"You're still very young..."
Zoro's ears were filled with the echo of Rorschach's voice, making him feel even worse.
Rorschach was two years younger than him.
Seeing Rorschach's tall figure walking toward Hawkeye, he gritted his teeth and wanted to go over to watch the fight, but Jonathan reached out and grabbed him.
"Don't go over. You won't be able to handle the aftermath of their fight. You're still too young."
"I..."
Zoro's mouth moved. Just as he was about to say something, he felt the air around him, as if it were boiling, begin to tremble with a low hum.
Not just the air. The solid ground beneath their feet, which was connected to the towering Reverse Mountain, was also vibrating slightly.
And the sea outside the cliff was surging violently without any wind!
Zoro's throat bobbed up and down. He suddenly turned to look at where Rorschach and Hawkeye were.
He saw that the two men, who were two to three hundred meters away and hadn't even started fighting yet, were simply standing there. A terrifying and intimidating aura was beginning to emanate from them.
The whale Laboon, which was on the surface of the sea, felt this aura and was so scared that it fled into the distance, quickly moving away from the cliff and swimming several thousand meters away.
At this moment, in the eyes of everyone, what they saw were not two men standing on the ground, but two terrifying monsters whose bodies were constantly expanding, as if they were tearing through the sky.
That inhuman sense of oppression made everyone except Jonathan feel uneasy. Their hearts started beating faster. It felt as if a huge rock was pressing down on them, and they felt suffocated!
Hawkins's pupils contracted.
He had thought Rorschach had become very strong.
But he had never thought he would be this strong!
This was just an outpouring of their auras, and it gave him the urge to vomit blood.
Rorschach chose not to transform. This was not a fight to the death.
A thunderous bang exploded on the ground in front of him. The Dragon Slaying Halberd in Rorschach's hand burst with a dazzling electric light. Wrapped in the deep blue Haki that surged out, he brought the halberd down from top to bottom in an extremely brutal vertical slash toward Hawkeye, who was thirty meters away.
"Rumble!"
In everyone's ears, a huge explosion that sounded like the sky and earth were collapsing rang out.
The air in front of Rorschach was blasted apart layer by layer by this strike. The ground beneath his feet shattered in a fan shape. The solid rock ground, which had been scoured by the sea for countless years, shattered with a bang, turning into countless large and small pieces of rock. Carried by the shockwave, they flew toward Hawkeye, covering him from head to toe.
Hawkeye's expression didn't change. He also held his sword with one hand. Haki flowed on the black blade. The blade collided with the air, creating a penetrating buzzing sound. He cut horizontally with his sword.
"Swish!"
The people behind Rorschach felt a dazzling aurora suddenly appear horizontally on the ground in front of them. It was dozens of meters high and hundreds of meters long, like a thick aurora wall that pushed horizontally toward Rorschach.
As the thick wall of sword light passed, countless pieces of rock exploded into the finest powder. Before the powder could fall to the ground, it was swept away by the sword light.
The two terrifying slashes, one horizontal and one vertical, collided between Rorschach and Hawkeye.
The air rippled like waves. The ground beneath their feet shattered with a crack. Thick cracks quickly spread out in all directions.
The sea on the side of the cliff was pushed away by the violent impact of the clash. The deep sea was compressed and formed a depression. The sea in the distance rose dozens of meters, turning into a monstrous wave that spread outward.
The two of them had only performed a simple slash, but the violent airwaves that swept over forced the people standing in front of the lighthouse to retreat again.
Zoro, Brook, and Crocus were even directly blown away.
Crocus's home, the old lighthouse that had existed for hundreds of years, was constantly cracking in the midst of the rolling impact. Seeing that it was about to completely shatter, Crocus's anger surged, and he couldn't help but yell furiously, "If you're going to fight, then get farther away! Don't destroy my home!"
"Be... be quiet, Doctor Crocus! If you anger such a terrifying person, someone will definitely die! What a terrifyingly strong person! My eyeballs are about to fly out. Huh? Oh, right, I'm a skeleton. I don't have eyeballs anymore, yohohohoho. Help, Mr. Hawkins! I'm going to be blown into the sea because I'm just bones and too light."
Brook was screaming strangely.
Zoro, on the other hand, was staring with wide eyes.
He watched Rorschach and Hawkeye, who had just shattered the ground for hundreds of meters around, shoot up from the ground and instantly fly hundreds of meters into the sky, turning into two small black dots. The shock in his heart was indescribable.
"Is this what true strength is? Is this the power of the world's greatest swordsman and a Marine Vice Admiral? So strong! They are a thousand, ten thousand times stronger than I am now!"
Jonathan heard his muttering and couldn't help but interrupt.
"Don't get the wrong idea. An ordinary Marine Vice Admiral is not this strong. That kid is just a monster."
"Will Brother Rorschach be okay?" Hibari said with some worry.
"Don't worry. Even if Hawkeye is stronger than him, he won't be able to hurt Rorschach in a short time. The Rorschach now is already very, very strong," Jonathan said reassuringly.
Hundreds of meters above everyone's heads, Rorschach's body was wrapped in a deep blue Haki and silvery-white electric light, like two intertwined dragons that spiraled up his Dragon Slaying Halberd. He swung the halberd horizontally.
The sound of crackling electricity rang out in the sky, followed by a thick slash wrapped in bundles of silvery-white lightning that shot out from the halberd's blade, cutting toward Hawkeye.
That thick slash didn't need to be aimed at a specific body part at all.
As long as it hit, the entire body would be covered and engulfed.
Hawkeye stomped his foot. The air instantly collapsed and exploded. A cloud of white air pushed him to the side like a teleportation, avoiding the incoming slash. He then swung the black sword in his right hand diagonally.
"Swish!"
There was no specific move. It was a simple slash, but it was a terrifying sword light that was hundreds of meters long.
Rorschach also chose not to take the attack head-on. Electric light swirled around his body. His figure was as fast as the wind and lightning, flashing and disappearing in the air.
When he reappeared, he had already closed in, appearing behind Hawkeye. He held the halberd with both hands and slashed down in a fury.
"Boom!"
A violent force poured out from his body. A single swing of the halberd caused the air to explode and shake. The slash and the impact that burst out were dozens of times more powerful than the heavy coastal defense cannons in Marineford Bay.
"Buzz, buzz, buzz!"
Hawkeye held up an invisible Haki armor on his body. He spun his body and swung his long sword to block above his head, seemingly wanting to see how strong Rorschah's power was.
Then, his golden pupils suddenly constricted.
The black sword that was held above his head a second ago was hit by the black halberd that descended from the sky. It transferred an incredibly violent force through the black sword and slammed into the Haki armor that Hawkeye had put up.
"Boom!"
A cloud of white explosive smoke burst in the sky.
Hawkeye's body turned into a black line that connected the heavens and the earth. It slammed into the top of the cliff below with a loud bang.
The solid rock layers collapsed and shattered in large pieces. Dozens of meters and even hundreds of meters of the towering cliff fell off, crashing into the sea and splashing huge amounts of seawater into the sky.
The ground for several thousand meters around was vibrating violently, as if a huge earthquake had occurred.
Jonathan and the others, who had retreated to the side of the Reverse Mountain sea current, could still feel the continuous vibrations.
"Crack, crack, crack!"
The cracks on the surface of the old lighthouse became more numerous.
Suddenly, Crocus watched helplessly as the top of the lighthouse, a seven- to eight-meter-high cap, was shaken and cracked by the violent impact. It wobbled and broke away from the main body of the lighthouse. In his wide-eyed gaze, it fell to the ground with a rumble, scattering into broken pieces of rock.
"You bastards! My home! Both of you stop! Stop fighting! Do you hear me, you two idiots!"
Crocus was going crazy with anger.
Just as he was speaking, a terrifying sword light, like a giant lava sword spewing from the depths of the earth, shot out with a swish. It instantly crossed thousands of meters of air and slashed Rorschach.
"Boom!"
An earth-shattering explosion rang out. Rorschach, whose body was glowing with a deep blue color, was sent flying hundreds of meters away by the slash, flying up into the sky a thousand meters high.
Rorschach wiped the blood that was shaken from the corner of his mouth. He grinned at Hawkeye, who had jumped out from a hundred-meter-deep rock layer below. "That was a powerful slash."
"Your strength is no longer something a human can possess. Even a giant is far inferior to you. Are you a monster like Charlotte Linlin and Kaido?" Hawkeye's mouth was also bleeding. He held the hilt of the black sword with both hands. The sharp aura on his body spread out infinitely, as if it was going to tear the heavens and the earth apart.
"Don't say that. I'm really just an ordinary human!"
An endless deep blue Haki surged out from his body like a tide. Bundles of terrifying lightning pillars as thick as buckets shot out from his body. The two forces continuously gathered on the raised black halberd, exuding a terrifying energy fluctuation that made the people below turn pale with shock.
At this point, even Jonathan's face changed.
He had a premonition. If the two ultimate moves that Rorschach and Hawkeye were preparing were to clash at the top of the cliff in front of Reverse Mountain, the ground for thousands of meters around where they were standing would completely collapse and fall into the sea.
This was an island-destroying attack!
"Hey! Hawkeye! Rorschach! Stop! Stop fighting!"
Jonathan immediately flew forward, waving his hands, wanting to stop them from continuing.
But his words seemed to be useless.
On the shattered ground below, the sharp aura emanating from Hawkeye had already become a tangible sword aura, constantly cutting the ground beneath his feet, shattering countless rocks into small, smooth-edged pieces.
On the black sword he held up, a dark Haki was continuously gathering and flowing.
One could imagine that if this one slash were to be unleashed, it would definitely be a world-shattering event.
And Rorschach in the sky was even more imposing than Hawkeye on the ground.
The terrifying lightning pillars were like thick lightning dragons that coiled around his body, making him look like a Thunder God on Earth.
"Stop! Stop right now!" Crocus also ran over, trying to get closer, but was stopped by Jonathan.
"Don't go over! You'll die!"
Just as the two were about to unleash their ultimate moves and clash, Hibari's voice came.
"Brother Rorschach! Stop fighting! The cliff is going to collapse! Doctor Crocus's house will be gone!"
Hearing this, Rorschach regretfully took back the continuously surging Haki and lightning power.
He looked at the broken and shattered rock layers on the ground.
Indeed, if he were to continue fighting Hawkeye here, there would be no more footing at the foot of Reverse Mountain.
The cliff here could serve as a temporary place for rest and adjustment when the Navy was traveling to the Four Seas.
They could also station troops here and wait for the pirates from the Four Seas to enter the Grand Line.
If he were to destroy it like this, it would be as difficult as ascending to the heavens to rebuild a platform in this godforsaken place.
Thinking of this, Rorschach lost the desire to continue fighting.
He quickly took back the Haki and lightning that he had been preparing. He flashed down from the sky and landed in front of everyone with a loud snap.
Hawkeye frowned, looking at Rorschach, who had dispersed his long-prepared ultimate move. He knew that Rorschach no longer had any intention of fighting, so he slashed at the sky.
In the next second, the eyes of Zoro, Hawkins, Brook, Selene, Hibari, and the others all widened.
The sword light that shot out from the black sword in Hawkeye's hand went straight up into the sky for thousands of meters, splitting the thick clouds in two.
Looking up from the ground, it was as if Hawkeye's one slash had cut the sky in half.
This indescribable shock left everyone completely stunned.
"Is that guy... really human?" Brook's jawbones rattled as if his jaw had been dislocated.
Zoro tightly gripped Shusui and Wado Ichimonji in his hands. He looked at the thick clouds that were split in two in the sky, and a look of fanaticism and longing gradually appeared in his eyes.
"This is the power of the world's greatest swordsman. As expected, only a power that can cut the sky can be called the strongest, right? I will have this power one day, no matter what!"
He looked at Rorschach with a burning gaze.
Zoro had a feeling that if Rorschach's move had also been aimed at the sky, it would have also opened up the thick clouds in the sky.
He believed that since Rorschach could perform an attack that rivaled Hawkeye's, he could definitely do it too!
Rorschach was right.
Don't bite off more than you can chew. As long as he took one step at a time and walked firmly toward his goal, he would eventually approach, achieve, and surpass that goal!
"Why did you stop?" Hawkeye put the black sword Yoru back into the scabbard on his back. He walked over and looked at Rorschach.
Rorschach shrugged his shoulders, pointing at the broken lighthouse in the distance. "Hehe, let's just call it a day this time. Next time, if you still want to fight, let's find an empty place and have another match. If we continue to fight here, Crocus's house will be gone. He was the doctor of the Roger Pirates. You should be careful that Silvers Rayleigh and Scopper Gaban will come looking for you."
"Hmph, I'd be happy to. I've been wanting to meet Rayleigh."
Hawkeye snorted coldly, patted the dust off his body, and calmly walked back to his coffin-like boat. He stomped his foot, and he, along with his boat, shot up from the ground and crashed into the sea below.
He reached out and drew his sword, slashing at the back of the small boat.
Everyone only heard the roaring of the sea and saw the surface of the sea explode. The small boat where Hawkeye was was pushed by a massive force, almost sliding on the surface of the sea. In an instant, it shot out for thousands of meters, and soon after, it disappeared from everyone's sight.
"He can do that?" Rorschach couldn't help but click his tongue in wonder.
That way of sailing was way too cool.
Hawkeye's boat must have been specially made. Otherwise, an ordinary wooden boat would have been shattered by an impact like that.
Maybe it was made of Adam wood too.
"Let's have a party! Jonathan, do you have any food on your ship? I'm hungry," Rorschach said with a grin toward Jonathan.
His smile was bright and very contagious, like that of a sunny and cheerful young man, making people feel as warm as spring.
"Why did your demeanor change so quickly? Just a second ago, you looked like a Thunder God who was about to destroy the world."
Zoro couldn't help but complain.
"Even a Thunder God needs to eat. Oh, right, I almost forgot. Zoro, how about joining the Navy? I can see that you have the potential to become an admiral. Join the Navy! I'll protect you. I forgot to tell you, I also have two Great Grade swords at my home."
"Hey, hey! Rorschach! That's enough!"
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