Chapter 470: Facing Death to Live
"Hm?"
In the dark space, the black figure raised a hand, lightly stroking the screen. The projected image on the screen instantly magnified.
"Betrayed?"
Seeing two figures standing up, one blue, one red.
"Whatever. You were only going this far anyway."
In the distance, on Brett's side shooting toward the distant sky, on the clouds he was dragging.
"Ara ara, it's been so long since I felt this free."
The Seastone shackles binding his body had all come off. His original child appearance had finally recovered to his original middle-aged appearance.
"Is this feeling called nostalgia? Truly moving."
Standing beside him, Akainu had a cold, hard face, silent and wordless.
Miss Ain, responsible for unlocking their chains and abilities, letting them recover their original forms, watched them vigilantly.
Though they were all grasshoppers on the same rope now, she still worried these two seniors would cause trouble at this critical moment.
However, Brett, who'd suggested Zephyr release these two, wasn't too worried. Because he could read minds. He'd already heard these two men's thoughts.
Just as said before, at least now these two guys wanted to cooperate.
They didn't want to die.
They also wanted to clarify the truth of everything.
"This isn't the time for reminiscing! It's coming again!"
Zephyr looked behind. Light brightened again on the monster pursuing at astonishing speed.
"So what exactly should we do now?!"
Miss Ain screamed. "Should we stop it? But how exactly can we stop it?!"
"Calm down a bit, Ain."
Aokiji said in a deep voice. "Panicking now won't help anyway, right?"
Ain shot him a fierce glare.
How could anyone stay calm in this situation?!
"Brett!"
Aokiji looked toward Brett. He hesitated.
In the past, both sides were mortal enemies. But now they had to cooperate. No matter how you looked at it, it felt awkward.
"Can you constantly change direction so it can't lock on?"
"That's simple."
Brett nodded lightly. He forcefully stepped on empty air.
He immediately led everyone refracting away.
At the same time, his Observation Haki operated at full power.
While foreseeing the future, while listening to the bombardment's sounds.
His action trajectory became completely unpredictable, constantly changing.
However, this meant the speed of escaping forward greatly decreased.
"Hm?"
In the dark space, the black figure made a soft sound of surprise. "Quite the clever trick."
"But..."
Whoosh!
The next instant, thirteen dazzling light beams tore through the sky, roaring forward.
Red light constantly flashed in Brett's eyes. He continuously changed position to avoid being hit.
He indeed achieved his goal, not being hit by bombardment.
However...
"Damn it! A troublesome thing came!"
Brett shouted.
These thirteen bombardments didn't quickly sweep past the sky, but maintained output!
They became thirteen light beams traversing the sky.
The beams were moving.
Perhaps at the cannon mouth it was just a slight movement, but in the sky where Brett and others were, the beams had already swept across the sky.
Already able to feel the scorching high temperature, Brett gritted his teeth, accelerated, constantly changing positions.
He could no longer run forward. The forward force relied entirely on Kuma's earlier repulsion. Now Brett's full energy was devoted to shifting up, down, left, and right.
Even so, the light beams were gradually surrounding them.
Then three beams began contracting toward the middle.
"It's no good!"
Binz held his head wailing. "There's nowhere to escape!"
Brett's jaw clenched tight.
He could indeed constantly adjust position to evade attacks through foreseeing the future and listening to sounds.
But the one controlling that colossus could similarly adjust attacks through Brett's actions to seal his movements.
The space for dodging became smaller and smaller. Now they were completely surrounded in the middle.
Too slow!
Dragging over ten thousand people, the movement was still too slow!
With such speed, escaping the encirclement was absolutely impossible.
"There's only one method."
Akainu, arms crossed, spoke in a deep voice. "Break through."
"Impossible."
Kuma, sitting to recover stamina, shook his head. "With those beams' movement speed, it's impossible to find openings."
"Then don't look for openings."
Akainu's voice was very cold and hard, just like his entire person radiating an iron-blooded aura. "Charge through the bombardment!"
"Are you joking? How could such a thing be possible?!"
Miss Ain said in shock. "We'd be directly vaporized in an instant, right?!"
"I already said calm down a bit."
Aokiji raised a hand to scratch his head. "This thing's bombardment isn't truly unmatched in the real sense, is it?"
"Indeed."
Zephyr nodded in deep agreement. Didn't Brett just throw a punch with all his might, briefly stopping one bombardment?
"Now there's no escape route anyway. Let's do this!"
Brett took a deep breath. "Everyone, if you don't want to die, then go all out. Strike the bombardment back!"
Aokiji nodded solemnly. Akainu's right arm had already directly transformed into magma.
"Can we really do it?"
Miss Ain looked at Brett's back. Her hand pressed on her chest. "Brett, can we really do it?"
"Going all out is enough, Ain!"
Brett shouted loudly. "Leave the rest to fate!"
"Fate?"
Aokiji's lips curved. "Not bad."
"Then charge, Brett!"
Teacher Zephyr shouted loudly. "Just charge forward!"
Then charge!
Break through this curtain of sky! Rush toward a brand new future!
No longer sparing stamina, creating lightning at full power!
The dazzling electric light could even compete with the surrounding light beams!
Clouds wrapped people approaching him, then Brett shot forward.
The forward direction was the gap between two light beams!
"Foolish."
The black shadow in darkness chuckled lightly.
The two beams instantly began rapidly closing. But there were other beams approaching from other directions, also blocking the area outside the two beams.
The forward direction had been lost.
But Brett never intended that anyway.
He refracted to one side, plunging toward a nearby light beam.
That was the beam's side. The weakest place Brett could find in the future he foresaw.
"Seeking death?"
The black shadow murmured softly.
Already approaching the beam, Brett could already feel that terrifying scorching temperature.
Even Brett felt somewhat unbearable.
"Then, attack!!"
Brett roared. Simultaneously, he'd already thrown a punch.
"Electric Current Propulsion - Secret Technique - Martial Torrent Pierce!"
"Explosive Pheasant Beak!" A giant bluebird spread its wings.
"Great Eruption!" Akainu swung a giant fist.
"Crushing Strike!" Teacher Zephyr leaped forward.
"Bear's Impact." Kuma threw out a small bubble.
"Retreat!!"
Miss Ain threw out masses of red flames.
BOOM.
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