The Pirate Patriarch's Fall

"No! He's going to destroy the spatial stabilizers! Everyone, stop him!"

Hancock's expression changed. She cried out and swept up a slender hand, sending pink arrows wrapped in Busoshoku Haki streaking toward Ochoku like meteors flying against the current as he teleported from one new marker to the next.

"Slave Arrow!"

The arrows struck the Haki armor Ochoku had raised with all his might, sending ripples across it.

The armor cracked under the impacts, but almost the instant it broke, fresh Haki surged from Ochoku's body and repaired it.

He had thrown caution aside. Burning through his strength without restraint, he forced his way out of the rain of pink arrows and kept closing in on his target: the spatial stabilizers on the Eos's deck.

The arrows never touched his skin, so Hancock's petrification could not affect him.

The passive effect of the Love-Love Fruit did nothing to him either.

Just as a blind man, or someone whose vision had deteriorated until everyone looked like a blur, could not be swayed by beauty, a target whose attention was entirely elsewhere would not be petrified by Hancock's looks.

Ochoku was a lecher himself, but right now, survival was the only thing on his mind. How could he spare a thought for anything else?

On the ground, Hancock stamped her foot in frustration, her delicate face flushed with anger. She had never felt so thoroughly thwarted. Running into two enemies in such a short time who were completely immune to her beauty was a crushing blow to someone who had always prided herself on it.

Beside her, Stussy opened her mouth toward Ochoku in the sky. A searing wave of fire shot upward like a roaring dragon and swallowed him whole. The Supreme Armament Haki within the flames broke down his Haki