On the coast of Migo Town.
At that moment, everyone felt the Conqueror's Haki stretching across the ocean.
Although Kuzan was not the one directly bearing the brunt of that Haki, his heart still trembled.
Kaido and King were both drawn by the Conqueror's Haki, raising their eyes to gaze out over the sea. After a brief daze, Kuzan quickly reacted. He plunged his longsword into the ground and looked up at King in the sky. In the next second, his body turned into icy mist and vanished from where he stood.
Under the influence of that Conqueror's Haki, the sea wind along the shore howled.
King, suspended in midair, suddenly felt a chill at his back. His body shuddered instinctively. Without a second thought, he released flames to surround himself as he swiftly twisted aside and swung his sword behind him.
But before King could complete his movement, an icy hand passed directly through the flames around him and pressed against the center of his back.
At that instant, terrifying cold flooded his heart. In the space of a breath, King's body was once again encased inside a sphere of ice. Pulled by gravity, the ice sphere plummeted rapidly toward the ground.
Kuzan's upper body condensed in midair as he lowered his head to look at King falling below.
That was right. Taking advantage of King's and Kaido's attention being drawn by the distant Conqueror's Haki, Kuzan had launched a direct sneak attack.
Against pirates like these, Kuzan, as a Marine, would not foolishly talk about honor or fair play. Seizing every opportunity to kill the enemy was the responsibility of a Marine.
Honor?
He was a Marine. Why would he need to care about honor?
"King!"
Kaido, who had noticed Kuzan's move, looked toward the nearby ice sphere