Golden Lion's move had caught even Sengoku and Garp off guard. Otherwise, Doflamingo would not have suffered such severe injuries.
Of course, Golden Lion's kicking techniques could only be used for surprise attacks. What he truly excelled at was swordsmanship and his Devil Fruit ability. Only when he caught his opponents off guard could his kicks prove effective.
After taking a sword strike from Doflamingo, Golden Lion's disadvantage became even more apparent. He held out for another half hour before being completely beaten down.
However, even Akainu, who was the most bloodthirsty of them all, did not finish Golden Lion off in the end—there was no helping it. The Float-Float Fruit's power was simply too terrifying. No one in the Navy wanted it to reappear on the seas.
The most outrageous thing about the Float-Float Fruit was that it did not actually demand much strength from its user.
An ordinary person who ate the Float-Float Fruit might not be able to unleash a terrifying technique like Shishi Wei, Chigire, but they could easily float a small island into the sky and smash it back down!
Honestly, Golden Lion's personality was not particularly suited to the Float-Float Fruit. He was too domineering and too fond of fighting head-on.
If it fell into the hands of some shameless, sneaky old schemer, who dropped an island a day, then whether you were the Navy or the World Government, neither would be able to endure it for long.
Anyway, among everyone who had appeared in the manga so far—not just the Navy, even counting the pirates—no one had any answer to that move.
Kaido, relying on the Azure Dragon Fruit, could lift an island and fly it a few hundred meters into the air, which was already considered shocking. But compared to Golden Lion