The sea, once roaring with cannon fire, was filled with crisscrossing shells as the two sides fought fiercely. Suddenly, a snow-white figure descended from the sky. Uchiha Hikaru, the true boss behind Dressrosa, had finally been stirred into making an appearance. The instant he appeared, every shell arcing through the sky exploded at once, as though countless fireworks had been lit to celebrate his arrival.
Rob Lucci, also clad in fitted white attire, gathered his strength and furiously threw a punch at Uchiha Hikaru.
"Finger Pistol: Speckle!"
Lucci's hands abruptly accelerated. In an instant, countless afterimages, accompanied by piercing bursts of force, shot toward Hikaru. In that moment, Lucci unleashed over a hundred Finger Pistols, all of them firing at Hikaru's body.
"Hmph!" Hikaru sneered, spreading his five fingers. A vortex of air surged from his palm, forming an invisible wall between him and Lucci like a shield.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Lucci's Finger Pistols struck the invisible wall like machine-gun fire, producing dense, unceasing blasts. Yet even after pushing his opening attack to its limit, he still failed to break through Hikaru's defense.
"!!!" Shock appeared on Lucci's face. He tapped the air beneath his feet and used Geppo to rapidly shift sideways. His body suddenly swelled at high speed, his bones rapidly changing as his entire form took on a beastly shape.
"Tempest Kick: Albatross Strike!"
Once Lucci transformed, his speed surged again. He twisted through the air and swept out a kick. A white blast of air crashed down, becoming a bird-shaped slash with a storm-rending impact as it chopped straight toward Uchiha Hikaru.
Hikaru's senses had completely grasped every trace of molecular movement in the air. Every one of Lucci's movements was fully within his grasp. Even Lucci's attack speed became incomparably slow in Hikaru's eyes; the