"Awakened?"
Red-Haired Shanks's eyes widened in astonishment.
Amidst his shock,
the flames of battle ignited in Red-Haired Shanks's eyes.
"How could our captain not possess Conqueror's Haki?" Momousagi Gyon's lips curved into a proud smile.
Everyone felt the same.
Makino, influenced by the emotional resonance, couldn't help but feel a surge of pride.
"I told you, it's just Conqueror's Haki, nothing special," Hancock said, raising her head arrogantly.
From her body,
a powerful aura also seeped out.
It was also Conqueror's Haki.
She had awakened it together with Kevin.
The members of the Red Hair Pirate Crew were dumbfounded.
"The Sun and Moon Pirates have such a person?" Benn Beckman looked at Hancock in shock.
In his eyes, and probably in the eyes of the entire sea, the Sun and Moon Pirates were only truly recognized for Kevin and Momousagi Gyon.
Other members, including Hancock, who had a bounty over one hundred million, weren't given much importance.
"Besides Charlotte Linlin, another woman with Conqueror's Haki has appeared on the sea. How terrifying."
"With Kevin, Gyon, and Hancock, the Sun and Moon Pirates' future won't be weak."
Jabba's eyes narrowed slightly.
His astonishment was undeniable.
He hadn't seen a clash of Conqueror's Haki in many years.
"No wonder Shanks was so serious after seeing them; they truly have the qualifications," Jabba said, even more pleased.
"Ace" would only truly shine in the hands of such a person.
"No, Roger, including Shanks, didn't show such performance when they were just adults. It's possible that 'Ace' didn't choose him, but rather he conquered 'Ace'," Jabba suddenly thought, his pupils contracting sharply.
"Come on!"
Red-Haired Shanks.
He stomped the ground, causing the entire shoreline to shake, and massive waves to rise from the sea, as he swung his lightning-and-thunder-infused blade.
A crimson light seemed to devour all other light.
Kevin did the same.
He stomped the ground, and countless sand and stones were stirred into the sky by a whirlwind of power, a tornado sweeping across the land, as the space where "Ace" cut began to distort.
The two blades,
under everyone's gaze,
clashed violently.
They couldn't actually collide; the immense force prevented the two blades from directly touching, creating lightning-like cracks in the space of impact, and a deep chasm appeared on the ground.
The sandy shore disappeared,
revealing hard, moist bedrock, and rocks flew everywhere.
The forest collapsed.
Ancient trees were uprooted by the force.
"They're actually evenly matched with the boss." The Red Hair Pirate Crew quickly dug their feet into the ground, using Haki to protect themselves and avoid being blown away by the force.
They watched the clashing blades with wide eyes.
"The sky is about to split open."
"Both sides have reached such a level." Jabba couldn't help but exclaim; even at his peak, he was only about this strong.
And one of them was only in his twenties,
while the other was not yet twenty.
Jabba, the third-in-command of the Roger Pirates, couldn't help but feel defeated, a thought rising in his mind: they are all monsters.
Especially Kevin.
Such combat power before the age of twenty.
He dared not speculate about his future.
"Is this a battle?"
Makino's mouth hung open.
Her worldview completely collapsed. In her understanding, battles between pirates should be like those among mountain bandits, mostly using guns, and someone who could fight ten people at once was considered impressive.
What was this apocalyptic scene before her eyes?
Did such people truly exist in the world?
"Of course, it's quite normal for our captain and Red-Haired Shanks to reach this level," Momousagi Gyon calmly explained to the crew, demonstrating the true demeanor of powerful individuals on the high seas.
"So humans can be this strong."
Makino stared blankly at Kevin, who was battling Red-Haired Shanks.
In her eyes, Red-Haired Shanks had already been automatically disregarded.
"He's grown to this extent already?" During the battle, Red-Haired Shanks's forehead slowly bulged with veins, and the fight was surprisingly even.
Kevin revealed an excited expression.
Behind him, a chilling Ghost Qi materialized: "Oni-kiri: Enma Descent"
With a flick of his blade.
A massive sword energy shockwave, spanning the forest, tore through everything.
It crashed into a distant mountain, piercing through it, leaving a hundred-meter-diameter hole.
Red-Haired Shanks, who was also sent flying, flipped and landed on the ground, then leaped into the air, his blade trailing black lightning and Conqueror's Haki, descending like a scorching sun.
"Boom!"
The entire coastline flipped over, soaring into the sky.
A crack tore through the sea, stretching to the horizon.
In the bottomless pit.
Kevin leaped up, landing steadily on the shattered ground.
The moment his gaze met Red-Haired Shanks's.
Neither of them spoke, disappearing simultaneously, their blades clashing thousands of times in an instant, the fierce sword energy shattering the broken ground layer by layer.
From the shore.
They fought into the forest, and the forest disappeared.
They reached the mountain, and the mountain collapsed.
A clash between evenly matched opponents.
The closest people to this location were tens of miles away, and cities were at least dozens of miles away.
Yet, they could all feel the ground shaking.
"What's happening?" Deep in the forest, two youths climbed a large tree, staring blankly at the lightning and thunder in the sky: "Someone is fighting?"
"How is that possible? How can a battle affect the weather?"
"Ace, wait, are you going to go?"
In the more distant city.
People on the streets looked up: "An earthquake? Is a storm coming?"
The massive Goa Kingdom naturally had Newspaper Companies, and the reporters, being well-informed, immediately understood what was happening: "No, someone is fighting here, and it's actually affecting the entire island. Unimaginable! Are monsters from the New World fighting here?"
"Big news! There's going to be big news in the East Blue."
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