"Gravity-Gravity Fruit? Hah! Is it a fruit specifically meant to absorb firepower for your masters?"
"Interpret it however you like, but don't even think about getting past here!" Sivis wasn't angered at all and merely replied with a smile.
Realizing that his verbal attacks were useless, Katakuri prepared to force his way through.
"Mochi Cut!"
Katakuri's right arm rapidly swelled and transformed into the shape of a wolf-fang club. After combining it with Armament Haki, he swung it at Sivis at high speed like a meteor hammer.
"How decisive. No wonder you're the de facto leader of the Big Mom Pirates!" Sivis praised him aloud, then drew a huge mass of seawater from the surface and placed it in front of himself.
"Seawater? What use could something like that be?" Katakuri suddenly accelerated. His surging right arm stirred up a gale, directly smashing through the seawater barrier.
Then, the instant the shockwave broke through the barrier, he accelerated a second time and flew across the stretch of seawater.
"Of course it's useless. But I only intended to hold you back for a while, and this is more than enough." Sivis shifted and dodged, clearly unwilling to fight Katakuri directly. Instead, he relied on gravity to continually drag his opponent in the opposite direction.
Whenever Katakuri gave up the chase and turned around to charge at him, Sivis would construct a seawater barrier to slow him down slightly.
"This technique is seriously disgusting!" Katakuri was thoroughly annoyed. Sivis was clearly a strong individual of the same level as him, yet he insisted on using his Devil Fruit ability to kite him.
Katakuri even wondered whether this fellow had once been a bullfighter.
"Ah~ Thanks for the compliment!" Sivis didn't mind Katakuri's sarcasm. Instead, he happily accepted the other man's "compliment."
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