A simple cannonball, after being coated with top-tier Armament Haki and thrown by Garp, unleashed a terrifying power as if it were a meteor piercing through the sky.
In everyone's line of sight, the cannonball, which distorted the surrounding air, shot upwards, creating circles of airwaves and heading towards Shiki, who was floating in the air.
Shiki, with a cigar in his mouth, did not hesitate. He lifted his right leg high and swung his sword down.
"You're so old. Roger is already dead. Why aren't you dead yet, Garp?"
"Wave Slash!"
"Whoosh!"
A dazzling sword light tore through the sky, appearing like a sudden, brilliant aurora in the heavens. It stung many people's eyes and made their tears flow.
The several-hundred-meter-long sword light cut through the atmosphere, whistling down and precisely cutting the cannonball that Garp had thrown.
"Boom!!"
At that moment, the entire sky above the Unicorn seemed to shake violently.
A magnificent blast of energy exploded in the air.
The violent air currents that were stirred up blew the surrounding dozen pirate ships that were approaching back for a hundred meters.
One of the pirate ships that was closer even tilted to its side. The hundreds of pirates crowded on the deck were immediately thrown off, flailing their limbs and screaming in extreme terror as they fell to the ground below.
"A bunch of useless trash. You're all an embarrassment to me."
Shiki glanced at them, then beckoned with his right hand at the tilted pirate ship, and swung it towards the Unicorn's location.
"Poisonous Snake!"
"Whoosh!"
The wind swirled, and the pirate ship, which was even bigger than the Unicorn, suddenly accelerated with Shiki's wave and crashed sideways directly towards the Unicorn.
The deck, surrounded by the ship's rails, was like an overturned bowl, catching some of the falling pirates. These pirates, still in shock, were sent crashing towards the Unicorn along with the ship.
"You're as ferocious as ever, Shiki." Garp grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. He didn't attack. He just stood there, leaning on the ship's rail.
"What are you standing there for? Borsalino, it's your turn to work."
Seeing Kizaru still dazed as if he hadn't woken up, Garp said with annoyance.
"Oh? I thought you, Vice Admiral Garp, wanted to have a one-on-one with an old friend," Kizaru said. A golden light appeared on his outstretched index finger.
Garp rolled his eyes at these words. "A one-on-one my ass. We're not on the ground. I don't have the physical strength to fight this flying bastard using Moonwalk."
"I can fly!" Rorschach suddenly chimed in.
"You brat! Don't distract me! Steer the ship properly! If the ship is gone, everyone on this ship is doomed."
Garp was so angry he gritted his teeth.
"It's going to hit!" Seeing that the golden light on Kizaru's finger still hadn't shot out, Momonga's forehead was covered in cold sweat.
Could he please be a little more serious!
The opponent was Shiki!
A long dragon of cold air suddenly shot out from Kuzan's hand, and just as the pirate ship was about to hit the Unicorn, it was blasted onto the ship.
White ice fog instantly spread out, enveloping the entire pirate ship.
In an instant, the crisp sounds of the ice layers crackling and spreading rang out continuously in the air.
In less than three seconds, the huge flying pirate ship was sealed in thick ice, turning into a block of ice with a diameter of over a hundred meters. Its weight had increased by several times.
The pirate ship, whose weight had soared, fell sharply, causing the tense officers on the deck to let out a sigh of relief.
But Garp watched and covered his old face.
"It's no good, Kuzan. That move will only have a counter-effect on Shiki's ability. Increasing the weight of the pirate ship is only helping him increase its attacking power."
Kuzan's eyes narrowed. He leaned over and looked at the pirate ship that was whistling down.
"Jie hahaha, you know my ability inside and out, Garp."
Shiki grinned. He spread his right hand, with his palm facing up, and lifted it.
The next moment...
The huge block of ice, which had been whistling down, immediately stopped in mid-air and floated.
Then, under Kuzan's gaze, it began to rise and accelerate towards the bottom of the Unicorn.
"Arara, that's what it is. This is a problem now."
Even though he said it was a problem, Kuzan's expression was not much different from Kizaru's sleepy look.
There was no hint of him being bothered at all.
It was only then that Kizaru, whose skills had been lagging for a long time, seemed to finally recover from the network delay. His slender figure turned into a sky full of light particles, shooting out from the Unicorn's deck. He stopped in the air between the giant block of ice and the Unicorn, crossing his hands.
"Yasakani no Magatama."
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"
The endless sounds of air being torn apart were like a sudden downpour. Dazzling light clusters shot out from Kizaru's hands, overwhelming the ice-covered ship that was crashing towards them.
The moment the light clusters touched the ice block, the thick ice layer and the ship sealed within, as well as some unlucky pirates who were frozen, were instantly pierced and torn to shreds.
Huge chunks of ice fell from the sky.
In less than five seconds, the mountain-sized block of ice was shot into a sky full of ice chips by Kizaru and shattered in the air.
The scattered ice chips even outlined a blurry rainbow under the reflection of the sun.
"Uncle Borsalino! We'll leave Shiki to you! We're leaving first!"
Rorschach shouted, controlling the Unicorn to fly over Kizaru's head and accelerate into the distant sky.
Kizaru was stunned. He watched the Unicorn disappear into the distance, then he saw Shiki flying towards him to kill him, and he couldn't help but purse his lips in a headache.
"You're so inconsiderate, Rorschach. To leave your teacher behind to cover your retreat, you've really broken my heart."
"Kizaru! Don't get in my way, or..."
Before Shiki could finish his sentence, a brilliant laser beam shot through the sky. Its speed was so fast that it was almost instantaneous, and it came close to his face. Shiki's heart skipped a beat. Haki flowed on his right hand, turning into an invisible armor. He pushed out his palm from a distance.
"Boom!"
The clear indentation in the air, the air cannon pushed out by Haki, collided with the laser beam from Kizaru in mid-air, creating a fireball as dazzling as the sun.
The surging shockwave hit Shiki and blew him far away.
After stabilizing his body hundreds of meters away, Shiki frowned.
Kizaru's strength was a bit more formidable than he had expected.
However...
"Jie hahaha, jie hahahaha. A man who can become an Admiral is indeed not someone to be underestimated. Since you won't get out of the way, let's have a good fight, Kizaru!"
Shiki's mouth widened in a grin, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. The invisible Floating-Floating Fruit ability worked on his body, causing him to suddenly accelerate and pounce towards Kizaru.
Before he even got close, the twin swords attached to his knees had already sent out dozens of slashes that tore through the sky towards Kizaru.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"
Dozens of meters long slashes, carrying a sharp aura, came through the air, wrapped in Haki.
"Senchigiri Valley!"
Kizaru was in mid-air. Golden light appeared from his fingertips, and he shot out beams of dazzling lasers from a distance.
"Boom boom boom!"
Beams of laser light shot out, precisely intercepting the slashes. They collided and annihilated each other, turning into surging air currents that scattered in all directions.
Kizaru put his hands together and pulled them apart. A long golden sword made of pure light appeared in his hands.
"Ame no Murakumo."
"Whoosh!"
"Slash!"
A blurry figure instantly crossed a hundred meters of the sky, raised the great sword, the Oto, that was in his right leg, and chopped it down towards Kizaru's neck.
Kizaru held the laser sword and slashed it out.
"Clang!"
A loud metal clang exploded between the two of them. Sharp air currents shot out in all directions, hitting each other's bodies and creating tiny ripples.
"Shiki, you're being a little disrespectful. You're using your feet to fight me."
Kizaru held the laser sword with one hand, blocking the slash from Shiki's right leg, and said leisurely.
A cruel smile appeared on Shiki's face. The force on his right leg continued to increase. His suspended left leg, without needing to step on anything for leverage due to the power of the Float-Float Fruit, was lifted and thrust straight towards Kizaru's chest.
"You're not worthy of me holding a sword with my hands."
"Is that so?"
Kizaru's body was pierced by the wooden longsword and it shattered in mid-air, turning into a rain of light that scattered.
The scattered rain of light converged, forming multiple Kizaru's, each holding an Ame no Murakumo, pouncing on Shiki from all directions.
"Have you ever been slashed at the speed of light, Shiki?"
"Clang!"
On the other side, Rorschach was controlling the Unicorn to charge out, but they hadn't completely shaken off the Flying Pirates' pursuit.
Above the Unicorn, which was getting closer to the sea, pirate ships with their sails billowing came to surround them.
The pirates on them took out all kinds of weapons and pulled their triggers at the Unicorn.
For a time, a sky full of cannon fire came surging in, once again engulfing everyone's vision.
Rorschach really wanted to quickly get the Unicorn onto the sea. In that case, he would be able to free up his hands and use lightning to destroy these annoying flies.
"Damn it! Why is their firepower so strong? Their weapons are a bit too powerful."
Momonga, who had just used Moonwalk to fly out and slash at the incoming cannonballs, was blasted back in a very pathetic manner by seven or eight cannonballs that were linked together. He retreated to the deck but still couldn't stop his backward momentum. He staggered a few steps and his back hit the mast behind him.
"It's not that surprising. That bastard Shiki has some scientists under his command who do scientific research. It's not strange for them to create some weird and wonderful weapons."
Garp took a rice cracker from his pocket and put it in his mouth. He grabbed a handful of cannonballs from the cart with his big hand and threw them out like meteors.
Aokiji stood at the bow of the ship. He spread his big hand, with his palm facing outwards, and shot out ice thorns that were giving off cold air at the bullets and cannonballs that were flying towards them.
His right hand was like an unlimited-bullet Gatling gun. He shot out nonstop, detonating most of the cannon fire from the Flying Pirates in mid-air.
"Get closer! Get closer! Get the ships closer to them!"
After shooting for a long time, the Flying Pirates, who had almost run out of the cannonballs they had accumulated for seventeen years, and had not caused any damage to the Unicorn, finally lost their patience. They all drew the swords from their waists and let out a loud roar.
"Huh? Really? You want to fight a boarding battle?"
Hearing this, the Marine officers on the Unicorn's deck all had their eyes light up.
Just being cooped up on the Unicorn and getting shot at by the pirates, even though no one was injured, they were all holding in a lot of anger. They had long wanted to stick their swords into the pirates' chests and have a face-to-face chat.
So how could they not be excited when they heard this?
Immediately, the more than five hundred Marine officers, including Momonga, Onigumo, and others, all showed evil smiles.
"Heh heh heh, pirates, come on over. We're already parched and eager to fight."
However...
Before the approaching pirate ships could get close, Garp, who had run out of cannonballs, stepped on the dragon head of the Unicorn. His body shot into the air like a rocket, creating a circle of airwaves. He raised his muscular right arm high. The surface of his clenched fist shot out streaks of black and red lightning, which crackled and splattered. It was as if the air was being electrified and torn into countless cracks. He threw a punch into the air at the fastest flying pirate ship.
"Fist of Iron! Conflict!"
In an instant, black and red lightning and invisible Armament Haki spread out in the air. In the horrified eyes of the approaching pirates, it completely enveloped the entire pirate ship they were on, forming a spherical impact with a diameter of two to three hundred meters, which converged and vibrated towards the center.
The terrifying energy fluctuations that erupted in an instant from the combination of top-tier Armament Haki and top-tier Conqueror's Haki were even felt by Shiki and Kizaru, who were already a few thousand meters away.
The approaching pirate ship was completely shattered by Garp's one punch, which he threw with a grin.
The pirates on the deck, who had a ferocious smile on their faces a moment ago, all looked up in fear, looking at the face above them, which looked more and more familiar the more they looked at it.
"Ga... Garp! It's... it's Iron Fist Garp!"
"Run... run..."
The words "run" were not even fully said. The hundreds of pirates, who were crowded together, exploded along with the pirate ship beneath them under the terrifying energy impact, turning into a cloud of blood mist.
Wood splinters exploded all over the sky, and the huge pirate ship simply turned into scattered debris out of thin air.
The psychological impact of this punch was much more terrifying than the power it displayed.
The pirates on the other pirate ships, who were approaching, all turned pale with fear and quickly changed direction, trying to get away from Garp's location.
"Run! That's Iron Fist Garp! Only Boss Shiki can deal with him! We can't fight him at all! Run! Otherwise, we'll be completely wiped out!"
Seeing the Flying Pirates' ships all fleeing, Garp, who had lost his next target, could only fall back onto the Unicorn's deck.
On the ship, the Marine officers, who had been looking forward to a fight, all looked dejected.
"Vice Admiral Garp, don't rush so much. Let some pirates get closer so we can kill a few. We've been fighting for a long time, and I haven't even cut down a single pirate," said Vice Admiral Tsuru.
"That's right, that's right. If you do that, how can the pirates dare to come closer?"
Just then, the bottom of the Unicorn finally slammed into the sea below with a loud sound.
Before the Unicorn could even stop completely, Rorschach's tall body, wrapped in a storm and lightning, flashed past everyone, leaving a flashing trail of electricity in the sky and charging towards the fleeing pirate ships.
Vice Admiral Tsuru and Momonga looked at each other.
"Damn it! The captain has run off!"
(End of Chapter)
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