The battle began.
Not far away, Goenitz floated in the air on winds created by his Weasel Fruit power.
Behind his mask, his eyes remained calm, without the slightest ripple of emotion.
Rugal vanished, leaving a trail of afterimages.
He moved so fast that his figure was almost impossible to follow.
The next instant, Rugal appeared behind Goenitz.
"Razor!"
He raised his long leg and kicked upward.
The tip of his foot carried a deadly edge. The kick swept toward Goenitz like a blade.
A silver crescent flashed through the air.
With a bang, Goenitz blocked Rugal's ankle with his left hand, which was coated in Armament Haki, and slid back several steps.
A blow like that would not injure him so easily.
His right arm shot out at a speed invisible to the naked eye. The air exploded with a crack, its rupture plain to see.
The punch struck Rugal squarely on the left side of his face.
Goenitz showed no mercy. He had no intention of giving Rugal an opening.
Rugal took the punch, but a cruel smile spread across his face.
He seized the arm Goenitz had struck him with and twisted hard. At the same time, he kicked in the direction Goenitz's arm was being wrenched.
Crack! Goenitz's right arm twisted under the force.
His left hand, however, shot straight toward Rugal's eye.
It looked as though he would gouge out Rugal's one remaining eye the next instant.
Rugal's eye closed on instinct. He had no desire to lose his last eye.
What his Mechanical Eye showed him was different from what he saw with a real eye.
That brief blink left him open.
A strong gust instantly steadied Goenitz's off-balance body.
He drove his knee straight toward Rugal's chin.
Rugal flew back a hundred meters,