"A Paramecia user?"
Dongze watched the scene unfold and already had a theory.
The man's ability had to involve heat. Otherwise, with Dongze's current strength, there was no way he could have escaped Cold River so quickly when Dongze had used it at full power.
"Fuck, I'm freezing to death!"
"I swear I'm going to kill that bastard!"
A voice soon came from the steam. It belonged to Joanne Kabi.
She had returned to her human form. When Dongze froze her, her massive body had taken even more damage. If someone hadn't saved her just now, the effort of keeping herself warm would have worn her to death.
She might have looked lively, but she had already suffered severe internal injuries, and her strength had fallen sharply.
"Kabi! Don't rush in! There's something strange about him!"
He had frozen all five of them in one move. An ordinary person couldn't do that. Even Aokiji might not have managed it.
"Yaan Lass, what do you suggest?"
Kabi didn't dare transform again. If Dongze froze her a second time, she might not survive.
Yaan Lass's expression hardened. "We attack together!"
"Formation A!"
They moved at once. A cloud of steam burst outward with a boom, its scalding heat obscuring everyone's vision.
It was Yaan Lass's ability. As a Boil-Boil Fruit user, he could make substances boil. He had boiled the moisture in the air to produce this steam, which could reach 384 degrees.
That was far hotter than absolute zero at minus 273 degrees, which was how he had escaped Dongze's ice.
This time, he knew better. He intended to block Dongze's ability outright and stop him from using that move again.
The terrifying heat sent everything nearby from one extreme to the other.
Two pitch-black Slashes pierced the steam and flew