The momentum was overwhelming.
Overbearing Conqueror's Haki, wrapped around the blade, twisted space.
The whipping power of lightning filled the heavens and earth.
As one strike fell, it swallowed all light.
In the world, only that descending long lightning blade remained.
"What?"
Sengoku suddenly turned his head.
His eyes were wide with terror as he stared at the long blade slashing towards him.
"Look out!"
Beside him, Kaji roared, desperately unleashing all his Haki.
"One Blade - Phoenix Annihilation!"
Gion instantly drew her blade, assuming a phoenix-human form, holding the sword with both hands, unleashing a scorching flying slash that tore through the earth, sandwiching Kevin from front and back.
"Heavenly Thunder - Divine Punishment!"
Stussy unleashed her ultimate move.
A super lightning pillar, a hundred meters in diameter, shattered the clouds and descended from the sky, falling in the blink of an eye.
In a flash,
the hundred-meter lightning pillar condensed into a thin lightning line, its power reaching two hundred million volts.
"Dual Fists - Dual Annihilation!"
Shaki, in her Vampire Form, simultaneously unleashed both fists, a massive shockwave joining forces with Gion's Phoenix Slash.
"Get out of the way!"
Belo Betty had already activated her Ope-Ope no Mi's ROOM space.
Taking advantage of the moment Doflamingo was stunned and bewildered.
She transferred Doflamingo's position.
This was to prevent Doflamingo from blocking the blade for Buddha Sengoku.
"Great Perfume Femur!"
Hancock, sprinting rapidly, quickly reached Edward Weevil and delivered a powerful, gravity-infused kick, striking the unprepared Edward Weevil.
He was sent flying.
"If you don't want to die, get out."
Hancock looked at the other Shichibukai.
This was to prevent others from blocking the blade for Buddha Sengoku.
"Th-th-this is Kevin?" Tyrant Kuma was speechless, staring in horror at Kevin slashing towards Sengoku.
He was startled by Hancock's voice.
He quickly activated his Devil Fruit ability and instantly vanished.
Jinbe quickly retreated.
"We'll die!" Crocodile desperately used elementalization, fleeing the area at his fastest speed.
With so many powerful attacks,
he wasn't confident he could survive any one of them, so he certainly didn't dare to stay there.
Gekko Moriah was the same, fleeing in terror.
"He's not dead?!"
Hawkeye Mihawk looked at Kevin in shock.
He also moved.
He was confident he could protect himself and survive, but there was no need, so he withdrew from the battlefield.
At the conference table,
the Shichibukai had either fled or were forced to be knocked away.
Only Buddha Sengoku and his group remained.
"This is impossible!!!"
Buddha Sengoku's expression changed drastically, staring ferociously at Kevin.
"Sengoku, run!" Chief of Staff Tsuru shouted in a panic.
Sengoku reacted quickly.
At the critical moment,
his body glowed golden, and before his Great Buddha Form could fully manifest, the Heavenly Punishment lightning struck him.
Lightning flashed, and Buddha Sengoku's body was solidified in place.
Even with Buddha Sengoku's strength, Stussy couldn't instantly kill him with a surprise attack, but the lightning's paralyzing effect prevented Sengoku from breaking free instantly.
Coupled with Kevin's stealthy surprise attack,
he couldn't escape.
To everyone's stunned gaze,
multiple attacks simultaneously struck the area where Buddha Sengoku was located from all directions.
"Boom!"
A sky-shattering explosion.
Reverberated across the entire world.
A gigantic explosive mushroom cloud engulfed the entirety of No. 1 Island.
Hundred-meter-high tidal waves instantly tore apart all the ice surrounding No. 1 Island, and all seventy-plus islands of the Sabaody Archipelago felt the ground-shaking tremor.
The mushroom cloud covered the vast expanse of space.
At the epicenter of the explosion,
space twisted and cracks permeated.
Everyone was dumbfounded.
Those not on Sabaody Archipelago were the same.
Regardless of status or strength.
They all wore expressions of utter shock.
"Was that...was that...Kevin just now?"
"Was it or wasn't it?"
"It seemed like it, right?"
Kevin appeared in an instant, striking with a single slash, and then all anyone saw was the explosion that filled their entire vision.
"This, this, this?"
Red-Haired Shanks's mouth twitched, the sake in his mouth spilling out like a sieve.
He pointed at the screen.
His finger trembled just like his mouth.
Shanks subconsciously looked at Benn Beckman.
You're smart, usually the calmest.
But he found that the crew's brain was reacting the same way he was, a cigarette falling from his mouth onto his foot, the burning stub scorching his instep, yet he didn't react.
"Who exactly was that?"
Kaido of the Beasts wished he could immediately burst from the screen into the scene.
Who was it?
It absolutely couldn't be Kevin; if he were still alive, then the Navy would be dumber than pigs.
In the New World.
Akainu and Kizaru, who intimidated the Sea Emperor, were also leisurely gathered, having a meal and watching the live broadcast from Sabaody Archipelago.
When Gion and the others appeared.
The two of them weren't worried at all; Akainu even burst into laughter.
But at this moment.
Both of them were stunned.
Akainu, like a machine, slowly turned his stiff head, staring blankly at Kizaru.
He then realized Kizaru was also turning his stiff head, staring blankly at him, just like himself.
Their dazed gazes met.
"It shouldn't be Kevin, right?"
Akainu slowly shook his head: "Of course not, he died in front of us; we personally took action."
"Then who was it?"
Akainu fell silent.
Right.
Then who the hell was it?
Navy Headquarters.
Zephyr, with this year's new recruits from the Navy Recruit Camp, sat in the classroom watching the live broadcast.
These new recruits included Ain and others.
By the time they enrolled, Kevin had already left the Navy, so they knew nothing of Kevin's past in the Navy Recruit Camp.
Naturally.
Whatever Sengoku said, whatever Zephyr told them, was all correct.
But...the situation suddenly changed.
"It definitely isn't Kevin. Who is it? This isn't good, Sengoku is in danger." Zephyr didn't believe Kevin was still alive; even if the fleeting figure just now strongly resembled Kevin, it could just be a similar appearance.
Or it could be a disguise.
"Quickly go notify Kuzan and Garp; hurry to Sabaody Archipelago."
The two, Kuzan and Garp, who remained at Navy Headquarters.
Didn't watch.
They weren't interested.
The two lazily went to the back island of Navy Headquarters, to the beach area provided for Navy leisure.
Both were lying on beach chairs, wearing eye masks.
Enjoying the sunbath.
They didn't chat, nor were they interested in what was happening on Sabaody Archipelago, and they didn't know about it yet.
"Why does it feel like the ground is trembling a bit?" Kuzan said, puzzled.
Was it an earthquake?
"It seems to be coming from Sabaody Archipelago."
Garp felt it and confirmed.
The aftershocks from Sabaody Archipelago had already reached Navy Headquarters.
"Something must have happened, but with Sengoku there, it's nothing." Garp changed his position and continued to leisurely lie in the sun.
Kuzan didn't get up either.
The two continued to leisurely sunbathe.
But the Navy personnel remaining at Navy Headquarters panicked, rushing to the two's quarters, only to find no one.
No one answered the telephone transponder snail, which was left in the office.
The Marines were stunned.
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