The Hunter Waited for the Fire to Go Out

As Chen Ye was thinking,

Luffy regained his footing.

His soles shattered the ice.

Golden light streamed behind him.

Like a comet that was about to burn out.

All his strength poured into his legs.

He charged toward Imu.

The greatsword dragged across the ground.

Its tip cleaved through the ice.

White fragments flew in all directions.

The trajectory was off.

By half an inch.

His left foot landed half a beat too slowly.

His right foot pushed off at an angle two degrees off.

At extreme speed,

A tiny error became a fatal deviation.

The straight golden line bent into an arc.

His body could no longer maintain its explosive rhythm.

The white flames around the greatsword grew thinner as well.

Their thickness plummeted.

Only a thin layer clinging to the blade's spine remained.

The flames burned,

Revealing the metallic color beneath the blade.

The Sun God's power had already been exhausted.

But he still accelerated.

Luffy gritted his teeth.

He leaped when he was thirty meters from Imu.

The greatsword rose from the ground.

The remaining white flames cleaved toward Imu's head.

The angle was tricky, and the strike was incredibly fast.

Ten minutes ago, it would have been enough to tear through the dark-gold barrier.

But not today.

Imu did not summon the barrier.

He did not raise a hand.

The King of the World shifted slightly to one side.

The greatsword grazed the edge of Imu's robes.

The white flames burned an arc through the air.

They touched nothing.

The blade was half an inch from Imu's neck.

That half inch became an impassable chasm.

Luffy landed.

His feet skidded two steps.

Golden light flickered over his shoulder.

He immediately adjusted his center of gravity.

The greatsword swept horizontally from the left.

Imu leaned back.

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