Moving Blood Armor! Overpowering the World Destroyer Head-On

Just as nearly everyone was immersed in Rosen's single blow shattering the iceberg and sending down a beautiful rain of ice, Byrnndi World's figure suddenly vanished, charging at Rosen at a speed more than ten times faster than Rokushiki Soru.

He moved so fast that he not only whipped up sonic booms, but even the Thousand Cherry Blossoms hovering around Rosen like guards protecting him at all times failed to react.

"Double 60x Speed."

Byrnndi World even had time to glance at the cherry blossom blades flying toward him, trying to stop him but far too slow to do anything. A trace of disdain appeared on his face as he coldly stared at Rosen, who was right in front of him, baring his teeth in a fierce grin.

"A mere marine brat—no, a brat who isn't even a marine—wants to deal with me?"

"Zefa."

"You should go recruit some new students."

The thought flashed through his mind.

Byrnndi World clenched his fist as Armament Haki surged into his right arm, hardening both his fist and arm. Then, breaking through the sound barrier amid a violently raging fist wind, he drove straight at Rosen's face.

"Double 70x Punch."

The moment he attacked, he used Armament Haki's Coating Hardening, then used the Momo Fruit to increase his punching speed seventyfold.

Clearly.

Byrnndi World had gone for the kill with this strike.

After breaking free of the ice, his mind might have been somewhat foggy, but it was not so impaired that he could no longer think normally.

No matter how unruly he was, he had already sorted out the current situation.

There was Zefa, plus Borsalino. Even though he had never seen the latter before, Observation Haki would not lie.

Compared to Zefa, who had retired, fallen ill, and grown old, Borsalino's presence was far stronger.

Bondy Wald knew very well that if he wanted to leave Infinite Hell, he had to get past these two.

The best course of action was to kill Rosen in one blow while Zefa was using him to train Rosen.

"One down."

Seeing Rosen standing there blankly, seemingly unable to react at all, Bondy Wald said to himself.

Three more to go.

"Should I make a move?"

Borsalino glanced at Zefa, his meaning obvious.

Against Bondy Wald's speed, he was the only one who could save someone at any moment.

That was also why Sengoku had arranged for Borsalino to come along.

It was both to suppress any prisoners released from the Sixth Layer at any time and to back Rosen up.

After all, the Glint-Glint Fruit's speed was unmatched in the world.

What surprised Borsalino, however, was that even as Rosen fell into danger, Zefa paid no attention at all to his meaningful look.

Just as he secretly wondered whether Teacher Zefa had grown senile and failed to see his signal, the battle suddenly took a massive turn.

"Moving Blood Armor."

In that instant, Rosen moved.

He first infused Armament Haki into his blood vessels, but rather than developing defensive power, he developed offensive power, while also using the other two techniques of Armament Haki.

Coating Hardening made his arm harder than steel.

Then.

He stepped forward and swung his arm. There was nothing flashy about it, only the simplest, most unadorned straight punch, which blasted toward Bondy Wald's heavy fist.

Their fists collided, and a thunderous boom shook Infinite Hell.

Even though the prison's construction materials had not been skimped on and were famously tough, the clash of their fist power and Haki still caused the ground beneath their feet to crack under the Haki shockwaves exploding in every direction.

"He caught it?"

Bondy Wald froze.

This was a punch enhanced by seventyfold speed through the Momo Fruit after coating it in Armament Haki, yet Rosen had blocked it head-on with nothing but Armament Haki.

No matter how much strength he applied, the other man's fist was like an immovable mountain. He could not force it back at all.

"Did I merely catch it?"

Rosen abruptly raised his head, his icy gaze like two sharp blades piercing Bondy Wald's pupils.

Before the other man could react, Haki burst from the fist locked against his. Though Bondy Wald's fist had been hardened with Armament Haki, this Haki seeped through every opening like flowing water, directly penetrating his arm. It surged toward his internal organs while destroying the muscles, bones, soft tissue, and everything else in its path.

"Argh!"

Bondy Wald immediately felt a soul-rending pain erupt from the arm he had used to exchange blows with Rosen.

What was worse, with every passing instant, that agonizing pain continued to spread deeper into his body, through every part of him.

Moving Blood Armor developed ultimate offensive power.

Coating Hardening increased the arm's hardness.

Flowing Emission transmitted Haki into Bondy Wald's fist.

Internal Destruction seeped the emitted Haki into Bondy Wald's body.

Rosen's seemingly simple punch had, in truth, pushed his Armament Haki to its absolute limit.

He had unleashed all five techniques at once.

Not only had he withstood Bondy Wald's heavy punch, amplified by the Momo Fruit, head-on, he had also shattered his defenses on the spot and left him wracked with unbearable pain.

He had directly beaten the World Destroyer into submission.

"Multiplication 50x Shave."

Grimacing from the pain, blood seeped from the corner of Bondy Wald's mouth as he immediately stepped back.

Not only did he use the Momo Fruit to increase his speed fiftyfold, he also used the Rokushiki Soru he had learned during his frequent clashes with the Navy in years past.

Though he had not pushed his speed to its limit, he was already fast enough to break the sound barrier.

In that instant, his explosive burst of speed reached supersonic levels.

However.

Before Bondy Wald could retreat, the hand Rosen had used to trade punches with him had already changed from a fist into a claw. Its five Armament Haki-hardened fingers, like Black Iron Claws, forcibly caught hold of his fist.

As fingers met fist, sparks flew from the violent scraping. Bondy Wald's hand throbbed with pain under the grip, but Rosen still failed to hold him back.

Yet Rosen's grab inevitably caused Bondy Wald's lightning-fast figure to falter slightly. That fleeting pause allowed the Cherry Blossom Blades, which had long been poised in every direction, to seize the chance and sweep in like an overwhelming tide.

Blades fell upon him, carving him a thousand times.

In a single exchange, Bondy Wald's body had been slashed full of holes, flesh and blood flying everywhere.

Crisscrossing crimson lines covered his entire body, and then blood burst from within along those red lines.

"Damn it!"

A hundred meters away.

Bondy Wald flashed into view, half-kneeling on the ground and gasping heavily.

He glanced at his hands and feet, then at his body.

They were all covered in densely packed wounds that sent chills down one's spine.

Is All Thousand Cherry Blossoms had inflicted in an instant.

"Can't block them."

"Even with Armament Haki, I still can't defend against them."

"Just like that punch he threw at me earlier."

Bondy Wald's expression darkened to the extreme.

The moment Rosen's claws dragged at him, he knew things had gone bad. He promptly hardened his entire body with Armament Haki, yet the Cherry Blossom Blades still cut through his skin.

Clearly.

Armament Haki was not his exclusive privilege.

The Cherry Blossom Blades dancing around Rosen each seemed not particularly powerful on their own, but there were simply too many of them, and every single one was coated and hardened with Armament Haki.

Had he not relied on absolute speed to forcibly break through the encirclement of Cherry Blossom Blades, given enough time, those blades could even have disemboweled him.

Bondy Wald did not doubt it in the slightest.

Just one direct clash had left him covered in wounds.

At this moment.

The World Destroyer's gaze at Rosen had changed.

He no longer saw him as some brat who was not even a Navy soldier, but as a formidable enemy.