"Enemy attack!" Perospero immediately shouted. The pirate soldiers behind him promptly sounded the alarm, and piercing sirens rang out across the sea.
"Whooo!"
The low yet shrill alarm cries rose and fell. The pirates of the Big Mom Pirates immediately entered combat readiness. All of them moved swiftly and expertly into formation, weapons in hand, awaiting the enemy in full battle array without the slightest panic at being attacked.
"Hehe!" A voice chuckled as it descended from the sky. "Not bad! Your reaction was pretty quick!"
Perospero's scalp tingled. He recognized the voice—it was Uchiha Hikaru's. He had never expected that monstrous bastard to dare pursue him here alone.
Perospero turned his head and saw Uchiha Hikaru floating above the fleet, his entire body blazing with surging crimson flames. Waves of heat continuously spread outward, and the entire fleet below felt the surrounding temperature rise sharply. A sense of foreboding welled up in everyone's hearts.
"Sage Art: Fire Style: Meteor Shower!"
Rings of light radiated from Hikaru's eyes, and faint tomoe-shaped glimmers flickered. Surging Chakra poured endlessly from his body, forming rolling heatwaves before transforming into blazing flames. A vast sea of fire drifted down from above, as though the entire sky were raining fire.
"Block it! Block it!" Perospero grabbed a Den Den Mushi and issued his orders at the top of his lungs.
They were out at sea. If the pirate ships were struck by the rain of fire and caught ablaze, never mind what would happen to Devil Fruit users if they fell into the water—being burned alive alone would be bad enough.
Countless cannons immediately turned toward the sky. Though they could not hit Uchiha Hikaru at such a height, they could bombard the falling fire rain. At the same time, various Devil Fruit users unleashed