He stepped onto the ground.
In the collapsing earth, his body shattered the air, rushing like a missile towards the grim-faced Sakazuki.
Such a frantic battle.
It left Kizaru and Aokiji, who were watching from the side, dumbfounded.
"Kevin knows he's going to die, so before he dies, he wants to severely injure Sakazuki at all costs, even dragging Sakazuki down with him. Tsk tsk, how terrifying."
Kizaru couldn't help but shiver.
Fortunately, it wasn't him fighting Kevin.
It was too terrifying.
Just watching it made him tremble with fear.
"When there's no way out, it's a normal choice to injure the enemy at all costs."
Aokiji could also understand Kevin's actions.
If it were him.
He would do the same.
Since there was nowhere to run, he might as well fight with all his might.
Aokiji and Kizaru exchanged a knowing glance.
Kizaru: "Sakazuki said we don't need to help, right?"
Aokiji: "Right."
Kizaru looked at Sakazuki's pitiful state, feeling a bit uneasy: "Isn't it too much? We're all comrades."
Aokiji yawned: "Sakazuki asked us to do this. Kevin isn't running, and he hasn't asked for help, so don't worry. He definitely has confidence; he just looks miserable on the surface, but he actually has victory in his grasp. We should trust our comrade, trust Sakazuki's strength."
"Really?"
"Really!"
Kizaru was convinced.
He and Aokiji sat separately on two trees: "Then let's just keep watching."
And they really did keep watching.
Sakazuki, in the midst of battle, gritted his teeth and used his peripheral vision to see his two leisurely comrades.
But then he remembered he had explicitly asked them not to interfere.
Sakazuki couldn't bring himself to ask for help.
He fought Kevin for a while using evasive tactics.
He realized it was too passive.
Only defending and dodging put him completely on the defensive; although he dodged and blocked most of the moves.
But if he got hit even once.
Sakazuki would take a hit for no reason.
Every time he retaliated, he found Kevin became even more excited, willingly taking his moves with his body, and then counterattacking him while he was attacking.
This kind of counterattack.
Was almost impossible to dodge; he could only trade injuries.
Sakazuki found he had no good options.
He gritted his teeth.
His eyes became frantic.
"I am Sakazuki! I won't hide anymore."
He blocked the sword's edge with a punch.
Sakazuki no longer evaded: "I want to see if your insane fighting style can kill me."
"Boom!"
The two began to clash wildly.
Standing on the ground.
With his feet dug into the earth.
Kevin's blade struck Sakazuki's body, and blood splattered.
Sakazuki's fist slammed into Kevin's body.
A charred patch appeared.
Most of their Haki was applied to offense, with very little used for defense.
Standing still.
The two continued to attack each other's bodies, one with a blade, the other with a fist.
The battlefield, where fists met flesh and blood splattered, was too much for Kizaru and Aokiji to bear.
It was too tragic.
The shaking ground continuously sank.
Neither of them moved their feet, not retreating an inch.
The ground beneath their feet sank rapidly.
Ten meters.
Twenty meters.
Dozens of meters.
They clashed like this dozens of times.
The blade, imbued with Conqueror's Haki, left faint cracks in the space it cut through.
It landed on Sakazuki's shoulder.
Hundreds of meters of ground behind Sakazuki, tens of thousands of tons of earth and rock, vanished.
One of his ears flew off.
The blade was embedded in Sakazuki's shoulder, and blood flowed down the blade into Kevin's hand.
"Hm?"
Kevin, with his crimson eyes.
He was prepared to endure the magma fist with his own body.
He had made his move and couldn't retract his blade in time, so he would definitely take Sakazuki's attack.
But this time.
He didn't.
Sakazuki, who had clashed with Kevin so many times, panicked.
If he kept fighting like this.
He realized that they would truly perish together.
He might even die while Kevin remained alive.
"Why should I perish with you?"
Sakazuki grabbed the blade on his shoulder, his instinctive reaction being to smash his other hand towards Kevin's head.
But seeing the expression on Kevin's lips.
He was certain that if he struck.
Kevin's fist would also strike his head, just like before.
The frustrated Sakazuki released the blade.
He quickly jumped out of Kevin's attack range and rushed out of the deep pit.
Before he could even catch his breath, Sakazuki felt the sharp surge of energy coming from behind him. Sakazuki finally stopped trying to save face and looked at Kizaru and Aokiji: "You two, attack with me."
Kizaru subconsciously asked, "But Kevin isn't running, is he?"
Sakazuki: "..."
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