"Get... on Your Knees!"

High in the air, Kizaru watched his completely bound prey and slowly spread his hands before his chest.

Countless dazzling golden photons rapidly compressed and gathered between his palms. Amid a high-frequency energy hum, a pure sword of light several meters long, radiating brilliant golden light, condensed in Kizaru's hands.

Admiral's ultimate technique—Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi!

Kizaru gripped the hilt of the Light Sword with both hands, hanging upside down beneath the vault of heaven. At last, a trace of cold cruelty showed in his eyes.

"The game of cat and mouse ends here.

Gild Tesoro, let this sword sever your ambitions and that enormous shell of yours once and for all!"

Before his words had faded, Kizaru transformed into a straight golden meteor. Wielding the massive Light Sword, he descended from High Above the Nine Heavens, slashing fiercely at the golden giant's crown of the head!

On the ruins behind them, the Straw Hat Pirates, who were confronting the Five Elders and the Commander-in-Chief, took in the entire scene.

"Not good!"

Luffy clenched his fists and roared, "Gild Tesoro can't hold on any longer!!"

At that critical instant, when Kizaru's Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi was less than fifty meters from the golden giant's top of the head!

"Boom!!!"

A strange, muffled sound exploded without warning across the skies above the entire Gold City!

Time, space, even the wind—all froze in that instant.

Then, a terrifying Conqueror's Haki erupted from Ronan at the center and shot straight into the nine heavens!!!

If the Conqueror's Haki of the Five Elders' warrior god of Justice, Saint Topman Warcury, had been a primordial beast charging wildly about;

Then the Conqueror's Haki Ronan released now was a cold emperor seated above the ninth heaven, looking down upon all living beings!

"Crackle! Rumble!!!"

The vault of heaven abruptly turned dark red,