the sword of Shiryu, preventing Shyriu from moving. Then Garp proceeds to land a well-placed punch on Shiryu’s face. Thanks to haki, Shyriu was not killed by this direct hit, which was met to crush completely Shiryu’s head. But it was a critical hit, leaving Shiryu on the ground, coughing a lot of blood, some teeth and completely disorientated. Garp, who is still holding Shiryu, then proceeds to use Shiryu, who is still recovering, as a shield against an incoming attack from Vasco shot. The attack did a lot of damage to Shiryu, and Garp proceeds to use Shiryu as a projectile against Vasco shot. Garp threw Shiryu at such great speed that Vasco shot is unable to dodge. Vasco is injured heavily but still conscious, he got hit by a full-grown man body to the head, so he is having some difficulties to think straight and to stand correctly. Shiryu immediately gets on his feet, but he is also struggling to stand still. But they need some time to recover before they can fight again. Garp falls on both his knees, breathing heavily.
Meanwhile, Sanjuan Wolf has recovered and is out of the sea with the help of Pizarro earlier before Pizarro was knocked out by Garp. Shiryu , Vasco, and Kuzan slowly come towards Garp. As the 3 BB pirates commander surround Garp, Garp smiles. Then, Garp focuses on his remaining haki in his punch for a final attack. As Garp is focusing on his attack, the CoC haki lightning surrounding him is acting like a shield and even repelled Shiryu who was trying to get closer. At this point, the commanders cannot approach. So, Kuzan was shocked and immediately adopted a defensive position. Kuzan knew Garp had no intention of escaping this island alive. As for the BB pirates, as soon as Garp appeared, they already planned to capture Garp alive for his high profile and to use him as some kind of hostage/leverage. Kuzan never expected Garp to go to this extreme and to take the island with him.
Garp punches the ground so hard that it created a massive shock wave engulfing the whole island by using an attack called Black Hole. Kuzan uses his ability to shield some of the island, especially the strategic points on the island. 40% of the island is completely erased and Sanjuan Wolf is again sent flying due to the shockwave, heavily injured in the process and knocked out, Kuzan could not protect his massive body in time. But thanks to Kuzan, 60% of the island was saved, and he also managed to shield most of the BB commanders and the remaining pirate fodders on the island at that time. But Pizarro suffered severe damage in the process due to his massive body as he was knocked out before he could separate himself completely from the island itself.
As for Garp, he falls into the massive crack he has caused and falls into the ocean. At this point, Garp is so weak that he cannot even swim up, and he knew even if someone pulls him up, he will die in a few minutes as he has gone beyond his limit. As Garp is sinking in the ocean, he smiles gently as he knows his will has been passed to some of the next generation of Marine. We can see the reaction of Koby and the remaining marines as they saw this giant explosion and later, they feel its effects as a big gust blows in in their direction that pushes their ship further forward.
After hours of search, the body of Garp was still not identified. They could not chase the marine ship as well as most of the ships on the island were damaged. Shiryu commented that Garp’s body must be at the deepest point of the ocean, where there is no light and where pressure is so high that special vessels are needed to go there. They currently do not have the resources to continue this investigation to retrieve Garp’s body. Even though it was a defeat as Koby successfully escaped with a lot of prisoners and they did not capture Garp, Kuzan, for his massive devotion in protecting important points of the island during Garp’s rampage, has gained enormous respect and trust from the commanders on the island. Shiryu commented that he never expected this old man to still have this much power at this state. It bothers him to admit it, but without Kuzan, they would never have made it. It has been hours since their fight and even he shielded himself with haki, his head is still hurting as much as he just took that hit. Kuzan on the other hand, is looking fine. Kuzan then mentioned that he was used to this, but he is not facing Shiryu and is trying to conceal his face. Shiryu commented that Garp at this point was a man with nothing to lose, and there is nothing more dangerous than these type of people. They had constraint in this fight, but the man did not have any. He used the fact that it was their territory against them. He did not mind destroying everything since they were no one to protect here.
After this, news is spreading around the world that Garp had disappeared. After this, Koby was promoted to Vice Admiral for his heroic actions in saving a lot of civilians and successfully escaping Hachinosu.
Conclusion-> In my opinion, this is where Garp’s arc should have ended. At this point in the story, he did not have major things to do. Koby has already been taught what he needs. So Garp has fulfilled his role as a mentor and his will was passed to another generation. It is bittersweet, but I prefer to have this. Also, it is needed for Koby development.
This is a possible scenario for the Hachinosu event during Egghead arc.
As much as it was nice to see some fighting moves from Garp, Oda always goes for these contrived moments such as Garp being injured early by protecting Koby who fell for a stupid trap and such. For me, it makes the event less enjoyable as you know that the character cannot really do his best and because it is like WB. It is equivalent to going to a football match, only to have your favorite player be injured in the most stupid way at the beginning of the match and thus being unable to perform as usual. This is what I felt for Garp. Why can’t we finally have a legendary character that goes all out and is defeated after a long hard fight? For example, Silvers arrived and flexed his haki, BB just retreated. No fight. If you know what i am trying to say.
So here is a possible way this side arc could have been handled, even though I think this event deserved to be a whole arc.
As in the original, we have Koby in the middle of escaping. The Marine team in charge of rescuing Koby is introduced. Then Garp entered the island with an attack called Galaxy Impact. Of course, this is more impactful, and many fodders pirates are defeated and buildings are destroyed. No need for panel showing pirates complaining after Garp said his strength is not what it used to be. It was a way for Oda to make a joke here, but it was not landing for me. So yeah, Garp arrived, defeated a lot of fodder pirates, and destroyed a lot of the buildings there. As in the original, Hibari gets unexpectedly frozen by Kuzan, who finally makes his entrance.
Of course, the dialogues between Kuzan and Garp are kept the same. As expected, Kuzan tried to freeze Garp, but it had no effect. Garp easily breaks free and uses a strong attack called Blue Hole on Kuzan. (We do not need fodder background pirates to react and comment. The thing that bothered me as usual is the offscreen. This should not be done for major characters and i know there is a lot for Oda to handle but sometimes i saw him wasting so many panels on unnecessary characters reacting and commenting that i asked myself why these characters are being showed while we are not getting a complete Law vs BB fight.) After Garp has thrown Kuzan very deep in the ground. Kuzan is hurt, coughing a little blood, and had to shield himself to prevent further damage. As Kuzan is making his way up, Garp is a loose cannon and is destroying everything. The giant San Juan Wolf had to intervene, but his size just made him the easiest target. Garp destroyed this giant with precise powerful punches, and the knockback effect is enough to send the guy flying and falling into the sea.
Vasco shot tried to attack Garp with some fire balls but got easily countered. Garp used the defeated fodders pirates as shields. And later Garp used the same burning pirates as projectiles to attack other pirates on the island. This also started a huge fire on the island that other pirates are trying to put down. Since he tried something and it did not work, Vasco shot prefers to continue drinking than continuing the fight for now. He will just observe from that moment. As Garp and the other marines are ready to retreat, Kuzan arrived to face Garp again. As usual, we get the little flashback of Garp and Kuzan training together.
As Koby is escaping, Koby uses his observation haki to detect Shiryu and Koby easily avoids the trap set by the commander and his pirates. He took this opportunity to defeat the fodder pirates easily, but he has trouble dealing with Shiryu. Thanks to his observation haki, he can predict Shiryu to some extent but as the fight continues, it is becoming difficult to sense Shiryu. Helmeppo and Grus are fighting the huge number of pirates that keep coming from all sides; they need to prevent the pirates from overwhelming them and interfere with Koby’s fight.
Shyriu is the most dangerous as expected; Koby needs to escape, but if he lowers his defense at any moment, it may prove fatal. He is barely dodging attacks by Shiryu and has light injuries on his back and left arm. The wounds are not deep, but he cannot afford to keep getting wounded as he may lose too much blood. In a desperate attempt, Koby hits the ground with a powerful imbued haki punch, raising a lot of dust in the process and destroying a good part of the ground beneath him. The earth-shaking effect causes a lot of opening as the fodder pirates are unable to keep their balance. Shiryu is unable to have a clear view on Koby due to the dust, but it is only for a short moment. Koby uses this little opening to his advantage. The dust made Shiryu clear fruit also less effective. At this point, it was difficult for Helmeppo and Grus to detect Shiryu even though they used their observation haki, which is not as refined as Koby. With Koby’s help, Grus and Helmeppo can track Shiryu now by just watching the dust movement in the air. Grus uses his power to create some Golems to fight for them as Helmeppo and he would need their 100% focus. Koby uses hand signals to notify his partners, and they all use a combined attack on Shiryu. Sadly, Shiryu is on another level and manages to block their powerful combined attack, but the knock back effect stills sends Shiryu flying meters away. Though their attack was not 100% effective, it did allow them to repel this monster.
Koby, Helmeppo and Grus then proceed to fight their way to the ship. The golems created were already overwhelmed by the huge number of pirates, and some are haki users now. They were focused on Shiryu for not more than 1 minute, but this was enough for them to be surrounded now. Things are getting difficult, but these pirates are still fodders. On the positive side, it is just a mild inconvenience.
Meanwhile, Garp and Kuzan are facing each other. Both launch at each other and punch each other to the face, with Kuzan using a special technique called Ice Glove. They clashed and were sent flying meters away from each other. As they are in midair, they both recover quickly and manage to land on their feet, and they are both still standing, facing each other. Both faces are seriously injured and bleeding, but they are still ready to fight.
Meanwhile, the remaining marine team is helping the people to get on the ship. But suddenly Pizarro decides to make his move by creating a giant hand to crush the ship. In an instant, Garp speeded blitz Kuzan. Garp landed a heavy punch, sending Kuzan to the ground before going straight to Pizarro’s head. As Kuzan was caught off guard, he took some damage from the punch. At that moment, Garp moves so fast that the shockwaves left behind are enough to destroy some of the structure, and fodder pirates too close are blown away. Garp landed a Galaxy Divide to Pizarro’s giant island head; this knocked Pizarro out as it was a critical attack, and again the large size made him an easy target, and he took the full attack. Pizarro is unconscious, but his massive hand is still a threat to the ship and since Pizarro was knocked out, his hand is currently falling and will crush the ship. Garp is panting and is annoyed as his endurance is no longer what it was. He needs like 5 minutes to recover due to this heavy exertion. He cannot do a follow up attack to go for the massive hand, but he has neutralized this guy for a moment to prevent further interference to the ship’s escape. As Garp is breathing heavily, we can also see Garp smiling as he knows Koby will have his back.
As the hand is getting dangerously closer to the ship, Koby requested Helmeppo and Grus to cover him as he rushed to the ship's location. Koby uses Honesty Impact which is strong enough to destroy a major part of the hand, thus saving the ship. At this point, the fodder pirates were severely demoralized by the action of Garp crushing Pizarro’s island head, but seeing Koby crushing the hand of Pizarro was the final nail in the coffin. They just retreat, running away as their lives matter more, thus allowing Helmeppo to rescue Koby and Grus to protect the ship. Grus uses his power to protect the ship from the large rocks which were not broken completely and Helmeppo catches Koby midair. They all landed safely on the ship. Koby is exhausted and needs his friends to help him stand. At this point, Garp said his final orders and requested them to leave. Some marines are crying and some are frustrated, but they are still forced to obey the order. We then have this shot of Garp standing between the ship, which is slowly leaving, and Kuzan.
Kuzan vs Garp continues. Kuzan tries to freeze the ocean but is immediately blocked by Garp, who has recovered a bit at this point but is still breathing heavily. Garp punched Kuzan in the process, but it is clear Garp is reaching his limit, Kuzan even commented that this punch is not as strong as the ones earlier. But Garp is still an experienced fighter, and this is clearly shown. Garp and Kuzan are in a standstill, exchanging blows like in a boxing match. They aim to knock the other opponent out, but they also are dodging each other's blows; it is like a dance. As Garp is a strong haki user, Devil fruit abilities are mostly useless against him. In thoughts, Kuzan is reflecting ways to neutralize Garp. The issue is mostly the tremendous raw strength Garp has gained other the years of training. As a fact, he cannot just block Garp’s attacks as he took cheap damage, and there is mostly severe knock back effect. His raw strength may have diminished, but it is still significant. His speed and reflexes have not diminished greatly as he can still move at very high speed, though he cannot do it on demand now. But his endurance seems to have diminished the most. He has been wheezing a lot since this fight started. Kuzan is thinking of exhausting Garp; he has observed the little pause Garp took earlier. He knew in a fight of raw strength or hand-to-hand fight; he would not be able overwhelmed this guy, but in an endurance fight, he sure would win.
His team having successfully escaped, Garp goes all out, and it is shown by the massive destruction caused. Every blow of Garp is sending a short/medium range shockwave attack and as Kuzan is doding the attacks, these shockwaves are causing further destruction to the surroundings. It seems Garp read through him, so here the longer this fight goes, the more damage this place will sustain. He knows Garp is tired, but how long will it take to completely exhaust this guy? This is a bet that is hard to pull now. Kuzan is frustrated and he needs to put an end to it. As Kuzan is also trying to protect the island. Kuzan is distracted for a short moment, enough for Garp to use this opportunity. Garp punches Kuzan, but Kuzan easily shields himself. Kuzan took this chance to land a solid counterattack, a direct hit to Garp’s face. Garp is hurt, spitting a lot of blood and some teeth, but he comes to his senses quickly. Since Garp’s fist also has already been in contact with Kuzan’s face at this point, Garp just needed to add some extra force to send Kuzan flying. Kuzan may not take a lot of damage from this, but he was repelled. Kuzan is sent flying some meters away at high speed, and Garp falls on one knee.
But Garp cannot catch a break; Shiryu and Vasco make their entrance to keep the pressure. As Vasco shot is shooting fire balls at Garp, Shiryu is launching long range slash attacks. Garp is having difficulties to dodge all these incoming attacks and is taking some light injuries in the process. Range attacks are effective against Garp, but as Garp is dodging, he is also closing the distance with his opponents. At some point, Garp took a slash attack on the chest. Garp is heavily injured, bleeding a lot. Shiryu took this opportunity to attack Garp by getting closer. Shiryu stabbed Garp. He wanted to just incapacitate the old man, so he did not go for a fatal attack. Though injured, Garp took this opportunity to grab the sword of Shiryu, preventing Shyriu from moving. Then Garp proceeds to land a well-placed punch on Shiryu’s face. Thanks to haki, Shyriu was not killed by this direct hit, which was met to crush completely Shiryu’s head. But it was a critical hit, leaving Shiryu on the ground, coughing a lot of blood, some teeth and completely disorientated. Garp, who is still holding Shiryu, then proceeds to use Shiryu, who is still recovering, as a shield against an incoming attack from Vasco shot. The attack did a lot of damage to Shiryu, and Garp proceeds to use Shiryu as a projectile against Vasco shot. Garp threw Shiryu at such great speed that Vasco shot is unable to dodge. Vasco is injured heavily but still conscious, he got hit by a full-grown man body to the head, so he is having some difficulties to think straight and to stand correctly. Shiryu immediately gets on his feet, but he is also struggling to stand still. But they need some time to recover before they can fight again. Garp falls on both his knees, breathing heavily.
Meanwhile, Sanjuan Wolf has recovered and is out of the sea with the help of Pizarro earlier before Pizarro was knocked out by Garp. Shiryu , Vasco, and Kuzan slowly come towards Garp. As the 3 BB pirates commander surround Garp, Garp smiles. Then, Garp focuses on his remaining haki in his punch for a final attack. As Garp is focusing on his attack, the CoC haki lightning surrounding him is acting like a shield and even repelled Shiryu who was trying to get closer. At this point, the commanders cannot approach. So, Kuzan was shocked and immediately adopted a defensive position. Kuzan knew Garp had no intention of escaping this island alive. As for the BB pirates, as soon as Garp appeared, they already planned to capture Garp alive for his high profile and to use him as some kind of hostage/leverage. Kuzan never expected Garp to go to this extreme and to take the island with him.
Garp punches the ground so hard that it created a massive shock wave engulfing the whole island by using an attack called Black Hole. Kuzan uses his ability to shield some of the island, especially the strategic points on the island. 40% of the island is completely erased and Sanjuan Wolf is again sent flying due to the shockwave, heavily injured in the process and knocked out, Kuzan could not protect his massive body in time. But thanks to Kuzan, 60% of the island was saved, and he also managed to shield most of the BB commanders and the remaining pirate fodders on the island at that time. But Pizarro suffered severe damage in the process due to his massive body as he was knocked out before he could separate himself completely from the island itself.
As for Garp, he falls into the massive crack he has caused and falls into the ocean. At this point, Garp is so weak that he cannot even swim up, and he knew even if someone pulls him up, he will die in a few minutes as he has gone beyond his limit. As Garp is sinking in the ocean, he smiles gently as he knows his will has been passed to some of the next generation of Marine. We can see the reaction of Koby and the remaining marines as they saw this giant explosion and later, they feel its effects as a big gust blows in in their direction that pushes their ship further forward.
After hours of search, the body of Garp was still not identified. They could not chase the marine ship as well as most of the ships on the island were damaged. Shiryu commented that Garp’s body must be at the deepest point of the ocean, where there is no light and where pressure is so high that special vessels are needed to go there. They currently do not have the resources to continue this investigation to retrieve Garp’s body. Even though it was a defeat as Koby successfully escaped with a lot of prisoners and they did not capture Garp, Kuzan, for his massive devotion in protecting important points of the island during Garp’s rampage, has gained enormous respect and trust from the commanders on the island. Shiryu commented that he never expected this old man to still have this much power at this state. It bothers him to admit it, but without Kuzan, they would never have made it. It has been hours since their fight and even he shielded himself with haki, his head is still hurting as much as he just took that hit. Kuzan on the other hand, is looking fine. Kuzan then mentioned that he was used to this, but he is not facing Shiryu and is trying to conceal his face. Shiryu commented that Garp at this point was a man with nothing to lose, and there is nothing more dangerous than these type of people. They had constraint in this fight, but the man did not have any. He used the fact that it was their territory against them. He did not mind destroying everything since they were no one to protect here.
After this, news is spreading around the world that Garp had disappeared. After this, Koby was promoted to Vice Admiral for his heroic actions in saving a lot of civilians and successfully escaping Hachinosu.
Conclusion-> In my opinion, this is where Garp’s arc should have ended. At this point in the story, he did not have major things to do. Koby has already been taught what he needs. So Garp has fulfilled his role as a mentor and his will was passed to another generation. It is bittersweet, but I prefer to have this. Also, it is needed for Koby development.