"Why don't you take a rest first, Borsalino."
Tsugikuni Yoriichi's low murmur reached Borsalino's ears.
"That was really fast—"
Seeing the indifferent face before him, Borsalino, who had only just reformed his body from elementalization, had his pupils contract sharply. He only had time to sigh before thunder exploded beside his ear and a tremendous force slammed directly into his arm.
Yoriichi swept his long blade horizontally. Just as its edge neared Borsalino, Yoriichi twisted his wrist, and the flat of the blade smashed directly into Borsalino's arm.
"JU—"
In an instant, a streak of light flashed across the plaza before the entrance to Marie Geoise. It shot thousands of meters away in the blink of an eye, smashing through the walls of a distant town. Borsalino's figure punched through dozens, perhaps hundreds, of lavishly decorated villas before vanishing from everyone's sight.
"Hm?"
Yoriichi did not look in the direction Borsalino had flown. After batting him away with a single strike, he felt a powerful chill spreading up from his feet. Lowering his gaze slightly, he murmured.
At some point, a thin layer of ice had already spread across the white stone beneath Yoriichi's feet. The cold seeped into his feet as the ice rapidly crawled toward both legs.
At the same time, Issho, who had raised his sword and used his Devil Fruit ability to block Sakazuki, also noticed something strange beneath his feet. His wooden sandals had frozen to the ground, and ice was rapidly spreading toward the skin on his feet.
Only a few breaths had passed from Borsalino's attack on Yoriichi to Yoriichi countering and sending Borsalino flying. Yet in that brief span, Kuzan's ability had already spread beneath Yoriichi and the others' feet.
It was not only them. A thin layer of ice had also