"That damned flash bastard!!! How dare he trick me, a god!!!"
Enel's furious roar still echoed across the docks, but the icy killing intent out at sea had already locked onto him like a solid spear of ice!
Hawk-Eye had clearly redirected all his anger-and embarrassment-toward this god who was holding the "evidence" and shouting at the top of his lungs.
The instant the little boat reached shore, Hawk-Eye vanished!
It wasn't elemental transformation, but the sheer, terrifying power unleashed by his legs
that sent him shooting forward like a cannonball, the recoil splitting several cracks through the wooden boat beneath his feet!
Almost simultaneously, Enel's Observation Haki sounded a warning. Without thinking, he erupted in lightning, trying to turn into his element and put some distance between them.
But then.
An enormous pitch-black slash was already upon him, as though it had teleported!
The blade moved faster than lightning could react, and it had precisely anticipated the path of his elemental dodge!
Before the blade even reached him, the wind pressure of that intensely concentrated slash made Enel's skin sting as though it were being torn apart!
"What?!" Enel's pupils contracted. With barely any time to react, he could only coat the Golden Staff in Armament Haki and block with all his strength!
Clang!!!!!
A deafening clash of metal exploded through the air!
Enel felt an unimaginable force surge through the Golden Staff, as though a mountain hurtling at full speed had struck him head-on!
His Haki-coated arms groaned under the strain. Completely unable to control himself, he was sent flying backward and smashed through a freshly stacked pile of construction materials behind him!
Rubble flew everywhere!
Hawk-Eye landed his first blow and didn't pause for an instant.
He touched down silently, the enormous Black Blade, Yoru, as light