Major Debes looked surprised when his knife-hand strike was blocked.
Before him was an ordinary-looking, even somewhat worn wooden sword.
At some point, it had appeared at a strange angle between his knife-hand strike and the neck.
A wooden sword?
A wooden sword with no trace of any special energy.
Had blocked his knife-hand strike?
Though it lacked the power of the Black Bear Fruit.
As a Major, his Doriki Value was still around a thousand.
And why had he failed to sense the other party approaching in advance?
It was as though the process had been skipped, and only the result had appeared.
Had Observation Haki failed?
No!
At almost the same moment.
Major Debes caught a sharp glint of cold light attacking from his blind spot on the right, so fast that even sound could not keep up with it.
In that instant, he made the most instinctive response.
"Hah—!"
With a low roar, the surging Haki within him immediately burst outward.
In an instant.
An invisible yet mountain-heavy force exploded outward from Major Debes.
As for why he had not used Tekkai.
The wooden sword blocking him was instantly blasted aside.
Its owner, Sakata Gintoki, with his natural curls and dead-fish eyes.
Yanked Takasugi Shinsuke by the collar and hurriedly retreated four or five meters.
The wooden sword in his hand scraped a trail of sparks across the concrete road before he barely managed to steady himself.
Then he bared his teeth and shook his numbed arm.
"Hiss—"
The figure that had launched the attack from the right.
Was also sent flying by the sudden blast of Haki.
But he was immediately caught securely in the arms of a strange white creature.
Meanwhile, because Gintoki had been gripping the back of his collar the entire time.
Takasugi