Bankai: Zanka no Tachi

In the midst of the battlefield, the state of Akainu could be described as exceptionally battered. His body was covered in dense, countless slash wounds and burns!

The Marine soldiers who had been drawn over by this battle were all dumbfounded.

What in the world were they seeing?!

A dignified Marine Admiral actually falling into a disadvantageous position while fighting a mere brats?

Who would dare believe such a thing if it were spoken aloud?

Anyone with discerning eyes could tell that Akainu could not defeat Haku. Right from the start, he had already been suppressed and beaten by his opponent. Although he possessed the power to retaliate, he could not injure Haku in the slightest!

And having fought for so long, Akainu obviously reacted and understood this point.

However, he was unwilling to admit defeat just like that! Moreover, he always maintained that Haku was a potential threat.

Of course, the reason he thought this way was precisely because of the fact that Garp's son, Monkey D. Dragon, had defected from the Marines to become the world's most heinous criminal!

Now came the appearance of Haku, and he was even Garp's so-called grandson! This forced him to harbor the utmost vigilance toward Haku.

A crazy thought kept bubbling up from the depths of his mind.

His expression turned fierce as thick magma continuously poured out from both sides of his body!

Watching Akainu take on this appearance, Haku's expression shifted slightly. Even though so much time had passed since he came to this world, he remembered Akainu's most famous moves crystal clear!

Haku instantly tensed his body and said to Akainu, "Hey, hey, hey! You aren't kidding around, are you? Behind me is the headquarters, did you even consider the consequences of using that move? Behind me is the headquarters!"

Akainu let out a sneer and said, "What? Are you scared?"

"What the hell? With a mad dog like you around, this old man has never been scared!" Haku said in an exceptionally arrogant tone.

Then, Haku spoke in an extremely low voice that only the two people on the battlefield could hear, "And the reason you want so desperately to stop me from becoming a Marine Admiral is because you're afraid I'll eventually defect from the Marines just like Dragon, right!"

Actually, Haku himself was not stupid; he was just too lazy to use his brain. Ever since Akainu began targeting him, Haku had already guessed Akainu's objective!

However, Haku failed to realize that he possessed an extremely foul-mouthed habit!

Whether Baiyuan's words somehow provoked Akainu, he roared furiously, "You're courting death! Meteor Volcano!"

Countless blobs of magma rapidly flew toward Haku like cannonballs!

(Cough) "Holy shit! You're playing for keeps!"

Faced with this kind of large-scale attack, Haku also began to feel a headache coming on. Even so, his body still made the necessary movements!

The flames on Haku's body and surrounding him quickly contracted into the Ryujin Jakka in his hand as he spoke, "Bankai: Zanka no Tachi!"

In an instant, the Ryujin Jakka in Haku's hand looked like a tachi scorched completely black by flames, a wisp of charred smoke rising from the blade!

Watching this scene unfold before him, Garp shouted loudly, "Oh no! Sengoku, Kuzan, hurry and save that brat Sakazuki!"

With that, Garp charged into the battlefield first. To prevent himself from being burned by Haku's flames, Garp simultaneously wrapped his entire body in thick Armament Haki!

Hearing what Garp had said, Sengoku and Aokiji also charged toward the battlefield one after the other! Their original intention had been to go and block the numerous magma projectiles launched by Akainu to prevent Marine Headquarters from genuinely being destroyed.

Now that they heard Garp's extremely urgent words, they figured that things could not be simple with Garp saying such a thing. Thus, they changed their target and approached Akainu's side!

Haku's gaze toward Akainu turned somewhat chilling, mainly because his opponent's way of thinking was truly a bit extreme.

Haku guessed that Akainu had simply defaulted his final words from a moment ago to mean that he would definitely defect from the Marines in the future.

With that absolute justice of his that could not tolerate a speck of evil, he truly possessed killing intent and wanted to nip me in the bud right here!

"Let's hope you can endure the upcoming attack!" Having said this, Haku turned slightly sideways, held the Ryujin Jakka horizontally across his chest, and rapidly unleashed an ultra-long-range, high-speed slash.

"Zanka no Tachi, North: Heavenly Ash!"

Any magma that came into contact with this slash instantly turned to flying ash!

Faced with this slash, a sense of death welled up inside Akainu's heart! He performed elementalization on his entire body in a desperate bid to evade this damage.

However, Haku ultimately showed mercy; the Heavenly Ash swung by Haku this time around would at most wear away half of the elementalized Akainu!

The price to pay for this was that Akainu would be weakened for at least the next few months.

It was just that the visual effect of this move unleashed by Haku was truly a bit shocking, leading everyone to believe that Akainu would fall because of this technique.

"Utter nonsense!" A stern shout came from the rear of the headquarters, and an elderly man with a sturdy build, tawny skin, and white hair and beard shaped like the character for 'mountain' suddenly appeared right in front of Akainu.

Faced with Haku's weakened version of Heavenly Ash, the other party easily caught it using only a pair of bare hands!

Haku's mouth dropped open in a dumbfounded stare at the person opposite him. In particular, the opponent's exaggerated muscles and the stitched scar below his left eye.

Fleet Admiral Steel Bone Kong!!!

Haku ranted crazily in his heart: Shouldn't this old man be working over at the World Government? Why is he showing up in Marineford?

However, what greeted Kyle next was the Armament Haki-infused fist belonging to Garp.

Haku's attention was entirely focused on Kong, and the end result was that he was hammered straight into the ground by a completely unannounced punch from Garp's head.

"Holy shit! What's going on?"

"Was Admiral Sakazuki almost killed just a moment ago?"

"How, how could that be? The guy opposite him is only a young marine, at most he should only be able to inflict some injuries on Admiral Sakazuki!"

"What the fuck, just what kind of background does that youngster have!"

"According to what the people on the warship that just entered the port said, that guy seems to be Vice Admiral Garp's grandson!"

"Hiss! Could the one who blocked the young marine's strike be the Fleet Admiral?"

By the time matters had progressed to this point, the outcome had already exceeded everyone's expectations.

This caused the marines watching this battle near the plaza to buzz with discussions.

They found it hard to believe. The top combat power of the Marines had actually fallen into a disadvantageous position?

No, should they say that this young marine had utterly thrashed Admiral Sakazuki instead?!

Steel Bone Kong stared fixedly at the rushing Garp and Sengoku, demanding, "What is going on with these two brats? Are they trying to tear Marine Headquarters apart?"

With that, Kong's cold gaze stared intently at the two of them!

In the end, it was Sengoku who lowered his head and spoke, "I am truly sorry, I didn't expect the battle between these two to actually alarm you."

At that moment, Haku abruptly stuck his head out from the plaza floor, shouting angrily at Garp, "Old man! Do you know how painful it is to hit someone like that!"

Just then, Garp suddenly grabbed Haku by the back of the neck and delivered yet another punch to Haku's head.