Boom
A deafening roar erupted from the South Blue, spreading over a radius of hundreds of kilometers.
A red light curtain that covered the sky and the sun spread out in all directions, covering the sky and the sea.
A terrifying mushroom cloud rose from the sea, ascended high into the sky, and hovered between the sky and the sea, lingering for a long time.
When the deafening explosion subsided.
When the sky-covering light curtain dissipated.
When the mushroom cloud dissipated with the wind.
When everything settled, only two fragments of the island were left, cut in half, like a birthday cake cut in two, floating with difficulty in the turbulent ocean current.
On one of the island fragments, there lay a cold-looking man in tattered clothes, with two hideous cross-shaped knife wounds on his chest, and his bones and internal organs were clearly visible.
On another island, there lay a Black Blade emitting a faint light under the sunlight.
He is the most powerful swordsman in the world.
The knife is the strongest Black Blade in the world.
But now, as the world's strongest swordsman, he can't even hold the world's strongest black sword.
The swordsman and the sword are separated.
For a swordsman, this was a huge setback.
"Is the world really that big?"
"Am I not already standing on the pinnacle of the world?"
"I'm already at the highest point, so why is there a view I can't see?"
Dracule Mihawk opened his eyes with difficulty, and his eagle eyes, which used to be as sharp as a knife, now revealed dejection and frustration.
The most powerful swordsman in the world, the man who can refine the supreme sword into a Black Blade and reign at the top of the swordsmen, is also a human being.
In life, there will be times of greatest success and times of greatest setbacks, and there will also be times of setbacks.
Especially, today is the day when he successfully forged the Black Blade, and it is also the day when he became the most powerful swordsman in the world.
What's the result?
When Dracule Mihawk reached the pinnacle of swordsmanship with the black sword Yoru, he was chopped down to the bottom of the sea again and again.
Now.
He couldn't even hold his proud Black Blade, Yoru.
snap
Suddenly, there was a slight sound of footsteps landing.
Dracule Mihawk struggled to get up and found that Rosen had landed on the other side of the island and was standing in front of his Black Blade Yoru.
"It seems that this is your limit."
Rosen first glanced at Dracule Mihawk, who was covered in blood. Especially after noticing that the other party's eagle eyes were no longer as sharp as before, a hint of understanding flashed in his creepy yellow-brown eyes.
Then.
He leaned over and reached out to pick up the Black Blade Yoru from the ground.
"You, what do you want to do?"
When Dracule Mihawk saw that Rosen had taken away the Black Blade Yoru, which was as important to him as his life, he suddenly stood up from the ground with strength that emerged from nowhere in his body.
But immediately
His body staggered back and forth, and he couldn't stand steadily.
After swaying back and forth and side to side for a while, he fell to the ground again, only able to support himself with his hands and one knee.
"This is not voluntarism."
"The most powerful swordsman in the world is ultimately just an ordinary person."
"Given the swordsman's physical structure, it's almost impossible for you to stand up."
Rosen ignored Dracule Mihawk who tried to stand up from the ground again and again, but looked at the Black Blade Yoru in his hand.
He also had to admit that the Black Blade was indeed hard enough.
Using the double swords Zangetsu, coupled with the Conqueror's Haki and Armament Haki, even the world's most powerful swordsman, Dracule Mihawk, was defeated. However, after being refined into a black sword, Yoru withstood so many attacks, but his appearance still looked intact.
No wonder there is a saying circulating in the Grand Line that the world's most powerful swordsmen are common, but black swords are rare.
"What exactly do you want to do?"
Dracule Mihawk raised his head and stared at Rosen.
Although he suffered a setback, his innate eagle eyes, which allowed him to see through the essence of all things, did not disappear because of the setback.
The moment he saw Rosen pick up the Black Blade, he seemed to have seen the man's intention.
That's why.
Dracule Mihawk was the one who acted so anxious and nervous.
He had completely lost his usual calmness and composure, which showed him the ability to remain calm even in the face of adversity.
"I asked you a question before."
"Does that mean the Black Blade can be cut?"
"If you can't answer, then I can only find the answer myself."
Rosen turned to look at Dracule Mihawk and said something horrifying.
"Cut off the Black Blade? As expected."
"This man has been fighting me for this purpose from the very beginning, not with the intention of defeating me."
"The battle just now was more like him constantly testing the hardness of Black Blade Yoru than fighting me."
Dracule Mihawk spread out his ten fingers that were supporting the ground, then closed them, leaving scratches on the ground.
Unprecedented humiliation and anger filled my heart.
It's the same battle, but fighting with the goal of defeating the enemy and fighting with the goal of cutting off the Black Blade are two completely different things.
The former regarded him as an equally powerful opponent, while the latter completely ignored him and only wanted to find the answer.
That is whether the Black Blade can be cut off.
That is to say.
Making the world's most powerful swordsman lose the ability to resist in battle is just one of the steps that Rosen must go through in the process of finding out whether the Black Blade can be cut off, and it is not the final result.
After realizing all this, even Dracule Mihawk, who usually kept his emotions under control, was furious and filled with shame.
Unfortunately, he was powerless.
The gap in strength and the physical injuries made it impossible for him to even stand up.
He could only kneel on the ground and watch Rosen make him lose his ability to fight, and then snatch his Black Blade, seeking the final answer.
"Kneel there."
"Don't move."
"Just watch me cut off the Black Blade quietly."
Rosen said to Dracule Mihawk, and then released a massive amount of Armament Haki from his whole body that shot straight into the sky.
Boom
The complete form of Susanoo appeared out of thin air.
The same is the complete form, the Susanoo formed using the Haki sealed in the T Bone sword, and its height is only 180 meters.
Now.
Rosen's true form descended, releasing all of his Conqueror's Haki, and condensed into the strongest form of Susanoo, with a height exceeding 250 meters, and he could maintain this posture for a long time to fight.
"What is this?"
"You didn't even use Susanoo when fighting me, but now you're using it."
"Don't tell me, in your eyes, that I, Dracule Mihawk, am not even worthy enough to force you to take real action?"
Dracule Mihawk looked at the Complete Susanoo rising from the sea and towering over the South Blue like a mountain, and the humiliation lingering in his heart became even stronger.
In the battle just now, although Rosen used the Three Forms of Haki, he did not use his unique Armament Haki technique that shocked the sea.
Use Haki to form Susanoo.
That is the complete form of Susanoo.
"Don't misunderstand."
"After all, you are the most powerful swordsman in the world who can forge a black sword. I already respect you enough."
"These two Zanpakutō are named Zangetsu. Among the many Zanpakutō I have made, they may not be the strongest, but they are definitely the most unique."
"Even though it's only Shikai, it's more powerful than most Zanpakutō's Bankai. It's perfect for testing the hardness of the Black Blade Yoru, and for severing the world's strongest black blade."
Rosen stood between Susanoo's eyebrows and raised the double swords in his hands Zangetsu.
He has many Zanpakutō that he rubs with his hands.
Even the strongest in a certain series, such as Hyorinmaru, the strongest in the ice and snow series, is included.
But if we talk about uniqueness, it must be Zangetsu.
This is a Zanpakutō that combines Bankai and Kido.
Especially the dual swords Zangetsu, even if it is the Shikai, even if the ability is single, it can still crush most Zanpakutō's Bankai.
"As for you saying you don't have the qualifications to make me do something serious."
"There's no need for you to worry about this matter, because you've never been the most special one."
"It's not just you. Ever since I graduated from the Naval Academy and left the Marine Headquarters, I've never met anyone I could really fight with."
Every word in Rosen's words was like a Black Blade, like a Black Blade wrapped in Conqueror's Haki, stabbing into Dracule Mihawk's heart one after another.