Katakuri's pupils shrank violently at the sight of his brother's death.
He immediately activated his ability as a massive ocean of mochi surged toward Sakazuki while he himself rapidly retreated into the distance.
Looking at the incoming tidal wave of mochi, Sakazuki coldly uttered two words.
"Magma Burst."
Once again, endless crimson light erupted as terrifying heat and explosive force swept across the entire island.
The surging mochi sea melted and collapsed instantly, while Katakuri, who had not managed to retreat far enough, was struck by the shockwave and completely lost control of his body, tumbling straight into the magma below.
Before he could even rise to his feet, Sakazuki's pitch-black hand seized him by the throat...
Katakuri struggled instinctively. His Haki surged wildly around his body, but the hand gripping his neck felt like an iron shackle that could not be moved in the slightest.
Ignoring the pirates' movements, Sakazuki's right hand slowly slid upward and gripped Katakuri's jaw while his left hand pressed firmly against the top of his head.
With a sharp twist of his right hand to the left, Katakuri's body was suspended sideways in the air. Sakazuki's hands curled into claws as nearly tangible Armament Haki flowed around them. The muscles in both arms swelled violently before he slammed his hands together toward the center...
Crack!
A crisp sound of bones shattering echoed.
Wrapped in flowing Armament Haki, Katakuri's skull caved inward under the overwhelming pressure. Flesh, bone, and everything inside his head were completely pulverized in an instant.
Bang!
His head exploded into a cloud of blood mist that scattered across the burning air.
Thud!
The headless corpse collapsed heavily onto the ground.
Sakazuki did not spare a glance for the useless dead body. He merely turned his head slightly toward the side.
Something like a meteor was descending from the sky, plummeting toward the island at tremendous speed.
BOOM!!!
The entire island shook violently from the impact.
Big Mom, covered in flames with a twisted expression, crawled out from the crater.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Three enormous impacts rang out in rapid succession as Bullet, Garp, and Sengoku landed one after another, positioning themselves around her in a wide triangular formation.
Sakazuki hooked his foot beneath Katakuri's headless corpse and kicked it directly toward Big Mom before slowly walking forward.
Smack!
Big Mom caught Katakuri's corpse with one hand and threw it aside. Veins bulged across her forehead as her gaze locked onto the man approaching her.
"Sakazuki..."
Sakazuki walked forward and looked at her calmly. "Finished your last words? Then you can die now."
Bullet let out a savage grin as he instantly entered awakened amplification mode.
A gigantic blue demon nearly a hundred meters tall appeared and raised a massive hand dozens of meters wide, smashing it toward Big Mom.
The flames around her body erupted violently as a streak of lightning shot into the sky.
"God of Lightning Tenjin!!!"
Dark clouds above the island churned like a giant vortex. Countless bolts of lightning moved through the sky like chains as they struck toward Bullet, yet they failed to stop his movements for even a moment.
Big Mom tightly gripped Napoleon with both hands and drew it behind her as a violent aura exploded outward.
"Cognac!!!"
Clang!
But before she could swing it, the sound of metal colliding rang out.
From the other side, Sengoku transformed into a smaller golden Buddha form. The shockwave from his palm pressed down onto Big Mom, forcibly suppressing Napoleon in her hands and preventing her from swinging it.
At the same moment, the giant fist resembling a mountain smashed down onto Big Mom's head.
Boom!
Her eyes instantly rolled white as dizziness overwhelmed her.
The outward-flowing Armament Haki pressed down like crushing atmospheric pressure across several hundred meters around her.
The ground instantly caved inward. In the center of this magma hell, a compressed basin formed as Big Mom was smashed into a half-kneeling position.
Garp then moved in a flash and drove a kick into the leg still supporting her body.
BOOM!
Big Mom dropped fully onto both knees, completely suppressed.
Above her, the mountain-like giant fist pinned her down, her arms gripping Napoleon were restrained by Sengoku, and her knees were forced to the ground by Garp.
With great difficulty, she raised her eyes toward the figure in the red suit slowly approaching step by step.
Endless hatred surged from her eyes as she opened her mouth, wanting to say something.
But Sakazuki's right arm transformed into magma, thick black smoke rising from it as he calmly raised it.
"Hellhound."
The crimson magma turned into a pillar of molten lava and poured directly into Big Mom's open mouth, endlessly flooding into her body. The terrifying heat spread through her flesh from the inside out as cracks began appearing across her skin.
Her suppressed body visibly swelled larger and larger...
BOOM!!!!
Big Mom's body abruptly detonated from within as the magma inside her erupted all at once. Flesh and blood blasted outward in every direction while burning fragments rained across the battlefield.
Only her head remained relatively intact after Sakazuki seized it with one hand and tore it free before the explosion fully scattered it.
Without emotion, he tossed it toward the suddenly appearing Carlo.
"Next."
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New World, eastern defensive line of Wano Country.
King was guarding this area. The one facing him should have been Borsalino, who was driving the remnants of the Red Hair Pirates toward this direction.
What he did not know was that Borsalino had already withdrawn from that battlefield long ago and had even disappeared from this world entirely…
King stood at the highest point of the island while holding a Den Den Mushi and reporting the situation to Kaido.
"Something strange is happening on Red Hair's side. According to the pirates driven over here by the Marines, no one has been able to contact the Red Hair Pirates since last night. I have a bad feeling about this—"
Before he could finish speaking, his entire body was suddenly covered by a shadow.
The unfinished words in his mouth were interrupted by Sakazuki's cold voice appearing behind him.
"Your feeling is correct."
King held the Den Den Mushi as his whole body stiffened. His head slowly turned around bit by bit.
Sakazuki stood behind him, looking at him as if he were already dead.
"Magma Burst."
The two cold words were followed by an eruption of blazing magma.
RUMBLE!!!
A scorching heat like the sun swept across the area as endless magma erupted and instantly flooded the entire island.
Countless pirates were swallowed by the lava.
Under the tremendous impact, the island split apart and slowly began to sink beneath the sea…
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