"Consider this your chance to shine, to make up for me forgetting you on the battlefield last time."
Werther stood with his sword in hand, chin slightly raised, signaling Jack to charge.
"Now that's the kind of chance I like."
Jack slammed an elephantine foot into the ground with a dull thud, then charged again.
When Kozuki Oden saw what Jack was doing, he could no longer hold back.
"Stop him! We cannot let Jack the Drought hit the wall!"
With a roar, Kozuki Oden leaped from the wall and charged straight at Jack.
"You won't stop us."
Tillman had appeared in front of Jack without anyone noticing.
"Seal!"
Tillman thrust out a withered hand that resembled a chicken claw. Black, tadpole-shaped characters appeared from nowhere in the air around Kozuki Oden.
Kozuki Oden shuddered and stopped in his tracks.
"What kind of Fruit power is this?"
Kozuki Oden struggled to raise his arm. He felt bound by the very air around him.
"Announcing your Fruit power before a fight is idiotic, if you ask me. You're welcome to guess."
Tillman walked through the air. As he moved, swathes of black, tadpole-shaped characters appeared beneath his feet.
Watching him, Werther could not help but marvel at how powerful rule-based Fruit abilities were.
Werther had asked about Tillman's Fruit power before, and Tillman had shared some of its details.
It was the Human-type Seal-Seal Fruit. Tillman could seal anything inanimate—anything at all, except living things.
At first, Werther had thought Tillman's power was similar to the Barrier-Barrier Fruit, but he later learned otherwise.
Tillman sealed the air itself, which made his power far stronger than the Barrier-Barrier Fruit.
By sealing air, he could restrain an enemy—and kill them.
The sealed air was finite. Once its oxygen ran out, anyone trapped inside