Fatty / Awakening

Chapter 219: Fatty

Azure Dragon.

It was a move he had created himself, a close-range Slash that could unleash speed seemingly beyond time itself in an instant.

At his original level of strength, he could not have used it at all. And for the move to reach its maximum speed, one condition had to be met: lightning had to clear the way.

After Kuina ate the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, the move suited her perfectly.

If she used it now, even he would have trouble dodging. He would have to take it head-on.

And the instant his Conqueror's Haki advanced, he grasped Coating.

The Void lightning produced by Conqueror's Haki Coating was neither as powerful as real lightning nor as powerful as the lightning from Kuina's Rumble-Rumble Fruit, but it allowed him to use the true Azure Dragon.

So the moment he grasped it, he used it without a second thought.

Sshhk!

As though space itself had been cut open, a flash of azure light streaked past. Kuta vanished from where he stood and appeared directly in front of Carteles.

His blade came down toward Carteles's chest.

Boom!

A deafening explosion erupted. The overwhelming shock wave forced Kuzan and Kuina to narrow their eyes even as it drove them out of the Church.

The space around the Church twisted like a spinning pinwheel. Then the ground surged outward from where the two had collided, rolling toward the surroundings like an ocean wave.

Amid the thunderous rumble, the entire Church and the whole high ground collapsed from the mountaintop. Shattered stone and splintered wood rode the hurricane formed by the shock wave into the sky, then rained down toward the town below.

Crack.

The sky...

It had truly split open.

This time, it was not the thick fog. The real sky above the