Shiryu's End

The central ruins of Hachinosu had now become an absolutely silent forbidden zone of obsidian.

Rain sat upright upon a towering obsidian throne, the right arm in his hand still radiating the residual heat of the earth's core as it slowly exhaled gray rock Haki. Below him, former Marine Admiral Aokiji Kuzan limped along, planting his shortened ice spear into the ground. His face, usually filled with laziness, was now clouded by unprecedented gravity and coldness.

Their gazes collided in midair, and the atmosphere froze like a powder keg on the verge of exploding.

"Ashen Reaper Rain... It seems you didn't come here today merely to save Mr. Garp." Aokiji exhaled a pale stream of cold air. Frost continuously spread over the bloody swelling Garp had left on his right arm, forcibly stopping the bleeding. He was badly injured, and the severe drain on his stamina made even maintaining a large-scale "Ice Age" somewhat difficult.

"I never need to explain what I do to anyone."

The instant Rain's cold voice fell, his figure vanished abruptly from the throne.

Whoosh!

Space was violently shattered beneath his extreme speed. Like a phantom, Rain crossed several hundred meters in an instant, his fist wrapped in black-red Conqueror's Haki lightning as it smashed fiercely toward Aokiji's face!

"Ice Block: Pheasant Beak!"

Aokiji's pupils contracted sharply. Though his serious injuries had yet to heal, an admiral's battle instincts made him instantly condense his remaining freezing energy into an ice bird, attempting to block Rain's assault.

Yet at the very moment Rain and Aokiji clashed head-on, an incomparably chilling killing intent suddenly erupted from the surrounding void, nearly erasing all trace of its presence!

It was Shiryu, the former "Chief Warden" of Impel Down's Infinite Hell. Now that he had eaten the Paramecia Clear-Clear Fruit, he