"Not bad strength."
Feeling the overwhelming force transmitted through the spiked club, Marco used the recoil to pull back. Blue flames unfurled behind him into enormous phoenix wings, and his figure made a nimble turn in midair, proactively widening the distance.
"Looks like you really did perfectly inherit Kaido's bloodline. To possess such strength at such a young age... But for Pops's sake, I won't admit defeat so easily."
Armament Haki flowed over his sharp right talon. The air was torn apart by its tips with a piercing shriek as he kicked heavily toward Yamato.
"Nami, go help the others. I can handle things here alone."
Yamato gave the order without looking back, then leaped down from the white cloud. Her bent legs stomped the air beneath her until it burst with explosive pops, sending white shockwaves blooming outward. Her figure flashed and abruptly vanished from Marco's sight.
The next second, A-Ken, wreathed in black-red lightning, smashed solidly into Marco's abdomen.
"Roaring Thunder Bagua!"
Marco's attack instantly collapsed. It was as if he had been struck by an invisible battering ram. Blood sprayed from between his teeth as his body became a streak of light, blasting hundreds of meters backward before crashing into the hard Ice.
"She's really fast... My Observation Haki clearly predicted her trajectory, but my body couldn't keep up at all."
Amid the Ice shards filling the sky, blue flames surged upward. Marco flew out into the air, the wound on his abdomen rapidly healing beneath the shroud of Regenerative Flame.
The ease on his face completely vanished, replaced by absolute gravity. He stared from afar at Yamato, who was hovering in the air with Geppo, and raised his guard to the utmost.
On the Ice several hundred meters ahead of David's Revenge, the situation was