"Your blade was so slow it made me want to laugh."
Shane had not turned around.
In front of him, Armament Haki wreathed his hands as he caught Golden Lion's two swords barehanded.
Behind him, his dragon tail swept across, Haki surging through the area!
Black Tanuki's strike had originally been meant to pierce Shane's back and take his life.
He had never expected the thrust to go wrong.
"Humans may only have two fists, but I have a dragon tail too. Do you think a sneak attack will work?"
Shane knew Black Tanuki's Observation Haki was special, an advanced, awakened form that specialized in this very field.
In that ten-thousandth of a second, he had located the true body of Shane's elementalized organs.
His plan was precisely to have everyone wear down Shane's stamina, then have Golden Lion hold him off.
He would seize that opening to stab him in the back!
Black Tanuki was too confident. After all, before this, he had always succeeded.
Every strike had been perfectly timed.
People called them the Black Tanuki Pupil and the Black Tanuki Blade.
That meant that, regardless of the circumstances, his eyes could lock onto a single opponent.
And identify every one of their openings!
The Black Tanuki Pupil incorporated the Tanuki's Mythical Zoan form, allowing him to deduce ability users' weaknesses and locate their true bodies amid elementalization.
When necessary, it could also calculate every means of attack an enemy possessed and provide the single most perfect counter!
One could say the Black Tanuki Pupil was Observation Haki born for sneak attacks from behind.
Find the weakness and kill with a single blow!
Some people's advanced Observation Haki awakening granted Future Sight, some could extract memories through brief contact like Red Count, and others possessed the Voice of