"Take my One-Finger Nukite!"
The instant Yas's icy words, devoid of emotion yet carrying an absolute will to end everything, stabbed into Rocks's ears like the sharpest icicle!
Time seemed to stretch to its limit at that moment!
Locked in a fierce clash with Garp and Sengoku, Rocks's eyes, burning with hellfire, abruptly contracted into dangerous pinpoints in utter shock!
He had never expected this!
He had never expected this Marine, at this critical juncture, to abandon the Celestial Dragons within easy reach-his "mission targets"-and instead launch a killing blow at him with thunderous force!
It defied logic!
It defied every code of conduct a "Marine" should have followed!
But there was no time left to think!
That terrifying power of "law," enough to pierce the stars and purify all things, had already locked onto every inch of the space behind his heart like maggots clinging to bone!
"Aaaaaaah!!!"
Under the extreme pressure of imminent death, Rocks unleashed the most frenzied roar of his life!
He did not turn around to block!
Because he knew that against an attack of causality that transcended the realm of "moves," any form of blocking was meaningless!
His only chance of survival was to trade wound for wound! Even life for life!
"Black Water: Black Coffin!"
Rocks roared, recklessly driving the darkness within him to its absolute limit without holding anything back!
This time, the darkness was neither a devouring maw nor attacking tentacles!
Instead, it became a pure, viscous domain of absolute darkness that seemed capable of dragging space and time into itself, erupting with him at its center!
He did not attack Yas behind him!
The targets of this move were Garp and Sengoku, directly in front of him, mere inches away!
He intended to use the Dark-Dark Fruit's strongest powers of