"Finally..."
"The wait is over."
An ancient, low voice drifted out of the shadows, mingling with Teach's strange laugh.
The next second, the entire Holy Land erupted.
"Kill him!!"
Light arrived first.
Zzzzt—!
Borsalino appeared at his flank in an instant. The Ama no Murakumo blazed with dazzling golden light, Haki coiling tightly around its blade as he brought it down at his head!
But a black-purple tentacle suddenly shot out from beneath the rubble, whipping sideways with a sharp crack.
Its surface was black as ink. The moment the Ama no Murakumo touched it, the golden light abruptly faltered.
As though something had swallowed a mouthful of it.
Borsalino's pupils contracted. "What?!"
At the same time, the ground burst apart.
"Multiplication—Hundredfold speed!!"
Bullet hurtled in like a cannonball, his fist wrapped in Conqueror's Haki as he drove it straight at Teach's chest.
A third tentacle lashed out from the side, white light flaring at its tip.
Crack.
Fractures spread through the air.
Boom—!
The Tremor-Tremor Fruit's power!
A Shockwave exploded from the tentacle's tip. Before Bullet's fist could reach its target, it collided head-on with the Shockwave.
Both forces erupted at once, blasting half the ruins into the air.
Magma followed right behind.
"Hell Hound!"
Sakazuki's entire right arm turned to magma and slammed into the tentacle wrapped around Rock. The magma burned furiously, sending up black smoke with a sizzling hiss.
"Get your filthy thing off him—!!"
Boom!
Half the black-purple tentacle was burned through on the spot.
But the flesh at the severed end writhed wildly, almost growing back in the blink of an eye.
Bam!
Garp plummeted from above, his iron fist wrapped in Conqueror's Haki as he smashed straight into the severed end.
Boom!
Another huge section of the tentacle exploded, spraying black blood across