With both swords in hand, the aura emanating from Shiki was as explosive and wild as boiling oil in a fire.
It was as if, in this moment, he had become the "Flying Pirate" who had once stood shoulder to shoulder with Roger and Whitebeard.
As he swung his swords, dazzling flashes of light burst forth from them, tearing through the air and relentlessly pouring down on Rorschach.
Clang, clang, clang!
Giant flying slashes shot through the air, colliding with and annihilating the slashes Rorschach cut.
Shiki, following behind the flying slashes, pounced, striking at Rorschach's forehead with a sword.
Rorschach swept his halberd sideways, deflecting the downward strike of 'Sakura Ten.' With a flick of his wrist, the halberd arced in mid-air, thrusting toward the other sword, 'Kogetsu,' as it slashed at him.
Bang!
The deafening clang of metal against metal was deafening. Shiki swung his swords frantically, turning into a blur of slashes, lunges, and thrusts, continuously attacking Rorschach.
Under the incredibly sharp cutting of his sword ki, even Rorschach's advanced deep blue Haki covering his entire body was unable to stop it. It was repeatedly cut open, leaving his body covered in sword marks.
The two fought at an insane speed, clashing madly in mid-air. The ear-piercing metallic explosions sounded like a fierce and stormy drum solo.
"Ze ha ha ha, ze ha ha ha ha!"
The more Shiki slashed, the more excited he became. His arm muscles bulged, and he attacked Rorschach with both swords at once.
The two swords, wrapped in Conqueror's Haki and Armament Haki, shot out streaks of black lightning, as if to slice Rorschach and the Vermilion island below to pieces.
"Lion's Two-Sword Style! Sea Splitter!"
Swoosh!
Two parallel slashes pressed down, covering the sky and tearing the void.
Rorschach held the Dragon Halberd and angrily slashed towards the sky. A massive amount of lightning, mixed with deep blue Haki, shot out from the blade, rushing towards the mountain-sized slashes.
The next moment, an earth-shattering explosion erupted over Vermilion island. A powerful impact wave swept out from the two of them.
The flat ground below them rolled like waves, and the bodies of the beasts that had fainted from the earlier Conqueror's Haki began to burst apart with loud thumps.
Pffft!
A horizontal sword mark burst open on Rorschach's chest, and crimson blood shot out like a high-pressure water hose.
The sword qi wrapped in Conqueror's Haki was incredibly sharp. Rorschach's Haki armor, hard scales, and muscles were completely unable to stop it. The wound was so deep that the bone was visible.
Looking at the horrifying wound on his body, Rorschach got a sense of how ferocious Shiki's current attacks were.
"If I can't block it, then I'll compete with speed!"
"Lightning Shave!"
Swoosh!
Rorschach's figure instantly vanished from beneath Shiki's swords.
A silver flash of lightning left a trailing arc in the air, and a halberd slashed toward Shiki's neck.
Clang!
A long sword, wrapped in Haki, shot out from under Shiki's armpit at a tricky angle, striking the Dragon Halberd Rorschach had just thrust out.
With a loud bang, Rorschach was sent flying backward.
But after only flying back a few dozen meters, his body vanished from Shiki's sight with a swoosh.
When he reappeared, he was already at Shiki's feet, thrusting his halberd toward Shiki's body.
"Slash Wave!"
Another blindingly bright slash, like a beam of light, came down from the sky, forcing Rorschach to dodge.
As soon as he moved, the giant slash came down and struck the island's ground below.
Crackle, crackle, crackle!
The ground cracked, creating a massive, kilometers-long fissure. An area of the island spanning more than five or six square kilometers was sliced off and began to fall towards the sea.
"Old man! I don't believe it! Are you the only one who can go berserk?!"
Rorschach, with endless lightning bursting from his body, his eight-meter-tall muscular frame suddenly swelled up. Huge, thick tendons coiled like dragons. A surge of vitality shot out from the gaps between his scales, turning the white steam around his body into a bloody mist.
"Life Return! 500 Million Volts Discharge!"
His four-meter-long arm gripped the Dragon Halberd, which tore through the air, and slashed at Shiki head-on.
"Heavenly Punishment Funeral!"
Rumble!
As the halberd passed, the air compressed and exploded in layers, and a gale howled between the heavens and the earth.
"Sea Splitter!" Shiki swung both of his swords.
Clang!
A tremendous explosion. Another bloody line burst open on Rorschach's body.
But on the other side, the two swords in Shiki's hands were forced back by Rorschach's halberd, pressing against his own chest.
Even Shiki could not withstand the terrifying, overwhelming physical strength of Rorschach. The longswords he swung were forcibly thrust back, hitting his own body.
His body shot backward like a cannonball, slamming into the soaring mountain peak behind him.
The solid cliff face of the mountain shattered with a roar.
Rorschach, not letting up, turned the Dragon Halberd in his right hand into a silver bolt of lightning that shot out, piercing the air and chasing the backward-flying Shiki into the mountain, where it went straight through the inside.
As the halberd shot toward the hole it had created, it was struck by a long sword on the side of its blade, sending it flying and embedding it in the ground.
Shiki had just burst out of the mountain when a large shadow enveloped his body.
Rorschach's massive, muscular arm, like a falling pillar from the sky, slammed toward Shiki's face.
"Fist Bone! Meteor!"
"Hmph! That old geezer Garp's move!"
"Haki Infusion! Slash Wave!"
Shiki had just lifted his long sword when Rorschach's giant fist, enveloped in chaotic lightning, came down and struck the blade.
Boom!
Without a doubt, the long sword in Shiki's hand could not be swung out smoothly. Rorschach, who had blocked the hole, hit it with a punch, causing it to bounce back and strike Shiki's own body again.
"Damn it!" Shiki grunted in pain. His chest hurt, and he spat out a large mouthful of blood. His body was sent flying again, smashing through layers of rock and crashing deeper into the mountain.
Rorschach's body was shrouded in a bloody mist, and his ferocious crocodile tail dragged on the ground. He was like a savage dragon, chasing the backward-flying Shiki and charging into the depths of the mountain.
"This is bad!"
Shiki's eyelids twitched as he watched Rorschach, with his dragon-like physique, rapidly closing in.
As a swordsman, being chased and pummeled in such an incredibly narrow mountain cave by a violent, muscular brute like Kaido was not a good thing for him.
He had to get out of this cramped place.
Thinking of this, Shiki didn't hesitate. He swung his sword, and a violent Conqueror's Haki lightning blast shot toward the rock wall on the side of the mountain.
But how could Rorschach let such a great opportunity pass?
He stepped on the rock, and his massive body charged up to Shiki. He threw both of his fists out, and in an instant, he landed hundreds of heavy punches on Shiki.
Each punch was wrapped in advanced Haki and violent lightning.
Boom, boom, boom!
All the tendons in his body stretched like a giant bow, pumping boundless strength like a volcanic eruption as they slammed into Shiki.
"Fist Bone! Meteor Shower!"
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!
Rorschach's two giant arms turned into a blur, raining down on Shiki. His Haki armor constantly shook, and blood oozed from his body with every tremor.
"Get lost! Navy brat!"
Shiki was pushed and hammered deeper into the mountain by Rorschach, who was like a bulldozer. He felt incredibly stifled.
He had completely become a punching bag in front of Rorschach, a piece of iron under a pile driver, being hammered relentlessly by those two thick, monstrous arms.
"Slash Wave!"
The long sword slashed sideways, cutting into the front of Rorschach's fist, instantly slicing the flesh on his knuckles.
The black lightning bursting from the blade tore through the flesh on the back of Rorschach's hand, causing blood to splatter and exposing his large, white bone knuckles.
Shiki swung both of his swords, continuously slashing at the giant fists Rorschach was bringing down in the narrow, cramped mountain tunnel.
For a moment, blood continuously burst from Rorschach's fists.
Looking at Rorschach's exposed bones on his fists, which still hadn't been cut off by his Conqueror's Haki-infused great swords, Shiki felt so stifled he was going mad.
If Rorschach wasn't so young, he would have suspected that Rorschach, like that old geezer Garp, had also trained the bones of his hands into black blade-level fist bones.
Otherwise, why couldn't his Conqueror's Haki slashes cut through those pale knuckles?
And the level of madness in this young navy brat was truly no less than his own.
The flesh on the front of his fists had been completely sliced away, yet the other party was still swinging his fists madly, as if he couldn't feel the pain.
Also, didn't this kid get tired?
Pain?
Of course, Rorschach could feel the waves of intense pain coming from his fists.
He was a normal human, not a cyborg.
However, the deep, gut-wrenching pain only spurred him on to become more violent. He wanted to smash Shiki's head in with a single punch, just like he had done to Who's-Who.
"Old man! Why won't you die!"
Rorschach's chaotic punches broke through the two swords Shiki held in front of him. His arm, as thick as a stone pillar, swelled up again, turning into a ferocious kirin's claw, and it slammed into Shiki's chest.
"Fist Bone! Galaxy Impact!"
Bang!
The kirin's claw, which was bigger than Shiki's entire upper body, came down with a roar. The thick armor covering Shiki's body finally shattered.
Pfff!
Shiki spat out a large spray of blood. A series of cracking sounds erupted from his chest, and more than a dozen of his ribs were completely shattered. His entire chest caved in from Rorschach's punch, leaving a shocking, concaved impression.
The soul-piercing pain made Shiki's eyes instantly turn bloodshot.
He roared, and black lightning flashed from the long sword in his hand as he slashed at Rorschach.
Pffft!
A flying slash cut across Rorschach's shoulder, taking a large chunk of flesh with it.
Blood, like a fountain, immediately gushed from Rorschach's shoulder.
However, Rorschach was equally insane. He changed his punch to a claw and, to Shiki's shocked and angry gaze, grabbed his face and slammed him hard against the rock wall behind him!
"Fist Bone! Seabed Plunge!"
Rumble!
The ground shook, and the rock wall inside the mountain finally couldn't withstand the repeated bombardment from the two of them. It collapsed with a roar, and thousands of tons of rock from above came crashing down.
Shiki, who had been slammed by Rorschach, felt an unbearable cracking sound from his spine. The ship's wheel embedded in his head was mostly shattered. He crashed through the mountain behind him and flew into the sky above Vermilion island, tracing a long arc in mid-air and falling toward the ground below.
In his blurry vision, the thousand-meter-tall mountain peak, with a large complex of palaces on top, came roaring down.
And Rorschach seemed to have been unable to get out of the collapsing mountain, buried beneath thousands of tons of rock.
"Hah... hah!"
Shiki gasped for air, feeling the tearing pain all over his body. He couldn't help but remember Rorschach's crazed face.
That determination to kill him, regardless of anything, regardless of life or death, shook him to the core.
Perhaps, it wasn't a disgrace for Rosè to have died at the hands of such a man.
In this navy boy, Shiki saw the shadows of many people.
There was Garp, Zephyr, and even that magma brat who was still fighting against Kaido.
"I never thought that I, Shiki the Golden Lion, would be beaten to this state by a navy brat who hasn't even fully grown his feathers yet. If Roger were still alive, wouldn't he laugh his teeth out?"
Shiki, who had just slammed into the ground and created a deep crater, was about to reach into his pocket to see if he had any cigars when a hundred-meter-wide hole suddenly exploded in the collapsed thousand-meter mountain peak.
Countless fragments of rock shot out from it, and a hurricane-like, terrifying Conqueror's Haki swept out from behind the debris, causing Shiki's eyes to widen.
Looking at the ferocious figure, which was glowing red and looked like a burning hot iron, Shiki was completely stunned in this moment.
"This kid... didn't die?"
Blood soaked Rorschach's entire body. A large chunk of flesh was gone from his left shoulder, and his chest, thighs, and arms were covered in deep sword marks where the bone was visible.
He panted heavily, and the world in front of his eyes was a bloody red.
Was he going to fall?
Was he going to give up?
The heart, which had been beating madly in Overload Mode, had gradually returned to normal. His agitated vitality had calmed down, and the fatigue from excessive blood loss continuously washed over him, making him feel sleepy.
He wanted to fall. He wanted to just fall asleep like this.
He should have played dead, just stayed hidden in the mountain, and let Shiki mistakenly believe he was dead. How much better that would have been.
Anyway, the current Shiki was no match for Kizaru.
He was destined to die.
So, he could take a rest and let Kizaru finish everything.
But...
"Why can't it be me?"
"What about Shiki being a legend?"
"If I can't even defeat an old and disabled Shichibukai, what's the point of talking about changing the world, creating a new order, and toppling the rule of those pigs!"
He wanted to kill Shiki!
No matter what!
Zzzzzzzzzz!
The leaping lightning burst forth from his gigantic kirin's claw. It slammed heavily into his own chest and into his heart.
Thump!
Thump-thump!
His heart pumped frantically, and blood roared through his veins, making Rorschach want to tear his chest open.
Beyond the limit! Second Overload!
This was a burst of potential at the cost of his lifespan!
"Shiki!"
Rorschach roared to the sky, his roar like a thunderclap that echoed through the heavens and the earth.
Shiki, lying on his back in the deep crater, slowly curled his lips into a smile, revealing his bloody gums, and slowly floated up from the crater.
"Ze ha ha ha ha! Rorschach, was it?"
"I acknowledge you!"
He reached out and grabbed the half-broken ship's wheel on top of his head. Gritting his teeth, he stared with bloodshot eyes and fiercely pulled it out!
Crack!
With a crisp sound of bone cracking, the half of the ship's wheel that was deeply embedded in Shiki's skull was brutally pulled out and thrown onto the ground.
In the hole in his skull, there was a shocking, massive dent.
As this half of the ship's wheel was pulled out by Shiki, an aura that was even more terrifying and explosive than before shot up from his body.
Two storm-like Conqueror's Haki blasts swept down from thousands of meters in the sky, sweeping across the surface of the G1 sea below.
Whether they were marines or pirates, under the impact of these two terrifying Conqueror's Haki blasts, they fell like cut wheat.
The ice was shattered, and the sea was in turmoil.
The war on G1 island was already nearing its end.
At this moment, countless pairs of eyes all looked up at the giant floating island high in the sky.
On the island, Sengoku, Zephyr, Garp, and Kuma, as well as Whitebeard and Shanks in the distance, all silently looked up at the sky at this moment.
"Should I go help him? The opponent is Shiki, after all." Kizaru, for once, didn't sound strange. He looked at Sengoku with a serious expression.
Sengoku, Zephyr, and Garp didn't say anything.
"No need!"
Suddenly, a crisp voice rang in everyone's ears, startling them all.
They turned around and saw Hibari, holding the thundercloud Zeus, descending from the sky. She landed lightly in front of Sengoku and said very seriously:
"Big Brother Rorschach will win. I'm sure of it!"
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