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I would like to disagree with you that the highlighted patterns are supposed to be advanced haki lightning.![]()
this is clearly adCoC. Sanji did in fact break his leg to Vergo's ankle.
This is also also adCoC![]()
Remember that Sanji is hardening his shin here (like he did against King). King does in fact have a bent beak now because of Sanji¨'s hardening (can see that the beak has a weird shape now). Sanji can¨'t use hardening for defence against Black Maria bc it would hurt her, according to him. Sanji hardens up his strongest leg point here, the patella, and Vergo uses his ankle, ie no hardness at all. Vergo breaks him bc he uses adCoC with internal destruction haki
I think those are just supposed to signify the impacts of the multiple kicks they traded.
If those were bolts of lightning originating from the kick we currently see on the panel, many of them would have weird angles to where their legs cross. I don't think they actually originate there:

I think that each round curve lightning thingy signifies one of the impacts of kicks they traded. All the jaggy bits of these things go outward from their centers:

The yellow dots are the different impacts.
In the anime they also trade multiple kicks.
Also, we've seen similar "lightning" in other places, too.

Also, broken bones mean nothing. Even usopp managed to, with all his bones broken, jump a considerable height while carrying a grown woman and a reindeer.


(That was probably just namis cyclone tempo, but usopp is still remarkably mobile considering the damage he took.)