A smooth layer of ice covered the street, with rows of ice houses joined together around it. The blue, frozen world looked like a dream, glittering dazzlingly in the reflected sunlight.
A human-shaped ice sculpture stood in the street, one leg raised in a kick, an expression of shock still frozen on its face.
"Sanji!!"
Bang!
Luffy cried out in panic, crouched, and kicked off with both feet. His body shot like an arrow toward the figure beside the ice sculpture.
Aokiji withdrew his hand, cold mist still drifting from it. His indifferent gaze seemed to scorn his opponent's helplessness as he raised his hand and released freezing air overhead. An enormous glacier slowly took shape in the sky.
"Bastard! What did you do to Sanji?!"
Rage erupted in Luffy's eyes. Haki flowed into his wrist, and before he even reached his opponent, his fist shot forward, tearing savagely through the air like a cobra lunging at its prey!
"Gomu Gomu no King Cobra!!"
"Ice Glove!!"
Although the explosion was astonishingly powerful, Lina believed that an attack of that level could bring Sanji down.
Luffy glanced at Suping, whom Lina had intercepted, and shouted.
Just then, the sound of cracking ice suddenly came from the ruins. Sanji turned calmly to look that way.
Sanji crouched and slammed both palms against the ground. A wave of cold raced across the ice!
Suping looked astonished. The terrifying energy contained in that fist made the warning from Observation Haki prick faintly at my brain.
"It's begun... cough... cough, cough..."
"Ten-Thousand-Ton Yield: Explosive Fist!!"
"How did they find out about that, too?"
Although weaker undead could be easily recalled, the abilities of certain powerful undead could still display considerable power in my hands.
At that thought, Sanji grew inexplicably restless, a tangle of complicated