"You've already had your emotions stirred up. The balance between offense and defense... will be reversed soon!" Julius laughed happily.
He really should be happy. His opponent was one of the Five Emperors, and the most difficult one to deal with among them—Apophis.
Even the mighty World Government was helpless against Apophis and could only let him establish his own faction.
But now, victory was already his!
"Is it a Devil Fruit ability?" Apophis's voice was low. He truly hadn't known what ability his opponent possessed. After all, prying into someone's ability was quite taboo.
He didn't want this matter to draw attention to the anomaly of Longinus's identity.
"That's right. It's the ability of the Emotion Fruit." Julius also let out a genuine sigh of relief. He hadn't been pretending earlier—he truly couldn't defeat Apophis.
If he hadn't had the Devil Fruit ability as his trump card, he would have fled long ago.
"The Emotion Fruit? It really suits a rat like you, hiding in a gutter." Apophis more or less understood. This Emotion Fruit should be an advanced version of the Fear-Fear Fruit he had obtained before.
More precisely, it was an advanced version of many Devil Fruits.
If his true body were here, he could naturally counter this ability completely. But the shadow residing in Koshiro's body corresponded to the soul of slaughter.
The emotion that had been stirred up was rage!
Julius wasn't angry. Or rather, he was maintaining the dignity of a victor. "Rats can defeat emperors sometimes, too. Now, let's complete the final movement!"
With that, Julius shot toward Apophis at top speed.
"This level of..." Apophis was just about to swing his sword horizontally when his vision suddenly became shrouded in blood-red light. Then Julius's Finger Pistol struck him and sent him flying.