Moria, dragging his bloated body, chuckled as he lunged at Hibari.
His seemingly clumsy and slow movements suddenly became instantaneous as he stepped. His tall body abruptly swapped places with his shadow, appearing behind Hibari as if teleporting, raising a giant pair of scissors, and bringing them down on Hibari's head.
Having learned from being caught by Moria's shadow before, Hibari was reluctant to easily transform into a giant cloud.
While transforming into a huge thundercloud could release powerful lightning, it also significantly increased the area of her projected shadow, making it easy for Moria to capture.
Moreover, she couldn't gamble on Moria definitely not having Armament Haki and directly use her elemental body to take his attacks.
Thinking this, Hibari didn't hesitate and immediately used Rokushiki.
"Soru!"
After eating the Cloud-Cloud Fruit, Hibari felt her entire being become much lighter.
When she used the corresponding speed-type Rokushiki, the burst of speed she unleashed far exceeded her previous capabilities.
The moment Moria's swinging scissors fell through the air, Hibari's figure flickered and vanished, darting to the side.
"Thundercloud!"
She gave a sharp cry, and with a wave of her hand, a pitch-black cloud rapidly appeared out of thin air in front of her. Electrical light flashed and gathered within the cloud, forming an arm-thick lightning bolt that shot towards Moria's bloated belly.
Although directly elementalizing into a thundercloud carried significant risk, Hibari could still create thunderclouds. However, with her current abilities, she couldn't create clouds on too large a scale, preventing them from achieving cataclysmic power.
Crackle!
The lightning exploded, striking Moria's body squarely, continuously shocking him.
However, Moria stood there with a grin, as if nothing had happened, letting Hibari condense another thundercloud and lightning bolt to strike him.
His body would sometimes turn into a dark shadow, then back into human form, constantly switching between his Shadow Warrior and true body, rapidly approaching Hibari by utilizing the Shadow Warrior's immunity to physical attacks.
Hibari's face changed slightly.
This Moria was a bit troublesome.
However, if she were to retreat now...
Hibari turned her head, looking at Law, Enel, and even Bepo, who had already dealt with their respective opponents.
On the distant sand on the other side, Pamir, swinging his steel fishing rod, was also entangled in combat with Oars the Demon, stirring up yellow sand and making the earth tremble.
Everyone was performing remarkably, except for herself, who had gained the precious Logia-type Cloud-Cloud Fruit.
"I can't disappoint Big Brother Rorschach! I must do my best and defeat Gecko Moria!"
Hibari's eyes became resolute, choosing to face Moria directly and no longer continuing to dodge.
Her figure was as light as wind, soaring through the air, clenching her fist, and charging towards Moria, who waddled forward like an obese penguin.
"Cloud Clone!"
The instant she charged forward, large masses of mist rapidly surged from Hibari's body, then re-contracted and converged around her body, forming multiple figures of Hibari, which, along with her, all simultaneously rushed towards Moria.
Moria raised a hand, and the shadows at his feet stood up, transforming into a sky full of bats, fluttering and flying towards the numerous Hibaris attacking from all directions.
These black bats were incredibly fast, like black arrows, piercing through the air, striking through each Hibari's body, causing them to dissipate into mist.
But these mists didn't vanish; instead, they transformed into even more Hibaris, overwhelming Moria, all swinging their right fists at Moria's body.
"Troublesome Logia!"
A hint of annoyance flashed in Moria's eyes.
In the past, he wouldn't have even bothered with a weak Logia user like Hibari.
But ever since his defeat at the hands of that bastard Kaido, he had been depressed for over a decade, holed up in the Thriller Bark, doing nothing but eating and sleeping, turning his once slender and fit physique into his current bloated, obese form.
His lack of training had significantly diminished his physical strength.
And Armament Haki, this power, was intrinsically linked to physical strength.
As his physical strength continuously regressed, Moria's Armament Haki also faded, and he hadn't felt that power in many years.
However, even without Armament Haki, he still had ways to deal with Logia users.
"Shadow Revolution! Shadow Hand!"
Moria swept his large hand through the air. The shattered black bats converged, forming a shadow hand over ten meters wide, grabbing the shadows beneath each Hibari. The giant scissors followed, like cutting long black strips of cloth, and snipped at the elongated shadows.
Snip!
With a crisp sound, dozens of shadows were cut off by Moria.
The next moment, the Hibari clones that had lost their shadows exploded with bangs, turning into mist. But this time, these mists didn't split into more Hibaris; they simply dispersed.
"Kishishishishi, this is my Kage Kage no Mi ability! As long as it's an object with a shadow, I can destroy their main body by cutting off their shadow! Marine brat, don't think Logia is invincible. Be careful not to let me grab the shadow of your main body, kishishishishi!"
Moria chuckled, repeating the process. He extended the over ten-meter-long black shadow hand again, grabbing the shadows of the remaining few dozen Hibaris, and swung the scissors in his hand to cut them off.
Snip!
Another few dozen Hibaris exploded with bangs, dissipating into mist.
When Moria extended his large hand for the third time, grabbing the few remaining Hibaris, one of them showed a panicked expression, twisting her body, trying to escape from Moria's large shadow hand.
"Got you, Marine brat!" Moria was overjoyed at the sight, decisively raising his scissors and snipping down.
Snip!
With a crisp sound, over a dozen Hibaris exploded with bangs, turning into ethereal mist floating in the air.
However, one of the Hibaris, with eyes closed, fell from the sky and did not disperse.
"Kishishishishi, this is the price for never having experienced the cruelty of the sea, brat. Let me kill you and avenge Absalom." Moria grinned menacingly, raising the scissors in his hand and striking down at Hibari, who had her eyes closed.
Just then, hundreds of meters above him, a thick, inky black cloud had expanded to dozens of meters in diameter.
Zapping electricity coursed back and forth within the thundercloud.
When the chaotic lightning in the thundercloud reached a critical point, streaks of electrical light converged, forming a lightning bolt as thick as a bucket, striking down from the sky.
Boom!
Moria's raised scissors paused. He let out a cry of pain, his bloated body jolting from the electricity, his fat jiggling incessantly.
At the same time, the sharp-eyed Moria noticed that there was still a faint shadow beneath Hibari, who was lying on the ground.
This discovery made Moria's head, which was somewhat dazed from the lightning strike, become even more confused.
"What's going on? I clearly cut off her shadow, why..."
"That's not my shadow! It's a cloud clone's shadow emitted by a蜃云! Hellhound!"
Hibari's eyes suddenly snapped open. Her lower body turned into rolling cloud mist, shooting up like a rocket, and punching Moria in the chest.
Bang!
With a dull, drum-like thud, Moria gasped, his bloated, massive body staggering back several steps, his two comically short legs collapsing to his knees with a thud.
He opened his fanged mouth and spurted out a large spray of blood with a waaah.
Moria braced his two arms on the ground, a look of humiliation and anger appearing on his face. "Damn brat, I'll kill you!"
Hibari didn't stop, punching again.
On the surface of her delicate, pale fist, a ferocious evil dog faintly appeared, pouncing towards Moria's face.
"Dog Bite Red Lotus!"
"Shadow Revolution! Shadow Prison!" Moria ignored her incoming punch, suddenly roared loudly, and his massive body began to explode from the head, transforming into a sky full of black shadows, swishing in all directions.
An invisible cube-shaped space, about twenty to thirty meters on each side, seemed to appear in mid-air.
Six black walls were rapidly completing and closing in, completely enveloping Hibari.
This was an upgraded version of the Shadow Box, with far superior strength and toughness.
In a flash, a black cube, larger than a Poneglyph, appeared on the desert ground.
And Moria's body appeared outside the cube, extending his large hand to press on the black shadow, forcefully closing and squeezing.
"Shadow Burst!"
As he violently clasped his hands together, this giant black Shadow Prison cube instantly shrunk to palm size, then exploded with a boom.
A turbulent airflow was stirred up in mid-air. Hibari's body exploded with a boom, dissipating into wisps of cloud mist, scattering tiny shadows under the cool moonlight.
"Shadow Witchcraft! Damage Transfer!"
Moria waved his large hand, and his own shadow rapidly surged forward, quickly connecting to the tiny shadows of Hibari's shattered body.
The moment their shadows connected, Moria swung his scissors, plunging them straight into his own thigh.
In an instant, blood spurted from his thigh, staining the ground beneath his feet.
And on his shadow, there also seemed to be black spots of splattered blood.
At the same time, the fragmented mist converged, forming Hibari's shape.
The moment she reappeared, her face instantly turned pale, and she spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Kishishishishi, I can transfer physical injuries to the shadow. And I can also transfer shadow injuries to the physical body. How about it, feeling the pain?"
Moria chuckled, stabbing his own thigh again.
As blood spurted, Hibari's body trembled again, and she spat out another mouthful of blood.
On the distant city wall, Rorschach had almost moved several times, but feeling Hibari's current determination, he sighed and did not get up.
Moria rarely used this technique because it was quite useless.
His damage transfer was only temporary; he couldn't transfer physical injuries to the shadow and then, by utilizing the shadow's invulnerability, eliminate the injuries.
This transfer could be seen as a form of lodging.
It temporarily lodged the physical damage he sustained onto the shadow, briefly maintaining his peak condition.
When he used Shadow Witchcraft: Damage Transfer, these injuries could be transferred into another person's body by connecting to their shadow.
To put it simply, it was to harm opponents through self-inflicted wounds.
This damage was not a proportional damage, but rather a comparison of the strength of their respective life forces.
Theoretically, if he encountered an opponent with a weaker life force than his own and who didn't have Armament Haki, Moria could directly use this self-mutilating method, even if it meant sustaining serious injuries himself, to wear down and kill the opponent.
However, if the opponent's life force was stronger than his, this move would be useless.
The reason Moria usually found this move useless was that when facing weaker opponents, there was no need for him to use it.
And when facing stronger opponents, even if he used this move, even if he died directly, he might not be able to kill the opponent.
Moreover, if the opponent possessed Armament Haki, they could directly block his shadow connection, nullifying this move.
But now, it was clear that this Logia-type Marine brat's life force was nowhere near as vibrant as his own.
Moria decided to sacrifice a bit of stamina and wear down this Logia brat in this way.
This was the awkwardness of Moria after his Armament Haki had regressed.
After stabbing himself again, making Hibari's face even paler, Moria reached out his left hand to grab Hibari's shadow, and his right hand opened his giant scissors.
"This time, let's see what other tricks you have, kishishishishi!"
Moria chuckled strangely.
Hibari gritted her teeth, staring intently at Moria's descending scissors, and then suddenly clenched her right fist, punching at the sharp blade of the scissors.
The next instant!
Under Moria's menacing grin, a pitch-black color rapidly appeared on the surface of the small Marine girl's pale fist.
The sharp blade of the scissors was struck by the pitch-black fist and sent flying with a clang.
Moria was stunned. "Armament Haki?"
He showed an incredulous expression, his facial skin twitching. "Damn brat, to actually awaken Armament Haki at a time like this. What a lucky brat. But what if you awakened Armament Haki? How much longer can your stamina last?"
Moria once again raised his giant scissors, slashing at Hibari.
Hibari looked at her pitch-black fist, a smile finally appearing on her face. Her small body was soft and weak, but she gritted her teeth and swung her fist to meet the descending giant scissors.
"Idiot, why push yourself so hard?"
A gentle voice rang in Hibari's ear.
Then, a tall figure in a snow-white cape appeared out of thin air, blocking Hibari's path, raising a hand, and steadily catching Moria's incoming scissors.
"You..." Moria's face changed slightly. Rorschach's appearance was too sudden; he didn't even react.
But Moria didn't stop. He pressed down hard on the scissors in his hand, trying to cleave Rorschach away.
However.
Deep blue light swirled on Rorschach's five fingers as he clamped down on the heavy scissor blade, squeezing with force.
Crack, crack, crack, crack!
The scissor blade, whose hardness surpassed steel and was superior to ordinary good swords, cracked, developing tiny fissures.
Then, with a crisp bang, the heavy scissors snapped in half, broken by Rorschach's five fingers.
Swish!
Rorschach flashed forward, his figure like wind and lightning, closing the distance, and unleashed a punch on Moria's chest.
Boom!
(End of Chapter)
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