"So... you can actually 'learn' them..."
Shamrock had thought nothing could shock him anymore. He had never expected Bondrewd to hit him with something this huge.
Beside him, Gunko had almost withdrawn into herself.
"I had my suspicions, but... this is just unfair."
Saint Shepherd Sommers was deeply interested in his best friend's "past," and promptly filled in more memories with his imagination.
Still, after fighting Bondrewd this far, the three had gained some understanding of this monster.
...In terms of sheer violence, what he had shown so far still fell short of an Admiral.
But that absurd number of abilities and his almost all-purpose adaptability had produced a qualitative change.
A single Admiral probably had no chance of taking him down... perhaps Kizaru could.
-Speaking of which, why hasn't that guy come to help yet!?
"We have no choice. Keeping our distance gives us even less chance, so..."
Shamrock did not finish, but his two fellow knights already understood.
"Let's go!"
Black-and-red lightning coiled around Shamrock, and every step blasted dust from the ground.
His saber became a streak of black-and-red lightning that tore through the air, slashing toward Bondrewd's neck at a speed the naked eye could barely follow, accompanied by a piercing thunderclap!
"What an impatient gentleman."
Having "learned" the Arrow-Arrow Fruit's ability, Bondrewd bent visible light to disguise it as an arrow.
Then, quite openly, he used a magnetic field to pull his body forward, accelerating to supersonic speed and putting distance between them.
At the same time, a cross-shaped radiance appeared at the center of Bondrewd's pitch-black helmet.
-Ascend to the Stars!
A dazzling laser beam flashed into existence.
Rather than traveling straight, it refracted and leaped irregularly among the sapphires floating everywhere, its unpredictable path flashing through the space in a dizzying web.
"-What!?"