Round Three Is About to Begin! (Continued)

But at that very moment.

A dark blur suddenly filled the tall, thin captain's vision.

It was the Prism Staff, stained dark red with mingled blood, crashing down on his skull.

Splat! Like a smashed watermelon, the tall captain's head burst beneath Enel's staff!

Seeing his "companion" fall to an unexpected counterattack, the burly captain charged without a care.

To him, it was nothing more than a brat's desperate last strike.

Better yet, someone else had taken it for him!

His vicious Spiked Club swung down, and the burly captain opened his mouth to shout his victory.

Clang—!!

The ring of metal on metal echoed through the street.

"What?!"

The burly captain's pupils contracted, shock coursing through him.

The force coming back through his hands was many times greater than it had been a minute ago!

"Ignorant children can only grow up after they learn what pain is."

Enel's cold voice came from beneath the Spiked Club.

"And someone like you could never understand true pain!"

A tremendous force erupted. The Spiked Club flew from the burly captain's hands, and his massive frame staggered several steps backward.

Enel's eyes were icy. At some point, jet-black Armament Haki had coated the hand gripping his Prism Staff and was slowly spreading along the weapon.

"This is a command from a god! Die!"

Drawing on the last of his strength, Enel leaped high into the air. He raised his staff and brought it down on the burly captain with inescapable force.

The burly captain gritted his teeth and lifted his Spiked Club to block the blow.

But—

Crack!

With a dull snap, the Spiked Club that had served him through years of fighting broke clean in two beneath Enel's strike.

"No—!!"

Disbelief still writ large on his face, the burly captain had his