"What?!"
Everyone was stunned by the sight.
Shane had already shocked them enough when he used the Paw-Paw Fruit's power to compress and remove the tremors, then repel them.
Kuma, in particular, had practically had his understanding of Devil Fruits reshaped.
This time, Shane had absorbed them with his belly and bounced them back again!
Crack! Crunch!
Whitebeard countered with a punch, and amid the collision of forces...
Shane laughed happily, and everyone's eyes popped out. They realized that, without noticing, their own ways of fighting had become rather abnormal too!
They felt inexplicably happy!
Even the ground seemed like a trampoline.
Shane bounced around the plaza, and the ground became the perfect springboard.
People were bounced into the air, their battles constantly interrupted by accident.
"Newgate!"
"Let's welcome the New Era!"
"I think you've always wanted to be one of my divine Thirty-Six Wings!"
Shane's fist met Whitebeard's great blade and immediately caved in, yet suffered no injury at all.
Instead, it bounced Whitebeard's blade away. The force was so great that he had to resist the recoil and grip it hard!
"It's clearly a ridiculous way to fight, yet it's unexpectedly strong! As your ally, I'd be overjoyed, but as your enemy, it's a headache!"
Whitebeard wondered how Nika had lost eight hundred years ago.
Could something have been wrong with the legends he had heard back then?
"The birth of a powerful fighter requires countless battles, and as far as I know, awakening Nika also requires witnessing countless hardships and rescuing those suffering them."
"Going by that, eight hundred years ago, after a century-long stalemate, the world was at its most miserable!"
"It was a major event on the eve of the Slave Monarch's downfall, one that allowed the gods to bestow royal authority upon the human