But Katakuri was a visitor, and the moment he arrived, he smashed the host's front gate and killed the guards. What host could possibly put up with that?
"Katakuri!" Almost at the same moment as that furious shout, a black shadow that had just appeared on the horizon flashed before Katakuri in the blink of an eye!
Perhaps because they were still some distance away, or perhaps because his improved physique had finally brought out the advantages of Mousse's neural reflexes and thinking speed, he found that he could barely make out the attacker's movements with his naked eye. He even recognized the move. "Tankyūdon?"
However, a technique that would once leave Zoro helpless twenty years later in the original timeline posed no threat whatsoever to the current Katakuri. Not only did he completely evade the attack by deforming his body, but in the instant the two brushed past each other, he gripped the War God Halberd and viciously stabbed it into the toothless pterosaur as though wielding a dagger!
At such close range, it should have been difficult to exert much force. Yet King—the Chief Tobi Roppo of the Beasts Pirates, who had always taken pride in his indestructible body—was pierced clean through in one blow. Blood and black feathers scattered on the wind!
Having landed the hit, Charlotte Katakuri even had the leisure to loudly give his younger brother Mousse an on-the-spot explanation:
"The advantage of Conqueror's Haki infusion is that its power is already great enough, so how much force your body can exert becomes less important. Attack however is most convenient. There's no need to consider whether you can fully put your strength into it, and it becomes harder for the enemy to evade. Whitebeard at Marineford couldn't use Conqueror's Haki because his injuries and illness