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"Back off, Bone."
"Leave the rest to me."
"You and the other Marines should go and take a break."
After comforting T Bone, Susanoo, no, it should be said that Rosen, raised his hand and reached into the head, held T Bone standing in the pentagon-shaped Haki crystal in his hand, and then brought the other party out from the head of Susanoo, signaling him to retreat first.
"yes!"
T Bone responded, then used the flight device of the second-generation combat suit to chase after his subordinates who had retreated some distance.
After sending T Bone away, Rosen turned his head, which was the size of an adult giant, and looked down at Dracule Mihawk standing on a small boat on the sea:
"Change."
Although the voice spoken from Susanoo's mouth was Rosen's voice, it had a more profound feeling like a mountain than if he had spoken it himself.
Bang
As soon as the words fell.
Susanoo took a step forward, causing a huge wave, then reached out from his waist and pulled out a Haki long sword that emitted a cold purple light under the bright sun.
Immediately following.
It was like a mountain of Haki swords descending, slashing towards Dracule Mihawk.
Swish
The Haki long sword of the complete form of Susanoo has not yet been completely cut down, but the terrifying pressure lingering on the blade has already been released.
The atmosphere simply couldn't bear it, and it showed distorted ripples visible to the naked eye. Then the sea surface collapsed directly downward, forming a huge chasm.
"So fast!"
"For a body of this size, it can actually have such amazing speed."
"It's simply incredible."
Dracule Mihawk stared at the Susanoo in front of him, his eagle eyes that could see through the essence of all things revealed a hint of doubt at this moment.
Obviously.
For a moment, even he, who was called Hawkeye, could not understand why the Susanoo in front of him suddenly moved on its own and spoke, and it was Rosen's voice.
However, Susanoo's sword had already been chopped down, and Dracule Mihawk had no time to think about it, so he could only raise the supreme sword "Yoru" in his hand.
His blade left a visible mark in the air, and then he slashed out a terrifying wave of attacks, like an erupting column of lava, slashing at the Haki long sword that fell from the sky.
Bang bang bang
As Susanoo's Haki long sword came into actual contact with Dracule Mihawk's slashing wave, a dazzling sword light instantly burst out, even eclipsing the sun hanging in the sky of the North Blue.
then.
The surging slashing air waves were like a mountain torrent and tsunami, carrying the power to flatten everything, sweeping in all directions.
Swish
Suddenly.
There was a sound of tearing cloth.
The slashing wave released by Dracule Mihawk was actually cut off by Susanoo, chopped into tiny specks of light and scattered on the sea.
The terrifying and Haki sword pressure poured down, directly sweeping Dracule Mihawk into the air and sending him flying backwards.
"Good catch."
"but."
"What are you going to do if you get hit the second time?"
As Rosen's voice came out of Susanoo's mouth, Susanoo stretched out its other hand, pulled out the second Haki long sword, flapped its wings behind it, rolled up a surging air wave covering an area of a thousand meters, stepped on the sky, and soared into the sky.
In an instant, he, who was 180 meters tall, caught up with Dracule Mihawk who was flying backwards in the air.
Then.
The Haki long sword dragged the sword light that made the sky tremble, like a mountain pressing down on the top of the head.
"Is this the true power of Susanoo?"
"No, in his battle with Douglas Bullet, Susanoo was able to use Conqueror's Haki and combine it with the fruit's ability."
"Right now, it's just pure Armament Haki."
Looking at the Haki long sword that was getting closer and closer to him, Dracule Mihawk's eyes flickered.
After a clash with Rosen's sword, he seemed to have some understanding of what the Susanoo in front of him was.
Faced with Susanoo's Haki slash, Dracule Mihawk no longer held back.
clang
Not only did he use the power of a great swordsman, the Armament Haki in his body also gushed out from the palm holding the sword, temporarily turning Yoru, who had not yet fully mastered the black sword, into an indestructible black sword.
Immediately following.
With his powerful leg strength, Dracule Mihawk stepped on the air and forced himself to adjust his body in mid-air where he had no support. The black sword in his hand swept through the army, but unlike before, he did not release a wave of slashing that swept several kilometers away. He just used the black sword to face the Haki long sword of Susanoo head-on.
It's not that he can't release the slashing wave, but that he wraps the power of the slashing wave and the Armament Haki together on the blade of Yoru, condensing it but not releasing it.
Only at the moment of collision with Susanoo's sword did the great swordsman's unrivaled divine edge, capable of cutting through everything, burst forth.
Bang
In a flash, two knives of vastly different sizes collided in mid-air.
Boom
The moment the two swords intertwined, it was like a missile being detonated. Where the blades intersected, first a Haki aura burst out, and then wave after wave of Haki waves were set off, swallowing up everything on the sea.
Even T Bone and other Marine officers who had withdrawn a kilometer away were affected by this powerful wave and were knocked to the ground.
Bang
After a brief stalemate, Dracule Mihawk flew back a hundred meters like a cannonball, surrounded by a spiral storm, and then crashed into the sea.
Boom
The moment he touched the sea, although huge waves rose from the sea, he did not sink into the sea. Instead, when he touched the soft sea surface, it was like hitting an extremely hard rock. His body bounced up from the sea again, flew for a distance, and fell back to the sea surface.
Over and over again, he fell into the sea, bounced up, fell into the sea again, and bounced up again, before he finally sank into the sea.
At the same time.
Because Rosen's true form has not yet arrived, he can only use the Haki sealed in T Bone's sword to fight.
Although Susanoo has been fully developed, because its main body has not descended, even if its Haki power is fully unleashed, its height is only 180 meters, and it has not exceeded 200 meters.
Similarly, it is impossible to use any abilities other than Armament Haki.
After a Haki clash with Dracule Mihawk, the 180-meter-tall Susanoo was inevitably knocked back several hundred meters.
One deep sea pit after another was left on the sea surface by the footprints.
"I see."
"You are Rosen, but you are not Rosen."
"The real you is probably not in the South Blue. You are using your will to remotely control Susanoo to fight me."
Dracule Mihawk broke through the sea and landed on his own boat. Looking at Susanoo, who had also stabilized his body, his hawk-like sharp eyes flashed with a cold shrewdness:
"What a scary guy."
"He is in the North Blue, but he uses his will to control Susanoo in the South Blue to fight me."
"After a battle across the northern and southern seas, you are indeed the best opponent who can truly help me refine the black sword."
Dracule Mihawk took a deep look at the Susanoo that stood in front of him like a mountain, and then explained why the Susanoo in front of him could speak, and the voice it spoke was Rosen's.
The reason why he could speak, the reason why it was Rosen's voice, and the reason why the fighting power displayed by Susanoo was completely different from before.
This is because Rosen uses his own will to remotely control the people of Susanoo and conduct cross-sea battles.
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Naruto: I, Black Zetsu, Won't Let History Repeat.
After being sealed, Black Zetsu travels back in time, vowing to change fate and protect his mother from ever being sealed again.
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