"What... exactly happened here?"
Looking at the shattered ground, the massive crater spanning a kilometer, and the brigadier generals and rear admirals who were clearly beyond saving, Sakazuki's face darkened terribly as he descended in the form of a magma projectile.
"Cough... cough cough..."
Amid the ruins, a Marine vice admiral was still buried beneath the rubble, too weak to do anything but cough up blood.
Sakazuki hurriedly cleared away several piles of stones. To his shock, the person lying beneath them was none other than Kuzan, who had been the first to land on the island!
The horrifying amount of blood loss and his utterly pale face... were enough to show just how severe the injuries he had suffered earlier were!
Several kilometers away, Austin, whose strike had landed true, appeared beside Mihawk.
"Has your strength already reached the point where you can instantly defeat a Marine Vice Admiral?"
Mihawk's hawk-like eyes had long since spotted the badly injured Kuzan lying on the ground. Something felt off to him.
After all, he had faced that move before. Its power was indeed absurdly great, and someone at the vice admiral level could very well be seriously injured by it.
But being knocked unconscious by a single punch was a bit excessive.
Hearing Little Hawk's question, Austin revealed a helpless smile.
"Once you reach the threshold of a Marine Admiral, how could there possibly be a one-hit kill? I'm not Captain Roger...
"The real reason Kuzan took the full force of it was because he refused to back down."
Austin had clearly sensed it earlier. Although Future Sight had shown him Kuzan's evasion path,
in that future, Garp's prized disciple had shown no intention of dodging at all. Instead, he had stood straight and prepared to trade punches with Austin as