"That kid is just showing off!" Kenji was very certain about this.
However, Kuzan was clearly unable to keep up his act and was now running around, buffeted by the waves stirred up by the Sea Current Homies.
Kenji could see it: Kuzan was very slippery, clearly waiting for him, the Admiral, to make a move.
Thinking about it, it made sense. With the Marine's top combatant present, it was only natural for the strongest person to deliver the decisive blow.
In fact, almost all the Marines present shared a similar attitude.
They might not have realized that their efforts to resist Charlotte were to buy time for Kenji to act. But the essence of their actions was precisely that.
After all, no one else present had the ability to resolve the situation.
"Forget it, deal with the trouble first..."
Kenji withdrew his gaze, but this didn't mean Kuzan was out of trouble.
"I'll deal with that kid later!"
Kenji's attention shifted to Charlotte opposite him.
The over six-meter-tall Charlotte stood there like a small giant. Around her were countless tentacle-like ropes wildly flailing and grabbing people, and even higher above, sky-obscuring giant waves.
At the same time, Charlotte's other three Homies had gathered beside her, glaring like three villains.
"It's time to act." Kenji frowned and slowly raised his hand.
"I can't let you damage this warship..."
As Kenji exerted his power, an invisible aura surged out first, followed by the complete release of a tangible, dark-red Conqueror's Haki.
The Conqueror's Haki, swirling around Kenji's body, suddenly spread out. The first to be affected was the deck beneath Kenji's feet.
Actually, before this, due to the Conqueror's Haki swirling around Kenji, the warship Homies couldn't attack him.
Those ropes and other things couldn't even get close to him.
And now, as Kenji's Conqueror's Haki, which had evolved to the God's Domain, truly erupted, the constantly stirring ropes instantly quieted, as if suddenly losing their vitality, and a large number of ropes dropped onto the deck.
The deck, which had originally been activated by the warship Homies and was wildly bouncing, immediately ceased its movements upon the arrival of the Conqueror's Haki.
The Haki surged forward, and everything on the warship retreated.
Everything affected by the Haki fell into a death-like silence—they were, after all, inanimate objects.
From the scene, it seemed that the warship Homies, created by Charlotte using soul shards, were being suppressed by Kenji's Conqueror's Haki.
After all, the Conqueror's Haki Kenji was releasing at this moment indeed looked incredibly astonishing.
Streaks of dark-red light had materialized, capable of causing substantial physical damage.
And the powerful might, accompanied by the Conqueror's Haki, spread out, and soon, the warship beneath Kenji's feet returned to normal.
Because the warship had been transformed into a Homie, the eyes, mouths, and other organs that had suddenly appeared on the deck all vanished, as if they had fallen into a deep sleep.
"What's going on?"
As a Soul-Soul Fruit user, Charlotte keenly sensed the energy changes in the field.
"Impossible! My Homies, created with my own hands... could they be destroyed by him?!"
At this moment, from Charlotte's perspective, she could clearly see soul shards emerging from the warship's hull.
Without the support of soul shards, the warship Homies naturally could no longer possess 'living' characteristics and reverted to inanimate objects.
"He's using Conqueror's Haki to force back the soul shards I infused into the warship."
"This method... even Roger couldn't do it."
"How did he do it?!"
Just as Charlotte was shocked, the God's Domain Conqueror's Haki forcibly suppressed the other two warship Homies and scattered the soul shards within them.
The eyes of the two warship Homies gradually closed, and they also reverted to an inanimate state.
"That's more like it, a warship should look like a warship." Kenji glanced at the three warships in the field and nodded with satisfaction.
"Wouldn't it be better to just be a warship?"
Although Kenji used Conqueror's Haki to forcefully expel the soul shards from the warship Homies, the power of the God's Domain Conqueror's Haki, no matter how carefully used, inevitably left traces.
The hulls of the three warships all showed varying degrees of damage.
The main ship, where Kenji was located, suffered the most severe damage.
There was no way around it. After all, the source of the Conqueror's Haki was there.
Even though Kenji tried to control it, more than half of the hull cracked, and standing on the deck, one could hear the sound of water leaking from the holes in the cabin below.
"Fighting at sea is troublesome."
"Stepping on an ant without crushing it is indeed very difficult."
"I must resolve this quickly..."
He continued to release his Conqueror's Haki, sweeping a circle of dark-red light, and after dealing with the three warship Homies, they all, by unspoken agreement, charged towards Charlotte from three directions.
"It won't end like this!" Charlotte waved her hand, signaling the three special Homies around her body.
In reality, these three Homies had been with her the longest and were already connected by thought.
When Charlotte raised her hand, even without speaking, the three Homies knew what she wanted to do.
The next moment, Zeus, Prometheus, and the most important main body, the bicorne hat Napoleon, converged, preparing to combine to form the strongest Homie weapon.
Zeus and Prometheus flew halfway into the air and, before they could descend, were enveloped by the surging Conqueror's Haki light.
Immediately after—
"Mama! Mama!" Zeus and Prometheus cried out, like children in danger.
"Save me, Ma..."
Their cries for help only half-escaped before their voices completely vanished.
The two Homies, originally full of vitality and astonishing power, rapidly withered and lost their activity under the impact of the Divine Conqueror's Haki.
Soon, Zeus reverted to an ordinary dark cloud, and Prometheus transformed into a fiercely burning ball of flame.
"Damn it, even they..."
In Charlotte's shocked and enraged gaze, she clearly saw two streams of soul shards flying towards her.
These two Homies were created using Charlotte's own soul. That's why their power was so immense.
"Bastard! How can I let you suppress them so easily..." Charlotte roared in anger.
At this moment, she only had the bicorne hat Napoleon, which had transformed into a sharp sword, left in her hand.
And the materialized Conqueror's Haki released by Kenji had already surged close.
Facing the profound Conqueror's Haki that she couldn't see through, Charlotte's inner ferocity and potential were fully ignited.
Her eyes widened in fury, and she gripped the sword with both hands, forcefully unleashing a critical strike, while the Sea Current Homies above her head cooperated by crashing down.