"Exactly! So whether we win or lose, we'll both suffer heavy losses. We'd have all sorts of reservations about absorbing the other's forces, while someone else could still collect our corpses."
"If you ask me, you should become my wings! I think Newgate's pretty good too. I'll build him a Sheep's House when the time comes. Serving under me is the right path!"
Shane's words only stoked Golden Lion's fury.
"As a pirate, bowing to someone else even once in your life is a disgrace. How could you live with doing it a second time? From the day I left God Valley..."
"I swore to Newgate that I'd never submit to anyone again in this life or become someone else's right-hand man!"
"Rocks made me submit for a time, but from now on, there'll never be a second person who does!"
"Even if you're that bastard back from the dead, don't think you can make me take half a step back!"
Shiki was tall and imposing, though he looked ordinary in front of Shane.
Fortunately, he was always floating in the air, with Dual Swords in hand like extensions of his arms. His imposing Haki never faltered, lending him even greater presence.
"Enough talk! Keep fighting!"
Shane's punches struck like thunder, hundreds unleashed in an instant. Frenzied Thunder surged, and with the added power of Enma's two arms, they were no weaker than Golden Lion's slashes that swept through mountains and seawater.
The two fought with sweeping, powerful blows high in the heavens, like gods locked in a duel!
Every so often, a Lightning Spear flew out and collided with sword energy, exploding into sparks like meteors in the sky!
"Shane, if you'd been born twenty years earlier, we'd have been the closest of friends!"
"If you'd been born twenty