Buzz!
A jet-black blade aura flashed past.
Charlotte Katakuri's eyes glowed red as he pushed his Observation Haki to the limit, his expression changing drastically.
Without time to think, he swiftly twisted his body aside, tearing open a long, narrow gap.
Boom!
The black light passed through Katakuri's body in the blink of an eye.
In the next moment, the rocky ground beneath his feet was ripped apart like paper, leaving a vicious fissure that stretched a hundred meters away.
The tremendous impact tore apart everything in its path in an instant, nothing able to withstand its edge.
The thunderous sound of collapse echoed endlessly through the vast harbor.
"Th-That was a flying Ryuo slash! He's actually a Great Swordsman?"
"Even the strongest Sweet Commander of the Big Mom Pirates, who was said to have never been defeated, was beaten back. Was he really hiding his strength just now?"
Cries of shock suddenly rang out.
Like a chain reaction, they jolted the stunned onlookers awake.
Watching Qin Yu display yet another new trick, everyone present found it difficult to remain calm.
Especially when they saw the wound across Katakuri's chest, torn from his shoulder down to his abdomen. It was a horrifying sight.
"Shut up! All of you, shut up!" Charlotte Counter was the first to shout.
"Open your damn eyes and look carefully! That's Katakuri! With his abilities, not only that slash just now—even any attack at all—can't hurt him!"
His baffling words caused everyone present to freeze.
Before they could react, they saw Katakuri, whose body had nearly been split in two, begin to move.
Before their very eyes, his body rapidly writhed, then healed, completely returning to normal.
"Was that elementalization from a Logia Devil Fruit ability?"
Standing aboard the Red Force, Lucky Roux viciously bit into