"You two can come at me together!"
"Let me see what your three hands can do!"
Jovian deliberately held out both of his perfectly intact hands and waved them in front of Red-Haired Shanks and Hawkeye Mihawk. He just wanted to ask the two of them a riddle, guess who here did not have two hands?
"Together?"
Red-Haired Shanks looked at Dracule Mihawk beside him and asked.
"Although it goes against the way of the swordsman, when facing a monster like this, I don't think there's any need to follow the way of the swordsman anymore."
As Mihawk spoke, he swung the world's greatest blade in his hand, Yoru, one of the Supreme Grade Blades, and slashed toward Jovian.
Facing the Haki-coated black blade, Jovian extended one finger.
"I've been watching your black blade for quite a while, so I'll let you see my great blade too. This blade is called the Supreme Grade Middle Finger. It's a weapon I forged after conquering three thousand women. What do you think? Hard enough?"
Jovian used his middle finger to stop Mihawk's black blade and smiled.
"He blocked my attack with only one middle finger? What kind of joke is this?"
Mihawk felt as if heaven itself had to be mocking him. The strongest black blade he had tempered over countless years had actually been blocked by someone with a single finger. No matter how one looked at it, that made no sense.
"What are you doubting? Isn't this only natural? I have the strength to defeat the strongest man in the world, so blocking your attack with one middle finger is perfectly normal, isn't it?"
Jovian smiled faintly. He was merely stating the difference in strength between himself and Mihawk.
"Mihawk, duck!"
Just as Mihawk began doubting his life, a voice rang out from behind him.
"Hm!"
Mihawk heard the voice and instinctively crouched.
The next second, a pitch-black crescent slashed toward Jovian, its terrifying power cutting straight through the air.
"Huh? That boring slash again? I remember it's called Kamusari, right?"
Facing that supposedly invincible slash, Jovian extended his palm.
The slash that even gods were meant to avoid was caught barehanded in Jovian's palm.
Sparks flashed as Jovian clenched his hand and crushed the slash to pieces.
"If that's all you've got, then don't bring it out and embarrass yourself!"
Jovian shook away the Haki wrapped around his arm and looked at Shanks arrogantly.
"It's not over yet!"
At the instant Jovian crushed Shanks' slash, a massive blue slash cut toward him.
"So close!"
Jovian's eyes widened as he looked at that immensely powerful slash.
With a thunderous roar, Jovian's figure gradually vanished inside the blue slash.
"Did that finish him?"
Hawkeye Mihawk, who had swung the blade, looked at Jovian being swallowed by blue light and muttered to himself.
A hand pressed down on the blade in Mihawk's hand with a light slap.
"What?!"
Mihawk's pupils trembled sharply as he looked at the hand pressing against his blade.
"How could that possibly happen? Think about it for a second. There's no way I'd be taken out like that, right?"
Jovian looked at Mihawk lazily. One hand gripped Mihawk's Black Blade Yoru, while the other aimed at Mihawk's face.
"Tch."
Mihawk's brows tightened. Beads of sweat fell from his forehead one after another. He used every bit of strength he had, but no matter what he did, he could not pull the blade in his hand free from Jovian's steel-like grip.
"Watch my hand. Whoosh."
Jovian stretched his hand beside Mihawk's cheek, then slapped hard.
With a roaring blast of air, an enormous typhoon instantly formed from that single slap.
"What's happening?!"
"Ahhh!"
Countless Marines and pirates who had no idea what was going on were sent flying by the typhoon Jovian created with that slap.
Dracule Mihawk was also sent flying by Jovian. At the same time, Mihawk lost the thing most important to him.
"So this is the world's greatest blade?"
"Whoosh, whoosh."
Jovian swung the blade in his hand, and the terrifying wind from the blade made the sky and earth faintly change color.
"Doesn't seem that strong."
"Hey, Shanks, come practice with me. Let's see whose blade is stronger."
Holding Black Blade Yoru, Jovian walked toward Red-Haired Shanks.
"…"
Shanks tightened his grip on the famous sword Gryphon. Although he said nothing, his eyes were incredibly serious. His gaze was filled with overpowering Haki.
Black lightning symbolizing Conqueror's Haki infusion continuously danced along the famous sword in Shanks' hand. Armament Haki also wrapped around Gryphon like an indestructible coat.
"Hey, Pirate Hunter. First, I have to admit your strength. But if you think everything comes down to raw power, then you're dead wrong. The sword is a skill that must be mastered through endless training."
Shanks looked at Jovian and spoke with solemn seriousness.
"Huh? Really?"
Jovian gripped the black blade. The veins in his arm instantly bulged, and then he swung down hard.
A wildly domineering slash flew from the black blade in Jovian's hand. In an instant, it passed beside Shanks and shot straight into the clouds, vanishing into the horizon.
"You've got to be kidding me…"
Shanks looked at Jovian, who had torn the clouds apart with a single strike. A few strands of cut hair drifted down, and his eyes went blank for a moment.
"As expected, this thing called a slash is pretty hard to control…"
"But I feel like if I swing it a few dozen times, I'll probably have it completely mastered. Then I won't miss anymore!"
As Jovian spoke, he once again aimed the black blade at Shanks.
"This is bad!"
Shanks' eyes sharpened, and the famous sword in his hand instantly erupted with violent energy.
The next second, a pitch-black crescent collided with the blue crescent Jovian swung out. The terrifying energy seemed ready to shatter the entire sky.
"Next! Next! Next!"
Jovian casually swung Black Blade Yoru, releasing slash after slash. One, two, three. He sent out slashes as if they cost him nothing, mass-producing them without pause.
"Damn it!"
Facing Jovian's bottomless stamina and seemingly endless slashes, Shanks could only dodge for now. To be honest, although Jovian's swordsmanship had no technique at all, it was terrifyingly dangerous, solely because his slashes were too powerful. Combined with Jovian's overwhelming stamina, even if Mihawk went all out in a contest of slashes against Jovian, he might not necessarily win.
Boom after boom thundered across the battlefield.
"Ah, this is boring. As expected, using my fists feels much better."
After recklessly releasing slashes with Black Blade Yoru for a while, Jovian seemed to lose interest and casually threw the black blade away.
"Hey!"
Seeing Jovian throw the black blade away, countless pirates around him were shocked.
"That's the world's greatest black blade! You're just throwing it away?"
The pirates looked at Jovian and shouted angrily.
"What business is it of yours?"
Hearing the pirates shouting, Jovian calmly answered them with an extremely stylish red-eyed glare.
In an instant, those weak pirates were sliced into countless pieces like chopped vegetables, spilling tomato sauce all over the ground.
"Shanks, our fight has dragged on long enough!"
"It's time to end this!"
Jovian loosened his body, then launched from the ground with a thunderous boom and charged toward Shanks.
Shanks seemed to have anticipated this. He held the famous sword Gryphon in front of him, preparing to stop Jovian.
In an instant, Shanks and the famous sword in his hand were both sent flying by Jovian's diving charge.
Shanks planted his feet on the ground, trying to stop Jovian, but his strength was nothing compared to Jovian's. All Shanks could do was keep himself from flying backward too quickly.
The terrifying force of their collision released a blast of air that made it hard for anyone to approach. At the same time, Shanks' feet carved deep trenches into the ground amid blinding sparks.
"Cough, cough…"
The two wrestled for a long while. Only when Shanks spat blood did Jovian finally stop.
"That's it?"
Jovian looked at Shanks, who was coughing up tomato sauce, and smiled.
"You really are a monster."
Shanks looked at Jovian and gave an incredibly bitter smile.
"Hahaha…"
"I'm just a tiny bit stronger than you guys."
After hearing Shanks' words, Jovian held up two fingers. The gap between Jovian's fingers was extremely small, but when Shanks looked through it, he felt as if a mysterious universe lay hidden in that pitch-black space between them.
"Come on, Jovian! Let's fight to our hearts' content!"
Shanks roared. His eyes seemed to shine with red light. At that moment, Shanks completely released the Haki within his body, and its power was boundless.
"Haha…"
Jovian looked at Shanks, who had released all his Haki, and smiled.
"I won't hold back either."
As Jovian spoke, the power inside him exploded without limit. Its terrifying force made the heavens and earth rumble.
Another blast of air erupted.
Jovian instantly appeared in front of Shanks. With one hand, he grabbed Shanks' sword arm. With the other, he seized Shanks by the throat. In the next moment, crimson light burst from Jovian's eyes.
The terrifying heat vision struck Shanks at point-blank range, roasting his body until the scent of cooked meat filled the air.
"Ahhh!"
At this moment, Shanks' tenacious vitality revealed itself. Even as the Armament Haki coating his body was pierced through, even as his skin burned red, even as his body could no longer withstand a temperature far beyond magma, Shanks still held on, continuously blasting Jovian with his immense Haki.
In truth, Shanks was not weak. He had simply encountered Jovian, who countered him completely. Shanks, who had lost one arm, suffered greatly against Jovian.
"Jovian, surrender!"
On the other side, Dracule Mihawk, the world's greatest swordsman, holding Black Blade Yoru, slashed toward Jovian. The terrifying slash landed on Jovian's body and burst into dazzling sparks against his skin.
"Shanks!"
Elsewhere, Benn Beckman ignored Kizaru Borsalino, who had been harassing him the entire time, and fired at Jovian with his pistol.
The bullets, wrapped in Armament Haki and Ryuo that could cause internal destruction, struck Jovian's body, making his organs churn once more. Clearly, his battle with Whitebeard had caused some slight internal damage.
"Damn it! One after another, all of you keep getting in my way! Once I get rid of Shanks, I'll fight you next!"
Jovian was a little annoyed. Right now, he did not have time to deal with the others. He focused all his power on attacking Shanks. First kill one, then deal with the rest.
"Damn it!"
Seeing that his attack had not fully worked, Benn Beckman's expression changed, and he prepared to move forward.
However, in that instant of carelessness, Benn Beckman's body was pierced through by a yellow beam of light, just like Whitebeard when he had been careless earlier.
"Cough, cough…"
Benn Beckman instantly spat blood from his mouth, panic flashing across his face.
"Borsalino…"
Benn Beckman glared viciously at the figure in the yellow suit.
"Oh, you let your guard down, Benn Beckman."
Borsalino smiled at Benn Beckman. Against someone like him, even the slightest carelessness would lead to extremely serious injury.
As Borsalino spoke, his finger lit up with light once again.
"Tch."
Although Benn Beckman was displeased, against such a powerful opponent, he could only temporarily give up on Red Hair and focus completely on fighting Borsalino.
"Captain Red Hair!"
On the other side, countless pirates began shouting when they saw Red-Haired Shanks being suppressed by Jovian.
"Great Eruption!"
Sakazuki's magma was merciless, showing no hesitation as it swallowed those pirates directly.
"When you're fighting me, don't think about other people. You'll die."
Sakazuki looked at the pirates who had been turned into charcoal and spoke coldly.
"Huff…"
Even though Kuzan did not want to get involved in this mess, faced with the current situation, he could only go all out. Endless ice froze pirate after pirate into statues.
The shockwaves from Sengoku the Buddha never stopped falling. Their terrifying energy was unstoppable.
The legendary Marine Vice Admiral Garp was even more invincible. No one could withstand his iron fists.
"If you want to defeat us, bring Roger back to life first, you stupid brats!"
Garp grabbed an unconscious pirate by the collar and spoke coldly.
On the other side, Jovian's battle had also ended.
"Hey, Red Hair Pirates. You can surrender now, right? Everything should end here, shouldn't it? Your boss can't keep going anymore."
Jovian stood amid the ruins, gripping Red-Haired Shanks by the throat as he looked coldly at the remnants of the Red Hair Pirates.
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