"Moon Walk: Sky Dance!"
Jazz gave a low shout. His feet moved swiftly, and his body slid sideways. With several rapid steps, he kicked off the air and soared into the sky. Pekoms's fierce assault missed, all his attacks slamming into the ground and sending dust flying everywhere.
"Brat, you don't dare face me head-on?" Pekoms roared furiously, turning to provoke Jazz.
Boos rose from the crowd. Judging by Pekoms's build, he was clearly someone who had trained martial arts for years to become so burly. Jazz, meanwhile, looked slight and young. Pekoms's taunts gave everyone the obvious impression that he was bullying someone smaller and weaker.
Why would Pekoms care about their jeers? Shiryu was standing right there. If he was about to win and Shiryu suddenly intervened, wouldn't that be utterly unfair? So he needed to bait Jazz into a one-on-one fight first.
Jazz stepped through the air, drifting fluidly across the sky with an incomparably graceful bearing. Applause immediately erupted from the audience below...
He had no intention of paying attention to Pekoms's yelling. Right now, Jazz only wanted to find an opening, break through Pekoms's defenses, and defeat his opponent in one stroke. He would not count on Shiryu, whose stance remained unclear, to help him.
Suddenly, a warning flared in Jazz's heart. His Observation Haki had been active all along, and in that instant, he sensed a terrifying aura shooting through the air from behind the crowd, heading straight for him.
"Iron Body!"
Jazz's first instinct was to use Iron Body, the most defense-focused technique among the Six Powers. His entire body hardened like iron, while he also wrapped himself in Armament Haki Hardening for protection.
"Boom!"
From within the crowd below, a beam of light shot into the sky. An orange-yellow wave of light