Before he could finish speaking, the Cipher Pol Aigis Zero captain pitched forward, blood splashing across the deck.
Thud.
Thud.
Thud.
As he fell, the other three ability users collapsed into pools of blood one after another, the light rapidly fading from their eyes.
One slash had brought down all four.
Deathly silence enveloped the scene-
"Ohhh! What a powerful Conqueror's Haki shockwave!"
The only one still able to move on the entire deck was "Big News"
Morgans.
In his birdman form, he excitedly adjusted his camera angle while delivering an impassioned commentary to the air:
"The sheer vibration of his Haki made four ability users simultaneously experience the illusion of being 'cut down'..."
Yes, Rossi's slash had only truly targeted the Cipher Pol Aigis Zero captain.
Everything the other three had perceived-pain, tearing, impending death-had merely been illusions woven by Haki invading their nerves.
The bodies on the deck slumped soundlessly.
Faint cracking noises came from beneath their skin, like a spiderweb of fractures spreading across ice.
Those were not marks left by a blade. Their own nerves were snapping inch by inch under some invisible, crushing pressure, their capillaries bursting in turn and spreading patches of dark red beneath their clothes.
Their muscle fibers tore themselves apart, as though an unseen blade were slicing them to pieces.
They had died from an illusion far too real.
"So it can be used like that."
A low chuckle came from nearby.
The man in red sunglasses closed his fingers. Countless lines of blood abruptly sprayed from the last enemy in the pale mask, his entire body sliced into irregular chunks in an instant, scattering across the deck with muffled thuds.
The threads had already silently taken root inside his body. This merely completed the harvest.
It was hardly surprising-his opponent