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"Divine Annihilation!"
An icy voice rang out from the other side.
The gaze behind the sunglasses swept over the flying kick wreathed in black and white lightning, which sent the invisible barrier about to crush Blackbeard rolling back.
The man in the suit raised both hands at once-
"White threads, like a tide."
"You-"
Threads surged silently outward, flooding toward the Straw Hat Pirates.
They climbed over Luffy as he held the gravely wounded Navigator, wound around the blood-soaked Swordsman, cook, and Fish-Man, and burrowed into Usopp's and Chopper's torn flesh.
The tips pierced deep into their wounds, as though invisible hands were threading them through, stitching them together from the tiniest points.
Intermittent coughing rang out.
As the threads at the cellular level kept tightening, the chests of the three whose eyes had rolled back began rising and falling again.
"...Thanks."
In response to those thanks, the man in the suit merely raised a hand to adjust his glasses.
"Straw Hat, what are you doing?"
"As one of the Four Emperors, can't you even tell what matters most?"
Against an existence like that, a top-tier fighter was holding an injured companion instead of stepping up to fight-what was that supposed to be?
"One move took down the entire Straw Hat Pirates, and even Blackbeard was nearly crushed..."
Two figures landed on either side of Imu, surrounding her.
Their reactions had already been as fast as possible, but that figure was too powerful.
A wave of her hand had brought the Straw Hat Pirates to the brink of collapse, and one punch had nearly finished Blackbeard. The entire process had taken only a few breaths, leaving them no choice but to strain every nerve.
"Let me feel for myself just how much weight the so-called world's strongest carries!"
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