"What a perfect opportunity…"
Eneru's eyes suddenly sharpened.
The instant Saint Roselith Seraphina finished speaking
He moved.
"Judgment of God!"
CRACK!!!
His arm instantly transformed into lightning as the power of the Goro Goro no Mi erupted violently.
A gigantic blue-violet pillar of lightning roared toward Seraphina like divine punishment descending from the heavens.
The surrounding atmosphere trembled.
The cloud streets shattered apart beneath the pressure.
The speed was terrifying.
Ordinary swordsmen would never be able to react in time against lightning itself.
But Seraphina was different.
Her Kenbunshoku Haki had already captured every fluctuation in the flow of electricity before the attack fully formed.
She stepped forward calmly.
Her silver hair danced in the wind.
Awakening of Insects moved instantly.
SHING!!!
A high-speed slash burst forward.
The velocity of the blade created a vacuum zone directly in front of the attack.
And a vacuum
Could not conduct electricity.
"Winter Solstice Style…"
"Lightning Cutter: Thunder Sever."
BOOM!!!
The gigantic lightning pillar split apart instantly.
The electricity itself
Had been severed.
The Sky Islanders watching from afar widened their eyes in disbelief.
"Lightning…"
"Was cut apart?!"
Even Eneru's expression froze.
"What?!"
Before he could recover
Seraphina had already appeared directly in front of him.
Too fast!
Her rhythm never broke.
Her attacks flowed continuously like freezing winter snowstorms.
CLANG!!!
Awakening of Insects crashed down violently.
Eneru hurriedly raised his golden staff to block.
But the weapon shattered instantly under the force of the slash.
Fragments of gold scattered everywhere.
The blade continued downward mercilessly.
Eneru retreated frantically.
However
One of his long earlobes failed to escape in time.
SHHK!!
Blood scattered through the air.
Eneru covered the side of his head immediately as intense pain surged through his body.
His severed earlobe fell onto the clouds below.
Yet Seraphina still did not stop.
No hesitation.
No mercy.
Her next slash arrived immediately afterward.
Eneru's pupils contracted violently.
The battle rhythm had completely fallen into Seraphina's control from the very beginning.
No matter how he tried to resist
It was useless.
His Mantra could barely keep up with her movements.
"Winter Solstice Style…"
"Ultimate Technique "
"Iai: Falling Snow."
SHING!!!
A silver-white slash flashed across the battlefield.
There were no unnecessary movements.
No wasted force.
Only absolute sharpness.
Absolute speed.
Those witnessing the attack instinctively lost all thoughts of resistance.
The pressure emitted by the slash alone suffocated them.
BOOM!!!
The clouds exploded apart.
Smoke and white mist spread everywhere.
Then
Silence.
The battlefield gradually became quiet.
Eneru collapsed heavily onto the shattered cloud ground.
Blood continuously flowed from the wounds covering his body.
His breathing had become extremely weak.
For years
He had relied entirely on the invincibility of his Logia elementalization.
But now
Busoshoku Haki had dragged him back into reality.
His physical body had been cut directly.
Pain burned throughout every nerve in his body.
Meanwhile
Seraphina slowly lowered her blade.
"Bruce."
"Bring the Kairoseki handcuffs."
"Yes."
Bruce had only just arrived
Yet the battle was already over.
He looked at Seraphina silently.
Once again
She had grown stronger.
Bruce had followed her longer than anyone else present.
He understood better than anyone how terrifying her growth truly was.
From nothing
To this overwhelming level of power
In only a few short decades.
Her talent could no longer be described as genius.
It was monstrous.
Eneru lay weakly upon the ground.
Then suddenly
He laughed.
"Yahahaha…"
The laughter sounded bitter this time.
"Who exactly… are you…"
He had completely abandoned the idea of escaping.
There was no point anymore.
The woman before him was overwhelmingly stronger.
Compared to her
He looked more like the mortal.
"The Marines."
Seraphina answered calmly.
Eneru stared blankly upward.
"The Marines…"
"So you really are people from the Blue Sea…"
His voice grew hoarse.
"But why…"
"What does Skypiea have to do with you people?"
"I never harmed your Blue Sea…"
Eneru truly could not understand.
Years ago, a group of Blue Sea pirates had once arrived in Skypiea after getting caught in strange weather while fleeing from the Marines.
They brought slaughter and greed with them.
Murder.
Looting.
Chaos.
Those pirates treated Skypiea like prey.
Eventually, they were all killed by a mysterious warrior.
From then onward
Eneru concluded one thing.
Strength was everything.
The strong could do whatever they wanted.
And whoever possessed supreme power
Was God.
Seraphina looked down at him coldly.
"Wherever innocent people are slaughtered…"
"The Marines cannot simply stand by and watch."
"I intervened because you were massacring civilians."
Her voice remained calm.
However
The true reason went deeper than that.
Through the Voice of All Things and Kenbunshoku Haki
She had already sensed Eneru's nature clearly.
This man no longer valued life at all.
To him
People were nothing but insects.
"Humanitarian principles…"
Eneru laughed weakly.
"How ridiculous…"
"A monster as strong as you actually cares about weaklings?"
"Shouldn't the strong be free from all restraint?"
"Shouldn't power itself define justice?"
Seraphina's expression remained unmoved.
"Every person has value."
"Every life is unique."
Her ideals fundamentally differed from this world's twisted logic.
In her eyes
All people deserved equal rights beneath the law.
Even if the world itself had not yet reached that future
She would continue moving toward it.
Eneru gritted his teeth.
"The weak will always remain weak!"
"Mortals can never change that!"
He still could not accept his defeat.
Not because he lost
But because he lost for such a reason.
To him
Strength alone should determine everything.
Seraphina no longer wished to continue the conversation.
Their values were fundamentally incompatible.
This man had already abandoned his humanity long ago.
"Then kill me!"
Eneru suddenly roared.
"If I lost…"
"Then kill me!"
"I lost God's trial!"
His emotions finally spiraled completely out of control.
Ever since childhood
He had been mocked.
Bullied.
Despised.
Unlike ordinary Skypieans, he possessed no wings upon his back.
He was treated as an outcast.
A monster.
From that moment onward
He dreamed of becoming an existence above everyone else.
An omnipotent God.
A ruler no one could oppose.
Only then
Would nobody ever look down on him again.
But Seraphina merely stared at him coldly.
"I won't kill you."
"Killing you would only stain my blade."
"I will imprison you in Impel Down."
The moment those words fell
Eneru's eyes widened violently.
"What?!"
"No!"
"Kill me instead!"
"I'm not from the Blue Sea!"
"You have no right to judge me using Blue Sea laws!"
He struggled violently beneath her restraint.
To him
Being locked away forever inside a dark prison was worse than death itself.
Life and death were separated only by a single thought.
But eternal confinement
That was true despair.
Seraphina pressed his head firmly against the ground with one hand.
Her expression remained emotionless.
"Life should not be discarded casually."
"If a criminal can be captured alive…"
"Then they should face judgment."
"To live while carrying the weight of one's sins…"
"That is punishment."
Eneru continued thrashing violently.
Then
THUD!!!
A fist coated in Busoshoku Haki struck the back of his neck directly.
Eneru's eyes rolled upward instantly.
His body collapsed limply.
Bruce slowly withdrew his fist.
"Finally…"
"Some peace and quiet."
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