The True Protagonist

Black rain, flashing blades.

Slaughter in the blink of an eye.

This technique, which had once appeared during the Summit War, had now reappeared before countless Marines.

The difference was—

This time, the flashes of blades did not draw blood. Instead, they slashed across the shadows of the Pacifistas.

It took only a few breaths.

Seventy-eight Shunshin movements, seventy-eight flashes of blades.

By the time the final flash vanished,

seventy-eight Pacifistas had lost their shadows.

The attack ended. Maud revealed his figure and came to a stop behind one of the Pacifistas.

The sunlight shone on him, and on the Pacifistas as well.

The gentle sunlight now resembled the most irresistible flames in the world. The moment it fell upon the Pacifistas, it burned their bodies into ashes bit by bit.

Before the laws of the ability,

no matter how powerful the Pacifistas' defenses or regeneration were...

it was all meaningless.

Maud sheathed his sword, slowly turned around, and looked at the Pacifistas gradually turning to ash.

Using Blade Wheel Slash, he had cut off the shadows of seventy-eight Pacifistas in the blink of an eye.

The difficulty was extraordinarily high, utterly incomparable to normal body-cutting.

Maud had originally planned to deal with them one by one, expecting to spend several minutes eliminating all the Pacifistas.

But he had noticed that Aokiji was having a hard time blocking the combined attacks of Kizaru and Fujitora. On top of that, he needed Aokiji to ensure his companions' safety.

That was why he had temporarily decided to use the combination of Flying Shadow and Blade Wheel Slash to sweep the Pacifistas from the battlefield.

Before making his move, he could not be one hundred percent certain that this technique would end things perfectly.

If it failed, he would have wasted his stamina