In the boundless pitch-black void, after the blood-red longsword was pulled from the Lone Red's chest, everyone and everything present—objects, illusions, all of it—vanished, turning into fragments of golden feathers of light that flew toward Araki.
Fighting Redfield one-on-one was not difficult for the current Araki.
Even if he could read minds, it made no difference.
You know this slash of mine is going for your right shoulder. So what?
Can you dodge it? Can you block it?
If you can't, then what use is merely hearing it?!
And so the Lone Red died.
He had not only heard Araki's method of attack, but also happened to hear the mockery in Araki's heart.
Killing the man and crushing his heart—this was nothing less.
So he was very angry when he died, but anger was useless.
A moment later, Araki had already sorted through the gains from defeating Redfield.
There was little gain in terms of basic strength. After all, whether in power, speed, or soul strength, Araki had crushed this Lone Red in every respect.
But the returns in terms of technique were quite substantial.
As a veteran top-tier pirate, Redfield was no weakling in the standard Three-Color Haki, and he also possessed a special Observation Haki ability that surpassed everyone else by an entire level—Voice of All Things.
After merging it, Araki discovered that the Three-Color Haki of the One Piece World was actually closely related to soul strength as well.
Observation Haki went without saying. It was obvious that, in essence, it was equivalent to an enhanced version of a mental scan.
Conqueror's Haki was the same, possessing a different approach with the same result as Reiatsu intimidation.
As for Armament Haki, which appeared to be more closely tied to the physical body and unrelated to the soul,