Murakumogiri sliced through the sky, a white blade-light coating the weapon as it came directly down upon Dawn.
Ignoring the gunfire of the surrounding marines, Whitebeard seemed intent on splitting Dawn in two!
Facing this slash, Dawn felt not a shred of fear. He compressed the air to its absolute limit, shaped it into a gauntlet, infused it with thick Armament Haki layered across the surface, and without a moment's hesitation, he smashed forward!
"Boom!"
Heaven and earth shifted colors. The immense shockwave from their clash once again ravaged the already riddled and pitted ground, sending countless shattered rocks plunging into the abyss to ultimately sink into the deep sea.
Blood spilled from Dawn's arm. On that fist wrapped in pitch-black Armament Haki, the outer shell was now covered in dense spiderwebs of cracks, and it was from there that the blood was leaking.
On the other side, Whitebeard was injured far more severely. Blood continuously spewed forth, mixed with chunks of internal organs roasted black by intense heat.
Yet neither of the two combatants paid any heed to their injuries. Driven back by the collision of force, Dawn's foot stomped down as he deployed Shave instantly. In the next moment, his figure appeared right before Whitebeard, and amidst the acceleration of a gale, his fierce kick swept past in a blur!
Bang! The kick struck squarely against Whitebeard's ribs. Dawn even heard the sound of the man's bones fracturing, yet Whitebeard's expression did not change in the slightest as he ignored the pain and threw a punch straight at Dawn!
"If you forget about me, it's going to make things rather difficult, you know~"
Accompanied by a mocking tone, Kizaru's Light Speed Kick instantly intercepted that punch!
A flash of golden light particles kicked directly at Whitebeard's oncoming fist.