"This is the very center."
Seeing the confusion on the other three's faces, Rossi added:
"Put simply, anyone standing here will have their perception greatly enhanced, and can even briefly-"
Foresee fragments of what was about to happen.
Even a single instant was enough to change everything in a clash between experts.
"I see."
The corner of the mouth beneath the sunglasses twitched.
"An environment that enhances perception. Interesting."
After all, offering praise to the defeated was only gracious.
"Heh... hehe."
Kaiyu laughed dryly, his feet shifting imperceptibly toward the upper-right corner of the room as he tried to distract his opponent with words.
"To think I'd meet someone here who claims to understand feng shui."
His gaze sweeping over the man's quietly moving fingers, Rossi narrowed his eyes.
"The position you're standing in corresponds to Kan in the trigrams."
"Kan above and below symbolizes flowing water and peril... you're planning to use poison?"
"-And you still claim you didn't come from that place?"
A vicious light flared in the man's eyes as his intentions were exposed.
He raised a hand and wiped it across the seemingly ordinary kitchen knife-actually a peerless blade named "Eternal Spirit"
of exceptional rarity.
Dark red blood, nearly black, soaked the blade, coating it in a somber ink-black hue in an instant.
It was not Armament Haki, yet it was deadlier than lethal poison.
Even a Devil Fruit power hailed as the embodiment of poison would probably struggle to compare.
"Let me show you what I can really do-"
Whoosh.
Standing at the formation's focal point**, Rossi inhaled deeply.
An unprecedented clarity swept through his body, and his Observation Haki abruptly expanded with it, as though piercing the thin veil of time.
He "saw"
the scene about to unfold.
"Come-"
Before the word had faded,