"Six Powers: Iron Finger!"
"Six Powers: Sword Storm!"
The Six Powers! They simplified the complex, discarded flashy movements, and made every move concise and clear, pursuing only greater lethality. They were martial techniques that surpassed the limits of the human body. In the hands of cold-blooded, merciless killers like CP9, they had evolved directly into arts of killing with a single blow.
The two strongest members of this generation of CP9, the leader and the swordsman, coordinated with considerable tacit understanding, pincering Duke from the front and back. A steel thrust formed from the fusion of Iron Body and Finger Pistol tore through the air with a sharp whistle as it bore down from the front, while behind him came a solidified vacuum slash.
Through Observation Haki, Duke easily caught their undisguised attacks. The corners of his lips rose slightly as his body swayed from side to side like a fallen leaf in a gale. No matter how the two attacked, they could not hit him.
Seeing this, the leader and the swordsman halted, vanished from where they stood, and retreated dozens of meters. The other CP9 members looked grave as they asked in disbelief, "Is that... Kami-e?"
Six Powers: Kami-e! By relaxing every muscle in the body and sensing the changes in airflow caused by an opponent's movements, one could evade attacks directed at oneself. As long as the opponent was not overwhelmingly faster, no matter how tricky or bizarre the attack, it could be dodged at the last possible instant.
Duke's method of evasion surpassed CP9's understanding of Kami-e. In their eyes, rather than dodging, it was more accurate to say that he had foreseen the attacks in advance. The leader and swordsman's suffocating offensive only landed where Duke had been after he had already moved aside, clearly