The Abandoned Order to Capture Him Alive, and the Golden Emperor's Last Stand!

Ryokugyu's vines regenerated endlessly, while their corrosive acid destroyed the golden giant's structure.

This once-unrivaled golden Demon God was like a colossal golden beetle tightly ensnared by a corrosive spiderweb. Bound so tightly that it could not move, it could only let out desperate metallic wails as the deadly poison eroded it.

"Well, well... what a dreadful sight. But Old Man doesn't have the patience to watch you struggle there any longer..."

Just as Tesoro strained with all his might to tear apart the vines, that lazy voice, like the grim reaper's, rang out again from high above.

Admiral Kizaru, Borsalino, hovered directly above the golden giant like a blazing sun.

He held his hands loosely before him as countless dazzling golden photons compressed and gathered between his palms at a frantic geometric rate.

"Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi!"

Accompanied by a piercing high-frequency energy hum, a blazing Light Sword several meters long formed in Kizaru's hands, composed entirely of photons and so intense that even the light rays around it were distorted!

There was not the slightest mercy in Kizaru's eyes, only the coldness of one carrying out Justice.

Gripping the hilt with both hands, he transformed into a straight golden meteor, carrying a terrifying sharpness capable of splitting the void in two, and swung fiercely down at the bound golden giant below!

"Slash!!!"

A crescent-shaped sword light, too brilliant for words to describe, cleaved silently through the green Poison Cloud filling the air like Divine Punishment that split heaven and earth!

"Crack... crack!!!"

There was no violent explosion, only the scalp-crawling sound of a smooth cut.

Kizaru's sword struck precisely down the center of the golden giant's massive head and tore downward with unstoppable force, smoothly slicing the hundred-meter-tall golden Demon God's head, along with nearly half its chest cavity, cleanly in