Shadow Clone Jutsu

"Are you finished attacking? Then it's my turn!"

"Ice Seal: Thousand Miles!"

As his words fell, Satoru Gojo stamped his right foot, and terrifying cold instantly swept toward Big Mom and the others.

The terrifyingly low temperature instantly froze the wine in the glasses. Not just the wine-every object in front of Satoru Gojo froze.

And without losing any of its power, the cold swept toward the Big Mom Pirates, blanketing everything in its path.

An ordinary member of the Big Mom Pirates watched the approaching wave of cold, his face somewhat pale, and said:

"There's no mistake. This is the move Satoru Gojo used to freeze an entire stretch of sea!"

Ice Seal: Thousand Miles!

A few months earlier, Satoru Gojo had used this very move to freeze the Marines' Buster Call at sea. Ordinary Marine soldiers had been utterly helpless against it, and even the Marine Vice Admirals had struggled to resist. Only the Three Admirals had been unaffected.

They had heard that the move had frozen that entire stretch of sea solid. After that great battle, it had taken three days and three nights before the sea gradually thawed and began flowing again!

The cold struck Big Mom and the officers around her directly, creating billowing mist at the moment of impact.

When the mist cleared, what appeared before them was not the frozen figures of the Big Mom Pirates.

Instead, it was a gigantic sphere formed from mochi.

The gigantic mochi sphere had been completely frozen.

Crack! Crack!

With several crisp cracking sounds, fissures appeared across the gigantic mochi sphere.

Bang!

The gigantic mochi sphere shattered, revealing the Big Mom Pirates enclosed inside.

The gigantic mochi sphere had truly kept Satoru Gojo's cold at bay!

"That's the Devil Fruit ability of Charlotte Katakuri, one of the Big Mom Pirates' Sweet Commanders!"

Rebecca, standing off to the side, called out a warning.

"It's Brother Katakuri!"

"Thank goodness! We're saved!"

Many of the weaker members of the Big Mom Pirates had broken into a cold sweat at that attack. Seeing that Katakuri's mochi sphere had blocked the cold, they could not help breathing a sigh of relief.

Stepping forward, Katakuri said to Satoru Gojo:

"White-haired Satoru Gojo, you truly are extraordinary! Allow me to be your opponent!"

"Katakuri, although your strength is second only to Big Mom's in the Big Mom Pirates, do you really think you're a match for me? I think you'd better all come at me together!"

"Arrogant fool! You think you can take all of us on by yourself?"

Cracker, another of the Sweet Commanders, angrily rebuked Satoru Gojo when he heard that he intended to face the entire Big Mom Pirates alone.

"Are you complaining that there aren't enough people on my side? In that case, let's make it one-on-one!"

"Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

"Biu! Biu! Biu!"

Accompanied by several sounds, Satoru Gojo split into multiple clones.

"What?!"

Not only the members of the Big Mom Pirates, but even Koratt and Rebecca were stunned by this technique.

"He can even make clones!"

"How on earth did you do that?"

Cracker could hardly believe the sight before him.

"So this is what gives you the confidence to challenge our Big Mom Pirates alone? But I can clearly sense that none of these clones is as strong as you were originally!"

As expected of Katakuri, his Observation Haki had reached such mastery that he had spotted the clone technique's weakness in so little time.

Still, that made no difference. These Shadow Clones were enough to deal with them!

Cracker said, "If you've gotten weaker, that just makes you easier to deal with!"

"Then give it a try!"

With that, one of Satoru Gojo's clones, Clone No. 1, punched straight out, sending a blast of force wrapped in powerful cursed energy hurtling forward.

It shot toward Cracker, moving so fast that his expression abruptly changed. He immediately activated his ability, forming multiple layers of biscuit shields and coating them in Armament Haki to block the incoming blast of fist force.

Boom!

The cursed-energy-wrapped fist force struck the biscuit shields and exploded, its terrifying power shattering the Armament Haki-coated shields outright.

After piercing through several layers of biscuit shields in succession, the fist force continued toward Cracker.

Cracker was forced to block with his sword, because if he dodged, the attack would fly straight toward Big Mom.

Letting an enemy's attack reach his mama so easily would disgrace his title as a Sweet Commander!

Seeing that Satoru Gojo's Clone No. 1 had already made his move, Satoru Gojo's Clone No. 2 said:

"Well, well! Then I'll make a move and stretch my legs too! Is that all right, original me?"

"Do whatever you like!"

Satoru Gojo replied.

Rebecca: "!!!"

Koratt: "!!!"

Watching Satoru Gojo converse with Satoru Gojo, both Rebecca and Koratt found it rather strange.

"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!"

The corners of Satoru Gojo's Clone No. 2's mouth lifted slightly. The next moment, he breathed a gigantic fireball from his mouth.

It swept toward the Big Mom Pirates.

The fireball's intense heat instantly thawed and evaporated the frozen wine, melting all the ice in its path.

Seeing the might of this move, many officers of the Big Mom Pirates paled, their expressions turning utterly grave.

This attack had been infused with Armament Haki. According to what they sensed through their Observation Haki, even if they resisted with all their strength, they would suffer serious injuries even if they managed to block it!

"He can even use fire!"

Though Katakuri marveled aloud at how many abilities Satoru Gojo possessed, his hands did not slow.

Just as the great fireball was about to reach Big Mom, the ground suddenly began surging like ocean waves.

The formerly solid ground suddenly turned into something like mochi, forming a mochi wall coated in Armament Haki that stood before the members of the Big Mom Pirates.

"Mochi Wall!"

Boom!

The Armament Haki-coated mochi wall collided with the great fireball, and flames instantly covered the entire wall.

The impact of the great fireball blasted a depression into the center of the mochi wall and tore an opening through it, but the wall also stopped the fireball, causing it to disperse.

Watching this, Satoru Gojo's Clone No. 2 folded his arms across his chest. His eyes beneath the black blindfold seemed to look through it at Katakuri, who had just blocked his attack, as he said:

"Just what I'd expect from you, Katakuri!"

Katakuri was one of the Big Mom Pirates' Sweet Commanders and possessed formidable strength. His Observation Haki could even briefly see the future, and his bounty was as high as 1.057 billion Beli.

"Join our Jujutsu Pirates, Katakuri!"

Although Katakuri belonged to the Big Mom Pirates, Satoru Gojo admired him greatly, and his strength was quite impressive too. Dressrosa was currently in need of people, so he extended an invitation.

"Thank you for your appreciation! But I will never betray Mama or the Big Mom Pirates!"

Without hesitation, Katakuri outright rejected Satoru Gojo's invitation.

"That's a real shame!"

Satoru Gojo said with a hint of regret.