"Mwahahahaha! Navy brat! You fell for it!"
Rocks's voice, filled with endless malice, thundered in Yas's ears like the most vicious curse!
"My 'darkness' may not be able to devour your 'laws'!"
"But it's more than enough to drag out your 'soul'!!!"
The massive fist wreathed in endless darkness and Haki, which should have met Yas in a clash of strength, abruptly spread its five fingers just before impact!
Over those ink-black fingers, the viscous dark energy ceased to be pure physical force, transforming into a stranger, more metaphysical, terrifying gravitational pull that seemed capable of directly interfering with causality!
This was the most insidious trump card Rocks had gained by burning his own soul after the Dark-Dark Fruit's Awakening!
From his several clashes with Yas, he had already determined that conventional energy and physical attacks did little against that bizarre azure armor. But the power of a Devil Fruit acted, at its core, upon its user's "Tree of Souls"!
As long as he could forcibly drag his opponent's soul out of that indestructible "shell," that perfect "God's Vessel" would be his for the taking!
"Get out here!" Rocks's utterly inhuman face twisted with extreme excitement, and those five black fingers, powerful enough to crush islands, clawed viciously at Yas's chest like demonic talons tearing through space!
He could almost see the soul of that lofty Navy brat being ripped from his body by his dark gravity, howling in agony!
Yet just as his palm, capable of dragging out a "devil," was about to touch the divinely radiant Lightning Armor on Yas's chest, the cruel, excited curve that had just appeared on Yas's eternally cold face did not change at all.
In fact, deep within those ice-blue eyes, there was an even stronger trace of pity, as though he were