Soaring freely through the sky, the breeze brushing against his face, Phantom felt utterly at ease:
"Finally."
"I finally escaped that monster's grasp."
After their brief clash, Phantom had completely reclassified Garen from a powerful human into an unbeatable monster.
Then, Phantom suddenly felt a pang of heartache:
"What a waste, my Golden Lion."
This battle had earned him nothing but his life. He had also sacrificed a large number of powerful shadows he had painstakingly collected, along with the one-of-a-kind mechanical Zombie Golden Lion.
Just as Phantom mourned the loss of his secret weapon, Golden Lion, it seemed heaven had heard his thoughts.
The Golden Lion he wanted had arrived:
"You bastard!"
"Stop right there!"
Golden Lion's thunderous roar rang out from the sea of clouds, the terrifying sonic waves blanketing the entire sky.
The surging Conqueror's Haki knocked a flock of innocent seabirds flying in the distance unconscious, sending them tumbling down with their eyes rolled back. It also stunned every fish in the sea, and they floated belly-up to the surface in an instant.
Within that tide of Haki, a ghost with two blazing clusters of ghostfire in his eyes descended from the heavens.
"G-Golden Lion?"
Phantom froze in place and asked in utter disbelief:
"W-Why are you here?"
The moment the words left his mouth, Phantom suddenly realized the question no longer mattered.
Because Ghost Golden Lion's gaze was fixed firmly upon the mechanical Zombie Golden Lion aboard the warship.
And that gaze quickly shifted from irrepressible fury into an intense, scorching, bone-chilling killing intent.
Clearly, Golden Lion had come to kill.
No matter what conspiracy or reason lay behind this, Phantom would not escape Golden Lion's blades this time.
"Y-You people..."
Ghost Golden Lion's expression twisted into something savage and terrifying in his rage, like