"Saturn!"
Seeing Saturn run into such a massive crisis, Nusjuro immediately wanted to offer assistance, swinging Sengo Muramasa toward Roger's direction in an attempt to untangle the situation for Saturn.
The two of them were colleagues of several centuries, so there was still some sentiment between them; besides, if Saturn were to just die here, Nusjuro would not have an easy time of it afterward, and neither Roger nor Golden Lion were men who would stop at killing just one person.
Yet Golden Lion did not give Nusjuro that opportunity.
"Hey! Baldy! Don't go looking down on people too much! Your opponent is yours truly!"
Golden Lion no longer remembered when he had begun to regard Roger as his arch-rival, but this kind of comparison had never stopped.
In the era after Rocks vanished, Golden Lion had constantly been competing with Roger, wanting to rope him in to rule the world together, right down to single-handedly raiding Marine Headquarters upon hearing of Roger's capture, and now teaming up with Roger...
To Golden Lion, Roger was both enemy and friend, but the comparison between the two of them had never ceased.
Golden Lion even suspected that the bizarre question Roger had just asked him was not meant to get an answer at all, but simply to stall his movements and thereby win the victory of this contest.
Now Nusjuro was even trying to ignore him to go aid Saturn, which in Golden Lion's eyes was sheer insult!
"Shishi Odoshi: Goshojigiri!"
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Twin blades swung at high speed, and countless flying slashes hurtled toward Nusjuro; though they were high-speed slashes, every single strike possessed enough power to split mountains and rivers.
Nusjuro spun around, his sword flashing to parry the slashes coming from Golden Lion; facing an opponent capable of