Under everyone's shocked gazes, Whitebeard's body was slowly covered in a transparent material.
No, it could not be called covering. His body itself was transforming into that material.
This was clearly his son Jozu's ability—the power of the Diamond-Diamond Fruit!
Even Big Mom could not help freezing for a moment, but her hand did not stop. Ikokku had already been unleashed, and she had even deliberately aimed it at the wounded soldiers behind Whitebeard.
Given how deeply Whitebeard loved his sons, there was no way he would dodge. If it had been the Whitebeard of old, he would only have taken the blow with his own body before counterattacking with the Tremor-Tremor Fruit. That was the only retaliation Big Mom could think of.
But now, Whitebeard still took the attack with his own body. Yet as his body rapidly transformed into diamond, it was covered by a layer of dark Haki. At that moment, he looked almost like carbon fiber, brimming with strength and defense.
Without hesitation, he used the side of his body to take Big Mom's Ikokku head-on. After his body swayed three times, a crack split open across his diamond body covered in dark Haki. Clearly, even so, Big Mom's Ikokku was not something that could be blocked so easily.
But at that moment, the situation had already reversed. Their offensive and defensive positions had switched. Facing Big Mom, whose defenses were wide open after taking damage, Whitebeard revealed a savage grin.
Big Mom had long been prepared to endure Whitebeard's strike, but when she saw his body turn diamond-like, her thoughts fell into complete disarray.
In Chinese novels, there was an emphasis on artistic conception, the bearing of an expert, and one's state of mind.
Without the heart of the strong, the weak could never become