"Shane! You are the strongest enemy I have ever faced!"
Saint Garling pointed his sword at his formidable enemy.
He would stake all his honor, including that of the Celestial Dragons and God's Knights.
"Before you reached this point, I never took you seriously. Your weakness was pitiful to me."
"Only the strong deserve to stand before a god, and you have just earned that right."
"Saint Saturn's intervention just now was absolutely not my intention!"
Saint Garling's mouth was full of excuses. The sword in his hand was all that mattered!
Sword energy coiled in layer after layer, like waves piling atop one another.
Until the sword's tip resembled a dragon's head.
He opened his eyes and looked at Shane, seemingly convinced that his power was perfectly charged and he could kill Shane with a single slash.
Shane found it the most laughable of all.
"You really are confident. Saint Saturn intervened to save you precisely because he sensed you were in danger."
"Thinking about it now, you shouldn't have been saved in the first place. After all, you barely count as human."
Shane felt that his first surge of momentum had weakened on the second attempt and would be exhausted on the third.
Saint Saturn's interference midway was like Kurozumi Higurashi interfering in Kozuki Oden's duel with Kaido.
Between powerful fighters, a moment's evasion could often usher in death.
Without all his Devil Fruit powers, Shane probably could only have despaired.
After all, Saint Saturn's move had been fast enough, saving someone as quick as lightning.
Hadn't Luffy's fight been interrupted by CP0 in just one moment of confusion?
"I'm really glad I've eaten Devil Fruits."
Every bone in Shane's body cracked.
He brought his aura back to its strongest.
The Tyrant, at full health and in peak