The distance of several dozen meters vanished in an instant!
Murakumogiri traced a perfect arc through the air, carrying a world-destroying momentum as it cleaved straight down.
Tenma had long been prepared. With a thought, he used his Devil Fruit ability to push the two women beside him away.
At the same time, the fighting spirit in his eyes ignited.
The famed blade Shidarezura left its sheath, a bewitching crimson glow dancing wildly along the blade.
If you want war—then war it is!
With an upward slashing strike, he met the attack head-on, refusing to yield an inch.
Clang—!
The two Supreme Grade blades hadn't even truly touched yet—
the Haki wrapped around them was already colliding madly in midair.
Black-red lightning writhed like berserk serpents, instantly filling the sky.
One above, one below—two torrents of terrifying Conqueror's Haki slammed into each other.
Zzzzz—!
Crimson and pale white light shot back and forth between them, releasing ear-piercing crackles like electrical arcs.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Even in midair, the air beneath their feet—and the rocky ground extending upward from below—shattered layer by layer like brittle biscuits.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Whitebeard's arm muscles bulged grotesquely, shock power roaring along the blade.
Tenma's sword momentum surged like a rainbow, razor-sharp sword intent seemingly slicing through the void itself.
The red glow in both their eyes flared violently, as if a lightning-charged hurricane had formed between them.
Conqueror's Haki Coating!
The point between Shidarezura and Murakumogiri seemed to turn into a black hole, crazily devouring everything around it.
The already shattered ground was blown away entirely by the shockwave, countless fragments of rock defying gravity as they shot skyward.
Gale winds howled—
even the massive floating island beneath them trembled as if in fear.
"Th-they're not even touching!!"
The pirates below stared in terror, mouths hanging open.
So this… is a battle between kings?
Just the clash of their presence alone was enough to make breathing impossible.
Haki continued to vent, compressing into a perfectly spherical force field.
Then—
BOOM!
A pillar of light shot straight into the heavens, as if the sky itself had been punched through.
Clouds within tens of thousands of meters were blown completely clear in an instant, revealing a deep blue sky filled with killing intent.
The sea erupted once more, hurricane winds driving towering waves to flee wildly toward the horizon.
"The ships are going to capsize! Hold them steady!"
Both the Moby Dick and the Red Force rocked violently in the aftermath, their hulls tilting to dangerous angles.
For the veterans of the Whitebeard Pirates and for Red-Haired Shanks, this level of collision was not unfamiliar.
It was the same spectacle that appeared when Whitebeard once crossed blades with the Pirate King, Gol D. Roger.
This—
was the ceiling of the New World!
This—
was power that stood at the very apex!
Whoosh—
It felt like a century passed—or perhaps only a heartbeat.
The two terrifying auras suddenly separated.
The immense recoil blasted both men apart.
Whitebeard landed steadily on the rocky surface of the floating island, his feet crushing the stone beneath him.
Tenma, meanwhile, slid dozens of meters through the air before barely stabilizing himself.
This round of Conqueror's-coated clash looked evenly matched.
But a true fight to the death never stopped at a polite exchange.
The moment Whitebeard steadied himself, he gave Tenma no chance to breathe.
Murakumogiri swung again, and a clearly visible white shock sphere instantly formed and shot forth from the blade.
Crack-crack!
Where the shockwave passed, air and ground alike shattered, a horrifying canyon tearing open out of nowhere.
Tenma's eyes sharpened. He answered with a flying sword slash.
The razor-sharp sword energy split the shockwave, triggering a violent explosion.
But within the smoke and debris of the blast, a massive shadow had already closed in.
Whitebeard's terrifying strike, carrying the might of splitting mountains, crashed down.
Slash—
Tenma didn't retreat—he advanced instead. Shidarezura became a streak of light as it slashed forward head-on.
This wasn't just a contest of strength—
it was also the all-pervasive shock force of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
Tenma's foothold instantly crumbled into powder.
The power was simply too tyrannical to be fully dispersed.
Borrowing the force, Tenma triggered the More-More Fruit in an instant, his body turning into an afterimage as he teleported dozens of meters away.
The spot where he had stood was already blasted into a bottomless meteor crater by the shockwave.
BOOOOM!!!
The explosion's flash stabbed painfully into the eyes.
Every exchange was a catastrophic blow.
Under their rampage, cracks spread across the ground like a spiderweb.
The storm clouds overhead resembled a torn scar, reflecting this apocalyptic scene.
Debris flew everywhere, thunderous roars echoing without end.
This wasn't a battle anymore—
it was demolition on a planetary scale.
On the Moby Dick not far away, everyone could only watch in horror like spectators.
This was a level of combat they couldn't possibly interfere with.
If they approached recklessly, the aftershocks alone would pulverize them.
While everyone's attention was completely drawn to the emperor-level clash in the sky, Hancock and Yamato descended upon the bow of the Moby Dick like two gods of slaughter.
Tenma might have been fighting furiously above, but down here, the situation was just as volatile.
Hancock's breathtakingly beautiful eyes were now filled with undisguised contempt as she coldly swept her gaze over the pirates below.
Just a single look.
Those with weak will, the moment a trace of lust for her beauty rose in their hearts, felt their souls seized by an invisible hand the very next second.
That was the power of the Soul-Soul Fruit!
Countless wisps of white soul matter drifted like smoke from their mouths.
Thud! Thud!
Pirates collapsed in droves, eyes rolled back, falling like harvested wheat as they instantly lost consciousness.
At that moment, an overwhelmingly powerful burst of Haki suddenly erupted.
Like a tangible shockwave, it instantly dispersed the lust in everyone's hearts, then slammed straight toward Hancock.
Hancock's eyes turned cold. Her own Conqueror's Haki burst forth, the two invisible forces colliding violently in midair and canceling each other out.
She followed the source of that Haki with her gaze.
A red-haired, one-armed man stood at the front of the Whitebeard Pirates, gripping the famed blade Gryphon.
Red-Haired Shanks.
The situation had developed far beyond what he had expected.
He'd come to mediate—but Tenma was ruthless and economical with words, opening straight away with a world-ending move.
The current battle made him understand one thing clearly:
as long as Whitebeard lived, the balance of this sea would not be completely shattered.
So he couldn't just stand by.
If he couldn't interfere in the battle in the sky, then he'd stabilize the situation down here first.
But he was still a man of principles—using women as hostages was something he simply wouldn't do.
Hancock looked Shanks up and down, snorted coldly.
Being able to block her Haki… this one-armed man clearly had some skill.
"You're neither one of Whitebeard's men nor anything else—why are you butting in?
How dare you block my path?"
Hancock planted her hands on her hips, pointing at Shanks in clear displeasure.
At that moment, the Whitebeard Pirates who had just come to their senses from the Haki shockwave shook their heads violently, no longer daring to look directly at Hancock.
Blackbeard Teach hid in the crowd's rear, watching those poor bastards whose souls had nearly left their bodies, cold sweat pouring down his back.
This woman's beauty was already an unsolvable weapon—
now add that crazy old hag Big Mom's Soul-Soul Fruit on top of it, and it was downright cheating!
"He's right! Red-Hair!"
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