Water Release: Great Exploding Water Shockwave!

"Nothing actually happened..." Franky said, staring in disbelief. "What was that water ball?"

Ninja Bro was way too amazing. Not only had he used that Clone Technique or whatever it was to fool two Vice Admirals, but he had even trapped them afterward.

He could tell that those two were completely unable to move right now. Given enough time, it was entirely possible for them to drown to death!

Taking out two Navy Headquarters Vice Admirals at once... If he really pulled that off, wouldn't Ninja Bro's bounty shoot through the roof?

Nico Robin, meanwhile, let out a sigh of relief. It was fine... As long as he was fine.

"Xi Yan is very strong!" Nami said with a smile.

"Let's focus on taking the ship back." Nico Robin turned her gaze to Spandam, intense hatred flashing in her eyes.

If it had not been for that bastard's father, how could Ohara have possibly been destroyed by the Buster Call?

And now, because of this bastard, the Straw Hat Pirates had to face a terrifying Buster Call... He deserved to die!

"Four-Wheel Flower: Slap!"

Four arms appeared above Spandam's head and began ruthlessly slapping his face.

Before punishing this bastard properly, Nico Robin would never let him die so quickly!

Meanwhile, aboard the navy warship, the three Vice Admirals paid no attention whatsoever to the commotion here.

Forget Spandam—even if his old man had come himself, the three of them might not have bothered saving anyone.

After all, the CP series and the Navy belonged to two separate organizations.

"This bastard's abilities really are strange." Momonga said, "He can freely manipulate seawater and even release lightning..."

"What kind of Devil Fruit User is he?"

"He probably isn't a Devil Fruit User." Strawberry said calmly. "Don't forget, he rose from beneath the water just now."

If he were a Devil Fruit User, how could he move freely underwater?

"That's true. He said earlier that he was a Ninja..." T-Bone narrowed his eyes. "So these are all ninjutsu."

To be honest, this was his first time fighting a Ninja.

"Though he has quite a few unknown abilities, that doesn't mean he can't be fought." Momonga said. "It's not like we've never faced Devil Fruit Users with unknown abilities before."

Not every Devil Fruit was recorded in the Devil Fruit Illustrated Handbook, and... one could not always accurately determine whether an enemy was a Devil Fruit User!

Thus, most of the time, they had to fight while analyzing their enemy's abilities bit by bit, only then gradually finding a way to counter them.

"Let's save them first." Momonga said.

He could already see the message Onigumo was conveying with his eyes.

(Stop analyzing and hurry up and save the two of us!)

As Vice Admirals, they could hold their breath underwater for quite a while, but they would still drown eventually. After all, they did not have fish-man blood.

"Geppo!"

"Bang!"

Momonga used Geppo to fly into the air. Looking at Xi Yan in the distance, he said, "Kid, hiding behind them really is a good strategy, but... don't forget, we are..."

Before Momonga could finish, he heard his subordinates behind him let out miserable screams.

This sudden turn immediately drew the attention of the three Vice Admirals.

When Momonga turned around, his pupils suddenly contracted!

On the warship, a Marine had collapsed to the ground, blood spurting from his body, while the other Marines had retreated far away in terror.

And a figure who was clearly not from the Navy now stood on the deck!

Momonga: ???

"It's you!"

Momonga stared at Xi Yan in disbelief. Wasn't this guy using that water-ball ability to restrain Onigumo and the others? Why was he here?

"Could it be... a Clone Technique?!" Strawberry said.

"Looks like it."

T-Bone confirmed Strawberry's guess. He had read those romance novels about Ninjas when he was younger, and they naturally included the Clone Technique.

What T-Bone had not expected was that the stories in those novels were actually true!!

"Water Release: Water Instant Body~"

Xi Yan straightened up and flicked the Kusanagi Sword in his hand, shaking the droplets of blood from its blade. He looked at the Vice Admirals with a grin. "Gentlemen... if you underestimate me, you'll die, you know~"

Water Instant Body!

This was a powerful Instant Body Technique Xi Yan had mastered, developed by the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju. While in water, its movement speed rivaled teleportation!

When he launched the Triple Water Dragon Bullet, Xi Yan used the Water Dragon to block the Navy's line of sight and switched his true body with a clone.

Then, he activated Water Instant Body and followed the current straight into the warship formation.

"So... you're the real body?" Strawberry said. "Then we'll take you down first!"

While speaking, Armament Haki rapidly spread over his long sword, and his aura began to rise.

"Momonga, go save them." T-Bone said. "Leave him to us."

"Geppo!"

T-Bone did not dare be careless now. After all, there was already the lesson from the past set by Onigumo and Doberman.

Watching the two men draw closer and closer, Xi Yan clapped his hands together and smiled faintly. "Listen. The sea is surging~"

"What?"

"Water Release: Great Exploding Water Shockwave!"

"Boom!!"

An enormous water splash erupted explosively from Xi Yan's position, forcing the approaching pair to halt their movements and instinctively use Geppo to fly higher.

At the same time, the sea around the warship formation suddenly began to shake violently, as though countless Sea Kings were stampeding through the ocean—a natural disaster had descended!!

The terrifying tremors sent the Navy warships swaying uncontrollably, crashing and scraping against one another. Some were even directly damaged as seawater began flooding in!

"Ah!!"

"Monster! That guy's a monster!"

"Save us!"

The Marines screamed and wailed, utterly powerless against this force that resembled a natural disaster.

"Bastard, what exactly are you trying to do?!" Strawberry roared.

Even the usually good-natured T-Bone opened his eyes, staring fixedly at Xi Yan with an icy gaze filled with killing intent.

Xi Yan said nothing and simply continued activating his ninjutsu.

Very soon, seawater began to rise, rapidly forming a water ball that enveloped all nine Navy warships and caught up with Momonga as well!

The only ship that was not enveloped was the warship Xi Yan had split apart. At the same time, the cracked warship was pushed by the waves toward Judicial Island.

The expressions of Strawberry and the others changed. Now, they understood what their opponent intended to do.

That incomparably massive water ball had forcibly engulfed nine Navy warships. The sheer area it covered left Strawberry shocked.

And the three of them could not escape being engulfed by the enormous waters either.

Although they did not feel the seawater restricting their movements and could still use Geppo underwater, they clearly understood that the instant this water ball formed, they had already lost.

The Navy warships were surrounded by seawater from every direction, so the Cannonballs inside could no longer be used. Naturally, the Buster Call could no longer continue.

Thinking carefully, from beginning to end, they had only fired a single shot. That was only because of the test firing—otherwise, they might not even have been able to fire that one shot!

This was simply the greatest humiliation!