Sabo, who was doing his utmost to maintain the flames' output, stumbled upon hearing Ace's furious roar that shook the western wilds, nearly unable to maintain his elemental form.
As he increased the firepower, he turned and roared at Ace, his voice distorted amidst the flames' thunderous roar. "Ace!!!"
"Is this the time to worry about your hairstyle?! What's more important, your life or your feathers?!"
Ace suddenly raised his head. His flaming eyes burned with grief and indignation over his ruined hairstyle, as well as blazing fury toward Aokiji. He roared with complete conviction, his voice shaking the west. "Both! Are! Important!!!"
Ace's childish anger and Sabo's helpless jab instantly ignited an even deeper level of understanding between the two brothers.
Ace's Mythical Beast Flames, which burned even hotter and purer because of his anger, resonated strangely with Sabo's steady, vast Logia Flames under the catalyst of their emotions.
The flames around them were no longer fighting separately. They pulsed and merged in sync like breathing, as though they had always been two sides of the same whole.
Without needing to speak, both of them understood at once and gathered the terrifying flame energy born from that resonance—far beyond anything from before—into a single point.
Ace spread his wings, and every flaming feather gathered toward the center like birds returning to their nest, rapidly forming a high-speed rotating core of fire.
Sabo compressed the flames throughout his body to the limit, turning them into a concentrated torrent of nearly white fire that he injected into the core without hesitation.
"Nirvana: Burning Sky and Ash Sea!!"
The two roared in unison, their voices overpowering even the flames' thunderous rumble, as if they would make heaven and earth tremble.
A fiery shockwave beyond the accurate description of ordinary colors, containing the