Just as Kuzan prepared to make his next move, his Observation Haki detected extensive cracks in the ice encasing Roronoa Zoro and Black Leg Sanji behind him. Clearly, the two were about to break free.
What surprised him most was that, given the Straw Hat Pirates' current Haki strength, they should never have been able to break through ice as hard as iron so quickly.
Yet the facts were right before his eyes. Those fine cracks kept spreading and widening, as though mocking his mistaken judgment.
Kuzan frowned slightly, staring at the gradually cracking ice as he wondered, What is going on? Has their Haki strength broken through without my noticing? Have they reached an advanced level?
While he was still puzzling over it, a sharp crack suddenly rang out, and the two enormous blocks of ice shattered.
At the same time, a fierce presence swept out like a violent storm, catching people off guard.
Kuzan looked closely and saw Zoro holding three long swords, powerful Haki radiating from his body as he shouted, "Haki coating-Three-Sword Style: Black Rope Dragon Twister!"
As his words fell, a layer of black Haki instantly enveloped the three swords, their blades gleaming coldly.
Then Zoro swung his swords fiercely. An enormous tornado of sword energy roared toward Kuzan with overwhelming force, ripping savage fissures through the ice wherever it passed.
Like a terrifying cutting machine, the tornado closed in on Kuzan at astonishing speed, seemingly intent on tearing him apart.
Just as Kuzan prepared to dodge, he suddenly noticed Sanji springing into the air like a phantom behind the tornado.
Sanji spun through the air like a top, completing a full three thousand six hundred rotations at a dizzying speed.
His feet were like burning flames, blazing fire gushing from his soles and multiplying