Seeing Kozuki Oden's actions, Ortolan smiled and said, "What? You want to fight me?"
As Kozuki Oden slowly drew both swords, he stared solemnly at Ortolan and said, "Of course, when one encounters a rare and ferocious beast, who can suppress the urge to draw their sword?"
"Is that so? A ferocious beast?" Ortolan's lips curled into a cruel smile. "A ferocious beast, after all, eats people..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Kozuki Oden seemed to be unable to suppress his desires any longer. A fierce look flashed in his eyes, and he bowed his body. Two extremely powerful Haki instantly turned the long sword in his hand black.
In the next instant, wood chips shattered from the deck beneath Kozuki Oden's feet, and his figure transformed into a streak of light, launching from Jozu's flagship, heading towards the location of Ortolan.
"Oden Two-Sword Style: Peach Blossom Valley!" Kozuki Oden roared.
A powerful slash erupted from his blade in an instant, and the aura emanating from him at that moment even made the crowd watching from afar at the port feel suffocated.
A glint of light appeared in Ortolan's eyes as well. With just this one strike, Kozuki Oden's strength was indeed well-deserved!
This guy might be a bit brain-dead, always doing stupid things and being rather self-important. But to be fair, although Ortolan looks down on Kozuki Oden's so-called charisma, he still has to acknowledge his strength!
No sooner said than done, in the blink of an eye, Kozuki Oden and his powerful slash had already reached Ortolan.
At that very moment, a powerful and Haki force suddenly erupted from Ortolan's hand. Without any intention of retreating, he grabbed the fierce slash.
At the very moment Ortolan made his move, an invisible force of Haki instantly clashed with it, Kozuki Oden's twin blades were already suspended in mid-air before they could even touch Ortolan's palm.
Initially, both sides were using Armament Haki. After a brief two-second confrontation, a crimson light appeared in Kozuki Oden's eyes. Then, the Haki on his twin blades began to change, and the power of Conqueror's Haki gradually replaced the Armament Haki Haki.
Ortolan was the same. Initially, he had a slight advantage in the confrontation of Armament Haki. However, when Kozuki Oden transformed his Haki into Conqueror's Haki, a sense of oppression arose, forcing Ortolan to also change the quality of his Haki in the confrontation to Conqueror's Haki!
When the two unleashed their full Conqueror's Haki, there was no longer any possibility of contact between Ortolan's palm and Kozuki Oden's blade. Lightning crackled in the void, and black Inazuma inexplicably erupted around them.
Immediately following, the space itself could not withstand the clash between these two Haki and shattered with a crack. Then, all the confrontation and momentum seemed to be compressed onto the two of them in an instant, and the sea seemed to fall silent for a moment.
In that instant, the aura and power that had been forcibly compressed into the two people rebounded. In a flash, the sea sank several meters deep, a gale began to howl, the sky was torn apart, and a powerful air pressure swept out, engulfing everything around them!
With a deafening boom, the spot where Ortolan and Kozuki Oden clashed in the void suddenly exploded. There was no smoke, only the explosive force. The mast beneath Ortolan's feet shattered into dust, and Kozuki Oden's figure flew backward uncontrollably.
In a flash, Kozuki Oden stomped his feet several times in the air, abruptly stopping his figure in mid-air. At the same time, his muscles bulged, and his twin swords drew a flowery shadow in the air. His gaze was once again locked on Ortolan, who was falling from the shattered mast.
"Oden Two-Sword Style..." Kozuki Oden uttered in a low voice, gripping the hilts of his swords tightly with both hands, and once again imbuing the blades with powerful Conqueror's Haki.
However, this time, before he could launch an attack, an Inazuma, like a laser beam, shot from afar. This prompted Kozuki Oden to react instinctively, slashing forward with his double blades and cleaving the lightning beam in two.
As Kozuki Oden cleaved the pillar of lightning, he also saw the changes in Ortolan in the distance. At this moment, streams of Inazuma flowed around him, his figure hovering in the air, and two silver plasmas, much thicker than the other streams of light, circled around his arms. These two plasmas quickly converged in Ortolan's palms.
Then, Ortolan shoved the coalesced plasma forward and shouted, "Thunder Roar Cannon!"
With a roar from Ortolan, dazzling lightning erupted from his hand, transforming into a pillar of energy that shot towards Kozuki Oden like a beam of energy.
At this moment, Kozuki Oden could dodge, and he had the reaction speed.
However, just as Kozuki Oden was preparing to dodge the energy pillar, he suddenly realized something. Right behind him was Jozu's flagship. If he dodged it, Ortolan's attack would be enough to blast the entire ship into pieces!
Therefore, he cannot avoid it!
"Damn it..." Kozuki Oden cursed under his breath, then unleashed a burst of brute force, slashing forward with both hands to create a cross shape, roaring, "Oden Nissho- Togen Totsuka!!!"
The powerful cross slash instantly split the thick energy pillar, as thick as a bucket, into four parts. As Kozuki Oden's arm opened, it also forcibly changed the trajectory of the energy pillar, causing it to scatter and break apart like smoke as it passed through Kozuki Oden, thus avoiding the warship behind him.
Therefore, when Kozuki Oden opened his arms, his chest was wide open, and at the last moment of the energy pillar's explosion, Ortolan's figure suddenly emerged from the lightning.
The change happened so fast that Kozuki Oden didn't even have time to change his move. Just as he was about to pull his arms back, Ortolan had already pressed one hand on his shoulder. At that moment, Kozuki Oden could see Ortolan dashing through the lightning, holding a Warhammer in his other hand!
In an instant, the Warhammer roared up, swinging in a semi-circle in the air, imbued with a powerful Haki force, seemingly about to shatter the space in its path, creating ripples in the invisible air.
"Full moon!!!" Ortolan roared.
With a loud bang, Kozuki Oden was struck squarely in the abdomen by the hammer. Visibly, his expression contorted in agony. The powerful force slammed into him, causing his full, firm muscles to tremble and deform. Immediately afterward, the powerful impact erupted again, and the semicircle of his body was swung out into a full circle by Ortolan, resembling a full moon!
"Ugh..." Kozuki Oden cried out in pain at this moment, and then his figure was like a ball that had been knocked away, turning into a black shadow. Unable to withstand the fierce hammering force from above, he plunged headfirst into the sea.
The already turbulent sea surface seemed to have been hit by a bomb in an instant, with a wave more than ten meters high suddenly blasting out and engulfing Kozuki Oden's figure.
At that moment, Ortolan gracefully stopped mid-air, casually slinging his Warhammer over his shoulder with one hand, Inazuma crackling around him. A nonchalant smile played on his lips as he said, "The Second Division Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates, doesn't seem so impressive after all..."
Seemingly seizing upon Ortolan's momentary arrogance, on the deck, Jozu's eyes flashed with a sharp light as he shouted, "An opening! Radiant Impact!"
As soon as the words fell—no, even faster than the sound itself— Jozu's upper body completely transformed into shimmering diamonds, and in a shoulder-ramming motion, he crashed into Ortolan in mid-air.
It has to be said that for someone of Jozu's physique to suddenly unleash such speed without any special abilities is truly remarkable.
In the original story, during the Summit War, Jozu, in his current size, repeatedly ambushed and injured Crocodile and Kuzan, leaving Crocodile in disbelief, demonstrating just how fast he could go when he unleashed his power.
In the blink of an eye, Jozu had already soared into the sky and arrived in front of Ortolan. At this moment, he felt that Ortolan had nowhere to hide.
In reality, Ortolan had no intention of dodging at all. At the last moment, and at the most opportune distance, he raised his hand and placed it on Jozu's shoulder as he bumped into him, chuckling as he said, "Hey, don't be so enthusiastic. If you want a hug, go find someone else..."
At this moment, Jozu's face was filled with disbelief. His Shining Impact was extremely powerful, but now, it was so easily pinned to the air by Ortolan, without even producing the slightest aftershock or leakage of power!
Seeing Jozu's astonished expression, Ortolan laughed and said, "What's with that expression? You don't actually think you're that strong, do you? Arrogance is a sin, Jozu..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Ortolan suddenly exerted force on his wrist. Even with his diamond-enhanced shoulder, Jozu felt immense pressure and slight pain at that moment. Before he could react, a tremendous force erupted from Ortolan's hand, and Jozu's massive figure was instantly blasted away, crashing heavily into the sea-going warship, piercing through the deck, and disappearing from sight.