Looking at the goofy-looking "Whitey Bay" and the "shockwave" on his sword, Sig recalled the Artificial Devil Fruit in his hand...
Unlike the Artificial Devil Fruit created using beast Lineage Factor by Caesar Clown, Vegapunk's "failures" were Lineage Factor extracted directly from Kaido.
Sig had refrained from using it on himself because, in addition to the Lineage Factor of the "Mythical Zoan, Fish- Fish-Fish Fruit, Devil Fruit Azure Dragon Form," it also contained Kaido's Lineage Factor. In a sense, it was the "Kaido Fruit"...
Not only is it easy to lose control, but someone of Sig's strength doesn't want to completely adopt Kaido's body.
Now, seeing Whitey Bay, Sig suspects that Vegapunk has created Paramecia Artificial Devil Fruit, and that he obtained the Lineage Factor from Whitebeard!
Thinking about it this way, Sig even wondered if Whitey Bay's brain was also damaged due to side effects?
And given this, it's not surprising that he would have some Whitebeard features.
Whether this is actually the case remains to be verified...
At that moment, Zephyr's expression clearly changed, and his right arm visibly trembled after colliding with the Whitey Bay.
In the clash between the "Black Arm" and the "Shock Blade," Zephyr's arm appeared to have suffered some kind of severe injury.
Sig also saw through the trick...
The Tremor-Tremor Fruit the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, but Whitey Bay obviously doesn't have the same kind of grand, sweeping power as Whitebeard, who could "overturn the sea" at any moment. The power of his Tremor-Tremor Fruit is more inclined to give his power the characteristic of "tremor".
When facing opponents who are generally inferior to oneself, the difference is not apparent, but when encountering a truly strong opponent, the difference between the two methods becomes obvious.
Clearly, Whitebeard's destructive power is greater and his strength is more powerful, almost like the power of nature. However, although Whitey Bay looks big and clumsy and doesn't seem to have much brains, his way of using it is more "delicate".
Although he didn't possess the unparalleled strength of Whitebeard, Whitey Bay's attacks were more capable of gradually damaging the internal structure of his enemies' bodies!
Zephyr is indeed old, but his stamina is not that bad. It is the repeated clashes that have shaken his bones and muscles. Over time, the damage has accumulated and the recent blow has aggravated the injury in his right arm. With a jolt, the previous hidden injury has also flared up completely. Below the elbow, the bone is cracked and the muscles are severely strained!
"Oh no! Admiral Zephyr...!" Violet exclaimed in alarm.
Although she didn't understand anything, she knew that Zephyr was going to die!
"It's alright, they've stalled long enough; there's plenty of time." Sig was referring to the fact that there was plenty of time to get to the Reef Island.
As for Zephyr?
Well, he's done his part, showing Sig Whitey Bay strength, and after that, he had nothing to do with Sig anymore.
Although Zephyr also looked down on Kizaru, he was, after all, a Marine, and only from the perspective of an "instructor" did he look down on Kizaru Sig Kizaru no reason to help him.
At most, I'm a little curious: given all that, how did Zephyr survive in the original story? It seems that if he were to have another direct confrontation, Zephyr right hand should be completely ruined...
Kindness?
Now Sig knows!
Just as Zephyr, in his rage, relentlessly engaged Whitey Bay in a final, doomed struggle, a figure covered in blood struggled to crawl out of the collapsed Captain. Sig could see a deep, bone-revealing wound on her right thigh, still bleeding...
Even though moving around was already very difficult, Ain managed to squeeze out with all her might!
Suddenly, the Whitey Bay leaped up from above and slashed downwards at Zephyr with his blade, causing the air to tremble as his blade stirred.
He hadn't expected that someone from among the corpses would suddenly stand up.
Sig could clearly see, through the magnetic field, that as Ain crawled out from under the rubble, his body was rapidly shrinking!
When she finally emerged, she looked about the same age as Sugar —but her injuries no longer had much of an impact.
The instant the blade touched the Black Arm, Ain lunged forward, desperately using the pink "flames" in her hand to scorch the Whitey Bay's ankle...
Don't let his Whitey Bay appearance and chubby, out-of-shape face fool you; he'll only be thirty-five in ten years, and right now he's just twenty-five—a true young man.
In the original work, Ain's Devil Fruit ability is the Return-Return Fruit —which allows her to rewind any person or object she touches to a state twelve years prior!
Sig had kept an eye on her when she stopped in Dressrosa before, but she didn't have any Devil Fruit ability at that time.
Otherwise, judging from the effect of the original work, Sig might be very interested.
It seems that during this period, Ain acquired the Devil Fruit ability. Although she is not yet proficient in using it, it has indeed proven remarkably effective.
Unfortunately, Sig realized that this wasn't true manipulation of time... The name "rewinding" was accurate, not "flowing backward."
We'll have to see how things go later, but Ain's almost penetrating wound on her leg has healed, but it still leaves a cross-shaped scar—which shows she hasn't completely returned to her ten-year-old state, otherwise she wouldn't have this scar.
But the impact on Whitey Bay was far greater!
Although Ain suffered a broken wrist as a result—even though there was no direct contact, only the pink flames from her ability "burned" Whitey Bay's foot, the invisible tremor still caused her wrist to crack— Whitey Bay began to revert to his state of around thirteen years old, with his strength greatly weakened.
It's evident from Sig's "artificial Kaido Azure Dragon Fruit" that Vegapunk's protective mechanism against losing control is different from Caesar Clown's.
Or perhaps Caesar was just a low-cost, inferior version...
Vegapunk doesn't even consider the Devil Fruits that Caesar Clown creates "strange things." In comparison, Vegapunk's control over Devil Fruit ability is much more "scientific."
In the original work, when Momonosuke first ate the Artificial Devil Fruit, he could only transform into a small dragon smaller than a person, and he had no power to speak of. This is different from normal Devil Fruit, especially Zoan Devil Fruit. Logically speaking, even if you have just eaten it, are not strong, and have not fully developed the Devil Fruit ability, you should still have basic power when you transform into a beast form.
However, the power of the Artificial Azure Dragon, or rather the artificial Pink Dragon, was Oldest One too weak, even weaker than that of the herbivorous species.
However, Momonosuke didn't specifically develop it; he was simply forced to mature to the age of twenty-eight by the power of the "Ripe-Ripe Fruit," and naturally possessed a beast form that was no less powerful than Kaido's —although his actual strength was far inferior to Kaido's, he at least demonstrated the fruit's basic power.
This is precisely because Vegapunk's version of Artificial Devil Fruit requires time to adapt to, and now...
Whitey Bay was pushed back twelve years, and his power rapidly weakened!
Although Zephyr's arm bones had been completely shattered and his muscles torn apart, the rapidly weakening Whitey Bay was also thrown back by Zephyr.
Despite the pain from her broken wrist, Ain seized the opportunity to leap up, pulling two short swords from her oversized sleeve. Ain launched herself at the chest of the Whitey Bay before he even landed, simultaneously slashing at his neck with the two swords, intending to sever his massive head...