214 Chapter 214

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Swift spun in the air, his feet covered with Haki and blue electricity as he performed an axe kick, which Zoro had to block with three of his swords. "Tell me, pirate? Do you have someone you love… a beautiful girl maybe?" the speed-based devil fruit user asked as both of them were in a power struggle.

Zoro felt his face twitch through his gritted teeth as he pushed back.

"Oh, so you do?! Huh," He said, with a perverted grin, "Is she beautiful? Don't tell. I will find out when I bed her after this battle is over! Sahahaha… I will make sure to give her a good time as well. There are few things I like to do slow, if you know what I mean~"

Zoro felt raw anger boil inside of him, the anger he didn't know he had. And it wasn't just him, Akaiittou Nozarashi, Sandai Kitetsu and Yubashiri… All three of his swords felt deep hatred for the enemy. Unknowingly, the fight just got personal.

In his anger, Zoro's strikes sped up, becoming wild, his flames growing stronger, and he seemed to momentarily overpower Swift, who seemed to be loving this new found desperation.

"I really like it when I can get under the skin of my opponent~!" Swift chuckled, "But you made one mistake."

And then Swift suddenly delivered an uppercut to Zoro's jaw, making him drop his third sword —Yubashiri— from his mouth. And then with his two hands, he grabbed Zoro's wrists, sending jolts of gathered electricity into him.

"Ahhhhh!" Zoro screamed as the volts of electricity ran through him, it would have burned any other man. But Zoro was used to the heat, so even electricity couldn't give him severe burns, but the shock had other effects in locking Zoro's muscles.

Swift pulled back his right hand slowly, with a casual grin on his face. "You let your guard down," he said, "Now Die! Shigan!"

Zoro saw the attack coming, but his muscles refused to move. Still recovering from the shock.

'Move…! Move…! Damn it!' He told himself as he saw the hand of Swift begin to near his chest right where his heart was. 'You are not weak! You won't lose here…! Not to this bastard! Move, damn it!'

Unconsciously, a wave of will burst out of his body and through sheer willpower, he stepped to the side at the last moment, causing Swift's finger to stab into Zoro's lungs instead of his heart.

"Sahahaha! You avoided the critical blow at the last second! But… you are now injured. That blow should have taken out one of your lungs." Swift cheered as he laughed, in the glory of his opponent's misery.

Zoro coughed out some blood, but unlike what Swift expected, he had a bloodthirsty grin on his face., "No, you are just trapped! Tekkai!" Swift was wide-eyed as before he could pull out his finger, it got stuck in the stab wound. To make sure he didn't leave, Zoro grabbed onto his arm, "Burst Asunder, Akaiittou Nozarashi!"

Suddenly flames burst out from all over Zoro's body, and even though Swift struggled he wasn't able to get out of the range of the flames, nor was he able to defend against them. Ironically it seemed Swift wasn't swift enough to coat his entire body with Armament Haki.

"Aghhh!"

Zoro used that chance to swipe his blade towards Swift's hand, while Sanji appeared behind him delivering a flaming kick to the back of the speed user's head.

Even though Swift was in a massive heap of pain from getting his whole body deep fried, he tried to get his arm away from Zoro. Moving his arm at rapid speed he was able to get out, but due to focusing on only Zoro, Sanji got the drop on him.

Swift felt his skull crack from Sanji's kick as his flaming figure was sent away. Crashing into multiple buildings and going through them in the process.

Zoro coughed blood and kneeled down, holding his chest, while Sanji had moved for another follow-up attack towards Swift. The cook was worried about his crewmate, yes, but he wanted to end his battle as fast as possible.

But it wasn't that easy as the moment Sanji got near Swift, he was sent flying with a kick to his gut, which sent Sanji's figure toward the sky. The cook was left wondering what had happened before another kick crashed down on his spine, sending him back to the ground.

Sanji could feel that most of the exoskeleton and bones in his body were broken, the pain was unimaginable. And yet the cook struggled anyway. 'I won't die here…! Not before I take my revenge!'

"I will kill all of you!" Swift yelled in rage, dashing towards the nearest opponent which was Sanji.

Sanji was just barely able to see anymore as he watched Swift's mad figure running towards him at full speed. It seemed Swift was quite mad, the front part of his face and chest having multiple third-degree burns that were now healing, he also had a good chunk of his hair missing at the back of his skull with his head caved in. Swift's leg swept up as it took on a black metallic look, intending to crush him.

Sanji wanted to move, and for some reason things slowed down as his eyes began to hold a red glint. But the cook had yet to notice. His mind raced on how to avoid the attack, but with Swift's speed, it wouldn't be possible. His only hope was taking the attack head-on and gamble on it.

'I refuse to die here!' the cook thought with grit teeth as he crossed his arms.

But that attack never came, instead, Sanji heard steel blocking attack. And the cook was shocked when he opened his eyes and saw Zoro was in front of him, blocking Swift's kick with his three swords.

But that wasn't what surprised him. No… it was.

"You!" Swift exclaimed in shock, with wide eyes looking at his swords. One of his swords was now black. Akaiittou Nozarashi was now a metallic black which gave a sense of doom and death. "I-I thought you didn't have Armament Haki?"

Zoro's eyes were hazy, and yet it was focused and held a look of determination. A green light shone behind them, and Swift felt his world turn.

It was as if a giant skull was coming out from Zoro's shadow, which in his eyes stretched far beyond the horizon. There was nothing but him, Zoro and the skull. A skull that was smiling maniacally towards him, opening its jaw and trying to eat him! Death!

Swift, for the first time, felt fear… A shiver ran down his spine as he quickly took a few steps back. But just as he blinked, the scene was gone. In its place was a suffocating pressure that he knew well, the pressure of overwhelming will.