"It's difficult. If eliminating them requires doing it all at once, it will be extremely difficult."
Once again.
Red the Aloof's voice appeared in Shane's mind.
"Where are you?"
Shane surveyed his surroundings, expanding the range of his Observation Haki to its limit before finally locating a departing warship at the edge of the waters far from Marineford.
Red the Aloof's ability to communicate over long distances was actually an effect of developing Observation Haki to a certain level.
He truly deserved his standing as this era's greatest developer of Observation Haki.
"I've been here all along. I've recovered some stamina."
Red the Aloof's voice was calm. He had been observing the problems on the battlefield all along.
"One person simply can't kill them all simultaneously. And even if you did, they might still revive."
"You were already incredibly fast just now, but the Five Elders kept healing faster."
"When you attacked the second Elder, the first had already started healing."
"And that bug left those other bugs underground beforehand precisely for special circumstances."
"So under such unusual circumstances, you simply can't kill them."
Red the Aloof's words made even Shane frown.
Even fighting that desperately hadn't been enough to kill the Five Elders for good!
"How do you know the conditions for killing them?"
Shane had thought he alone could deduce this method.
Yet Red the Aloof had also discerned some possibilities by observing from the sidelines.
"I secretly watched the battle at God Valley, and Marineford as well. A single Elder is different from several together. The more of them die within a given period, the faster they heal."
"Normally, that would be taken as a sign that their threat level was rising, but that isn't actually the case. When something is abnormal, there's something behind it."
"Instead,