"What are you mumbling about, Mr. Navy defector, justice?"
Bumaya flashed forward again, attacking, "This seems to be something you're not qualified to discuss right now, doesn't it? As long as it helps Mr. Sakazuki to eliminate you pirates, sacrificing a few grunts is nothing..."
BOOM——!!!
The northern sky suddenly erupted in a deafening explosion, causing the whole island to tremble.
Both sides were momentarily stunned, instinctively looking up.
In the distance, glaring red lava poured down like a torrential rain, dyeing the distant clouds dark red.
What a terrifying sight.
It truly is Mr. Sakazuki...
Bumaya's eyes instantly became misty, her cheeks flushed unnaturally, and even the hand holding the syringe trembled slightly.
"Hey, why don't you put down your weapon and surrender obediently? That way, when big sis gives you a shot later, she'll be a bit gentler."
She suddenly said in a sickly sweet voice, tilting her head and giving Smoker a strange smile:
"Don't you see? Mr. Sakazuki is already angry. Your captain will soon be reduced to ashes..."
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"Rokushiki Secret Technique: Mountain Breeze Ripple Dash!"
BOOM!
The moment this punch was thrown, a massive shockwave billowed from the ground, and the nearly hundred-meter natural stone bridge nearby completely collapsed.
Right in front of Akainu, his face shuddered violently like a water ripple, creating layer upon layer of rippling folds.
No way!
His pupils suddenly contracted.
This move seems to be a peak combination of the kid's entire body techniques, using the internal destruction technique of Armament Haki. It seems I shouldn't have—
Just as the thought arose, the terrifying impact force had already penetrated his body!
Crack!
A clear bone-cracking sound came from Akainu's chest, and his upper garment shattered instantly.
He flew backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing through several massive boulders along the way, finally slamming heavily into the coastal cliff!
Rumble—
The entire cliff collapsed from the impact, tons of rubble pouring down, completely burying Akainu.
Crashing waves were also lifted by the shockwave, forming massive waves tens of meters high, and then turning into a torrential downpour over the rubble.
"Huff, huff..."
Shano maintained his punching stance, steamy white vapor rising from his fist, panting heavily, eyes locked onto the ruins below.
Splash!
A giant magma-covered hand suddenly broke through the rubble!
Akainu slowly stood up, a trace of blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, his chest slightly dented in. Other than that, he had no visible injuries, his aura still as strong as ever.
"..."
Bleeding, really?
His eyes narrowed slightly, and for a moment, he couldn't even remember the last time he'd seen his own blood.
It was many years ago...
Akainu didn't wipe away the blood at the corner of his mouth. He simply raised his head expressionlessly, meeting Shano's gaze from the cliff above.
"What are you looking at?"
Shano grinned, "I'm not done with my attack yet!"
So this is a Navy Grand Admiral?
The attack that thoroughly defeated Crocodile before only made this guy bleed and look slightly embarrassing when no one was watching?
Damn, he's tough!!!
As the words fell, Shano's figure vanished!
Soru!
This time, his speed was even faster, almost leaving an afterimage on Akainu's retina, as a fist wrapped in the mountain breeze ripple dashed towards his temple!
"It won't work, the same move can't be effective twice."
Akainu spoke in a deep voice, his Observation Haki had long predicted it, and his head instantly elementalized, allowing the fist to pass through.
At the same time, his right knee suddenly lifted, the magma-covered knee aiming directly for Shano's abdomen!
"Tekkai!"
Shano didn't dodge, his abdominal muscles tensed like iron, taking the knee strike head-on, while both hands formed into a fingered spear, stabbing towards Akainu's chest like a raging storm!
"Finger Gun·Wave Rain!"
Swish, swish, swish, Shano's Finger Gun was so fast it was almost invisible to the naked eye, but Akainu's figure swayed like a willow leaf in the wind, dodging almost all of them.
This was the top-level demonstration of Kami-e training.
Rising step by step from the headquarters training camp as a recruit, his mastery of the Rokushiki was world-class!
Thud!
Thud!!
Thud!!!
The dull boom resounded across the coast, echoing with a heart-pounding reverberation.
Unknowingly, the two had already exchanged tens of rounds.
The more they fought, the angrier they seemed to get, gradually abandoning dodging, clashing with pure brute force, punch for punch.
Lava and fist-driven shockwaves continuously collided, detonating visible shockwaves one after another.
The entire coastline was crumbling under the fierce battle, seawater flooding into newly formed pits, only to be instantly vaporized into rolling white fog by the high temperature of the magma.
"To have lasted this long against me, you, a brat in your teens, can indeed be proud of that."
In their rapidly intertwining silhouettes, Akainu spoke in a deep voice, "But, it's about time this ended."
At this moment, his clothes were tattered, his exposed skin marred with bruises and contusions.
The Navy hat he'd worn for many years was nowhere to be seen.
He indeed looked somewhat battered.
But compared to the opposing Shano, it seemed not as significant.
The black-haired youth was now covered in horrifying burn wounds, some areas so severe that charred flesh was visible, smoldering with scorching white smoke.