The four joined forces, launching world-shattering attacks at Kirishima from four directions. All of Marineford trembled.
Amid the scalp-tingling chorus as its melody surged to a fever pitch-
"FORSAKENED, I AM AWAKENED!!! (Forsaken, I have awakened!)"
Kirishima darted, blocked, and counterattacked under the four top-tier fighters' combined assault, wielding Yamato like a blue storm.
His unique Royalguard defense precisely deflected every attack, and every counter carried the power to tear space apart.
The shock waves of their battle ripped enormous trenches through the harbor ground. Seawater poured in, and warships capsized.
Yet their prolonged failure to bring him down, along with that unceasing battle anthem that seemed to amplify the Devil's power, set alarm bells ringing in Sengoku and the others' minds.
They discovered that no matter how ferocious their attacks were, they seemed unable to seriously wound him. Instead, his energy seemed to climb ever higher amid the battle and the music?
"The Devil Trigger gauge... is full!"
After a perfect Royalguard parry deflected Sakazuki's Hell Hound, a demonic red gleam flashed through Kirishima's scarlet eyes.
He abruptly reversed Yamato once more and drove its tip toward his own heart without hesitation!
"No! Stop him!" Sengoku's pupils contracted sharply. Recalling the devastating scene at Enies Lobby described in the intelligence reports, he slammed his enormous golden palm down with reckless abandon.
The three admirals' attacks arrived in the same instant, but it was too late!
Humm-!!!!
A power far more terrifying and profound than the one at Enies Lobby erupted.
Centered on Kirishima, a domain of absolute darkness thousands of meters in diameter expanded instantly, swallowing all light, sound, and even space itself.
Time itself seemed to stop. The music of "Bury the Light" warped and stretched, like howls from the depths of hell.
At the center of that