"What do you mean by this?"
Aramaki rolled his wrists, his eyes wary.
Dawn gave him an indifferent glance.
"I'll give you time to recover, then we'll have a fight. If you lose, leave this place and become a pirate under me."
"You arrogant bastard."
Aramaki smiled, his expression full of mockery.
"It's still too early to say who'll win or lose. Besides, I'd never become one of you scum!"
"I've always had basic respect for the strong. I originally wanted you to accept your defeat wholeheartedly. Since you refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit, don't blame me for what comes next."
Purple-black Flame rose from the blade of Kikoku. Dawn turned into an afterimage and, at a speed Aramaki could not comprehend, delivered an utterly ordinary horizontal slash.
"[Divine Lament Kikoku — East: Void Torrent]"
Observation Haki screamed warnings. Aramaki almost instinctively used Soru to sidestep.
The entire wall behind where he had been standing vanished without a sound.
This attack had even pierced through the entire prison. Everything in the path of the tidal wave of Flame seemed to vanish into thin air.
The prisoners and civilians along its path did not even have time to scream before they were reduced to ash.
This was the power produced by combining the awakened Yami Yami no Mi and Press-Press Fruit. Black currents, purple gravitational waves, and colorless Armament Haki fused together, visually resembling burning purple-black Flame.
Anything touched by that purple-black Flame would be turned into nothingness under the combined force of terrifying gravitational compression, dark attraction, and Armament Haki's crushing power—internal destruction.
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.
That was what Kaido had done. In the