Beneath the dome of ice crystals, the temperature swung violently between bitter cold and searing heat. White mist billowed, refracting distorted light and shadow and shrouding the battlefield in a blur.
Aokiji slid backward like a ghost, his feet riding ice rails he formed himself. The rails hissed as they vaporized against the heat, their edges melting and regenerating constantly. He stopped firmly thirty meters behind the metal construct, holding his hands loosely together before his chest. Milky-white cold compressed and spun furiously between his palms.
Almost simultaneously, directly overhead.
Garp plunged from a hundred meters above like a meteor tearing through the sky. Muscles bulged across his bare torso, every scar glowing dark red. His right fist rested at his waist, red-and-black arcs of Conqueror's Haki hissing and leaping across his knuckles. The solid black crystalline shell coating it was thick as armor, compressing the surrounding air into visible ripples.
Front and rear, above and below.
A lethal combination attack. Master and pupil needed no words.
"Ice Pheasant Beak: Storm Thousand Feathers!"
Aokiji thrust both arms forward! The cold compressed to its limit between his palms erupted into thousands of crystalline ice feathers! Each was thin as a cicada's wing, its edges razor-sharp. They traced dense white streaks through the air like a blizzard surging backward, shrieking like wailing ghosts!
"Fist Bone: Galaxy Split-Falling Star!"
Garp's roar exploded like thunder! His dive broke the sound barrier, trailing a cone of sonic vapor! His right fist crashed down with the force to pierce the stars!
Inside the Sovereign Armor's core, Boer's Electromagnetic Extrasensory Perception spread like a spiderweb. Ahead, the pressure of Garp's fist was as deep and vast as an abyssal sea. Behind, Aokiji's ice feathers sealed every retreat.
*I can't take it head-on. I can only deflect and