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Whoosh!

The wind howled past his ears as Sephiroth, briefly stunned, shot uncontrollably toward the high sky.

At the same time, Sephiroth could not help wondering why Red-Haired Shanks had ambushed him.

Was it because Sephiroth had seized his territory, leaving him dissatisfied?

Or had word of what he had done to Uta somehow reached Red-Haired Shanks, causing him, in the fury of a father, to decide to chop Sephiroth up and feed him to dogs...?

However...

As a figure suddenly appeared, all the doubts in Sephiroth's heart vanished.

But the price was...

God Avoidance!

Roger, wielding the Famous Blade Ace, flashed forward and appeared directly in the path Sephiroth was about to be sent flying. He struck him with another Conqueror's Haki shockwave, slamming him into the ground and blasting out a deep crater.

Before he could struggle out of the pit, a low shout rang out from above.

Earth Scroll!

With a rumbling boom, the surrounding rocks suddenly began to move. They abruptly closed in, twisting and rotating as they tightly trapped Sephiroth beneath the ground, cutting off his air as though they intended to suffocate him alive.

As the world spun around him, Sephiroth first gritted his teeth and covered his entire body in Armament Haki. Then he bent his legs fiercely and sprang upward, forcefully breaking free of the restraints and bursting out of the earth into the air.

However...

Before he could fully breathe a sigh of relief, a hearty laugh reached his ears.

"Gurararara! I hate doing this, but I have no choice. Sorry, brat!"

Sephiroth looked down in the direction of the voice.

Then he saw Whitebeard, his blond hair flowing, leap from the ground while swinging Murakumogiri at him.

After being ambushed three times in succession, Sephiroth had already entered a state