“How is that possible?
He actually blocked Vice Admiral Sakazuki’s Great Eruption!”
“What is that?
How could a fist made of iron sand stop Vice Admiral Sakazuki’s gigantic magma fist?
Great Eruption is an attack modeled after a volcanic eruption.
Its destructive power is terrifying!”
“That’s not ordinary iron sand.
The particles are vibrating and grinding against each other at high speed while constantly flowing, almost like a chainsaw.
If it were normal iron sand, Vice Admiral Sakazuki’s Great Eruption would’ve melted it long ago.”
“Since when did someone this strong appear in the West Blue?”
The Marines were utterly stunned.
None of them had ever imagined that someone in the West Blue could actually block Sakazuki’s attack.
At first, they had thought Sakazuki personally coming to the West Blue to capture an unknown pirate was making a mountain out of a molehill.
But after witnessing Yuri’s Railgun earlier, that thought had gradually disappeared.
With that kind of attack and that kind of speed, it truly would have been difficult to capture him without sending someone as powerful as Sakazuki.
Even so, they still hadn’t believed Yuri could block Sakazuki’s attack.
Who was Sakazuki?
He was one of the Marines’ famous Admiral Candidates.
A Logia-type Magma-Magma Fruit user.
Aside from the Admirals and Vice Admiral Garp, he stood among the strongest Marines.
His Logia ability, magma, possessed terrifying power comparable to a natural disaster.
Even on the Grand Line, few could stand against him.
In the first half of the Grand Line, he was practically invincible.
Although the West Blue was considered one of the stronger seas among the Four Blues, compared to the Grand Line, the difference was enormous.
Over this period of time, the Marines had seen countless famous pirates from the Grand Line, including many captains with bounties exceeding one hundred million Berries, die beneath a single Great Eruption without even leaving corpses behind.
Yet Gadile Yuri, a rookie pirate who hadn’t even entered the first half of the Grand Line, had actually managed to block Vice Admiral Sakazuki’s Great Eruption?
Akainu was surprised as well.
His eyebrow lifted slightly as the power behind Great Eruption continued to increase.
Like an erupting volcano, the massive magma fist unleashed even greater force.
And yet, it still couldn’t crush the gigantic iron-sand fist.
If it had been ordinary iron sand, his magma would have melted it.
But Yuri’s iron sand was vibrating and grinding against itself at extremely high speed.
Each tiny grain of iron sand vibrated with blade-like sharpness.
The friction between them also generated powerful electromagnetic forces.
At the same time, the iron sand forming the fist continuously flowed.
The rapidly vibrating and flowing iron sand tore into his gigantic magma fist like a chainsaw while also resisting the magma’s extreme heat remarkably well.
Because of this, Sakazuki couldn’t melt the fist in a short amount of time.
At last, Sakazuki truly began to take Yuri seriously.
Strength like this was rare even on the Grand Line.
Yuri was worthy of making him fight with his full power.
Just as Sakazuki was preparing to unleash everything he had, Yuri turned to Robin.
“Hold on tight.
We’re getting out of here.”
Robin, who had been watching the battle with her heart in her throat, immediately grabbed onto the side of the cabin.
At that moment, the ship beneath her feet began to shake violently.
Then it lifted clear off the surface of the sea and flew into the distance.
“Don’t even think about escaping!”
Yuri controlled the iron sand beneath the small ship, carrying it through the air toward the distance.
Naturally, as he flew away, he also withdrew the Iron Sand Fist.
With nothing left to obstruct it, Great Eruption blasted through the spot where Yuri’s ship had originally been.
The scorching magma instantly caused the seawater to boil, sending enormous clouds of steam rolling upward.
Seeing Yuri about to escape with the ship, Akainu naturally had no intention of letting him go.
He was just about to unleash Meteor Volcano for a long-range bombardment when Yuri suddenly grabbed several coins in each hand.
“You Logia users are impossible to hit, so I’m not wasting my time fighting you.
Bye-bye!”
Electric sparks erupted from both of Yuri’s hands.
He opened fire with both hands at once.
One orange-red beam after another shot from his palms.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Railguns.
Three times the speed of sound.
Even if Akainu could withstand a Railgun, there was no way he could stop so many of them at the same time.
The warship beneath Akainu’s feet was one of the Marines’ large battleships, but under the barrage of Railguns, it was blown apart in an instant.
“Damn you!
Gadile Yuri, just you wait!
Sooner or later, I’ll capture you!”
Even though the warship had been blasted apart, Sakazuki himself remained completely unharmed.
Still, the explosion left him looking disheveled and covered in soot.
Using Moonwalk, he stood in midair and roared furiously in the direction where Yuri had disappeared.
However, he didn’t pursue them.
For one thing, the warship had been destroyed, and many Marines had either been badly injured or killed.
They needed immediate treatment.
Besides, aerial combat wasn’t advantageous for him.
Moonwalk might allow him to remain in the air for a short period of time, but it couldn’t let him fly at high speed.
There was no way he could easily catch up with Yuri.