Yuri was deeply familiar with the characters of the One Piece world.
The moment he heard those words and that voice, he immediately knew who it was.
At some point, Marine Admiral Candidate Kizaru, Borsalino, had appeared behind Yuri, kicking toward him at light speed.
Damn it.
Yuri’s attention had been completely focused on Akainu, and he hadn’t noticed Borsalino’s arrival at all.
Worse still, that shameless bastard Borsalino had actually taken advantage of Yuri’s attention being entirely on Akainu to launch a sneak attack using his light-speed movement.
Fast.
Far too fast.
Especially when Yuri hadn’t even noticed him and was being ambushed at light speed.
It was almost as though time itself had stopped.
Just as Borsalino’s kick was about to strike Yuri, an overwhelming repulsive force suddenly erupted from Yuri’s body.
A dumbfounded expression appeared on Borsalino’s face.
His attack stopped.
His sneak attack had been on the verge of succeeding, yet a terrifying repulsive force had suddenly appeared and blocked his strike.
Moreover, the repulsive force was incredibly powerful.
The harder Borsalino tried to push forward, the stronger the force repelling him became.
In the end, even his entire body was blasted backward.
“What was that?
Isn’t he a magnetic Devil Fruit user?” Borsalino asked in surprise after finally stabilizing himself.
“Borsalino.” Akainu showed a trace of surprise when he saw Kizaru appear.
But then the corner of his mouth lifted slightly.
“Be careful.
That bastard’s magnetic Devil Fruit isn’t ordinary.”
Hearing Akainu’s words, Kizaru rolled his eyes.
“Anyone with eyes can see that.”
When Borsalino received Sengoku’s orders, he had been searching for traces of the Sun Pirates nearby.
Sengoku’s order had been extremely urgent, so Borsalino had no choice but to temporarily abandon his mission and rush toward Barro Island.
The moment he arrived, what he saw genuinely startled him.
There was a gigantic blazing sphere hanging in the sky like a sun.
There was also an enormous iron-sand giant capable of firing Railguns.
And then there was Sakazuki, being chased around by the Iron Sand Giant’s Railguns like a dog being driven across the island.
Seeing all of this, Kizaru finally understood why Admiral Sengoku had urgently dispatched him here.
Putting everything else aside, the Railgun was even faster than the rumors claimed.
Its speed was already approaching that of his own attacks.
As a Logia-type Glint-Glint Fruit user, Borsalino was a light human and was said to possess attacks at the speed of light.
However, in reality, the speed of his attacks was still far from true light speed.
If his attacks genuinely reached the speed of light, he would truly be invincible.
How could ordinary mortals possibly defend against an attack moving at actual light speed?
Even Observation Haki wouldn’t be enough.
At that level of speed, even if someone sensed the attack in advance, their body wouldn’t be able to react quickly enough.
The One Piece world was still ultimately a world of mortals.
Although it contained all kinds of supernatural powers and people possessed monstrously strong bodies, they were still mortal beings.
True light speed was the kind of speed that would trouble even high-level cultivators or gods.
If Kizaru’s attacks truly reached the speed of light, then putting everything else aside, crushing the Four Emperors would be no problem at all.
Of course, the Glint-Glint Fruit might genuinely possess the speed and power of light.
There simply had to be some sort of limitation preventing Kizaru from bringing out that full speed.
Perhaps it was energy consumption, the limits of his body, his nervous system’s reaction speed, or something else entirely.
Even if he couldn’t truly reach light speed, however, his attack speed was still much faster than the Railgun.
The difference simply wasn’t infinite.
As a speed-focused fighter, Kizaru understood better than most just how dangerous that level of speed could be.
Especially since the Railgun possessed not only speed, but tremendous destructive power as well.
Just looking at Akainu’s current condition was enough to understand how terrifying its power truly was.
That was why Kizaru had immediately launched a sneak attack against Yuri without hesitation.
He had absolute confidence in his ambush.
It was like the legendary Little Li Flying Dagger.
Even if you openly told someone that you were about to throw the dagger, no one could catch it.
And this had been a sneak attack on top of that.
Yet the strike he had been certain would succeed had actually failed.
Even Kizaru was extremely surprised.
Moreover, Yuri had once again displayed an ability beyond Kizaru’s expectations.
If he hadn’t mistaken it, that power just now had been repulsion.
Could a magnetic Devil Fruit user really accomplish something like that?
“This is troublesome.
Another troublesome guy has arrived.” Yuri frowned.
Against Akainu, Yuri could remain calm.
Even if he lost, he was still confident he could escape.
But against Kizaru, he might not even get the chance to run.
That was why Yuri’s expression became extraordinarily serious the moment he saw Kizaru.
“Borsalino, cooperate with me and take this bastard down!” Akainu shouted.
Without even waiting for Kizaru to answer, Akainu charged violently toward Yuri.
“Oh my, everyone’s always so reckless.”
As Kizaru spoke, his body transformed into countless particles of light, clearly preparing to move in his light form.
“Don’t even think about it.
Bansho Ten’in!”
Yuri thrust one hand toward Kizaru and shouted coldly.
Kizaru, who had been preparing to transform into light and cooperate with Akainu’s attack, suddenly felt a terrifying attractive force descend upon him.
The particles of light his body had transformed into were actually unable to break free.
His entire body was uncontrollably dragged toward Yuri.
“You’ve got to be kidding me.
This is gravity?” Kizaru said in surprise.
Just as he prepared to increase his power and try to break free from the gravitational pull, he suddenly noticed that at some point, the Iron Sand Giant’s hand had already been aimed directly at him.
“Heh.”
Kizaru gave an innocent smile.
The next instant, an orange-red beam erupted forward.
It struck Kizaru in an instant.