Door-Door Fruit Subspace.
Dawn stood with his hands behind his back behind the green spatial curtain, his cold gaze sweeping across the battlefields outside. The pressure around him rose and fell slightly with his mood.
"In this form, Gion's defense is almost on par with yours, husband."
Hancock nestled against Dawn's side, gently looping her jade-like hand around his arm. Looking at Gion on the screen, who had taken one of Zoro's Death Lion Songs head-on without a scratch, surprise and admiration showed on her face.
"It's not that her defense increased. Imu improved the effects of Blackening Control."
Dawn saw through the surface at a glance. His fingertips lightly tapped the curtain, his voice carrying a trace of cold mockery.
"It improved Blackening Control so that those under its control can use Armament Haki at maximum capacity for defense."
In the God Valley Incident twenty-eight years ago, Rocks, who had been controlled by Blackening Control, was unable to use Haki at maximum capacity. That was why Roger and Garp found a fatal opening and defeated him in one stroke.
Clearly, the master of the Empty Throne, who had lived for eight hundred years, had finally learned from that crushing defeat.
Ordinary people found it difficult to learn from defeat. Most of them died completely after their first loss, without even getting a chance to start over.
But Imu was different. With an Immortal Body, he had endless opportunities for trial and error. Even after repeated defeats, he could always rise again, honing his techniques until they became more vicious and more impossible to counter.
"But that means Sister Gion's lifespan will be drained even faster, right?"
Nojiko stood nearby, undisguised concern in her eyes.
Gion's identity as an undercover agent had never been a secret among Dawn's women. They