"Fall down before me!! Shigan... Lion Claw Barrage!!"
boom...
The black lion's claws carried immense power, tearing apart the surrounding air currents as they hurtled towards Catherine's left like cannonballs.
"Hmm... here!! Flowing Rain... Slash."
Clang...
Finally, the moment he spoke, Catherine reacted instantly, hastily unleashing a slash with her blade to block Califo's Shigan.
A deafening roar erupted, stirring up a gust of wind and billowing dust across the entire battlefield.
"Cough cough... I didn't expect her to be so strong, actually managing to block Califo's attack!! It seems the fiancée my father arranged for me to marry is no ordinary woman..."
Orange covered his nose with his hand and coughed a few times. Then, seeing that the two sides had reached a stalemate, he was surprised by Catherine's reaction and said...
"Hmm... It's no use, Miss Catherine. Your strength is at most that of a colonel, while I am already a lieutenant Headquarters Vice Admiral."
"You can't withstand my attack, so give up and come with us..."
Califo increased the pressure of his fingers, forcing Catherine to retreat. At this moment, Califo spoke up again to persuade her.
"How will you know if you don't try? I've already said it before: if you really want to take me back, then defeat me with your strength first!!"
"Secret Technique Flowing Wind..."
After Catherine finished speaking, she drew her sword, gripped the hilt with her other hand, and swung it again, unleashing another invisible slash.
Clang...
The slash, like Hurricane, stirred up a sandstorm, its power increasing with each strike until it formed a sandstorm three or four stories high, hurtling towards Califo.
"A pretty good slash? But it's still too immature, the Rankyaku... Amane Dachi!!"
Califo watched the ever-expanding Flying Slash towards him and praised it. Then, he slightly turned his body and used his right foot to create an arc of wind blade to meet the Flying Slash.
boom...
The explosion rang out instantly, and streams of air were dispersed and spilled outwards.
"Shave!!"
Before the storm had even died down, Califo used Shave again, disappearing into the dust and smoke.
"Partial Tekkai... Lion King Fist!!"
When he reappeared, Califo was already in front of Catherine, his right hand clenched into a fist, and he blasted it towards her stomach with a sharp, piercing sound.
"Secret Technique... Flowing Gold Wall!!"
Catherine reacted quickly, using her knife to create a barrier and then using the back of the blade to block Califo's attack.
Bang...
Click click...
Click!!
After a brief moment of resistance, the barrier formed by Catherine's slash was shattered by him, and his right fist slammed into her sword without any obstruction, sending her flying.
Bang...
"Isn't that enough?! Even a Vice Admiral would find it difficult to withstand an attack like that from me, let alone someone whose strength is not even at the Vice Admiral level."
Califo landed on the ground, looking at Catherine, whom he had sent flying, who had crashed into a wall and collapsed the entire house, and said...
"This is... Catherine's location. Have they already started making their move?"
On the other side, a tall, beautiful woman watched the battle between Califo and his men and murmured to herself.
"I'm so sorry... Catherine, please forgive me, sister, for not being able to help you. It's my duty as a naval officer..."
Momousagi stared straight at them, a slight smile playing on her lips as she spoke with a guilty expression.
Then he resolutely turned around and walked towards his warship, unwilling to see this scene that made him feel extremely guilty and powerless.
"What?! Oh no, could it be that Celestial Dragons from earlier really came to cause trouble for Catherine? No, I can't just sit here and do nothing, I have to go and check it out right away..."
Meanwhile, in the northwest corner of Catherine's house, Luo Chen had just finished dinner and was about to go back to ask Catherine for her answer when he suddenly saw a Heaven Shaker commotion coming from her direction.
Then, he immediately activated his Observation Haki to sense the situation on her side, and hurried towards her without stopping.
"It seems the battle is over. Let's take you back then..."
After staring intently at the ruins where Catherine was for a while, Califo saw that there was still no movement there, and assumed that she might have been knocked unconscious by his attack, so he started walking towards her.
Clang...
Just then, a slash shot out from the dust and aimed at Califo's head. Califo quickly noticed it, tilting his neck to the side and narrowly avoiding the fatal blow.
Although he dodged the slash, the airflow from it tore a small wound on his face, and blood quickly flowed down his cheeks and into his mouth.
"Hmm... this is... the smell of blood!!"
Califo gently wiped the wound on his face with his fingers, then put the fingers he had used to wipe the wound to his lips, licked them, and said.
"Hehehe... It seems my attack didn't do much damage to you..."
This is truly unexpected... Since I became the lieutenant Vice Admiral stationed in Mary Geoise, this is the first time someone has left a wound on me, and it's from a young, blonde girl no less...
Hehehe, that's brilliant! So, are you ready to face my wrath? Don't think that just because you're Orange's fiancée, I'll go easy on you...
Surely, Saint Orange?!
After speaking to Catherine, who had just stood up from the ruins, Califo turned to Orange and asked for his opinion.
"Hmm... okay, as long as you don't harm her vital areas, you can do whatever you want with her, Vice Admiral Califo!"
When Orange saw Califo look at him expectantly, he knew Carrie was looking for revenge for the attack he had just suffered.
Orange thought for a moment and then nodded in agreement.
"Hehehe, that's great! So, little girl, are you ready?"
shave..."
After receiving Orange's affirmative answer, Califo looked at Catherine with a sinister smile and asked,
As soon as he finished speaking, his body vanished from the spot once again.
"Don't look down on me, I'm the sister of the Navy's Supernovas, Hogg... Secret Technique... Flowing Shadow "
Catherine cheered herself on, then her body, like a shadow, appeared and disappeared as she faced Califo's attacking lion's claws.
Clang...
The blade clashed with the lion's claw once more, producing a piercing metallic noise that rippled through the air like a pebble thrown into water.
"It's no use. Didn't I already tell you? Your weak attacks can't stop my... Hah!!"
Califo shook his head in disdain at her actions, then shouted, his arm muscles bulging slightly, a powerful force emanating from him and flowing into his body along the blade of Catherine's sword.
Bang...
With the immense force of his Zoan Devil Fruit powers, Califo sent Catherine flying away, crashing into yet another uninhabited house.