"Your reaction is pretty fast, Akainu."
That blade just now was wrapped in Haki. If it had hit, it would have definitely severed his arm.
Unfortunately, Akainu was quite skilled with Observation Haki too. At the critical moment, he actively abandoned control of those two masses of magma, thus avoiding the fate of losing his hand.
Faced with this terrifying blade, Akainu's expression also became cautious.
Before today, his understanding of Naruto had always been at the level of "hearing a sentence or two in news and intelligence reports."
Unlike Aokiji, who often dealt with Naruto, his usual work scope was still focused on fighting pirates.
And as everyone knew, Naruto wasn't a pirate, and his whereabouts were completely unpredictable.
Only "big idlers" like Aokiji had time to chase him.
Seeing that the other wasn't taking the initiative to attack, Naruto simply sheathed Musōkō again, then took off his shirt.
The perfect physique that had once been revealed when fighting Golden Lion was liberated again. Naruto lightly made a beckoning gesture.
"Don't be afraid; let's continue."
"There's a limit to how much you can look down on people, criminal!"
Akainu's surroundings quickly began radiating extremely high temperatures. Objects nearby were clearly not in contact but still began melting.
His figure flashed in place, and Akainu struck toward Naruto's chest with a magma fist of extremely high temperature.
This time, deep black outlines appeared around his magma, clearly using Haki as well.
Unlike Ace, who barely combined fruit abilities with Haki, Akainu had truly developed the Magma-Magma Fruit to its limit while also possessing extremely strong Haki levels.
The chemical reaction produced by combining the two was completely incomparable to Ace's current Fire Fist.
Bang!
Naruto acted as if he wasn't afraid of heat at all, punching Akainu's elbow joint, then smoothly following up with an elbow strike to his head.
Even after dispersing part of his body in advance, Akainu still felt intense vibrations conducting into his body.
His internal organs immediately produced severe pain.
This life-threatening pain only made his already grim expression deepen slightly. Then he completely elementalized himself, and his organs quickly escaped that suffering at high speed.
But at this moment, Naruto suddenly lifted his foot upward, and then a slash quickly flew out, directly hitting Akainu's chest.
Tempest Kick!
This time he was too close, plus there was the previous negative effect causing delay, so Akainu didn't have time to actively separate his body.
"How about it? Very familiar, right?"
Being cut open on the chest by the Navy's Six Powers Tempest Kick was truly too ironic.
"Did Dragon teach you that?"
"Ha, who knows?"
Naruto's mouth curved into a grin.
At this moment, far away in Water 7, Stussy had just finished arranging new training plans for CP9 and others, then took out that newspaper with Naruto's silhouette, smiling as she pointed at it with her finger.
"That cancerous virus who spreads nothing but ideological plague, corrupting peace and sowing chaos wherever he treads..."
Akainu and Dragon were the same age, both naval officers from the same period, but their personalities had never gotten along.
Later facts also proved Akainu's view correct. Monkey D. Dragon was indeed a dangerous guy.
If pirates only disrupted order, then what the Revolutionary Army did was shake the foundation of World Government rule.
While verbally sparring with each other, the entanglement between the two didn't stop.
Sometimes you give me a punch, sometimes I give you a kick.
Soon several burn marks appeared on Naruto's upper body, but then Naruto directly reached out his hand, chakra surging.
Green light flowed above, and before long those burns recovered at a visible speed.
This scene made Akainu frown tightly.
Was it Devil Fruit ability? Or those so-called "ninjutsu" from the files?
Before he could continue thinking, Naruto's fist attacked again.
Akainu could only forcefully swing out a punch.
But unexpectedly, Naruto suddenly opened his fist, pressed his index and middle fingers together, and placed his ring finger next to his pinky, assuming the starting stance of the Revolutionary Army martial art "Dragon Claw Fist."
Dragon's Hook Claw!
The Haki-wrapped claw tips broke through surfaces with points, instantly grabbing into Akainu's skin.
"Got you."
Naruto's face showed a smile, then Wind Release chakra poured in through the wound.
In an instant, Akainu's left arm appeared with countless cutting wounds from inside out.
Unable to elementalize due to being restricted by Haki, he could only use his other hand to fiercely strike Naruto's head.
After trading a headbutt with a fist, Naruto still didn't let go.
Instead, like swinging a sack, he lifted Akainu's entire body and heavily slammed him back and forth against the ground.
After dozens of consecutive slams, Akainu finally caught a gap to kick Naruto away.
It could only be said that this Marine Admiral's "health bar" was really too thick. After such a combo, he incredibly stood up again like nothing happened.
It would be more convincing if his arm weren't still bleeding.
Akainu looked at the wound on his left arm without even blinking, directly heating his right hand to a high temperature, then pressing it to his left arm's skin.
Instantly, blue smoke accompanied by the aroma of roasted meat wafted out.
The charred skin surface also stopped the bleeding.
At this moment, this auction house was already tottering under their battle.
As for the people previously in the auction house, those slaves had been thrown out the back door by Naruto in advance, while the others seemed to have no need for rescue.
Looking at the surrounding environment, then at Naruto across from him, who didn't even seem to have superficial wounds.
Akainu knew this wasn't a small fry he could casually eliminate like before.
His eyes suddenly became fierce, then the surrounding temperature suddenly rose dramatically, with countless streams of scalding magma flowing out from his body.
Not only that, when touching other things, this magma seemed to "proliferate," rapidly spreading.
In just the blink of an eye, the battlefield became as hot as a volcano crater.
Even Naruto couldn't be completely unaffected.
But no problem. You're not the only one who can change the terrain.
After Naruto reacted, he formed hand seals.
"Earth Release: Swamp of the Underworld."
The ground previously covered by magma suddenly sank down, immediately creating a huge pit on the ground.
Even Akainu himself was momentarily careless and fell in together.
At this moment, Naruto changed his hand seals.
Earth Release: Earth Spear.
Around the sunken pit, dozens of rock spikes thick enough for two people to embrace immediately appeared.
This was incomparable to the minor scuffles of those bounty ninjas before.
This magnificent slave auction house could no longer support itself and collapsed in a cloud of dust.
Not far away, the guy responsible for this slave trading business was contacting his master behind the scenes through the Den Den Mushi in his hand.
At this moment, Donquixote Doflamingo, currently in Dressrosa, listened to the other's account, then hung up the Den Den Mushi.
"Young Master, what about Sabaody Archipelago?"
Beside him, the snot-nosed Trebol saw his somewhat strange expression and asked tentatively.
"To actually kill Celestial Dragons once again, once again? Naruto Uzumaki, interesting."
Doflamingo suddenly began laughing somewhat neurotically, as if he completely didn't care about that auction house that had been casually destroyed.