"Plop—"
A series of soft thuds rang out across the plaza as several heads wearing white masks fell onto the white stone floor and rolled away. The heavy stench of blood spread through the air, mixing with the sulfurous smell and flooding Issho and the others' nostrils.
These CP0 agents who had followed Saint Saturn and Saint Nasjuro, the two Gorosei, to the plaza had been slain by Tsugikuni Yoriichi before they even realized what had happened.
Tsugikuni Yoriichi moved incredibly fast. Even while moving at high speed, he could easily conceal his presence. Some of these CP0 agents might have eaten Devil Fruits and possessed strange abilities, but before Tsugikuni Yoriichi, those Devil Fruit powers were utterly meaningless.
Devil Fruit abilities could not stop his assassination strikes while he was in the Observation Killing state.
Forget them—if Saint Saturn had not possessed hyper-regeneration, and if Saint Nasjuro had not had some means of avoiding Tsugikuni Yoriichi's slashes, the two Gorosei would already have become corpses from that attack.
After briefly exchanging blows with the two Gorosei, Tsugikuni Yoriichi had gained some understanding of Saint Nasjuro's abilities.
Judging from the six-pointed star "magic circle" that had appeared beneath the man's feet earlier, Saint Nasjuro seemed to possess a Devil Fruit from the same series as Saint Saturn. If it was not a Devil Fruit, then it was likely a similar kind of power.
After turning into a "demon," Saint Nasjuro's strength, speed, and Haki had all improved enormously. At the same time, his form had also undergone a tremendous change.
Tsugikuni Yoriichi could clearly feel that when his slash landed on the opponent, the sensation was completely different from the feeling of cutting an ordinary person.
The opponent's body seemed immune to slashing attacks.
"If his body is immune to