"The farce ends here."
An icy voice, like a final judgment, rang in Roger's ears.
Then Roger saw the man with his back to him slowly raise a single finger.
In that instant, Roger's Conqueror's Haki, burning with his life and will, seemed to have its throat seized by an invisible hand. Its raging force, powerful enough to overturn the seas, abruptly stalled!
Rayleigh's pupils contracted sharply, and every muscle in his body instantly tensed to its limit! From Yas's seemingly unremarkable finger, he sensed a law of destruction a hundred times more terrifying than the clash of Haki just now, powerful enough to pierce anything!
One-Finger Nukite!
Was he going to end the Pirate King's life here, right before his eyes?!
"Stop!" Rayleigh roared. The sword at his waist let out a mournful cry as he prepared to charge forward, regardless of the consequences!
Yet Yas's finger did not turn into a beam of destruction as they had expected.
That finger, wreathed in azure lightning, merely swept gently downward through the air toward the rift that Haki had torn across the sky, without the slightest hint of force.
It was like wiping an eyesore of a scribble off a drawing board.
Humm-
There was no earth-shattering crash, only an utterly deep, muffled hum that seemed to come from the very source of the world.
Roger and Rayleigh watched in horror as the rift in the void stretching across the heavens, seemingly capable of swallowing even light, was forcibly, brutally smoothed away after that finger passed over it, like a zipper being pulled shut, in defiance of every law of physics!
At that moment, the sky was forcibly "repaired"!
The darkness Roger's Haki had spread across it also vanished instantly beneath that sweep, like a stain wiped away by an