The enormous Navy warship was bitten cleanly in half from the middle. Its front and rear sections were flung into the air before crashing down toward the sea.
The Marines aboard all underwent a drastic change in expression.
What had happened?
Before they could figure out what was going on, the intense sensation of weightlessness had already swallowed them.
"What is this?!"
But not everyone had descended into chaos. At the very least, the fleet's supreme commander, Admiral Akainu, shifted his attention to the attacker immediately after his brief shock.
A long dragon covered in crimson scales rose from beneath the sea. After smashing the warship apart, it flew straight into the sky.
"Bright!!"
Akainu roared hoarsely.
Bright twisted his body in the sky and lowered his head. "We meet again, Admiral Akainu!"
Compared to swaggering over from the sky and launching an attack, a sudden ambush from the sea while they were unprepared was naturally far more efficient.
This was when he had to appreciate how cleanly and decisively they had acted earlier.
If they had delayed even a little longer, the fleet on Aokiji's side would surely have contacted Akainu's fleet by now.
Launching a surprise attack under those circumstances would have been very difficult.
Fortunately, there was no need to worry about that now.
Neither Akainu nor Kizaru had clearly expected this at all.
Then—
"Roar!!"
Bright roared.
This time, his Conqueror's Haki descended from the sky with some restraint, blanketing the entire fleet in an instant.
The elite Marines swayed on the verge of collapse. Although they had not fallen unconscious, nearly all of them had lost their ability to fight.
There was no helping it. If he had not held back now, the soldiers aboard the warship he had destroyed earlier would probably have sunk