Chapter 248: Shield And Spear
Bang~
“Aiyo~”
“What are you doing~”
Just as Aoxi was striking a JOJO pose in mid-air that she thought was extremely handsome, the ‘Stand’ behind her suddenly gave her a not-too-light, not-too-heavy tap on the back of her head.
“Nothing.”
“I just arrived and saw you showing off in front, so I couldn’t help but give you a tap.”
The culprit who parted the clouds, the ‘Stand’【Obelisk】 with the ability of precise actions and bold power, said indifferently.
“Eh~”
“But you clearly cooperated with my actions just now too~ And yours was even more standard than mine…”
Aoxi held her head, pouting unhappily.
“Cough!”
“N-Nag, nagging!”
“I-I just now, that was just a normal floating pose… right, a normal pose, I just have the habit of standing like that in the air!”
“Yeah, that’s right, exactly!”
Obei tried hard to keep a straight face, saying seriously.
“Eh↑↓”
Aoxi looked at the other girl’s ears that had quietly turned red from shyness, teasing:
“Is that so~ I thought it was your hidden chuunibyou attribute subconsciously matching my actions after seeing my JOJO pose~”
“So it’s just a ‘normal’ floating stance~”
“So, sodayo~”
Looking at Aoxi’s face getting closer and closer, Obei could only lower her head and stammer in response.
But right after—
“Slurp~”
“Eek—!”
“Wha-wha-what are you doing?!”
Feeling the sudden warm, sticky sensation on her cheek, Obei instinctively covered her face and teleported out of the other’s range.
“Hmm~ This taste is the taste of lying~”
Sensing the taste on her tongue, Aoxi’s expression changed, and she shouted sharply like identifying a criminal:
“You dishonest bad kid!”
“Woo~”
“…”
…
Bang~
Bang~
The sound of stepping on air kept coming, like white noise that was very easy to ignore.
Looking up at the blue little girl who suddenly appeared in the sky, and then the two brats started doing some weird… uh, communication… right in front of him, Admiral Sengoku, who was bitterly moonwalking in the air below, didn’t know how to react for a moment.
He certainly didn’t have thoughts like if they were talking about little girls’ private matters, it wouldn’t be good for a middle-aged uncle like him to interrupt rashly!
As a soldier, he now just felt it was even more tricky!
How did another flyer show up?!
So every executive in your pirate crew can fly?!
Good thing that Golden Lion guy’s pirate crew registered early, otherwise a few years later, you would’ve snatched the ‘Flying Pirates’ name from them.
And those members who can’t fly in your crew, they really won’t be discriminated against? Like getting some weird nicknames or something…
After his thoughts turned a hundred times, Sengoku readjusted his mindset.
Now it was unlikely to rush ahead to Gaelga Island first to ambush the Beasts Pirates, and even chasing them wouldn’t be in time.
What he could do now was to take down these two brats with all his might, cut off the Beasts Pirates’ air advantage, and then take it slow.
“Ahem!”
“Hm?” *2
A sudden cough rang out on the sea, instantly drawing the attention of the two little ones.
“Dummy Aoxi, there’s still an enemy here!”
“Haha~ I almost forgot.”
Aoxi scratched her head embarrassedly.
Sengoku: “…”
“That blue little girl, you must be【Underworld Princess】’s sister Obei, right?”
“That’s right, Your Excellency is…”
“I am Navy Headquarters Admiral—Sengoku.”
“I see, an Admiral…”
Unlike Aoxi, even with divine power surging in her body, Obei didn’t charge right away.
“Then may I ask, Admiral Sengoku, leading this massive fleet and entering Beasts Pirates’ sea area without prior notice to our side, are you here specifically to declare war?”
Hearing this familiar rhetoric, Sengoku sighed.
『As expected, just as unreasonable as her sister…』
“That’s right, I am here on orders from the World Government to subjugate you.”
“Surrender now and you can receive leniency.”
Hearing this, Obei just tilted her head and looked at Aoxi beside her.
“How strong is the opponent?”
“Hmm… Stronger than Boss Kaido, about the same as that weird uncle we met on the Red Line before.”
“And this round-headed admiral’s defense is ridiculously high, that glowing Golden Bell Shield of his shocked my hand numb.”
“Counter-shock?”
Listening to Aoxi’s description, Obei showed an interested expression.
If she figured out the principle, she could make something like counter-armor in the future.
“I’ll go test the feel first.”
“Eh!”
Whoosh—
With that, Obei charged straight at Sengoku’s golden body like a heavy dive bomber… Seeing this, Aoxi quickly covered her ears.
Sure enough, the next instant—
Clang—buzz buzz buzz!!!
…
“As expected, both the defense and the counter-shock force are astonishing.”
Gripping her slightly trembling left wrist, Obei returned to a height Sengoku couldn’t easily reach for the moment, frowning and muttering to herself.
Her strength was much greater than Aoxi’s, so the counter-shock damage she received was also much higher.
“Just don’t know the limit of this defense and counter-shock.”
“Want to try?”
Aoxi had somehow come to her side again.
“Try? You mean…”
“Yeah, use that move.”
“It was developed to deal with Boss Kaido, but using it to practice on him first isn’t bad.”
“Plus the opponent is in the sky too, no way to dodge.”
Her face showing an expectant expression, Aoxi seemed eager to try some move she hadn’t had a chance to use before.
“That move… But even that move might not break the opponent’s defense.”
Recalling the feeling just now like hammering a iron-shelled turtle, Obei didn’t think the chances of her and Aoxi’s move breaking the opponent’s defense were high.
“Well~ Whether it breaks or not… just try it first, otherwise there won’t be a chance soon~”
Aoxi looked in a certain direction, her tone eerie.
“Hm?”
Obei followed her gaze; since they were at a high altitude now, they could see farther than from the sea surface.
And in their vision, a battle-scarred but ferociously imposing fleet, like a pride of lions patrolling their territory, was gradually revealing its ferocious fangs from the sea horizon.
Beasts Pirates, coming to hunt!
…
Retracting their gazes, the two nodded to each other, then flapped their wings, pulling apart to the left and right while lowering altitude, circling Sengoku in the middle like a pair spin.
“Hm?”
Sensing some unusual aura, Sengoku looked at the red and blue little ones circling around him, a sudden feeling of unease rising in his heart.
Bang~
He tried to break out of the encirclement with moonwalk first, but Aoxi and Obei, with their speed advantage, always kept Sengoku trapped in the center.
Whoosh—whoosh—
As time passed, the two little ones’ speed got faster and faster!
Until their figures were completely invisible, only vaguely seeing two streaks of deep blue and crimson light—this was them gradually converting divine power into propulsion for accelerated flight.
Gradually, Sengoku began to feel the wind, and… thunder!
The elements of wind and thunder began to entwine, centering on Sengoku, a massive wind-thunder tornado gradually forming.
“Oh no!”
Observation Haki began to wildly warn, but at this moment, Sengoku could no longer control his body.
The intense wind pressure nailed him dead in the air, forcing him to watch helplessly as Aoxi and Obei’s combined ultimate technique took shape.
Whoosh—
Crack—
“Aoxi!”
“Obei!”
“Haaah!!!”
With a shout, finally at some instant, the wings of wind and wings of thunder merged as one in a point in space, forming a Spear of Calamity that pierced toward Sengoku’s golden body shield.
Seeing this, Sengoku abandoned the idea of escaping, clasped his hands together against the wind pressure, mustered his full power and shouted:
“Buddha Golden Body!”
“Heavenly Feather—Dragon Slayer Dance!!!” *2
