A red afterimage streaked through the air, and the extreme heat distorted the atmosphere itself.
Boiling magma poured directly into flesh so deeply torn that bone was visible, then began spreading upward along the wound Dawn had created.
The boiling magma filled the flesh and gnawed at the bones, yet it did not stop. It surged and erupted within, finally bursting out along the sword wound.
"Guh—BOOM!!!"
Like a balloon exploding, the flesh on Charlotte Linlin's right leg burst apart like scattered gravel, instantly tearing away from where it should have been. All that remained was a vicious black skeleton tangled with hardened brown, stone-like magma ash.
"AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!"
The pain of her entire leg exploding made Charlotte Linlin let out a shrill scream.
"Since you're down, stay down!"
A cold glint flashed across Dawn's lips. The bones throughout his body crackled, while his heart pumped madly like an engine, driving power through his entire body.
BOOM!!
Amid the thunderous blast, Dawn smashed the leg bones, grotesque as some Devil Art, into fragments with a single punch. Then, Oto in his right hand stabbed toward Charlotte Linlin once more.
The pitch-black blade easily pierced her tough defenses and sank into her flesh. Just as Dawn prepared to repeat his trick and disembowel Charlotte Linlin—
A sudden change occurred!
Charlotte Linlin, who had been howling in apparent agony just a moment ago, bared her vicious fangs the next.
Her enormous hand formed a palm strike. The instant the blade pierced her body, that giant palm, wrapped in Armament Haki, crashed down.
Using the smoke and her agonized cries to make everyone believe she had lost the ability to resist, she then endured the injury just to seal off every route Dawn could use to evade.
Charlotte Linlin truly was ruthless. Knowing she