Ryokugyu's Fury, and the Deadly Encirclement of Twenty Headquarters Vice Admirals!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Hundreds of vines that had lost their target slammed viciously into one another, erupting with deafening booms and grinding that stretch of ruins into powder.

"What?!"

Ryokugyu abruptly raised his head, his face filled with incredulous horror.

"Over here, idiot."

A cold voice drifted down lightly from several hundred meters overhead.

Ryokugyu looked up in shock and saw that Sanji had somehow floated beneath the vault of heaven as casually as if taking a stroll. Gild Tesoro, whom Sanji had been carrying, had already vanished without a trace—clearly, in that fleeting instant, Sanji had hidden him in some dead corner of the ruins with unimaginable speed!

"S-So fast!!!"

A bead of cold sweat silently slid down Ryokugyu's temple.

His Observation Haki might not have reached Fujitora's towering level, but it was still unquestionably top-tier, far surpassing that of ordinary Navy Vice Admirals.

Moreover, more than half of Gold City was currently covered by his vegetation and roots. Those plants were like the endings of his nerves, granting his detection an utterly terrifying range.

Yet just now, he had failed to catch Sanji's trajectory entirely!

Even his citywide "plant sensory network" had given no warning whatsoever of where Sanji had hidden Gild Tesoro along the way!

A long-forgotten sense of powerlessness and irritation instantly surged into Ryokugyu's heart.

As the user of the Logia-type Woods-Woods Fruit, he most enjoyed opponents who were huge and liked to meet force with force, such as Gild Tesoro's golden giant.

That was because the core of his ability lay in "endless endurance," "large-scale battlefield suppression," and "clutching restraints."

But the opponents he hated most, and found most troublesome, were precisely those like the man before him, who had pushed "agility" and "explosive power" to the absolute limit!

If his opponent was so