"Bubble, bubble!"
White steam rose from the scalding magma, and the temperature at the entrance abruptly soared. The savage dog's head swelled visibly, growing to the size of a person in an instant.
A low growl rumbled from its mouth as it lunged to bite River.
"Sir!!"
Freya screamed in terror, her pretty face deathly pale.
Akainu, one of the Three Admirals, had attacked her superior without the slightest hesitation-and right outside the headquarters building.
What kind of grudge existed between them for him to attack so openly?
"Whoosh!"
The scorching air whipped the justice cape of the man before her into a violent flutter.
"You really haven't learned your lesson, Sakazuki!"
An icy voice rang out the next second, and Freya saw her superior move.
An inexplicably domineering presence swept outward. With a crack, fractures appeared in a nearby wall. At the same time, River clenched his right fist.
"Hum!"
Armament Haki swiftly coated it, followed by currents that danced like cherry blossoms, sweeping out to envelop his right arm.
The snarling, savage Hell Hound was already upon him.
At that very moment, Freya sensed strands of that domineering presence winding around River's fist.
"Boom!"
He threw his punch, and even the air seemed to warp and collapse.
Boundless light blazed as a violent force swept outward.
Sakazuki's pupils contracted. Beside him, a glint flashed across Borsalino's sunglasses, while Kuzan exhaled, his gaze grave.
The Hell Hound, laden with scalding magma, stopped dead, firmly blocked by that fist. Then it visibly twisted and deformed.
The fist continued shooting forward, and a thousandth of a moment later-
"Bam!"
A dull impact rang out. Sakazuki shuddered and looked down at his abdomen.
That fist had appeared there as if by magic, and the spot it struck rapidly caved inward.
Then he