"Ooh, scary! Are all the youngsters this fierce these days? Looks like I have to stop him."
Kizaru dodged an attack from Whitebeard, turned, and pointed his right index finger at Luffy, a dazzling light blossoming from it.
Just then, a huge naginata cleaved him in half from head to toe.
The attack in his hand was cut short at that very instant.
A ring of Tremor-Tremor power wrapped around the naginata's tip as it struck the ice, carving an enormous fissure through the entire ice sheet, all the way down to the seawater.
At the same time, the Tremor-Tremor power broke free of the blade's tip and surged into the distance!
Boom!
As the vibrations exploded among the Marines, a huge empty space instantly opened up.
Some pirates were delighted to see Pops cleave Kizaru in half. "Hahahaha! Got cut with Haki, didn't you? You're dead now!"
Meanwhile, the surrounding Marines began worrying about Kizaru at the sight.
"Admiral Kizaru!"
"Admiral Kizaru!"
Amid everyone's cries, Kizaru's two halves turned into photons and vanished, reappearing off to the side.
"Gurararara! Just stay put here, flash brat."
Whitebeard slowly walked toward Kizaru.
"Thank goodness! Admiral Kizaru, you're all right!"
"Thank goodness! Thank goodness!"
"Did he use Elementalization in advance?"
Seeing Kizaru reappear beside Whitebeard completely unharmed, the pirates all breathed a sigh of relief.
Kizaru scratched his forehead in some distress.
"Looks like you won't let me past so easily. What a headache, Whitebeard."
Inside, however, he muttered to himself: You all saw that. It's not that I'm refusing to stop Luffy. Whitebeard is trying to kill me.
Whitebeard's gaze, however, paid no attention to Kizaru. It remained fixed on Luffy the entire time.
He was full of anticipation. As long as Luffy reached the Execution Platform, the chances of rescuing