"Boom boom boom boom boom!!!"
Deafening chain explosions erupted across the ruins of Gold City!
Every Rankyaku slash that struck the ground carved out a bottomless deep pit.
Terrifying Shockwaves mixed with flying rubble and dense gunpowder smoke, forming a rising mushroom cloud that completely swallowed the area.
The trembling of the earth gradually began to calm down. A breeze swept past, stirring up dust that filled the sky.
The Swordsman Vice Admiral wielding a long blade, the Vice Admiral who used the Finger Gun Physical Technique, and the Vice Admiral who had descended from the sky using Rankyaku stood in a triangular formation, their eyes fixed on the enormous deep pit nearby that was still billowing thick smoke.
The atmosphere was strangely oppressive.
"Be careful!"
The Vice Admiral holding the long blade gripped its hilt with both hands, the Armament Haki on its edge showing no sign of fading.
His sharp eyes remained locked on the smoke, a bead of cold sweat seeping down his forehead.
"That woman who killed Doberman in one hit isn't going to be taken down that easily!"
"Although our combined Clutch suppressed and struck her hard just now, on this Great Sea, we can't afford even one second of carelessness against a pirate of her level!"
"Understood."
The other two Vice Admirals responded in unison, their muscles taut as they prepared to deal with a possible thunder counterattack shooting out from the smoke and dust.
A sea breeze swept through, and the gunpowder smoke that blotted out the sky finally began to slowly disperse.
At the bottom of the deep pit, a slender figure gradually emerged.
The moment they saw that figure clearly, all three Vice Admirals' pupils contracted.
Nami had not fallen.
But at that moment, she looked rather... miserable.
The deep-red, high-slit