Just the sword aura swept past, and the vast ocean was neatly cut apart, with the cut smooth as a mirror.
After a long time had passed, the trenches on the ocean surface were finally refilled by seawater.
In an instant, the sea surface surged with waves, setting off roaring waves and billowing seas.
Like a storm, the fierce sword aura swept across, and Krieg's ships were already completely scrapped, torn into flying wood chips across the sky.
The crew, having lost footing, fell into the water one after another. Before they could steady themselves, towering waves dozens of meters high came crashing down heavily upon them.
Struggling up from the seafloor to the surface, before they had time to breathe fresh air, they were horrified to find a small boat floating nearby on the surface of the sea.
It was an extremely small solitary boat, seeming out of place with the turbulent sea, like the chariot of death.
At the bow of the boat, a figure stood solemnly.
He wore a black trench coat, a wide-brimmed black hat tilted slightly, casting a shadow over his cold and deep face. A pair of hawk-like golden eyes shone brightly in the dark, as if able to pierce through everything.
"Hawk Eyes… Mihawk…" Krieg muttered softly, his voice filled with fear.
"Run away!!"
No one knew who shouted first, but soon the entire Krieg pirate crew turned and swam frantically away from Hawk Eyes Mihawk.
The moment the sword aura destroyed the ship, the whole vessel shook violently. Standing on the deck felt like being at the epicenter of a magnitude seven or eight earthquake.
Fortunately, Jotaro had Star Platinum.
At the moment his body lost balance, Star Platinum used its precise attack to help Jotaro stabilize.
A second before the ship was completely shredded by the sword aura, he leapt, landing on the back of a Sea King, barely escaping calamity.
Jotaro's cold gaze was cast in Mihawk's direction, and his usually calm heart gave rise to a rare trace of dread.
Krieg and the others, who were previously arrogant and disdainful toward him, now fled like stray dogs at the sight of this man, without the slightest desire to resist.
And that vast, thousand-mile-spanning mighty sword aura was like a storm that could devour everything.
From the surging sword aura, Jotaro could feel an immensely powerful Haki.
From beginning to end, he had never encountered an enemy of this strength.
Even the "Dragon" created by Kanou Minoru could not compare.
The "Dragon" possessed immense power and regenerative ability. Its existence once brought a worldwide crisis.
Yet it still could not cause Jotaro any real harm.
The reason was simple, the "Dragon" was too large. For others, its movements might not be considered slow.
But in the eyes of Jotaro with Star Platinum, even without time stop, its movements seemed almost frozen.
However, Mihawk's attacks were swift and fierce, able to pose a threat to him to some extent.
Fortunately, after observing for a while, he determined Mihawk's target was the Krieg Pirates and had nothing to do with him.
Jotaro lightly stomped his foot, signaling the Sea King beneath him to leave this place.
The Sea King raised its head and gave two low cries, clearly understanding his intention.
Obediently wagging its tail, it prepared to depart.
Just then, Hawk Eyes' golden pupils coldly swept over the hysterically fleeing pirates.
His expression was calm as still water.
The next second, a pitch-black greatsword was slowly raised.
The edge of the blade shimmered with a chilling gleam. The hilt was inlaid with a dark blue gem, like a nightmare slumbering in the night, Black Sword, Yoru, the strongest black blade in the world.
Jotaro's light green pupils suddenly contracted.
In an instant, the sea wind stopped, and a dead silence enveloped the world, as if everything was sealed by this formless sword aura.
In the next moment, pitch-black sword aura slashed out like a meteor tearing the night sky.
The sea surface exploded, and the violent sword wind stirred up a hundred-zhang high tsunami. All the fleeing pirates were swallowed by the terrifying shockwave before they could even scream, turning into blood rain falling into the sea.
Jotaro held down his hat. Before the sharp sword aura reached him, he already felt the tearing pain on his skin.
The space in front of him rippled faintly, filled with overwhelming sword aura.
Mihawk's large-scale indiscriminate attack had clearly drawn him in as well.
"Star Platinum!"
"Time stop flowing!"
Jotaro stood silently on the Sea King's head, lowering his gaze, noticing a sword mark appearing on the chest of his coat.
The sword aura was only a hair's breadth away from his skin.
Behind this sword aura, the space was still filled with countless sword energies.
This was why, even though he had time stop, Mihawk could still pose a threat to him.
The coverage of Mihawk's sword aura was simply too vast. In frozen time, he couldn't escape it.
However, nine seconds of stopped time gave him enough time to assess the situation.
The countless sword auras formed a huge net in the sky.
Yet with his physique, he could barely make use of the gaps in the net to avoid damage.
"Yare!" Jotaro clenched his fist.
Even so, he couldn't do that.
He could indeed dodge Mihawk's sword aura using the net's gaps, but the Sea King beneath him couldn't.
Her body was too large, she would be sliced into sashimi by Mihawk.
Jotaro's eyes sharpened, a fierce aura rising from his body.
"Star Platinum!"
"Ora ora ora ora ora ora ora!"
Haki surged through Star Platinum's body as he swung his fists, facing Mihawk's sword aura head-on.
Time resumed.
Just as the Sea King felt intense pain on her skin, the entire space trembled.
Then, the sea behind her surged with towering waves.
Her eyes trembled. Everything around her was destroyed, yet the spot she was in was almost untouched.
A moment earlier, she had felt death approaching.
But now, aside from a few minor wounds on her skin, she was mostly unharmed.
Everything happening around her confirmed that the feeling of impending death wasn't a hallucination.
There was only one answer, it was this man on her back who protected her!
Hearing joyful cries from the Sea King beneath, Jotaro slightly closed his eyes.
"If you were to die, even if I dodged the attack, I wouldn't be able to continue sailing on the sea."
The Sea King remained unmoved and kept crying out happily.
"Yare yare daze…"
Even though he had stopped time, blocking Hawk Eyes' attack was still no easy task.
Looking at his slightly torn coat, the anger in Jotaro's heart began to rise.
He might not show it outwardly, but deep down, he truly appreciated others' efforts for him, and he remembered all of it.
He really liked this school uniform, and if it got ruined, he wouldn't usually care too much.
However, this uniform was different. It carried Nezuko's effort and devotion.
Precisely because she knew he liked this uniform, Nezuko had racked her brain to restore it to its original form.
Stitched with Nezuko's every thread and care, the uniform now had a gash torn by someone else.
Jotaro was extremely displeased in his heart, he absolutely couldn't swallow this humiliation.
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