Rumble!
Explosions rang out one after another, the ground trembled violently, and smoke and dust filled the entire battlefield.
"Hey, Mr. Bear, can you stop flicking that kid's Slash Wave at me?!" Kizaru said with a depressed face. He was just trying to watch the show from the sidelines, but he couldn't stop getting pulled into it.
"It's very simple to solve this problem; all you need to do is stop that little brat who's acting up indiscriminately!" Rayleigh warded off a Slash Wave with his sword and smiled mischievously. "How about it, Kizaru, do you want to join hands with me and teach him a lesson?"
"Oh, it's really a headache!" Kizaru scratched his hair helplessly, staring at Adrian in the distance with a complicated expression. "Although I really want to deal with that unpleasant boy, he seems to have said just now that he will exchange the straw hat and go to the World Government to negotiate!"
"If I attack him now, I may be punished... Besides, this old man is a Marine Admiral; how could he cooperate with a pirate! Mr. Rayleigh, it seems our battle just now hasn't been over yet. You'd better concentrate!"
With that, his photon-condensed Ama no Murakumo sword slashed at Rayleigh again. Kizaru was helpless! In fact, he wanted to kill Adrian more than Rayleigh did. But after the other party said he wanted to exchange Luffy for a Shichibukai position with the World Government, he had no reason to do anything to Adrian anymore. Although the Marines had the right to recruit Shichibukai, they had no power of nomination or pardon. The initiative had always been in the hands of the World Government. This was also why Blackbeard could go directly to the Holy Land of Mariejois to meet the Five Elders to discuss conditions after he captured Ace. For veterans like Kizaru, he naturally didn't want to cause any unnecessary trouble for himself. Although he always had the feeling that he had been tricked by Adrian, he couldn't do anything about it. He was so angry!
"Huh! Luffy's situation is very bad... Although I really want to help him, it's a pity that time is not forgiving!" Rayleigh kept panting heavily, sweat dripping from his forehead, and his eyes were full of unwillingness. It was always impossible for people to refuse to accept old age! He wasn't Kizaru's opponent to begin with. Wanting to get rid of Kizaru in a short time to rescue Luffy was simply harder than climbing to the moon. He could only pin his hopes on Bartholomew Kuma now, hoping the opponent could defeat Adrian and get Luffy out of here.
"Hey, Mr. Rayleigh, in the face of a Marine Admiral, you're still thinking about others. You must be underestimating this old man... though it give me enough time!" At this moment, Kizaru had transferred the resentment in his heart to Rayleigh's head, and his offensive suddenly became much faster and fiercer. Rayleigh complained again in his heart.
On the other side...
"Pressure Cannon!"
Bartholomew Kuma pushed forward quickly with both hands, and a large number of bear paw-shaped shock waves powerful enough to blast through steel slammed into Adrian. He, however, was moving like strolling in a garden, passing through the shock waves calmly.
"Burst - Slash!"
With the two swords in his hand, he slashed out horizontally, secretly attaching the Bomb-Bomb Fruit's attack to the blade's slash. The Paw-Paw Fruit was overpowered, but its disadvantages were equally obvious. The user could only use the palm part to use the ability, while other parts did not have this ability. Moreover, as long as the attack area is out of the range of the bear's palms, it could hurt him and bypass this overpowered ability.
At this moment, Bartholomew Kuma, who had been tricked by Adrian, didn't notice it at all. Seeing the two swords cut down, he raised his palms to meet them.
Rumble!
When the blades and palms collided, a terrifying roar erupted. The scattered shock waves directly destroyed the ground under their feet. The bear's tall and strong body flew backward from the explosion, smashing heavily into the ruins in the distance. Although the Paw-Paw Fruit blocked most of the frontal impact, the aftermath of the explosion and slash still could not be underestimated.
"This Tyrant Bear is nothing more than that... Erosion!" Adrian had a vicious smile on his face and didn't give Kuma a chance to breathe. He slammed his hands into the ground, and the ground turned into a desert in the blink of an eye.
"Sand Waterfall Burial!"
Shocking waves of sand surged toward Bartholomew Kuma's position non-stop. At the same time, his body continued to sink under the quicksand.
"Bast..." There was a rare look of panic in Kuma's eyes. He hastily activated the Paw-Paw Fruit's ability to resist the sand waves, causing continuous rumbling explosions and kicking up a cloud of dust. However, the sand flow created by Adrian seemed endless. The old waves just fell apart, and new sand waves had already been sent. There was no respite for Kuma at all. At the same time, he had no place to stand in the deep quicksand. With every counterattack from him, the sinking speed of his body accelerated a bit. Soon, there was only one huge head left above the sand.
"What a terrifying ability!" The battle between Kizaru and Rayleigh was interrupted the moment the desert appeared. Pointing at the bear, who was about to be completely devoured, Kizaru said with a complicated look, "Mr. Adrian, for the sake of the Marines, can you please release Bartholomew Kuma?"
"Although his behavior today is abnormal, he is still Dr. Vegapunk's experiment. If you kill him here, it will be very difficult for me to go back!" The Summit War was coming soon. Kuma, as a member of the Shichibukai, would certainly be able to share a lot of pressure for the Marines in this battle. And the bear was also a research object of human weapons designated by the World Government. Naturally, it was impossible for Kizaru to let Adrian kill him.
"Kizaru, that's not how you stay neutral. When he attacked me just now, didn't you have any scruples?" Adrian sneered, a little sarcastic. "Anyway, he is about to be transformed into a thoughtless human weapon. Even if he dies, I believe that with Vegapunk's ability, he can still complete the corresponding transformation!"