"Crack!" But the battle was far from over. As Akainu was blasted away, Aokiji had already arrived. The whirlpool on the sea continued sinking deeper, and the frost erupting from Aokiji's body spread across the surface, freezing the seawater solid and making the whirlpool resemble a deep pit in the ocean.
"You've got some nerve, coming at me again!" Ronglin shattered Akainu with a single blow, then turned to see Aokiji closing in. He laughed loudly, clenched his fist, wrapped it in Armament Haki, and drove it straight at Aokiji's face.
But Aokiji's figure suddenly burst apart, turning into countless ice fragments that slipped past Ronglin's fist. Ronglin felt a wave of cold envelop him, and his Observation Haki instantly sensed that Aokiji's true body had reached his back. The man had actually used elementalization to evade his strike. He was truly bold.
With a cold sneer, Ronglin turned and spread his fingers, grabbing directly at Aokiji's half-formed body.
"Ice Time!" Yet Aokiji, whose upper body had only just reformed, brought his hands together. Although Ronglin's Haki-coated hand had seized Aokiji, it failed to stop him from activating his Devil Fruit ability. In an instant, Aokiji's entire body crystallized into ice, and a ring of mist swept over Ronglin's body, freezing him solid.
Aokiji's body flashed away at high speed, breaking free from the enormous block of ice that had formed and finally escaping Ronglin's attack.
At that moment, crimson flames rose from the sea, and thick smoke billowed out once more. Akainu, who had been shattered by Ronglin's attack, reformed his body and launched a thunderous strike at Ronglin above. "Great Eruption!"
"Boom!"
The enormous magma fist slammed fiercely into the massive block of ice containing Ronglin. From the moment Aokiji froze Ronglin, to Akainu reforming his body and