Sephiroth had no desire to fight Hancock aboard his own ship.
As the Empress charged at him, he beat his wings and secretly used a magnetic field to pull himself along, increasing his speed.
His Armament Haki was undoubtedly inferior to hers, so Sephiroth chose high-speed combat from a distance.
The ten-meter blade of light was less a sword than an extraordinarily long spear of light held in his hand.
The light blade swept across. Outmatched in Observation Haki, Hancock could not dodge and had to withstand it with Armament Haki.
After their clash, the airborne Hancock was driven down onto the island's beach by Sephiroth and his "bizarre propulsion."
The instant her feet touched the ground, Hancock pushed off, shifted aside, spun, and raised one long, graceful leg to kick viciously at Sephiroth.
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But when it came to Observation Haki, the gap between Hancock and Sephiroth was the exact reverse of their gap in Armament Haki.
Sephiroth's elusive movements let him dodge the strike with ease. His wings swept through the air, leaving trails of afterimages.
The hem of Hancock's qipao fluttered gently in the wind, making her look like an elegant dancer.
Thanks to Sephiroth's advantages in Observation Haki and mobility, their battle involved very few direct clashes.
This so-called "ranged combat" was a fighting style he used whenever he needed to engage in close combat.
It was a "close-combat attack program" Sephiroth had created by further refining the combat data gathered through the Artificial Angel.
He had loaded it into his brain using a Memory Crystal to compensate for his shortcomings in close combat.
His inspiration came from Legend of Mir, an online game he had played as a child in his previous life-specifically, the warrior's Ranged Stabbing Tactic.
In practice, besides the support of