Having already thrown caution to the wind, Akainu not only hurled a mass of giant magma fists at Xie Wen this time, but also sent quite a few toward the other battlefield.
As always, his attacks made no distinction between friend and foe. The CP Agents, Holy Land guards, and Celestial Dragons' slaves fighting the Sun Pirates and the cats were targets of his attacks as well.
"Weapon Transformation: Shield Woman!"
Without even needing a reminder from Xie Wen, Baby 5 took the initiative to transform into a shield.
But Akainu had hurled rather too many fists this time. Xie Wen could not keep using Perfect Shield Parry to control where they rebounded, so he could only deflect them one by one with ordinary shield parries.
As for the fists flying toward the cats, Xie Wen did not need to worry at all...
"Fire Release: Cat Flame Song Technique, meow!"
(=Φ3Φ=)
Klee Meow, who had long since finished off her opponent and then been kept at Hua Mei Meow's side, finally found a chance to act. Tilting up her little head and puffing out her cheeks, she spat several flaming cat heads into the sky in succession to intercept the giant magma fists.
However, once these cat heads struck Akainu's fists, they clearly came off worse and soon even began to show signs of breaking apart...
So the laws of physics in the One Piece world really did make magma stronger than fire, huh?
Noticing this, Xie Wen's mouth twitched, but inwardly he remained utterly unruffled.
This was nothing yet. Klee Meow hadn't even used her blue flames, let alone her even more powerful purple flames.
But Little Plushie's solution was a little simpler than Xie Wen had imagined. Seeing her flames losing ground, Klee Meow immediately raised a paw