"Hey, mister! You're a Marine, aren't you? Aren't you afraid of hurting innocent people with such a dangerous move?"
Observation Haki clearly picked up the despair radiating from the surrounding residents. The smile vanished from Luffy's face in an instant, replaced by anger.
He assimilated a nearby building into a massive slingshot, then turned his hair into a pair of sunglasses and put them on.
At heart, he was an exceptionally kind person. It was only because there were usually no innocent bystanders at the battlefields in the original story that he had never said anything like this during a fight.
"You naive fool." Akainu's voice came from within the enormous magma meteor, cold and merciless.
"Combat is a fight to the death. There's no need to think about so much. These are necessary sacrifices!"
Within only a few breaths, Akainu's entire body was enveloped by violently surging magma, forming a colossal magma meteor hundreds of meters in diameter.
It rumbled as it plummeted toward the ground, carrying the force to destroy everything, as though it intended to sink the entire Sabaody Archipelago.
"You're really pissing me off! I'm definitely sending you flying!"
Using the slingshot's elasticity, Luffy launched himself into the air. Midair, he strengthened the muscles in his arm and spun it rapidly like a windmill before suddenly extending it and throwing a devastating hook.
"Rubber White Star Gun!"
A Haki Armor expanded over his fist as Luffy's blow struck the falling magma meteor from afar. The immense momentum from his slingshot launch complemented the momentum built through rotation, unleashing earth-shaking destructive power.
"Boom!"
With a thunderous explosion that seemed to split heaven and earth, magma and fire rained down in every direction like scattered blossoms.
Eight nearby districts suffered an undeserved disaster, instantly turning into seas of