"You left yourself open!"
Suddenly, an indifferent voice rang out by his ear.
Sanji's heart tightened. Without a second thought, Haki surged from within him like a raging tide, spreading over his body and forming a thick black Haki Armor.
The next instant, with a wet splurt!
The air beside him erupted with a piercing sonic boom. The crimson Mogura, wrapped in black-red Conqueror's Haki lightning, spun with a shriek that tore through the air. It instantly pierced Sanji's Haki Armor and viciously thrust toward his heart.
Before the razor-sharp force even touched Sanji's skin, it already sent a bone-deep pain shooting through him.
The spearhead pierced the skin along his ribs and sank into his muscles, but his steel-hard ribs stopped it dead, preventing it from entering his chest.
"No, you're the one who left yourself open."
Sanji's eyes sharpened as he unleashed more than a dozen kicks at Katakuri, who was right in front of him. Every kick targeted a different vital point.
Even with his exoskeleton reinforcing him, he was having trouble enduring Mogura's repeated attacks. He had put himself in danger precisely to forcibly deal with his opponent's weapon.
Foreseeing that he would not be able to evade in time, Katakuri had no choice but to release Mogura and shoot backward, his back slamming heavily into the wall of the Pit.
To pull out the weapon, Sanji disregarded his own rules and used the hands a chef depended on for a living, forcibly wrenching Mogura free.
Thanks to his modified body's terrifying regenerative ability, white smoke rose from the wound on his chest as it rapidly healed at a visible rate.
Bang!
Without Haki reinforcing it, Mogura was easily snapped in two beneath Sanji's blue-flamed right foot.
The ground at the bottom of the Pit had