"How about letting me join this game?!"
When Gol D. Roger's voice, brimming with boundless fervor and dominance, rolled across the sea like thunder, the entire world seemed to tremble!
That terrifying slash, wreathed in black-and-red Conqueror's Haki lightning, tore through the atmosphere and cleaved the sea, sweeping straight toward Yas with enough destructive power to split an island in two!
The Pirate King's furious strike!
Facing a terrifying slash that even a Marine Admiral would have had to evade, Yas finally showed a trace of gravity in his ice-blue eyes.
He could "hear" it.
What that slash contained was more than pure destructive force.
There was also a king's will that reigned over the world and conquered all!
That will was utterly different from his own will of "judgment" and "destruction," yet its strength was no less!
"Interesting."
Rather than retreat, Yas advanced. The index finger aimed at Rayleigh's wrist abruptly changed direction to meet Roger's world-shattering slash!
"Let me see just how much you're worth, you so-called 'Pirate King'!"
Fingertip and blade were about to collide!
But then!
In that split second, a silver-white sword flash moved later yet arrived first, intercepting Yas's fingertip!
It was Rayleigh!
Seizing the fleeting opportunity Roger had created for him, he brought his plain, ancient longsword across his body at a speed beyond his limits!
Clink!
An exceptionally crisp sound rang out, like shattering glass!
Yas's index finger, capable of piercing anything, struck the flat of Rayleigh's sword with absolute precision!
There was no earth-shaking explosion.
Only an invisible yet utterly terrifying shock wave erupted from the point of collision!
The shock wave forcibly compressed the sea below into an enormous depression over a hundred meters across, briefly forming an "undersea basin"!
"Pfft!"
Rayleigh felt an indescribably terrifying force, concentrated to the