Issho's Grief and Fury, the Battle Takes a Sharp Turn

The anticipated scene of blood and flesh flying everywhere never appeared.

The "Hina" that had been pierced suddenly flashed with a blinding blue light and exploded with a deafening boom.

The blue flames infused with Haki were like wild horses breaking free of their reins, surging in every direction on the explosive blast wave and swallowing several Magma-Magma Fruit clones that had not yet reacted.

At the bottom of a crater several meters deep, Sakazuki stood unscathed beneath a layer of invisible armor condensed to the utmost limit.

His Observation Haki had long since locked onto the real target. Ignoring the blue flames scattered around him, he slowly raised both hands toward the direction his senses had fixed on.

[Meteor Volcano]!

One magma-wrapped volcanic shell after another, trailing thick plumes of smoke and wreathed in Supreme Armament Haki, rained down across the area where Hina stood.

Hina sharply drew back her right arm. The muscles throughout her body were like springs compressed to their limits, waves of power shooting up from the soles of her feet and traveling all the way to her fist.

The blue-flame exhaust ports behind her elbows suddenly flared brilliantly, and the jets of fire propelled her forward like a cannonball.

[Fire Phoenix Iron Fist]!

Her terrifying physique, strengthened time and again by the Lineage Factor, was unleashed to its fullest at that moment.

Driven by the blue flames, her Armament Haki-clad fist smashed the foremost volcanic shell into dust as easily as breaking a bubble.

To break through the protection of Supreme Armament Haki, aside from wearing it down with greater quantities or stronger Haki, there was an even more straightforward method—overwhelming force.

As long as the power was great enough, any defense could be punched through with brute strength.

After her fist shattered the