The Three Admirals

Seeing Bullet completely unscathed, his body covered in a thick layer of Armament Haki armor, Kizaru took a deep breath and brought his hands together before pulling them apart.

"You really are a monster, Douglas Barrett."

"Ama no Murakumo Sword!!"

Whoosh!

Kizaru's figure vanished in an instant, and the dazzling golden Ama no Murakumo Sword came crashing down upon him!

Bullet grinned, baring a mouthful of white teeth. His thick right arm stretched out, its rippling muscles like rolling hills.

His five fingers spread wide as his enormous palm blasted upward.

Boom!!

The golden light sword collided with the gigantic palm.

Like a waterfall pouring down from the heavens crashing into a massive reef.

Countless streaks of golden light splashed like raindrops from Bullet's sky-supporting palm in every direction.

The golden light exploded the instant it struck the ground.

Boom boom boom!

Within a radius of several hundred meters, chunks of floating ice were blasted to pieces.

Charred, mangled corpses were thrown into the air by the explosions or blasted into the depths of the sea.

"Get out of the admirals' battle range!"

"Stay away from Captain Bullet!!"

Clang clang clang!

Clang clang clang!

The brilliant Ama no Murakumo Sword turned into countless hazy golden afterimages, continuously colliding and crashing against the two arms dancing through the air.

Bullet completely ignored the shattering ice beneath his feet. Treading on the air, his huge body was incomparably swift and agile, flickering through midair as he traded rapid attacks with Kizaru.

"With such a huge body, he actually has such absurd speed. What a headache."

Sweat beaded on Kizaru's forehead as he barely dodged the huge palm Bullet swung at him.

The enormous hand crushed the air, creating visible ripples.

The turbulent air was like stirred water, madly squeezing in from all directions and gradually slowing Kizaru's evasive movements.

"Zehahahaha! As expected of a Glint-Glint Fruit user. When it comes to speed, you're still stronger, Kizaru!"

Bullet stepped into the air, suddenly clenched his fingers into a fist, and punched toward Kizaru's face.

The golden Ama no Murakumo Sword swept across, unleashing a terrifying slash that seemed to tear space apart as it struck the surface of Bullet's fist.

Clang!

A crisp metallic crash rang through the sky. Under Kizaru's gritted gaze, the Ama no Murakumo Sword, compressed and formed from golden light, exploded into a shower of light.

Just as Kizaru was about to form another Ama no Murakumo Sword.

Bullet spread his arms and embraced the empty space before him, his ten fingers stretching and curling as though he had seized the entire expanse of space.

"Do you know, Kizaru? I'm a Combine-Combine Fruit user. I can fuse with any inorganic matter."

Seeing the smile on Bullet's face, Kizaru's heart skipped a beat. He sensed that something was wrong.

His hands quickly came together, and a thick golden beam shot forth toward the distant sky.

Suddenly, the air dozens of meters away twisted abnormally.

The golden beam he had fired was actually reflected, bouncing back and forth within a space spanning dozens of meters, unable to penetrate it at all.

"This is bad!" Kizaru's pupils contracted violently as he spread his hands apart. "Sacred Jewel of Eight—"

"Air is inorganic matter too."

"Even air can fuse with me!"

"Air Armor!!"

Bullet suddenly seized the air with both hands and slammed them together!

High in the sky, the air turned into tangible armor like chaotic ocean currents, wrapping itself around Bullet's burly body.

In Kizaru's powerful Observation Haki perception, Bullet was no longer using Moonwalk to tread through the air. He was standing directly upon the void.

The air within several hundred meters had become an invisible, enormous suit of Air Armor worn by Bullet.

As Bullet brought his hands together.

Two enormous air arms, over fifty meters long and covered in powerful Armament Haki, came smashing down!

Boom!!

A world-shaking roar exploded over the inner bay.

The raging airflow stirred up a terrifying storm that howled and swept outward.

Bang!

Kizaru's body exploded into golden light, then reformed in the plaza several hundred meters away.

"Pfft!"

The instant he appeared, he spat out a mouthful of blood. Only then did the flush on his face fade somewhat.

"Admiral Kizaru!"

Seeing this, the Marine officers in the plaza were immediately aghast.

Kizaru waved a hand, raised the other to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, and looked toward the imposing figure rushing in from the distant sky.

"What a downer. They all say Logia Devil Fruits are the most powerful Devil Fruits."

He glanced at Bullet, then at Whitebeard in the distance, who was fiercely battling Aokiji, and sighed.

"But those two monsters are both Paramecia users. If I'd known, I would've chosen a Paramecia ability too."

"You let your guard down, Kizaru!" A burly prisoner suddenly charged in from behind, wielding a heavy battle-axe that slashed straight across Kizaru's waist!

"Hahaha! My axe covered in Armament Haki hit him! I killed an admiral!"

The prisoner burst into laughter.

Whoosh!

A golden laser pierced through the air and blasted through his throat, piercing even the spine that supported his body.

Confusion appeared in the prisoner's eyes before he suddenly collapsed.

Kizaru lowered his index finger. Another Ama no Murakumo Sword formed in his hand, and his body turned into countless drops of light as he shot toward the charging Bullet.

Rumble rumble rumble!

Terrifying shockwaves wantonly shattered every patch of ice in sight.

Whitebeard held his Pheasant Blade in one hand while a spherical shockwave gathered around his right fist. With one punch, he crushed the long ice-crystal spears Aokiji had fired at him.

Crack crack!

The spears covered in Armament Haki were undoubtedly harder than steel by an unknown degree.

Yet amid the shattered atmosphere filling the sky, they were still like fragile glass, easily torn apart by violent currents of air.

"Aokiji, what the hell are you Marines planning?"

Whitebeard frowned deeply, an inexplicable sense of unease rising in his heart.

Whoosh!

A mass of ice crystals exploded. Aokiji shot into the sky like lightning, clasped his hands together, and blasted a surging torrent of cold air down at Whitebeard like a tsunami.

"Ice Breath!!"

"Freeze, Whitebeard!"

The mighty cold current poured down from the sky, spreading vast clouds of icy mist through the air. The moisture in the atmosphere rapidly froze into grains of ice crystals that clattered onto the sea, freezing the surging seawater again and forming glaciers.

Crack crack crack crack.

Whitebeard's towering body, like Bullet before him, was engulfed by the surging cold current.

Then the cold current froze the air, forming thicker and thicker layers of solid ice.

Aokiji used Shave beneath his feet, continuously circling the icy sphere that had sealed Whitebeard inside while spraying out massive amounts of frigid air to reinforce and thicken the ice.

Crack!

A crisp cracking sound reached his ears, and Aokiji's expression changed.

Before his eyes, clear cracks kept appearing across the giant ice sphere more than ten meters thick.

"Ah la la, so vibrations really can't be frozen?"

"But the delay has already been achieved..."

He tapped the ground with his foot, and his body suddenly shot backward.

Crack crack crack!

White cracks rapidly appeared across the enormous ice sphere, soon covering its entire surface.

Then the entire ice sphere exploded from within, turning into countless shards of ice.

Whoosh!

Whitebeard raised the Pheasant Blade in his hand high overhead. A white shockwave wrapped around its heavy blade as he gripped it one-handed and slashed through the air at the retreating Aokiji!

Boom!!