Kuzan watched expressionlessly as the three men's attacks swept toward him like a raging storm, yet his body turned to hard ice in an instant.
This was not active elementalization like Smoker's. He had deliberately used his elementalization ability in conjunction with Observation Haki, making it fundamentally different from Smoker's active elementalization without Observation Haki.
With a tremendous bang, Sanji's kick struck Kuzan's waist as swiftly as lightning. The kick was immensely powerful, and the spot it struck burst apart like an exploding bomb. Fragments of ice scattered everywhere like a rainstorm of ice shards.
Seeing this, Luffy rushed forward without hesitation, his enormous fist slamming into Kuzan's body like a cannonball.
The punch carried enough force to split mountains and shatter stone, sending Kuzan's body flying backward.
At the same time, Zoro's slash whistled toward him like a gale. It flashed across Kuzan's back like lightning, cutting diagonally from his neck to his lower back and instantly slicing his body in two. The halves fell to the ground and lay motionless.
On the pirate ship nearby, everyone watching the battle was extremely tense.
"Well? Did they get him?" Usopp murmured, his eyes wide and his face anxious, a trace of unease in his voice.
Robin stared gravely at the body on the ground, her brows slightly furrowed as though she were considering something. After a moment, she shook her head with great certainty and said, "Probably not. An Admiral isn't this weak. Luffy and the others have gotten stronger, but they probably still aren't a match for an Admiral."
Before she finished speaking, something unexpected happened. The body lying in two halves on the ground suddenly began snapping back together, as though drawn by an invisible force. In the blink of an eye, a whole person appeared before them