Elsewhere, after being blasted away twice in almost humiliating fashion,
especially the second time, when the pull of his own "Black Vortex" had "helped" accelerate the punch into his face,
Blackbeard stopped holding back!
"Straw Hat Boy... you're fucking dead!!!"
A roar of absolute fury erupted from deep within the rubble!
Immediately afterward, a terrifying force capable of destroying heaven and earth burst forth!
"Air Quake!"
Blackbeard clenched his right fist and, without the slightest hesitation, slammed it into the ground before him as Luffy charged his way!
"RUMBLE!!!"
Rather than attacking Luffy directly, he shook the surrounding space to unleash a natural disaster!
Centered on the point where Blackbeard's fist landed,
terrifying tremors rivaling a massive earthquake spread wildly in a ring.
The ground instantly surged into towering waves of earth and stone dozens of meters high!
Countless huge concrete blocks, twisted steel beams, and shattered instruments were hurled skyward like a tsunami,
then rained down headlong toward the oncoming Luffy!
Facing this overwhelming, disaster-like assault, Luffy showed no panic. Instead, he continued to display Nika's pure joy and eagerness!
"Whoa!!"
He let out an amazed cheer, and his body in Gear Fifth reacted instantly!
He neither tanked the attack nor dodged it. Instead... he played!
"Gum-Gum... Bouncy Trampoline Paradise!"
Laughing, Luffy repeatedly stomped his feet through the air in a seemingly haphazard pattern!
Everything anyone touched turned into a springy rubber trampoline!
Every stomp sent him twisting, bouncing, and leaping at bizarre angles and speeds!
Amid the densely falling boulders and whistling spatial rifts, he bounced, darted, and danced wildly like the nimblest rubber ball!
The utterly unreasonable powers of "rubberization" and "free transformation" in his Nika form
allowed a certain someone to turn this deadly natural disaster into his own private playground!
"Zehahaha! You like bouncing, huh?!"