Curtain Call (Seven)

Mary Geoise.

Whoosh, whoosh... On the battlefield, now fallen silent, only the biting wind blew tirelessly. Yet to everyone listening, it sounded as unstoppable as an avalanche.

The coat of justice snapping across the man's shoulders, his stiff white spikes of hair, his massively muscled arms, and the distinctive stitched scar over his left eye all revealed who he was: Fleet Admiral "Steel Bone" Kong of Marine Headquarters!

Red specks of dust clung to Kong's exposed arms. With the Revolutionary Army controlling every route to Mary Geoise, he had chosen the most direct, brutally simple way up—he had climbed it with his bare hands!

The sudden quake that had shaken the entire Red Line and the climb up a nearly ten-thousand-meter precipice seemed impossible to outsiders. To Kong, neither had posed the slightest difficulty.

Now, with every eye on him, Kong swept a stern gaze across the battlefield. It paused briefly on the guardians before settling on Colin... Boom!

An explosion like a drumbeat struck everyone's heart. A shudder rippled outward, spreading like a virus, vast and unstoppable. Colin, at the center of it all, was no exception. Facing Kong at full strength, he managed only one step back before Kong's arm struck him and scattered his body.

"Save him, quick!"

"Stop them, whatever it takes!"

"Nobody move if you don't want him dead..."

Kong's lightning-fast strike had forced Colin into his elemental form and reignited the entire battlefield. Cipher Pol Aigis Zero's fighters fearlessly blocked Issho and the others from coming to his aid, while the guardians, who should have attacked Kong immediately, turned as one against Sebas's group... Crackle!

Kong gripped Colin's flowing body tightly with Armament Haki, trying to seize the leader with a surprise attack. Then a golden flash tore across the sky and arrived in