"Let me help you kneel!"
When Yas's utterly icy words exploded beside his ears, Silvers Rayleigh felt every hair on his body stand on end!
Fast!
Too fast!
So fast it defied all reason!
His Observation Haki had clearly foreseen the danger, but his body and his nerves simply could not keep up with his opponent's speed!
That seemingly slender index finger grew infinitely larger in his vision. The pure power of destruction concentrated to its utmost at its tip made even this battle-hardened "Dark King" feel a terrifying, potentially fatal threat!
There was no time to draw his sword!
No time to dodge!
Not even time to coat his entire body in Armament Haki!
After a lifetime roaming the seas, am I really going to suffer such a humiliating death today, killed by a single finger from some unknown Navy brat?!
No!
In the instant before Yas's finger of death touched the spot between Rayleigh's eyebrows!
An utterly terrifying gleam suddenly burst from Rayleigh's usually languid eyes!
With a bizarre step that completely defied the mechanics of the human body, he abruptly arched backward!
The movement was as fast as lightning!
He moved like a spring compressed to its limit and released in an instant!
Hiss!
Yas's One-Finger Nukite, powerful enough to pierce a steel battleship, swept past with a shrill whistle, practically grazing the tip of Rayleigh's nose!
The sharp wind from his finger even left a shallow bloody mark across the bridge of Rayleigh's nose!
He had dodged it!
He had actually dodged it!
Despite that absolute suppression in speed, Rayleigh had relied on his battle instincts, honed through countless trials, and his unparalleled control over his body to force a dodge within a gap of one hundredth of a second!
"Oh?"
For the first time, a