A figure hovered silently above the coastline of the Prodence Kingdom.
Aaron Ball had fully entered his Magnetic Skeleton form-no, more completely than ever before.
He stood nearly four meters tall, his slender body outlined in deep-blue lines of energy. Those lines flowed slowly like living things, weaving intricate, mysterious patterns. Deep within that blue, golden light faintly coursed, like frozen lightning, or like the rules themselves.
Arcs flickered and crackled around him, yet he held them firmly within a meter of his body, forming a pale-blue halo.
He simply stood in the air.
No wings.
No support.
Just standing, as though a place there had always belonged to him.
Carina stood on a reef by the shore, her head tilted back as she gazed at that figure.
Her eyes brimmed with excitement and adoration.
Boer...
She softly repeated the name in her heart.
So amazing...
Not "amazing."
"Sacred."
"Great."
The sort of being that made people want to kneel and look up at him.
Her cheeks flushed slightly with excitement, her hands clasped before her chest. Her fluffy white tail swayed gently behind her, waving like a flag.
About three kilometers from the coastline, two men stood on another reef.
Sakazuki.
Aramaki.
Akainu wore his signature red suit, his arms folded over his chest as he looked up at the figure in the sky. His face was expressionless, but his eyes were so grave they seemed ready to drip water.
His fists clenched.
Then loosened.
Then clenched again.
So this is...
He thought to himself.
Is this that man's true form?
All their previous clashes, confrontations, and verbal sparring seemed so pale at this moment.
When that figure truly unleashed his full power and that immense field, Sakazuki realized that the gap between himself and that man might be