Boom!
It was as if ten thousand tons of high explosives had detonated simultaneously in midair.
A visible ring of white sonic-boom clouds spread wildly in every direction from the point of impact.
Jet-black Armament Haki and dark-red Tailed Beast Chakra tangled together in a deadly struggle.
Dark-red lightning crackled wildly in every direction.
The sea surface was forcibly pressed down dozens of meters.
A massive sunken pit appeared directly in front of the flagship.
Before the seawater could rush back in, the violent shockwave completely vaporized it into white steam.
"What hard tentacles!"
Garp's laughter sounded especially piercing amid the thunderous roar.
He felt that his fist had not punched through soft flesh at all. Instead, it was as though he had struck an entire slab of Seastone Steel.
Not only that.
A scalp-numbing recoil surged from the purple tentacle below.
That force was tyrannical to the extreme.
"Get back!"
The muscles in Garp's arm twisted with a teeth-grating sound.
He gritted his teeth and pushed his Armament Haki to its limit once more.
Screech!
The air was torn apart.
After all, Garp had nowhere to gain leverage in midair.
That terrifying force sent him flying straight upward like a baseball that had been hit away.
He rolled through the air seven or eight times in succession.
Finally.
Garp landed atop the flagship's highest mast.
The thick timber beneath his feet instantly burst into fine spiderweb cracks.
Wood chips scattered everywhere.
"That hurts, damn it!"
"This thing is even stronger than those monsters in the New World!"
Garp shook his slightly numb right hand and grinned, baring a mouthful of white teeth.
Sengoku stood on the deck below, his face as dark as the bottom of a pot.
He had no time to reprimand his old partner. His gaze