The ninetieth floor of the Duel Star Tower.
The salty sea breeze whipped fine sand into his face.
Garou stood bare-chested.
His bronze skin was covered in sweat and crisscrossing scars.
His muscles heaved violently with his rapid breaths.
He was currently fighting a Fish-Man Race powerhouse called "Sea Knight" Jinbe, manifested by the Tower Spirit.
Their brutally intense high-speed exchange had ravaged the beach beyond recognition, leaving craters and fissures everywhere.
Though he had lost his supernatural powers and demonic transformation,
Garou could still push the power of his martial arts to the limit.
Combined with the Armament Haki, Observation Haki, and Breathing Technique he had mastered over the past few months,
his physical abilities briefly erupted to a higher level, as surging pale-white energy flared around him.
Every gust from his fists carved a massive gash more than ten kilometers long across the sea,
one that refused to close for a long time.
Jinbe's spacetime projection displayed equally terrifying strength.
The profound techniques of Fish-Man Karate and Fish-Man Judo were displayed to perfection in his hands.
He used the overwhelming force of water to directly contend against Garou's martial arts.
Towering waves gathered and surged between his palms and fingers, as though the entire ocean were held in his grasp.
The roar of their Armament Haki clashing was like rumbling thunder.
Black-red lightning burst and crackled with every collision of fist and foot.
Suddenly.
Garou seized a fleeting opening. His pitch-black right palm gleamed with a dark luster.
With a speed far more exaggerated than before, along with the exquisite technique of borrowing force to return force,
he finally broke through Jinbe's seemingly impenetrable defense.
It struck precisely against the center of Jinbe's chest.
"Great Force Release!"
All the power in his body gathered in his palm and