"Shut up... just shut up!"
A furious roar, laced with an endless amount of Haki, erupted from the depths of Zoro's throat!
At the last moment, just as his body was about to be completely devoured, he made the most direct and insane decision. He abandoned all defense, pouring all his will, strength, and Haki, without reservation, into the three swords in his hands.
Armament Haki made the blade even harder than diamonds, while Haoshoku Haki transformed into black lightning, dancing wildly on the sword's edge. Especially his right-hand sword, Enma, as if sensing its master's resolve, it hummed excitedly, like a greedy bottomless pit, madly drawing the vast, ocean-like Haki from Zoro's body. On the blade, a visible, black-purple hellfire ignited!
This was the strongest strike he could unleash at this moment!
As he slid towards that chaotic gate, he twisted his body in an incredible posture, his legs stomping fiercely in the void, as if stepping on invisible stairs. Using this counterforce, his body transformed into a green comet flowing against the current, meeting the suction force that could tear everything apart, and unleashed his ultimate technique, fused with Haoshoku coating!
"Three-Sword Style Secret Technique: Six Paths Cross: Sky Splitter!"
Three slashes, entwined with black-purple lightning and fire, instantly merged into one, forming a pure "slash mark" that defied description!
It was extremely fast, as if it transcended time.
It was extremely sharp, as if it could cut through causality.
As the slash mark passed, the captain, whose body was collapsing, along with his final mad laughter, were instantly annihilated, leaving no trace. Immediately after, this ultimate slash struck heavily at the core of that "space-time gate"!
There was no earth-shattering explosion, only an instant, ear-piercing silence.
It was as if the entire world had been muted.
Immediately after, the "space-time gate" that was struck, like a shattered mirror, began to crack from the center, with countless fissures spreading wildly outwards. The next second, the out-of-control space-time energy violently collapsed inward, forming a point deeper than a black hole, and then, a silent but violent explosion occurred, affecting the entire spatial dimension!
Zoro bore the brunt of it; he didn't even have time to react before he was completely swallowed by this irresistible torrent of energy capable of obliterating everything.
In the last moment before his consciousness completely plunged into darkness, he seemed to hear Luffy's panicked shouts and Sanji's angry curses from the other side of the sea.
"Zoro—!"
He gripped the three swords in his hands with his last ounce of strength. This was his last dignity and reliance as a swordsman.
Then, endless darkness completely engulfed him.
...
The scene switches back to Nameless Summer Island.
The festive banquet abruptly ceased, and everyone in the Straw Hat Crew looked in astonishment towards the depths of the forest. A burst of Haki and sword intent that made their hearts palpitate flashed by, and then, everything fell silent.
"Was that... Zoro?" Nami asked, her face pale.
"What has that Green Algae Head bastard gotten himself into now?!" Sanji dropped his spatula, his expression grim.
Luffy put away his smile, his eyes sharpening: "Go find him!"
When they rushed into the forest, everyone was stunned by the sight before them.
In the center of the forest, a massive slash mark appeared, hundreds of meters long and unfathomably deep. The edges of the slash mark were as smooth as a mirror, as if drawn by a god with a ruler, neatly dividing the earth in two.
And he had long since vanished without a trace, leaving only a faint spatial fluctuation in the air that did not belong to this world.