"Decisive as ever..."
With a single slash, Rayleigh cut down a newly arrived Marine. Smiling, he watched the captains who had lost all will to fight and made no move to stop them.
After all, their main target was not these captains, scattered like a disorganized mob, but Rocks, who dreamed of becoming the World King!!!
"But Austin seems to have gone mad. It looks like he wants to fight everyone by himself!!!"
Gaban came to his side. Seeing Austin standing amid the strongest figures on the battlefield, sweat broke out on his forehead as well. He could not understand what Austin intended to do.
But what the two of them did know was that both Roger and Austin seemed utterly serious. So they did not ask further questions. Instead, they turned their blades toward the remaining Marines and the Divine Knights who had regained some clarity.
"Hey, hey, hey!!!"
"That battlefield isn't somewhere you can meddle in!!!"
Conqueror's Haki wrapped around their blades as Rayleigh and Gaban stood shoulder to shoulder, like an impenetrable wall that no one could cross.
The Marines wore ugly expressions. At their forefront stood an officer-like Marine in a cape. Looking at the two familiar figures, beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down from the tip of his nose.
"They're Great Pirate Roger's right-hand men..."
"Dark King Silvers Rayleigh!!"
"Mountain Eater Scopper Gaban!!"
Facing monsters like these, he knew perfectly well that he and his men were no match for them. But military orders were absolute, and he could not refuse.
He raised his saber. Just as he was about to order the Marine soldiers to charge alongside him, a voice appeared between them and Rayleigh and Gaban.
"That's far enough."
Bzzzz—
A strange magic circle abruptly unfolded across the fractured ground,