CHAPTER 293: FIRE DRAGON TORCH
The massive Navy warship was bitten directly in half from the middle, its front and rear sections flying into the air before crashing thunderously toward the sea.
The Navy personnel aboard all had their expressions change violently at once.
What just happened?!
Before they could figure out the situation, an intense feeling of weightlessness had already swallowed them.
"This is—!!"
However, not everyone fell into chaos. At least the supreme commander of this fleet, Admiral Akainu, after a brief moment of shock, immediately focused his attention on the attacker.
A long dragon covered entirely in fiery red scales burst up from beneath the sea, flying into the sky after ramming through the warship.
"Brett!!" Akainu roared furiously.
In the sky, Brett twisted his body and lowered his head. "We meet again, Admiral Akainu!"
Rather than swaggering over from the sky to launch an attack, ambushing them suddenly from the sea while they were unprepared was far more efficient.
This was when he had to appreciate how clean and decisive his earlier actions had been.
If there'd been even slightly more delay, communications from Aokiji's fleet would definitely have already reached Akainu's side.
In that situation, launching a surprise attack would have been very difficult.
Fortunately, there was no need to worry about that now.
Neither Akainu nor Kizaru had any warning whatsoever, clearly.
So then—
"ROAR!!"
Brett bellowed.
His Conqueror's Haki, somewhat restrained this time, pressed down from the sky, covering the entire fleet in an instant.
The elite Navy soldiers swayed unsteadily in a moment. Though they didn't fall unconscious, they'd nearly all lost their combat ability.
No helping it—if he didn't hold back now, the soldiers on that warship that had just been shattered would probably all sink to the ocean floor while unconscious.
"Really now, isn't this a bit too scary?"
Bright yellow light condensed at Brett's side. Kizaru remarked leisurely, though his hands moved without delay as he drew his light sword and slashed toward Brett's flank.
As a Glint-Glint Fruit user capable of flight, a mere warship sinking naturally couldn't prevent Kizaru from fighting.
"This guy's mine!"
A figure shot out from Brett's back. It was Zephyr.
Mechanisms turned within his mechanical right arm, pistons operating as cola was converted into powerful force.
Zephyr swung his fist.
BOOM!!
His fist collided with Kizaru's light sword, generating a violent explosion.
"Oh my, Zephyr-sensei..."
In the smoke from the explosion, Kizaru smiled leisurely. "You've got a new arm again. This time be careful—don't let me cut it off again."
"You're welcome to try!"
Zephyr's body was wrapped in flame clouds, allowing him to float in the air. But besides that, Brett hadn't applied force to the clouds in any other direction, so Zephyr could move freely and float in the sky.
Casually kicking off the air, his body had already shot forward like an arrow released from a bow.
On Brett's side, his opponent had also leaped up.
"Bastard!"
Admiral Akainu was filled with rage.
These two bastards actually dared to come looking for them themselves. And it was just the two of them!
They completely looked down on them! Could they be any more arrogant?!
Magma shot downward from Akainu's back, the reaction force plus the momentum from Moonwalk propelling Akainu to fly upward.
"Great Eruption!!"
A gigantic magma fist came head-on.
"Haha."
Brett chuckled.
Since they wanted to play with fire, then fire it would be.
"Fire Dragon Torch!"
Brett opened his mouth, flames flowing out from within.
Brilliant golden-yellow flames covered his entire body almost instantly, then expanded.
Roaring flames enveloped him, these flames extraordinarily viscous, looking almost like flowing magma. Brett seemed to have donned a suit of flame armor.
This was Kaido's ultimate technique used against the Straw Hat.
As an devil fruit user with the same power as Kaido, Brett could naturally replicate this move completely without effort.
And after adding his own unique fuel, the temperature of the flames he created was much higher than Kaido's, naturally making them far more lethal as well.
Brett crashed head-on toward the oncoming magma fist.
The front half of the blazing bright yellow fire dragon's body was covered in a layer of jet black in that moment, black lightning spreading in all directions.
The viscous flames truly possessed form, so naturally they could be wrapped in Haki as well.
The massive magma fist shattered to pieces in an instant, the magma itself directly vaporized.
Fire Dragon Brett's temperature—even magma couldn't withstand it.
"What?!!"
Akainu's eyes widened. The gigantic fire dragon descending from from the sky had already crashed into him like a falling comet.
"Dark Hound!!"
All Akainu could do was throw one final magnificent punch.
The magma fist struck the fire dragon's body without causing any ripples. Even covered in Haki, preventing Brett from easily vaporizing it, at most it just made Brett feel pain in his forehead.
After all, Brett's Haki was stronger!
"GAAHHH!!"
Then Akainu took the full brunt of the collision.
Powerful Haki, tremendous impact force, ultra-high temperature—the attack combining all three directly made Akainu scream in agony.
Even though he was magma, the superior ability to the Flame-Flame Fruit, at this moment he seemed about to be completely incinerated by Brett's flames, his entire being nearly vaporized.
"Sakazuki?!"
In the sky, Kizaru, who was intensely trading blows with Zephyr, couldn't help but cry out in alarm.
Brett crashed directly toward the seawater.
Akainu, pinned against him and wrapped in flames, could naturally only be rammed down with him into the ocean.
"Hey! No way!"
This time Kizaru was genuinely frightened.
Brett could ignore seawater, but Sakazuki couldn't.
If he truly plunged into the sea, the battle would be directly over.
"Are you kidding me?!"
But Akainu was still Akainu after all. The strength of a Navy Headquarters admiral was still guaranteed.
Even though he'd already been burned to the point of agony, he still roared furiously.
Then—volcanic eruption!
"GET BACK UP THERE!!"
Brett felt a powerful resistance that made his downward-plummeting body suddenly stop.
Then using that force, Akainu shot downward, and just as he was about to plunge into the sea, magma erupted, his body soaring diagonally upward again.
"..."
Having difficulty shooting backward and finally landing on a warship's deck, Akainu clenched his teeth.
It sounded somewhat absurd—he, a Magma-Magma Fruit user, was currently covered in burn wounds.
Many areas of his skin were burned to the point of festering, the flesh itself turning black.
"That bastard!!"
Akainu gritted his teeth.
"Give up resistance, Admiral Akainu."
In the sky, the fire dragon circled closer. "My ability is superior to yours."
"STOP SPOUTING NONSENSE!!"
Akainu shot upward again.