*ZOOM*
Carina flickered from one location to the other, dodging a tendril of mochi that shot out from the ground.
"Mirror Mochi!!!"
Immediately after, the surrounding buildings turned into a huge mass of mochi before collapsing on top of Carina.
"Hm?!" Just then, Katakuri quickly jumped back with a cold sweat, having seen through the future.
*ZOOM*
A black knife, encased within purple substance-like energy, suddenly appeared in his previous position with a flash.
*ZOOM*
However, that was just the beginning. At the same time, nine more knives flashed all around Katakuri, trapping him within.
"Dimension Blade,"
Carina was seen to be airborne right above Katakuri, who quickly tapped his foot to morph the ground beneath him into a mochi, which opened a hole for him to escape.
"Vacuum Prison."
With the bright purple flashes from each and every knife around Katakuri, the surrounding air itself has been teleported elsewhere—generating a huge vacuum that began to suck in the nearby air vigorously.
"*Huff* *Huff*..."
Katakuri clenched onto the mochi walls from within the hole that he generated, doing his best to prevent him from being sucked in.
'A close call.'
If Katakuri remained in the middle of the knives, his body would've been shredded apart.
"Quite deadly techniques you got there—"
Katakuri then formed a hole in his stomach and let one knife, which appeared all of a sudden, bypass him.
*ZOOM*
A huge chunk of earth, which the knife stabbed onto, disappeared with a purple flash.
Katakuri immediately jumped out of the hole,
"—Phantom!"
while expanded his arm into mochi and encased it with the Armament Haki: Emission, which subsequently met Carina's knife.
*CLANG*
Carina's eyes narrowed as Katakuri's eyes flashed in red,
*CLANG* *CLANG*
Two more knives, which came flying in from left and right, were blocked by the Haki-imbued walls of mochi that rose from both sides.
"As I expected... it is impossible for you to teleport part of 'Haki,' for Haki stems from one's spirituality." Katakuri grinned confidently, "I've now foreseen my victory."
"Haki isn't invincible." Carina retorted impassively as she retracted her knives back into her hands.
"B-brother... Katakuri..."
Katakuri's grin froze as he heard a weak voice from the back. He slowly turned around, and saw one member of the Charlotte family, Charlotte Brownie, lying helplessly with a knife stabbed through his chest.
"You don't seem to learn, Katakuri." Carina flipped her knife with a cold demeanour, "I am not a brawler.
I am an assassin."
*ZOOM*
"Kurgh...!" Katakuri tilted his head right to dodge a knife that teleported.
"Vacuum."
Katakuri's eyes widened as Carina's knife teleported away the whole air nearby. His head was being sucked into his left, while another knife suddenly appeared above the vacuum with a purple flash.
"Flash Style: Execution."
From the top, Carina's knife flew downward, teleporting everything in its trajectory path.
*BOOM*
It collided against the thick layer of Armament Haki: Emission that Katakuri quickly formed above his head, before being deflected back.
Katakuri grimaced as his eyes expressed rage, for even with him focusing his entire energy upon Carina, two of his siblings died. He couldn't help but exclaim,
"You...*Huff*... certainly are a worthy foe... albeit a dishonourable one..."
"There is no honour in a war. There's only a victor." Carina snorted, "Something is wrong in your head."
Katakuri remained silent after hearing Carina's retort. After few moments, he eventually sighed,
"...I suppose that you are right."
Katakuri then called, "I cannot face her alone. Will you help me, brothers?"
From nearby, one previously-fallen man stood up: Charlotte Oven. Although his body was quite burnt and charred, he replied adamantly,
"Of course, Katakuri."
A slender man with few bruises here and there, Charlotte Perospero, too made his way.
"Let's put her down, perorin."
"No, that shall not do! Three against one? How unfair!"
Then, another voice was heard in the ears of four people in the area, before one member of the Phoenix pirates, Vista, landed next to Carina.
"Vista, huh." Carina asked, "Where is your captain?"
Vista pulled his mustache with a grin, before pointing at the sea,
where Marco was flying over the enemy ships and destroying them one by one.
Carina smirked,
"Not bad."
What Marco was doing was the right thing to do. After all, they were severely lacking in terms of the sheer number, and unlike the ones like the Grimheart pirates, the others of the alliance were quicker to exhaustion.
"You see, perorin," Perospero held his candy cane staff out, "Candy is quite gooey, and when it comes to trapping an enemy,"
From his candy cane staff, a jet of liquid candy shot out toward Carina and Vista threateningly.
"there is nothing better than candy—perorin?!!!"
Perospero's long tongue became stiff and his eyes popped out as Carina simply grabbed Vista by the sleeve before teleporting away from the position. However, that wasn't the reason why Perospero was shocked.
"Keep your guard up, brother Peros."
It was due to Katakuri, with his Haki-imbued mochi arm, blocking a suddenly-teleported knife from piercing through Perospero's head.
"Her mastery over her fruit ability has grown by leaps since the last time I saw her. Each and every single attack is lethal without Haki; keep that in mind."
___________
*BOOOOOMBOOOOOMBOOOOM*
It was a destruction after destruction.
Kaidou and Linlin were bulldozing through the countless number of empty buildings and hills in Delta, showcasing the might behind Rowan's attack.
"Hm…!!!" Kaidou, with a deep frown, then swung his Hassaikai against the air.
*BOOOOOOOOOM*
An incredible explosion occurred, which served as an opposing force to stop his propulsion.
"Hermes!!!!"
Simultaneously, with Linlin's shout, the shoe-homie on her right foot smiled,
"Yes mama!!"
*BOOOM*
With a burst of air from the heel of the shoe, Linlin spun up in the air before landing on top of a perfume-cloud-homie.
"Aphrodite!!!"
In response to Linlin's call, the perfume-cloud-homie, Aphrodite, smiled haughtily before carrying Linlin toward Rowan rapidly.
Kaidou, right behind Linlin, was now in his full dragon form,
"Bolo Breath!!!"
A domineering blast of flame shot out toward Rowan, who was rocketing toward the two Emperors.
"Bounce Art,"
Propelling himself downward, Rowan swiftly grazed his right foot over the ground in an arc,
"Ground Drawer."
*SWOOSH*
Immediately following was an intense gust of air that soared up, which fluently deflected the flame to the empty sky above.
Then,
*Boom*
with a gentle blast of bounce that tilted his center of balance forward, Rowan turned his body backward and met Linlin's gigantic sword, Ares, with his foot.
*CLANG*
Linlin's who gritted her teeth while pushing her sword further, widened her eyes as she saw the ferocious black lightning, the Conqueror's Haki: Manifestation, flickering into the existence around Rowan's foot.
*BOOOOOOOOOOOM*
Rowan, bypassing Linlin's sword, hooked her neck with his foot before slamming her whole body onto the ground, hard.
"Grimlock, Ver. 2." Rowan grinned.
Subsequently, the thin layer of Conqueror's Haki: Manifestation shifted from his right foot onto his right fist. Just then, a huge shadow, belonging to Kaidou in his full dragon form, loomed over Rowan,
"Dragon Twister!!!"
At a point-blank range, a huge storm immediately engulfed the whole surrounding that Rowan was within, grinding the buildings behind into fine dust. However, Kaidou shifted his eyes backward,
where Rowan was standing with his Haki-imbued right fist cocked back.
"Juggernaut,"
Rowan's eyes brilliantly flashed in a bloody red as his punch drove its way into Kaidou's exposed midsection, where the X-shaped scar was seen to be sitting.
"Overdrive!!"
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*
"AHHHHHH!!!!!!!" Kaidou screamed in pain as he, still in dragon form, coughed out the blood.
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*
Kaidou's long body was sprawled across the ground. With each potent force of bounce, the cracks on the ground below Kaidou enlarged frighteningly.
However, the title of the 'World's Strongest Creature' wasn't for granted. Kaidou, whose eyes regained the ferocious light, gritted his teeth as his body transformed into a hybrid form.
*BOOOOOM*
In midst of the ongoing bounce forces,
"GRAHH!!!!!"
Kaidou, embedding his feet onto the ground, began to lift his body back up.
At the same time, Linlin firmly stood at some distance away from Rowan, with one particular lightning-homie, Hera, crackling intensely.
Linlin, whose eyes met Rowan's, grinned as Hera blasted forth the huge beam of lightning.
"Fulgora!!!"
*PAZZZZZZZZZ*
"Tch…!!!"
Unable to find enough time to dodge the potent beam of lightning even with his reflex, Rowan took the full brunt of the strike.
Then, just as the beam died down and Rowan's body crackled from the aftermath of the attack, Kaidou smashed his Hassaikai onto Rowan,
"Thunder Bellow Bagua!!!!!"
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*
The dust arose as Kaidou's attack demolished the whole surrounding.
However, Kaidou frowned as he felt the resistance from his Hassaikai,
"Aegis."
When the dust cleared, Kaidou's Hassaikai was met with a golden-coloured shield formed by Rowan's Armament Haki: Manipulation.
"… Do you truly believe that you are able to face us both? Without going all out?!!!" Kaidou growled as he continued to push his Hassaikai onto the shield.
*Crack* *Crack*
In front of Rowan's eyes, his shield began to form cracks from the area of the impact.
"Heh,"
However, Rowan simply grinned daringly,
"Why can't I?"
*PAZZZZZ*
The shield lit up in the black lightning of the Conqueror's Haki: Manifestation.
Subsequently, Rowan took in a deep breath as the surroundings began to heat up abnormally.
*Ba-Bump*
'Grimheart.'
From the side, as Kaidou, with a domineering will, continued to push his weapon onto Rowan's reinforced shield,
Linlin flew toward Rowan at a frightening speed from the back.
She held her palm out toward him, just as the darkness-homie, Hades, shot out.
"Yama!!"
*Swoooo*
Rowan was instantly engulfed by the darkness, where nothing but black could be seen.
*BOOOOOOOOM*
Just as Kaidou's Hassaikai finally broke through Rowan's shield, and Linlin was right behind Rowan with her Ares out, Rowan, who was in between them and shrouded with dark, seemed to be in a clutch—
*SWOOSH*
Both Kaidou and Linlin's attacks unexpectedly missed. The gusts generated by their swings pushed away the darkness, and from within, Rowan, whose right eye blazed up in a golden colour, was seen to be standing right in between Hassikai and Ares.
Just as Kaidou and Linlin frowned with their weapons embedded on the ground,
"Supersonic."
Rowan disappeared from the site.
Immediately after,
Kaidou's head abruptly tilted to his right, with Rowan's incredibly fast punch smashing into his left.
*BOOOOOOOOM*
Linlin's eyes wavered as she saw her homie, Hades, being dispelled with a potent pressure of air, before she too coughed out blood with a dent on her stomach.
*BOOOOOOOOOM*
*BOOOOOOOOOM*
Kaidou gritted his teeth as his eyes flashed in red,
"Kundali Dragon Swarm!!!"
*BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM*
Within a millisecond, Kaidou swung his Hassaikai seven times.
*SWOOSH*
Rowan appeared behind Kaidou with a slight huff,
"Fifteen times."
*BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM*
Kaidou's body jolted eight times from Rowan's blows that he failed to defend against.
Yet,
"Wororororo..." Kaidou grinned while wiping the blood from his mouth, "You certainly are strong, Grimheart. However,"
Although Rowan hid it well, a fatigue was gradually building up within him,
"how long are you able to last?"
"GRIMHEART!!!" Linlin too lifted her body up from the rubble, with her eyes shadowed and the veins popped out from her forehead, "One after another... enough with your tricks!!!"
"Ha..." Rowan cracked his neck, "what a pain. I am stuck here against two hysteric gaffers."
Slowly, the heat around his body died down, indicating that he stopped the use of Grimheart.
*SWOOSH*
"Bohaha! An arrow this time?" Rowan laughed while tilting his head, dodging a huge ice arrow with ease.
It was shot from Linlin, who was holding onto an ice-bow-homie, Diana.
Then, Rowan rotated his body and punched the side of Kaidou's outstretched arm with an incredible reflex, countering Kaidou's strike before it managed to hit him.
*BOOOOOOOOOOM*
And that wasn't the end. Rowan spun in the mid air, before,
*Tap*
directly stepping on top of another ice-arrow that as shot by Linlin, followed by,
"Entropic Blast,"
blazing up the rubbles around him with his fruit ability, and blasting them forth toward the incredible number of ice arrows.
"Meteor Shower."
*BOOOMBOOOMBOOOM*
Each and every single one of the ice arrows were knocked down, much to Linlin's annoyance.
Although it was unclear how the fight will progress here on, Rowan seemed to be managing against the two Emperors at the current moment.