God's Lament, Demon Cry

"What did you mean by that?"

Aramaki flexed his wrists, his eyes wary.

Dawn gave him an indifferent glance.

"I'll give you time to recover. Then you'll fight me. If you lose, leave this place and become a pirate under me."

"What an arrogant bastard."

Aramaki smiled, his face full of mockery.

"Who wins and who loses is still uncertain. Besides, I'll never become one of you scum!"

"I've always shown basic respect to the strong. I originally wanted to make you lose wholeheartedly. Since you refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit, don't blame me for what comes next."

Purple-black flames rose along Kikoku's blade. Dawn turned into an Afterimage and delivered an utterly ordinary horizontal slash at a speed Aramaki could not comprehend.

"[God's Lament, Demon Cry · East: Void Torrent]"

Observation Haki blared a mad warning. Aramaki almost instinctively used Soru to sidestep.

The entire wall behind where he had been standing vanished without a sound.

That strike had even pierced through the entire prison. Everywhere the wave of flames passed, everything seemed to vanish into thin air.

The prisoners and civilians in its path did not even have time to scream before they were reduced to ash.

This was the power produced by combining the awakened Dark-Dark Fruit and Press-Press Fruit. Black currents, purple gravity waves, and colorless Armament Haki fused together, visually resembling burning purple-black flames.

Anything touched by those purple-black flames would be crushed by terrifying gravity, pulled by darkness's Gravity, and shattered by Armament Haki's internal destruction, vanishing into nothingness under the combined power of all three.

Of course, this move was not invincible. It could be resisted with a large amount of Armament Haki or Conqueror's Haki capable of causing tangible damage.

Kaido had done exactly that, and in the end,