Barn fixed his pale, lightning-lit eyes on Baldhead, the member of the Five Elders who had followed him, and spoke in a low voice.
At Barn's words, a sinister smile spread across Baldhead's deeply wrinkled face, and he said,
"Your opponent is me. You're giving me quite a headache, running all over the place like this."
Barn laughed instead, but the smile lingered on his face only briefly before giving way to a blank expression. The lightning in his eyes grew wilder. He exhaled a breath filled with electricity on the verge of running rampant, and it seemed to strip him of every emotion.
Barn spoke in a low, emotionless voice.
"Looks like I'll have to deal with you first."
Sensing the change in Barn's aura, Baldhead abandoned his teasing. His seemingly aged, weary eyes opened and narrowed, settling on Oars beneath Barn.
"If you think you can, come on."
Baldhead spoke in a low voice, then turned Shodai Kitetsu in his hand. Its keen edge gleamed with an icy light as he aimed it at Barn and slashed fiercely!
"..."
Barn said nothing more. He simply tightened his grip on his sword and met the slash head-on!
His blade, glowing with an eerie red light, collided violently with the enormous slash. But Baldhead's attack held out against Barn for only a moment before shattering into countless fragments and vanishing into the air.
Once the slash disappeared, Baldhead was no longer anywhere within Barn's lightning-lit gaze!
"...?"
While Barn was still wondering where he had gone, an urgent cry rose from below!
"Mr. Barn! Oars!"
Hearing the warning from a member of the Whitebeard Pirates, Barn spun around in midair and looked toward Oars, whom the clash had carried him away from!
At the same time, he spotted the missing