Gion, Run!

Gion's eyes were icy as Kompira, gleaming with peach-colored light, came down in a precise slash. The flying slash collided with the pillar of lightning, and the explosion's glare lit up her tense face.

Some of the residual lightning splashed onto her, bursting into fine electric sparks. But the Armament Haki armor covering her entire body kept them firmly at bay.

Her blade's momentum did not cease. With a twist of her wrist, Kompira carved a perfect arc through the firelight of the explosion. A fierce flying slash tore through the sky full of electric arcs, moving too fast for the eye to follow as it shot toward Enel!

This time, Enel seemed unable to evade in time. The slash grazed his left shoulder, bringing up a spray of vivid blood. The instant it left his body, the heat of the remaining lightning evaporated it into a blood mist.

"Ow, ow, ow... Now this is getting interesting."

Enel grinned, but there was not the slightest pain in his eyes—only an excited gleam. Without stopping, he raised an arm toward the sky. A terrifying pillar of lightning hundreds of meters wide descended from above.

Gion flicked her wrist and swung her right hand upward in a backhand motion. The movement was as smooth as if she had practiced it thousands upon thousands of times, and Kompira's blade traced a perfect arc through the air.

A broad slash hundreds of meters long burst from the blade and tore through the air. Though launched later, it arrived first, splitting the first descending lightning pillar straight down the middle!

The severed lightning lost its cohesion and exploded into countless snake-like electric arcs in midair, crackling deafeningly.

The second and third lightning pillars followed close behind.

Gion shifted from a one-handed grip to two hands,