Chapter 152

The Seven Warlords of the Sea.

Every nation.

The various pirate Supernovas were all watching this battle.

The Traveler Luo En and his crew of the Empty Calamity have reappeared on the sea after a gap of six months; whether it is his own strength or that of his subordinates, both are well worth paying attention to.

At this moment, the Whole Cake Island.

"So that is Nico Luo Bin?"

Big Mom, Charlotte Linlin, was eating cake, her eyes fixed tightly on Luo Bin on the screen.

The others did not catch her eye at all; in this Emperor's view, their strength was negligible, and even added together they probably would not be a match for any one of her three Sweet Commanders.

Yet Katakuri beside her was watching without so much as blinking.

As for that fellow called Luo En and his companions, he was quite interested in them.

Suddenly.

Above Drum Island in that live broadcast.

A dazzling flash of light appeared.

Immediately after, countless glaring light bullets fired from the sky toward a certain spot below.

"That's Borsalino's Eight-Sided Light Bullets."

Marine Headquarters, inside a room.

Garp munched on rice crackers, gazing at the giant screen ahead as he spoke.

Standing around him were Peach Rabbit, Tea Pig, Mustache and several other Vice Admirals; Vice Admiral Tsuru, the Chief of Staff, and Tina were also present; everyone's gaze was fixed tightly on the screen.

On the screen.

A cross-shaped pitch-black slash spanning several kilometers rose to meet those light bullets, cutting upward from below toward Borsalino in the sky.

Borsalino's figure flashed.

That cross-shaped slash shot skyward, and before the stunned, awestruck gazes of countless people watching the screen, it cleaved the entire mass of dark clouds above Drum Island into four pieces.

"!!!"

Tea Pig's face was full of shock.

"That kid's swordsmanship is already this strong now?!"

"A few years ago he was still learning swordsmanship under Mustache, and now…"

Tea Pig looked toward Mustache, who stood off to the side with his arms crossed. "Mustache, you're probably no match for him at all anymore, right?"

Mustache, sensing the gazes of the others turning toward him, could not stop the corner of his eye from twitching.

Damn Tea Pig, really opening the one pot that shouldn't be opened?! *

……

After that strike on the screen.

Luo En and Borsalino's figures appeared in the air.

One held a black blade in hand, the other wielded a light sword over two meters long.

Standing in the air, facing each other from afar.

Above them were the gloomy dark clouds that had been split apart.

At this moment the clouds rolled and stretched; the snowflakes suspended all around were also crushed and melted by the collision of that invisible aura between the two!

The people before the screen seemed able to feel that ultimate oppressive pressure between the strong, and could not help but swallow hard, cold sweat breaking out on their foreheads.

What will happen next…?

At this moment, the eyes of the entire world were focused here.

……

Drum Island, shrouded by the snowflakes suspended in the air.

Above Drum Mountain, which Luo En had cleaved in two with a single slash.

Luo En and Borsalino stood in the air.

"Your companions are quite capable, able to even handle two Headquarters Vice Admirals."

Borsalino cast a glance downward as he spoke.

"However, the moment Bartholomew Kuma makes his move, they'll all be finished."

A pitch-black slash came hurtling toward him.

Borsalino dodged it with a casual tilt of his body, not even looking, his eyes beneath the tinted sunglasses slanting toward the black-clad youth whose gaze did not waver in the slightest.

"You hear unfavorable news about your companions and don't waver at all… how terrifying indeed."

Luo En's expression was calm; the void beneath his feet rippled like the surface of water, and from it three swords rose up, to Borsalino's somewhat surprised gaze.

Lei Qie.

Sakura Ten.

Kogarashi.

The three famed swords floated point-down beside Luo En's hand.

In his hand he also carried a black blade of the Great Grade Twenty-One Works, the Shusui; if the swordsmen of the world were to see this scene, they would die of envy.

"Golden Lion's legacy, is it… you plan to rely on these to beat me?"

Borsalino tilted his head, looking at him as he spoke.

The next second, he raised his leg and swept it out in a kick toward the distant Luo En.

Borsalino's long, thin leg photonized in an instant as it kicked, becoming a flash-leg nearly a hundred meters long, kicking toward the neck of the black-clad youth a hundred meters away with incomparably ferocious momentum.

And all of this happened in an instant—one one-hundredth of a second.

"Have you ever been kicked by light?"

Huang Yuan said this line once more.

The speed of light—and speed, sometimes… is power itself.

This kick was twice as fast as the one at the very beginning! This was Huang Yuan's true speed!

Even those who had mastered the first stage of Observation Haki couldn't react in time.

Those who had mastered the second stage of Observation Haki, even if they could react, still couldn't dodge this kick.

Unless one reached the third stage of Observation Haki—glimpsing a fragment of the future—or predicted it in advance by reading his movements!

Whoosh!

Luo En's figure vanished from the spot at the instant Huang Yuan's Glint-Kick was about to land.

His Glint-Kick swept through in an unbroken arc, a slash-like streak of yellow light flashing across the sky, fanning outward and slashing into another Drum Island mountain in the distance—the upper half of that mountain collapsed with a thunderous boom!

"Huh?"

Huang Yuan withdrew his leg, somewhat surprised.

He actually dodged that kick?

Luo En, now appearing in the sky above, glanced at the collapsed mountain.

Such terrifying power—taking a hit like that would be very bad news.

He had just activated both lv4 Transparent World and lv5 Observation Haki at the same time, sensed the danger, and the instant Huang Yuan raised his leg, used Shave to dodge the kick.

Luo En looked at Huang Yuan and narrowed his eyes.

This monkey… looks like he's getting serious.

…………

In front of the screen.

Whether it was Huang Yuan's kick or Luo En's dodge, it all happened in an instant. Many people had only blinked, and Luo En had already vanished from his original position, while the mountain had already collapsed.

Huang Yuan looked as if he hadn't done a thing.

"Just now… did something happen?"

"No idea."

"Didn't see it."

"Why did that mountain suddenly shatter? Was it those two? What exactly happened?"

Many people were completely baffled.

Some pirates with bounties of tens of millions of Berries also had no idea what had happened.

Only some true powerhouses had seen or guessed what had just happened, their expressions serious and grave.

"He could actually dodge that strike from Huang Yuan…"