Dawn's eyes narrowed slightly. He neither dodged nor retreated, instead stepping forward and raising his right fist. The Armament Haki on his arm boiled like scalding water as he met Bullet's long-charged charging punch head-on and struck out fiercely.
Boom—crack!!
The large and small fists collided viciously in midair. A violent explosion like thunder from a clear sky erupted across the flat ground, and a surging, savage shockwave spread outward from the two of them in a ring.
Wherever it passed, the air warped into a blur. The sea below was forcibly pressed into a depression hundreds of meters wide, while trees and rocks across the island were ripped from the ground and hurled into the distance within the shockwave!
Soul-stirring black-red arcs of lightning radiated from the point where Dawn and Bullet clashed, lashing wildly in every direction and crackling against the ground.
Yamato stood atop a reef, spreading a flowing Armament Haki barrier that blocked every bit of the impact. Yet her eyes remained fixed without blinking on the two figures in midair.
A storm raged in Bullet's heart. He had thought that his charged attack would at least pose some threat to Dawn.
However, when he felt the opposing fist, utterly unmoving and as steady as a mountain, his heart jolted. He immediately realized that his attack had completely failed to achieve the effect he had expected.
An even fiercer fighting spirit burst from Bullet's eyes. Keeping his right fist extended, he covered his left fist with another dense layer of Armament Haki and swung it viciously at Dawn, who was within arm's reach, from an extremely tricky and difficult-to-defend angle.
Facing Bullet's successive heavy punch, Dawn remained calm. He wrapped both Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki around his left fist, then launched it with an exquisite