"Ikoku Sovereignty!"
A cylindrical blast of sword aura shot out and collided with the returning laser above the sea.
Boom!
Towering waves erupted from the sea and surged in every direction.
"Let's go."
The Big Mom Pirates slowly departed. Their priority now was to claim the spoils of victory.
On the other side of what had once been Nomiro Island.
The Steam Sea Pirates.
Hale Nock had just been preparing to leave when he suddenly saw a laser shoot out from Charlotte Linlin's side.
A sweep of his Observation Haki revealed what was happening.
"The Marines..."
His eyes narrowed slightly, his thoughts unreadable.
Suddenly, steam compressed and condensed between his hands, forming a white spear three meters long.
With a forward sweep, he sent it shooting toward Sengoku's warship with a faint whistle through the air.
"Let's go."
His subordinates immediately answered:
"Yes!"
The fleet slowly departed.
Aboard the warship.
Sengoku snorted.
"One after another."
"They're all showing off their strength."
He turned to Kuzan and Borsalino and said:
"You two, see if you can stop it."
"Get a feel for the gap."
"Hale Nock is a pirate who has developed his Logia Devil Fruit to its absolute limit."
"You're both Logia users, too. Experience it for yourselves."
For once, Kuzan grew serious, while Borsalino remained as nonchalant as ever.
Kuzan stepped forward, took a deep breath, and brought his hands close together.
Cold air compressed and condensed in his hands while the Steam Spear was still nearly a thousand meters from the fleet.
"Ice Time Capsule!"
A stream of cold air shot out, freezing into jagged ice several meters thick along its path through the air. One second later.
Several hundred meters from the warship, it collided head-on with the Steam Spear.
The cold swiftly enveloped the Steam Spear,