The center of the royal city had been utterly destroyed. Sword slashes scarred every corner, and the hard, sturdy buildings seemed flimsier than tofu before the stray sword energy.
At the heart of the battlefield, only two afterimages could be seen moving at high speed, clashing from time to time in bursts of fierce sparks. Flying sword light tore ravines across the ground, carving the earth into a crisscrossing checkerboard.
The war between the One Piece and the Mink Race had stopped. It was not because they had been awed by the battle between those two, but because if they were not careful, they could be shredded by the aftershocks at any moment.
"Are you kidding me? Are newcomers this strong nowadays? I can accept that Apophis is powerful—after all, he defeated a Great Pirate like Chinjao—but where did that hawk-eyed man come from? He can actually fight Apophis to a standstill!"
"That guy is called Juraquille Mihawk. He's also a newcomer who entered the New World not long ago, but he's no nobody. Back on Mist Island, he was the one who defeated Vista the Flower Sword, captain of the Whitebeard Pirates' Fifth Division!"
"How terrifying. I never imagined swordsmanship could become this powerful. I'm almost regretting not training in the sword back then. Otherwise, there might have been another powerful swordsman on these seas!"
"Go home if you want to dream..."
Listening to the discussions around him, Kin'emon had no choice but to admit, no matter how unwilling he was, that the swordsmanship of those two men was probably not far behind the legendary sword saints of Wano Country!
"According to what Wanda and the others said, Apophis and that swordsman called Mihawk have not been fighting for very long, yet they are both already seriously wounded. They're