"Fire Fist!!!"
Sabo roared the name of his brother's unforgettable technique!
He poured every ounce of emotion and his newly inherited power into his right fist without holding anything back.
Then he unleashed a colossal, blazing fist of fire on an unprecedented scale!
The white-hot torrent roared, instantly swallowing all the light and air in the passage as it hurtled toward Gern with enough force to burn mountains and boil seas!
Watching this all-out attack driven entirely by emotion, abandoning his own strengths to blindly imitate Ace,
Gern frowned almost imperceptibly. A barely discernible flicker of disappointment crossed his eyes, and he sighed softly.
"Forget it."
The instant those words fell, Gern moved.
He neither dodged nor used his Devil Fruit ability to create a barrier. He did not even draw Eight Desolations.
He simply raised his right fist, coated in densely concentrated Armament Haki.
"Heavenquake: Star-Piercer."
There was no earthshaking buildup. He merely drew his fist back slightly, then punched straight into the torrent of fire that threatened to incinerate everything!
Buzzzz!!!
Where his fist passed, space seemed unable to withstand such utterly pure power. It groaned under the strain, faintly showing signs of collapsing inward!
Then a cylindrical blast of pale shock energy erupted violently from the front of Gern's fist!
It was not a spreading shockwave, but a highly concentrated beam of pure white energy that pierced through everything!
Boom!!!
The white-hot torrent of flame collided head-on with the pale cylinder of shock energy!
The expected earthshaking explosion never came. The concentrated cylinder punched straight through the center of the flames!
It instantly pierced the collapsing fire and struck Sabo squarely in the chest with unerring precision!
"Urgh!" Sabo had no time to react. All he felt was an indescribable destructive force sweeping through his body.
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