Chapter 175: The Most Difficult Battle (The End) An Unexpected Headbutt!
The Golden Lion swung the two longswords fixed to his severed legs and suddenly yanked them free!
Roy's hands were already drenched in blood, but at this critical moment, he forced himself to endure the stabbing pain and reached out again, grabbing Shiki's twin blades.
"Shanks, Gion!"
Shanks and Gion understood instantly. Shiki's thick golden hair was wrapped in Armament Haki, binding their weapons tightly. With no time to waste, one threw a punch and the other kicked, both aiming straight for the Golden Lion's head!
Since this was Shiki at his peak, there was no point talking about fairness.
The gap in strength was enormous. This fight was unfair by nature.
So they targeted his head, striking back with the same kind of ruthlessness.
If he took a clean hit there, the old injury in his skull would get even worse!
Buzz!
At that crucial instant, deep in the darkness beneath the clouds, one giant lion after another, formed from mountains, burst out from the floating island. Roaring wildly, they charged toward everyone except the Golden Lion.
"Jihahahaha… you foolish brats. I am the Golden Lion! So what if there are three of you?"
"When I was in my prime, the only opponents I faced were monsters like Whitebeard and Big Mom!"
"You arrogant brats… die!"
Facing Roy, Shanks, and Gion's combined assault, Shiki laughed like a demon. At the same time, he increased the force in his legs and violently swung Roy around by the swords Roy was gripping.
In that moment, the three of them were being dragged and battered by the fully awakened Golden Lion, like three wolf cubs being hauled across a vast grassland at dusk.
"Golden Lion!!!"
"You… you old lion who's fallen behind the times!"
Roy roared. His hands were being shredded by Oto and Kogarashi as Shiki twisted and tore at him. Roy suddenly released both swords and used the momentum in the air to flip his body over.
Lower body up, upper body down.
His head lined up with the Golden Lion's head at point blank range, almost touching.
The next instant, Roy slammed his forehead forward with everything he had and smashed it straight into Shiki's skull!
Buzz!
For an instant, the whole world seemed to go silent.
The starry sky, the drifting clouds, even the wind felt like it froze.
A traditional move.
A headbutt.
Roy and the Golden Lion both suffered concussions of different severity.
Roy hit far too hard because he did it on purpose.
He still had not awakened Armament Haki, but in that most desperate moment, he suddenly felt something strange.
Roy felt that, just now, there had been Armament Haki on his forehead.
It was real.
Even though he had not fully mastered Hancock's Armament Haki talent, he somehow managed to grasp the usage for a brief moment in the worst possible situation.
It was bizarre. He could sense Armament Haki hidden in his own body.
But…
That lucky moment was only a flash. The strength was nowhere near Shiki's.
So right now, Roy was basically hurting himself a thousand times just to injure the enemy eight hundred.
Roy's vision spun. Blood streamed down his forehead. His Moonwalk failed, and he lost consciousness, dropping straight down.
Gion shot out a hand, caught him, and pulled him into her arms. Hugging Roy tightly, she began using Moonwalk to keep him from falling.
On the other side, even though Shiki's Armament Haki was terrifying, his condition was now even worse.
Shanks stared, completely stunned by Roy.
You can do that?!
Shiki lost consciousness even faster than Roy.
The moment Roy's headbutt landed, Shiki let out a scream that tore through the sky, so sharp it made the air feel like it split.
This was bad.
Everyone knew Shiki the Golden Lion had a broken ship's wheel embedded in the back of his head.
Armament Haki could block the strike, but it could not erase the shock from that violent impact.
It was like the protective suits Roy had seen in his past life.
Even if the suit itself could survive an explosion, the shockwave could still kill the person inside.
Shiki did not take that kind of shock, but Roy's sudden movement was enough to make the ship's wheel in Shiki's head twist and churn violently.
A battered, filthy wheel, stained with red and yellow fluids, suddenly flew out from the back of Shiki's skull.
In the next moment, Shiki's eyes rolled back, and he instantly passed out, falling straight down.
As the saying goes, if you are wounded by an arrow and you do not understand the injury, do not touch it.
If someone ignorant tries to pull it out, they can easily make things worse.
Shiki's head was the same principle.
The ship's wheel was not a key. You could not just shove it in and yank it out whenever you felt like it.
That could kill him.
"Golden Lion… he's going to die in such an absurd way?" Shanks stared at Shiki plummeting downward in disbelief.
At the same time, his Observation Haki told him Shiki's aura was weakening fast.
It looked like Shiki was on the verge of death.
To be honest, the vitality of people in the One Piece world was ridiculous.
There was Whitebeard, who stayed standing with a hole in his chest.
And now there was Shiki, who had survived for years with a wheel jammed into his head.
Could Shiki survive Roy's brutal headbutt?
Roy had headbutted the wheel right out.
Maybe it was not the most famous headbutt in pirate history, but the impact was absolutely among the top.
"Cough…"
Roy woke sluggishly in Gion's arms. His head throbbed, and his mind was still foggy.
"Quick… save them!"
He only managed to say that one sentence before his eyes rolled back again. He fainted once more, his head tilting and falling against Gion.
Roy had iron like defense, but Shiki's Armament Haki had been sharpened for decades. As a former top tier monster, Shiki's Haki was not something Roy could shake head on.
Roy's physical wounds were not the worst part.
The real damage was the violent shock to his head.
After all, force always rebounds.
Buzz buzz buzz!
High above, one floating island after another began to tremble. The ground shook nonstop. Without the Golden Lion's control, the islands started dropping, one after another, falling rapidly toward the sea below!
Gion's expression changed. She sheathed her sword, shifted Roy up, and lifted him into a princess carry.
With Roy held tightly in her arms, she pushed Moonwalk harder, racing toward the island where the Kingdom of Goa lay.
A huge number of people were still gathered there, and Gion had to save them.
The floating islands, now out of Shiki's control, were about to smash into the ocean. From this height, if they all plunged down at once…
It would become a terrifying disaster.
The only plan was to save as many as possible.
"Damn it… how many people are going to die?!" Gion's face was grim. Wind screamed past her ears, and in the distance, island after island fell out of control.
Natural disasters were always the most horrifying.
The fallout of the Float Float Fruit going wild was just as terrifying as a real catastrophe.
"It's too late. What do we do, what do we do…?"
Gion gritted her teeth, roaring in frustration. She could not bear to watch those islands fall and countless lives be crushed.
After all…
She was a Marine.
"Roy, wake up! I need you to help me save more people!"
She hurried forward, glancing down at the unconscious Roy.
When she saw the blood on his head, a chill ran through her.
Was he really as cold and indifferent toward innocent people as he always claimed?
Otherwise, why would anyone risk their life to smash their head into the Golden Lion and force a lose lose ending?
Shanks followed behind, rushing toward Goa as well. Even if he was a pirate, Foosha Village had shared drinks with him.
And he wanted to save them.
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