"Such absolute strength... so overwhelming that it leaves you without even the will to fight!"
Mihawk gripped the Cross Sword with both hands, concentrating every ounce of his strength into the blade that had accompanied him on his travels for years, and slashed fiercely at the white face overhead.
Vrrrr—
A terrifying Flying Slash shot straight into the sky.
Threads of brilliant crimson wove through the Sword Aura's blazing green light, like the bloody glow of a life burning away.
Faced with the Flying Slash rising toward him from below,
Adrian likewise gripped the Cursed Sword Kitetsu with both hands and unleashed his Armament Haki without reservation.
One Sword Style · Ryuo · Mountain-Crushing · Great Tremor!
The Black Blade descended like a god cleaving heaven and earth apart, unstoppable.
Mihawk's Flying Slash, into which he had poured almost everything, shattered outright beneath Adrian's strike.
The escaping Sword Aura shaved several more meters off the entire summit, lowering the solitary peak almost visibly.
Mihawk kicked off the ground, shooting straight into the sky like a meteor defying its fall, and reached the summit once more.
His sharp hawk eyes had only just pinpointed Adrian's position.
Yet the Black Blade, shimmering with a cherry blossom pink glow, was already upon him.
Clang—
At the very last instant, Mihawk raised the Cross Sword in front of himself.
Boom!
The weapons collided.
All Mihawk could feel was an unbearable force surging through the Cross Sword and into every part of his body.
Even though he gave everything he had to block it,
Even though every bone in his body creaked as he tried to withstand it,
He still could not stop it!
Boom!!
In an instant,
Mihawk was blasted underground again, even deeper than before.
In the darkness beneath the earth,
Mihawk smashed