"What's the matter with your attitude?"
Redfield frowned as he looked at Rosen, who was Forge the Pantera with his hands and sharpening his sword.
During the months that Rosen had been in Infinite Hell, he had seen this man forge various types of Zanpakutō in his hands.
He had the Shinsō and Senbonzakura, which had Paramecia abilities.
There were also ones like Engetsu and Sode no Shirayuki, which had similar Logia abilities.
However, this was the first time he had seen a Pantera with the ability to transform into an animal.
"This is..."
"Your End ."
As soon as Rosen said this, the anger of Patrick Redfield was instantly ignited.
"Yeah?"
"Then give it a try!"
"I also want to see your so-called End."
Redfield's eyes turned cold, like a Sea King staring at its prey. Apart from brutality and ferocity, no other emotions could be seen.
In anger, he no longer simply used the power of the Great Swordsman as before in order to familiarize himself with the long-lost swordsmanship, but used it together with his Haki.
Sniff
The Armament Haki turned into purple and black streams of light, entwined around the black blade like a dragon, and then swung out.
Bang
The blade came down, but instead of the sharp buzzing sound of a blade cutting through the air, there was a loud roar like a cannon.
Immediately following—
An extremely huge and Haki slashing wave spanned the sky, tore through the earth, and gathered with indestructible sharp edges, slashing towards Rosen with great force.
"Can't you fight with bare hands?"
"Then catch it and show it to me."
"Just like before, stop this slash!"
Redfield did not forget to provoke Rosen.
What almost made him happy was that the man in front of him actually did as he expected. Facing the Haki slash, he stretched out his right hand, as if he was going to take it head-on.
"Did you fall for this level of provocation?"
Seeing this scene, Redfield couldn't suppress the evil smile on his face.
He really didn't expect that he just provoked Rosen with a few words, but the other party couldn't bear it and really took the swordsman's blow with his bare hands.
And it was a slash infused with Haki.
When he thought about how easily he could severely damage an admiral-level Navy officer, and even possibly ruin his future, and all he had to do was a few words of provocation, he didn't feel ashamed—he couldn't help laughing.
However—
Bang
Facing the Haki slashing wave that came through the air like a rainbow, Rosen did not dodge or evade, but stood proudly in place, then stretched out his black palm casually and pressed down hard.
As soon as the slashing wave came into contact with the palm, the Haki edge lingering on it seemed useless at this moment. It did not cut off Rosen's hand as Redfield had expected. Instead, it was suppressed by his hand and stopped in place just like before.
The sword could be sharper,
The Haki could be stronger,
But it was impossible to hurt him at all.
"Is this what you look like when you're serious?"
Rosen spread his five fingers, like the claws of a Leopard King, tearing at the slashing wave in front of him. He ignored the impact of the Haki and the sharpness of the slash, firmly controlling it in his palm. Then a series of dazzling scarlet lights burst out from his hand.
"Cero!"
Scarlet light bloomed.
A blood-red ray, like a laser, burst out from his palm, directly penetrating the slashing wave released by Redfield, and then exploded, turning into a strong wind and smoke, drifting between heaven and earth.
This scene left Redfield dumbfounded.
First, he went into battle bare-handed.
Then, he faced the mighty slash of a Great Swordsman.
Then, with a powerful blow, the slashing wave that tore the ground like white paper was shattered into dust.
Such power.
This violent posture.
It was completely beyond his understanding of Rosen.
Whoosh
After crushing the slashing wave with one blow, Rosen rushed out, stirring up a violent wave of air, and flew in front of Redfield as if teleporting.
"So fast!"
Redfield looked at Rosen, now so close, and his pupils suddenly contracted.
Although he was shocked by the power of the flash that Rosen released casually, he remained mentally tense and emotionally stable in a state where he could use his Observation Haki anytime and anywhere.
Because of this, he knew all of Rosen's actions in the next few seconds in advance.
The only problem was—Rosen could also see the future, and the speed of the Leopard King's posture was unbelievable, so fast that even Redfield couldn't keep up.
When both sides could see the future, the battle became a contest of raw power.
However, Rosen's Leopard King was so fast that Redfield only had time to swing the black blade from bottom to top in a slashing motion—
Clang!
Bang!
Rosen was suspended in the air, stepping on the air with his left foot, ignoring the sharpness of the black blade in the hands of the Great Swordsman, and stepped down on the sword that Redfield had raised with a condescending attitude.
The collision made a sound both sharp and piercing, as loud as thunder.
At the moment when sparks bloomed and the Haki shockwave surged, the black blade in Redfield's hand stepped on and fell uncontrollably. The blade hit the ground and tore a gap in the solid rock.
But Rosen's offensive did not end there.
He crushed the black blade with his left foot, suppressing the sharpest weapon in the Great Swordsman's hand. Then he swept his right foot across, sucking out wails and screams from the air, and blew away Redfield—who had raised his hands to block, like a cannonball.
Whoosh!
In a flash, Rosen, who had completed a series of lightning attacks, disappeared before even landing, dragging a sharp sonic boom, and caught up with Redfield mid-air.
The two were in the air together, face to face, eye to eye.
Just by looking at each other, Redfield felt an unprecedented chill rising from his heart, but he didn't have time to think, and didn't even steady his body before raising the black blade in his hand.
Clang!
Just as his black blade was halfway raised and before it touched Rosen's chest, it was grabbed by a black hand and clamped tightly, unable to move.
Then—
Under Redfield's rapidly shrinking pupils, the hand holding his blade emitted a dazzling scarlet light, quickly occupying his entire field of vision.
Boom!
A scarlet flash, like a laser, suppressed the indestructible black blade and swallowed Redfield along with it.
That wasn't all.
The flash of light released by Rosen, after submerging Redfield's entire body, surged like a river of blood, hitting the earth directly, piercing through the solid surface, and then exploded.
The scarlet shockwave spread recklessly, tearing the hard rock into pieces like a fragile biscuit.
"Cough! Cough!"
Before the smoke and dust could dissipate, a disheveled figure holding a blade flashed out from the hemispherical red shockwave.
Immediately following—
Snap.
Blood oozed from the corner of his mouth, his left foot went limp, his knee sank, and he actually knelt on one knee on the ground, gasping for breath.
Looking at Redfield kneeling on the ground, the students who witnessed this scene through the live broadcast at the Naval Academy were simply shocked by Rosen's strength.
But they had no clear understanding of just how strong he was.
Only Zephyr and Sengoku, two legends of the old era who had witnessed Aloof Red's sharp edge, knew clearly how much fighting power Rosen needed to knock Redfield to his knees.
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