Hearing Redfield's voice, Jinbei didn't hesitate, swiftly turning around in the water.
Sure enough, several more slashes were flying directly towards them along the water currents.
Because the attacks were spotted early this time, Jinbei didn't need to use his body as a shield for the Gale Breaker again.
"Really, no end to this. Fish-Man Karate Secret Art-"
Knowing the power of those slashes, Jinbei didn't plan to block them head-on again. He curved his palm slightly, rapidly condensing a sphere of heavier, denser water in its center.
"—Urakugeri!!!"
With Jinbei's roar, the heavy water sphere instantly shot forward like a laser.
The essence of this attack was the application of water currents in Fish-Man Karate. With Jinbei's strength, a fully charged water current could pierce through a mountain weighing thousands of tons in a single strike.
In the deep sea, the heavy water current pushed aside the surrounding seawater, striking the incoming slashes directly.
After a brief moment of resistance, the Urakugeri pierced through one of the slashes and continued unabated towards another.
This wasn't because the gap between Jinbei's strength and the person launching the slashes was that large.
In reality, Fish-men possess innate physical strength ten times greater than humans of the same size. On land, they can only exert 60-70% of their power, and only in water can they utilize 100% of their body's strength.
Furthermore, Fish-Man Karate attacks were also created in the ocean. Its power not only doesn't diminish in seawater but is even further enhanced.
In contrast, attacks launched by others, whether slashes, bullets, or cannonballs, are immediately slowed down upon encountering seawater.
With one side weakened and the other strengthened, it's not so strange that Jinbei's attack could neutralize the opponent's.
The high-pressure heavy water created by the Urakugeri destroyed two slashes. Finally, when facing the last slash, it held out for a moment before being cleaved apart by the opponent.
However, after being impacted by the Urakugeri, that slash's trajectory was thrown completely off course.
"Good, just like that."
Seeing the enemy's attacks neutralized by him, a smile appeared on Jinbei's face.
After all, currently, he was probably the only one on this ship who could fight freely in the deep sea unaffected.
'Let's just pass through the Gates of Justice directly!'
With his fish-man eyesight, he could clearly see the already opened Gates of Justice in the distance through the seawater.
On the Gale Breaker, everyone also breathed a sigh of relief.
Even Bullet or Byrnndi World didn't want to die ignominiously in the deep sea.
However, the expressions on Naruto and Redfield's faces remained serious.
"Not over yet."
"Another attack is coming!"
Their voices sounded almost simultaneously. And at that very moment, the people on the surface, realizing their slashes seemed unable to stop the other side, simply adopted a different method of attack.
Countless dense 'lines' rapidly shot into the water.
Jinbei initially wanted to repeat his tactic and use an impact to repel those lines.
But when his attack shot out, the heavy water current actually 'turned a corner' in another direction the moment before reaching them.
"This is... what's going on?"
Jinbei, encountering this situation for the first time, was very puzzled, but he still decisively positioned himself in the path of the incoming lines, attempting to block them with his body.
Below, Naruto, piloting the ship, found this thing somewhat familiar.
When the attack got closer, everyone could finally see the true form of those 'lines'.
They were one after another infinitely extending 'arrows'. The material of those arrows looked somewhat like cloth, but when Jinbei actually touched them, he felt a hardness similar to steel.
"Haa! Fish-Man Karate: Karakusagaeri Seiken!"
Jinbei sank his stance, adopting a horse stance, and threw a punch upwards with one hand.
Immediately, an impact was generated in a full 360-degree direction.
But those arrows seemed to have a mind of their own. Whenever they entered the range of the shockwave, they quickly turned around, spun to the side, and then continued charging towards the Gale Breaker below.
Judging by their behavior, their goal was clearly to puncture the resin bubble.
Seeing this, everyone on the ship felt deeply uneasy.
The Gale Breaker was currently at a depth of about six thousand meters. If the bubble ruptured now, all the Devil Fruit Users, including powerful individuals like Bullet, would rapidly lose strength.
Even disregarding the effects of water pressure, their lives would be in jeopardy.
Seeing this, Jinbei decisively swam over quickly, attempting to grab the arrows with his bare hands.
But when he made contact with an arrow, he found his body uncontrollably shifting in the direction the arrow pointed.
'It was a Devil Fruit's Ability.'
"Karin, you take over piloting the Gale Breaker to surface."
Seeing this, Naruto also knew that trying to leave Impel Down directly from the deep sea was no longer realistic, so he decisively decided to surface.
Even if they had to face the original guards of Impel Down after surfacing, it didn't matter.
Hearing this, Karin promptly took over. Then Naruto first applied a resin bubble to himself and leaped up.
"This ability..."
He remembered now. It was one of the Celestial Dragons he had dealt with on Mary Geoise.
'It was that guy who controlled arrow attacks.'
'So it seemed the opponent's arrows also had the effect of deflecting attacks.'
Recalling how the water current Jinbei launched was affected by the other party, Naruto had a rough idea.
"In that case, how about this?"
Naruto extended his hand outside the bubble, as this level of water exposure wasn't enough to affect him.
"Whirl Release: Boundary Storm."
The next moment, surging Chakra arranged itself in a different pattern within Naruto's body, and a small, deep blue 'vortex' appeared in front of his palm.
The vortex's area of influence didn't seem large. After leaving Naruto's palm, it slowly drifted upwards, appearing to have no lethality at all. Gunko, who was controlling the arrows, also sensed this.
Adopting a cautious attitude, she still manipulated the arrows to avoid the vortex.
After all, the memory of being suppressed by Naruto last time was still vivid.
But even though the arrows were clearly moving in another direction, the distance between them and the vortex didn't seem to increase at all.
And at that moment, the vortex revealed its true nature.
Like some deep-sea creature opening its maw, a tremendous attractive force suddenly generated above the vortex, sucking all hundred-plus arrows towards its center.
The few arrows that were closer, once caught by the vortex, seemed to enter another space, being constantly pulled and stretched.
On the sea surface, Gunko clearly felt that those arrows still hadn't touched anything, yet their length continued to extend.
These arrows weren't infinite, and creating them consumed Gunko's stamina.
As the blue vortex expanded, more and more arrows were sucked into it en masse. Below the vortex, however, no trace of the arrows could be seen.
It was as if there was a gate to another world at the vortex's center.
And at this moment, Naruto's figure had unnoticeably appeared between the vortex and the arrows.
"Not good, sever the arrows!"
Shamrock reacted immediately, but Gunko seemed not yet aware of what was about to happen.
"Come down here!"
Naruto waved his hand grandly, grabbing the entire rear 'body' of the arrows, then exerted force downward violently.
Gunko immediately felt the pull, her entire body instantly losing balance.
Fortunately, Shamrock acted quickly, severing the arrows with a single sword stroke, thus preventing Gunko from falling into the seawater.
"Still very troublesome, Uzumaki Naruto."
On the other side, looking at the arrows that turned into ordinary ribbons after losing their master's control, Naruto wasn't discouraged. He signaled Karin and the others to continue surfacing.
'Given the current situation, fighting in the sea was still too disadvantageous for them.'
'In that case, let's charge through head-on!'