"Why bother? Maybe Mama can still win?"
Seeing Smoothie willingly seek death, Perospero shook his head. There was not the slightest trace of sorrow on his face, only a barely noticeable hint of relief.
Their differing personalities doomed him not to perish alongside this long-rotten family like those foolish brothers and sisters. To him, staying alive mattered more than anything.
"Are you grieving for your family's deaths? Don't worry. You'll be reunited with them soon enough."
A cold voice sounded beside his ear. Perospero looked toward its source. Rather than showing fear, he grinned, baring his teeth.
"Don't misunderstand. I'm not the sentimental type." He licked his long tongue, his tone slick and oily. "Looks like you can't take me down either, so how about we each take a step back and let me leave?"
As his words fell, a massive golden iron maiden made of candy rose from the ground. Its surface was covered in dense Armament Haki, gleaming with a cold metallic sheen.
The next instant, Lucci emerged from his high-speed movement. Half-man, half-leopard, he raised his right leg, wreathed in pitch-black Armament Haki, high into the air. Stirring the surrounding air, he kicked out a bird-shaped vacuum slash dozens of meters tall.
In mid-flight, the slash abruptly expanded a hundredfold, blotting out the sky and sun.
Like a hot knife through butter, the enormous bird-shaped vacuum slash cleaved through the golden iron maiden, splitting the earth in its path and leaving behind a bottomless ravine before vanishing beyond the horizon.
The instant the iron maiden was split apart, Perospero used Geppo to rise into the air, narrowly evading the attack.
Hovering in midair beneath his feet, Perospero fashioned candy into a longbow, then created several sharp candy arrows in his hand and fired a rain of arrows