Because he had deliberately moved towards the shore during the battle with Akainu just now, after Akira Stone was blasted away by Akainu's punch, he quickly rushed towards the shore.
Even though he didn't use Tensa Zangetsu, and his speed couldn't compare to Akainu, because he had moved first, it would still take Akainu some time to catch up with him. And this little bit of time was enough for him to rush to the shore.
Aokiji hadn't been paying attention to Akainu and Akira Stone's battle at the beginning. However, after they had fought for a while, Aokiji had used binoculars to pay attention all the time.
So when Akira Stone was heading towards the shore, he immediately knew that Akira Stone was preparing to escape. So he also moved.
"I've been waiting for this moment for a long time. There's no way I'll let you escape easily."
Aokiji jumped off the warship in one leap. In front of him was seawater. The thing that most ability users feared the most was seawater. But he was different.
At the moment when his feet touched the seawater, the entire sea surface was rapidly frozen with him as the center.
"Ice Age!"
In an instant, the entire sea surface condensed into an ice surface. Moreover, the speed was very fast. It spread to other places.
Before Akira Stone could reach the shore, the sea surface in front of him had already been frozen into ice.
Aokiji looked in Akira Stone's direction faintly, and said, "You wanted to rely on seawater to escape. I'm sorry. You don't have this chance."
When Akira Stone rushed to the coast, he happened to see the sea surface being frozen into ice. His expression changed.
He said to himself, "I knew that Aokiji guy would use this move. The reason why he didn't come to catch me with Akainu is probably to prevent me from escaping."
Akira Stone wasn't too surprised about Aokiji's actions. What's more, he had already prepared. Akainu behind him was rapidly approaching.
Akira Stone knew that he couldn't waste any more time. So he quickly rushed onto the sea surface that had been frozen by Aokiji.
Aokiji on the other side saw Akira Stone's actions, and also rapidly approached this place, preparing to capture Akira Stone completely.
However, Akira Stone wouldn't give them any chance. He aimed Sōgyo no Kotowari at the ice surface, and shouted in a low voice, "Release!"
In an instant, terrifying magma was released by Akira Stone from Sōgyo no Kotowari's blades. It turned out that the energy that he had absorbed from Akainu's last attack was for this moment.
It was used to break through Aokiji's ice. Using the heat of the magma to deal with Aokiji's ice was the best choice. Moreover, Akainu's magma had extremely strong destructive power. It could melt a large area of the entire ice surface. At that time, it would be his opportunity.
"Boom!"
The terrifying magma came into contact with the ice surface. Immediately, it made a rumbling sound like a volcanic eruption. The frozen sea surface was rapidly melted into seawater. The temperature of the magma had even scorched the seawater to boiling.
"Not good."
Akainu and Aokiji, who were rushing over quickly, saw this scene, and their expressions changed drastically.
The two of them instantly increased their speed to the fastest, wanting to stop Akira Stone.
However, Akira Stone didn't give them any chance. After the magma melted the ice surface, he immediately sheathed Sōgyo no Kotowari.
Then, he used Senbonzakura. After performing Senbonzakura Bankai, his whole person jumped into the seawater.
As soon as he entered the seawater, Akira Stone almost couldn't help but jump back up, because the temperature of the seawater that had been scorched by the magma was too high.
However, thinking that he would die if he went up, how could he dare to think too much? He desperately swam towards the depths of the seabed. This was his only chance to escape.
"Bastard!"
When Akainu rushed to the location where Akira Stone had been just now, Akira Stone had long disappeared.
He and Aokiji looked at the sea surface that had been blasted out by Akira Stone. Aokiji's expression was also very ugly. He put his hands close to the seawater, and used his ability again.
"Ice Age!"
In an instant, he saw the sea surface being frozen again. However, this time, Aokiji's target wasn't the sea surface. Instead, it was Akira Stone heading towards the depths of the seabed.
From top to bottom, a large amount of seawater was constantly being frozen. The freezing of the seawater was sweeping towards Akira Stone at an extremely fast speed.
Akira Stone, who was struggling to swim towards the seabed, turned his head and saw the rapidly attacking ice.
His whole person was startled. He quickly used the Senbonzakura blades that had long been in Bankai to protect himself. The ice instantly wrapped him up.
However, it was quickly destroyed by the Senbonzakura blades again. Repeating like this, after Akira Stone sank to the seabed, the ice never followed up again.
If it wasn't at the seabed, Akira Stone would probably have breathed a sigh of relief. Now that he was at the seabed, he had to hold his breath.
Otherwise, he would die here at the seabed without being killed by Aokiji and Akainu.
"He didn't catch him!"
Aokiji slowly stood up, his expression very ugly. He had used all his strength to control his ability to freeze Akira Stone.
However, he had still been run away by Akira Stone. Naturally, his expression wasn't good.
Akainu roared angrily, "That brat, I'm going to kill him."
Aokiji didn't pay attention to Akainu's anger. Instead, he said to himself, That kid has entered the seabed. It won't be easy for him to escape either. After all, he's not a Fishman.
He can't breathe at the seabed. He'll definitely show his face on the sea surface to breathe after a period of time. Now that the sea surface has been frozen by me, as long as he appears, I'll have a feeling.
Akainu didn't speak with a gloomy face. Akira Stone had escaped from his hands. He also didn't have the right to say anything to Aokiji.
So he could only return to his ship, and order his subordinates to scatter with this small island as the center, searching for Akira Stone.
Aokiji looked at Akainu, shook his head, and sighed, You underestimated that guy called Akira Stone too much. I also underestimated him.
I didn't expect that under this kind of situation, he would actually be able to calmly think of a way to escape. Using Akainu's magma to attack my ice.
He really has ideas. But having entered the seabed, how long can you hold on?
After all, humans weren't Fishmen. They couldn't breathe underwater. Naturally, they couldn't stay underwater all the time.
Aokiji believed that Akira Stone wouldn't seek his own death. At that time, he would definitely show his face on the sea surface again. That time would be their opportunity.
What Aokiji was thinking was indeed correct. Akira Stone naturally couldn't breathe at the seabed.
However, apart from going to the sea surface to breathe air, he had other ways. He had a way to breathe air without having to reach the sea surface.
Akira Stone was slowly swimming at the seabed. Unable to breathe, he was searching for his target with his eyes open. There were many fish at the seabed.
There were even many fish surrounding Akira Stone. It seemed that they were very curious about what kind of fish Akira Stone was.
Akira Stone didn't care about these fish. He had to find a target before he was unable to hold on anymore. And his target wasn't anything else, but large fish or Sea Kings.
Because Akira Stone had already reached a very deep seabed, there was naturally no shortage of large fish and Sea Kings.
He hadn't been swimming for long when he saw a Sea King that was similar to a hippopotamus.
Seeing this Sea King, Akira Stone immediately swam towards it with a face full of joy. And that Sea King happened to be foraging.
When it saw a human actually swimming towards it, of course it wouldn't be polite. It opened its huge mouth, and prepared to swallow Akira Stone.
Facing the Sea King's huge mouth, not only was Akira Stone not afraid, but he controlled the Senbonzakura blades to surround himself completely.
Then, he directly rushed into the Sea King's mouth at an extremely fast speed. When the Sea King prepared to close its mouth and bite, he had already followed the Sea King's esophagus, and quickly rushed into its body.
At the moment when Akira Stone rushed into the Sea King's stomach, because the Senbonzakura blades had slashed across its esophagus all the way, it made it let out an extremely painful roar.
Its huge body was constantly tumbling at the seabed. Then, it swam around everywhere, making Akira Stone, who had already reached its stomach, very disheveled.
Fortunately, he was protected by Senbonzakura. Otherwise, he didn't know how disheveled he would be.
The Sea King's body was very large. So its stomach was naturally not small either. After entering the stomach, Akira Stone discovered that this Sea King's stomach was no smaller than a room.
It was just that it was full of stench. Moreover, there were all kinds of fish corpses and gastric acid everywhere. If it wasn't for his life, Akira Stone would probably have broken open its stomach with a sword immediately and left.
However, for the sake of his life at this time, Akira Stone had no choice but to endure the discomfort, and continue to stay here.
Although this place was very disgusting, the stomach wasn't full of water like the seabed, making it so that Akira Stone didn't have to hold his breath all the time.
Even if the oxygen here was limited, it was enough for him to consume for a period of time. As for the Sea King's digestive function, with Senbonzakura protecting Akira Stone, he didn't need to care at all.
Because Akira Stone didn't have any movements in the Sea King's body, the Sea King didn't notice anything either. It was still acting the same as before.
Every once in a while, it would swallow a large wave of food and water. It would also be accompanied by a surge of air, which happened to provide breathing for Akira Stone.
"It's about time!"
After staying in the Sea King's body for almost a day, Akira Stone suddenly opened his eyes. Then, he controlled the blades to attack the Sea King's stomach.
The intense pain made the Sea King let out a painful wail. Its huge body was rolling and hitting everywhere, making Akira Stone very disheveled as well.
However, the sharpness of the blades was naturally not something that the Sea King's flesh and blood could resist. Soon, its body was torn open by Akira Stone, and he quickly rushed out.
After leaving the Sea King's body, Akira Stone entered the seabed again. However, before he could do anything, he saw that the Sea King that he had broken out of hadn't died.
Instead, it let out a violent roar, stopped rolling, and its huge eyes stared at Akira Stone fixedly, and suddenly crashed towards Akira Stone.
Because he was in the water, Akira Stone naturally couldn't speak. However, looking at the Sea King crashing towards him, his pupils suddenly shrank.
An amazing domineering aura emanated from his body. The Sea King suddenly stopped its body. His gaze met the Sea King's gaze. After just a moment, the Sea King turned its head and ran away in fear.
The Sea King was also a kind of animal with intelligence. From the Conqueror's Haki that Akira Stone had released, it knew that Akira Stone wasn't easy to provoke.
So it could only run away with its tail between its legs. Although its body had been opened by Akira Stone, the Sea King's vitality was extremely strong. It shouldn't die.
After forcing back that Sea King, Akira Stone immediately swam towards the top. Soon, he swam to the sea surface, and then quietly showed his head on the sea surface.
What entered his eyes was a vast expanse of sea. Because he had been inside the Sea King's body before, Akira Stone didn't know how far he had run.
However, in his sight, there was nothing but seawater. This made him completely relieved.
Although he didn't know where he was now, at least he had dodged Aokiji and Akainu and the others. This was already the luckiest thing.
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