Dark crimson canopy—!
Skeletal gate—!
Miasma swirling—!
Beneath these bizarre sights, the two faced off!
On one side, Haki surged endlessly, twisting the air around him.
On the other, spiritual pressure rippled without cease, its razor-sharp aura permeating the entire battlefield.
There were no words, nor any grand spectacle.
In the blink of an eye, the two figures exploded into motion and collided directly at the center of the battlefield.
Fast!
Steady!
Ruthless!
Their battle had become too fast to follow. In less than a second after their collision, the black slender blade and the rapier had clashed nearly a hundred times.
Because they were too fast, the shockwaves from those hundred clashes only erupted all at once after a brief delay. The ground around them shattered completely, and the harbor, which had endured countless attacks in succession, at this moment...
Completely burst apart.
Bottomless fissures appeared across Marineford Harbor, their spreading cracks even reaching the distant Marine Headquarters building and causing it to collapse completely.
Marineford's Marine Headquarters became history at this moment!
Before the eyes of everyone in the plaza, the terrifying aftershocks of the battle rampaged across the battlefield like an enraged demonic beast. The spectators retreated again and again, their expressions tense to the extreme.
The two figures separated and retreated, while cracks from their clashing slashes spread all the way outward!
Whoosh—!
Almost simultaneously, both of them halted, lightly stomping the ground. With an almost imperceptible dull thud, they shot forward like launched rockets.
Tensa Zangetsu skimmed close to the ground, dragging a long trail of sparks and a deep groove across the earth.
On the other side, Haki coiled around the rapier as it came crashing down like a ten-thousand-ton mountain.
Tensa Zangetsu swept upward, and the rapier smashed downward.
They were clearly two