One Piece: The user of the Nen-Nen Fruit, who overturned the sea.

Roy stopped, the two of them now less than twenty paces apart. He reached for the long sword at his waist, its surface gleaming coldly in the moonlight.

"Let me see just how much this hawkish, iron-blooded admiral really weighs."

boom--!!!

Before Roy could finish speaking, Akainu made the first move.

That fist, enveloped in fiery lava, was powerful enough to turn mountains to ashes.

Akainu's punches were completely unpretentious.

It was just one punch.

The force originates from the waist, travels through the shoulder, and explodes into the fist, resulting in a standard straight punch.

But what covered the fist wasn't some kind of Armament Haki, but rather scarlet magma.

Simple, direct, and brutal.

This is Akainu's fighting style.

No skills or changes are needed.

Magma Mash is the most terrifying weapon of mass destruction; any fancy tricks are a waste of its power.

"A massive fireball!!!"

The giant magma fist expanded rapidly the moment it was unleashed, growing from the size of a person to over ten meters in size, like a meteorite erupting from the Earth's core, and hurtled towards Roy!

Wherever it passed, the air was ignited by the high temperature, emitting a sharp popping sound.

The heatwave swept over the ruins below, instantly igniting the remaining wood, melting the metal components, and even softening the ground into a pool of dark red lava.

Roy didn't take the hit head-on.

His psychic power exploded beneath his feet, and his body became a blur as he dodged the direct impact of the giant magma fist.

Hot lava flew past his shoulder, and ripples spread across his psychic armor, keeping the intense heat at bay.

A giant fist of magma slammed into the buildings behind him.

The buildings melted instantly upon contact with the magma; the steel bars turned into molten iron, the bricks into lava, and the timber into fly ash.

In the span of two breaths, the three adjacent buildings were erased from the map of Chambord, leaving behind only a churning lake of lava.

Roy glanced at the lava lake and raised an eyebrow.

This punch was much more powerful than the one he threw at the auction.

It seems that Akainu was suppressed by Garp earlier and didn't use his full strength at all.

"You dodged pretty quickly."

Akainu's voice was deep and cold.

Without pausing, his right arm transformed into magma once more, delivering three consecutive punches.

"Big Fireball - Triple Combo!"

Three giant magma fists slammed towards Roy in a triangular formation, blocking all his escape routes.

Each one was bigger, brighter, and hotter than the last one.

Three magma fists left three white trails of heat in the air, distorting and deforming the air, and causing the glass of the surrounding buildings to shatter.

A red light flashed in Roy's eyes.

In his perception, every move Akainu made was anticipated before it even "was about to happen."

Roy's figure flashed continuously in the air.

The first lava fist grazed his left shoulder. The second passed over his head.

The third one came head-on—he didn't dodge. He condensed his psychic power into a tilted barrier in front of him. The magma fist slammed into the barrier, but the tilted angle changed its direction, sending it flying diagonally into the sky. It exploded in the clouds, turning the entire sky dark red.

Akainu frowned.

Two consecutive attacks failed.

Although his powerful fire breath was strong, the charging time was too short. It took less than 0.3 seconds to go from elementalization to condensing it into a fist.

But in Roy's ability to foresee the future, those 0.3 seconds represent three complete dodge windows.

"The Emperor of Heaven."

Akainu's voice carried a hint of mockery.

"All you do is hide?"

Roy did not answer. This was accompanied by a ripple in the space in front of him.

His figure suddenly turned around three steps away from Akainu, and circled around to Akainu's left side.

The moment the sword was drawn, its entire blade was enveloped in a thick layer of Armament Haki.

Akainu suddenly turned around and swept his magma fist across his right arm.

too slow.

Before Akainu could even finish turning around, Shusui had already slammed heavily onto his left shoulder.

But the terrifying speed, combined with Roy's immense strength and Armament Haki, made the impact of this blade strike comparable to a battering ram.

Akainu's left shoulder suddenly sank, and he was sent flying sideways by the force, his feet carving two deep furrows in the magma-filled ground.

Roy did not pursue them.

He hovered in mid-air, flicked his wrist, and Qiu Shui drew an arc in the air, flicking off the lava that clung to the blade.

"Admiral Akainu."

"Looks like your verbal skills are nowhere near as impressive as your actual abilities!"

Akainu steadied himself, the spot on his left shoulder where he had been struck by the back of the blade throbbing with pain.

There were no fractures, but the muscles were injured by the shock.

He raised his head, his eyes filled with even more murderous intent.

Roy continued, "But your attack charging is too predictable. Every big fire breath has a fixed starting animation—"

He raised his sword, the tip pointing at Akainu's right shoulder.

"From the moment the right shoulder begins to elementalize, to the moment magma condenses on the fist, and then to the moment the force is released, the time in between is short, but in my eyes, it's too slow."

Akainu's pupils contracted slightly.

He didn't expect that Roy would figure out his attack rhythm in just two rounds of combat.

This level of insight goes beyond simply having strong Observation Haki—it's proof that Observation Haki has been cultivated to the point of "foreseeing the future."

"Foreseeing the future..." Akainu's voice was forced out through clenched teeth, "You, a pirate, actually..."

"Enough with the nonsense," Roy interrupted him, and his figure disappeared again.

This time, Akainu didn't stand still and wait.

His legs simultaneously transformed into elementals, and magma gushed forth from beneath his feet, turning him into a torrent of magma that charged straight at Roy!

Since ranged attacks can't hit, let's fight in close combat—turn the entire battlefield into a lava field, and see where you can hide!

"Haunted Dog!!!"

Akainu's right arm, already magma-formed, was further compressed, causing the magma's density to increase dramatically and its color to change from dark red to jet black.

That was the eerie color of magma after it was covered with Armament Haki.

His entire right arm transformed into a giant, black and red lava hound, its massive jaws snapping open as it lunged to bite at Roy's chest.

Roy's Observation Haki issued a sharp warning.

He dodged to the side, but the speed of the Demonhound was too fast. Even as Roy dodged, it was still able to suddenly turn its head under Akainu's control.

The lava dog's head grazed his telekinetic armor.

A tear was ripped in the armor, and high temperatures rushed in, burning the skin on his left rib.

Roy grunted, his psychic powers exploding beneath his feet as he retreated.

He glanced down at his left side—his clothes were burned through, and there was a palm-length burn on his skin, the edges of which were charred and sizzling.

"good."

He looked up, a serious glint in his eyes.

"That's an interesting move."

Without wasting words, Akainu charged forward again.

The Hound of the Underworld, the Crimson Lotus of Dogs, the Volcanic Collapse—these close-combat killing moves were unleashed one after another, each aimed at Roy's vital points.

Lava surged between the two, the intense heat distorted the air, and the surrounding buildings spontaneously combusted in the heatwave, the flames reddening half the sky.