"Everyone... was giving everything they had to overcome this desperate situation."
A flash of realization crossed Sanji's mind.
The World Government had come prepared this time. This was a war where only one side could survive.
Since Luffy and Zoro had already thrown everything aside and started fighting for their lives, how could he, one of the Straw Hat Pirates' "main forces," let some mere government lapdog hold him back here?
He had to use the fastest speed and the cruelest means to completely finish off the enemy before him, then go support his companions!
With that thought—
Sanji slowly raised two fingers and pinched the cigarette he had only taken one drag from. Then, expressionless, he tossed it to the ground and ruthlessly ground it beneath his gleaming dress shoe.
"Bzzzt!!!"
At the extremely brief instant the cigarette ember went out—
Sanji's eyes changed.
Those blue eyes, once always carrying a trace of laziness and gentleness, lost all emotional color in an instant. They became like the deepest ancient ice upon the far northern ice field, radiating an absolute coldness that seemed capable of freezing one's very soul!
Along with that abrupt transformation in his gaze, a terrifying aura that defied all common sense erupted from beneath Sanji's seemingly slender white suit!
He did not grow larger like Luffy, nor did he erupt with towering bloodlust like Zoro. His body remained lean and upright, yet an "Limit Mutation" born from the depths of his genes, combining Thunder True Qi and Armament Haki, was frantically taking shape within him!
"Crackle! Crackle! Crack!!"
Blinding dark red lightning exploded around Sanji out of nowhere!
Under the pressure of that earth-shattering aura, the surrounding environment underwent a hair-raising transformation.
With Sanji at its center, the scattered remnants of buildings within a radius of