Armament Haki, Awakening

Standing on the ground, Dawn looked at the genuine Chinjao of the Drill in midair. Feeling the pressure powerful enough to make his soul tremble, he took a deep breath, squeezed out every last bit of hidden strength in his body, and poured it all into his right arm.

At his fist, unprecedented gravity and darkness that devoured everything gathered and compressed madly. The chaotic sphere of energy even caused faint distortions in the surrounding space. This was the ultimate strike he could unleash in his current state.

The drill and fist collided once more!

Under the combined force of Chinjao's maximum-strength Hasshoken shockwave and his remaining Armament Haki, the sphere of gravity and darkness condensed around Dawn's fist was instantly obliterated.

The shock force, carrying the property of internal destruction, surged into Dawn's arm like a burst dam, violently flooding through it.

Crack!

A clear sound of breaking bone rang out. Cracks instantly spread across the bones in Dawn's arm, and that destructive force continued unstoppable along his arm toward his torso and internal organs.

An aura of death washed over him. Dawn felt the strength draining rapidly from his entire body, his vision blurring and darkening. All he could hear was his own heavy, bellows-like breathing and the roar of blood rushing through his veins.

"How could I... fall here..."

He bit his gums until they bled, the sweet metallic taste spreading through his mouth as he held on through sheer willpower.

In his mind, the image of his parents lying in a pool of blood surfaced once more with perfect clarity—their despairing yet loving eyes burning his soul like the hottest flames.

"I still haven't... taken revenge on those bastards...!!!"

His eyes instantly turned bloodshot!

Just before the indestructible internal-destruction force of the Hasshoken could completely pour