Who am I?
Where am I?
Is that guy in front of me really Ozz?
For a while, Kaido's mind was just blank. He did not know if it was because too much time had passed, or because the lingering shockwaves in front of him finally jolted him awake. Either way, he rubbed his head and slowly came back to his senses.
The characteristics of his Drunken Dragon Form began to fade. Those rows of razor sharp fangs smoothed back into normal teeth. Only his prominent tiger fangs still jutted out, sharp and obvious.
By contrast, the one standing opposite him was the real problem.
Ozz had completely stopped resisting the alcohol in his body. The waves of excitement and drunken haze rampaged straight to his brain. The usual calm and detached look was nowhere to be seen.
His eyes were unfocused as he stared at Kaido, a wild grin spreading across his face.
The words that came out of his mouth made Kaido grit his teeth hard.
"I am absolutely going to beat you half to death, hic, Cutie."
Swoosh.
His figure vanished almost instantly. Kaido's pupils shrank. A primal sense of danger slammed straight into his brain.
"Bastard!"
A long, thick black staff, wrapped in black and red lightning of Conqueror's Haki, appeared right in front of him in a split second. Even the air trembled in its path.
Ozz's savage smile made it look like he was looking at prey. The club in his hand came swinging down.
"Do not look down on me!"
Faced with the sudden blow, Kaido's own battle instincts went into overdrive. He reacted almost instantly.
He bared his teeth, muscles bulging all over his body. His dragon claws stomped into the ground, sending cracks racing outward.
The kanabo in his hands crackled as it finished charging. Lightning and Conqueror's Haki climbed along the club's surface as he swung toward the black and red gunstock of Ozz's weapon.
At least in terms of courage, he refused to lose.
"Thunder Bagua!"
The massive iron club and the seemingly slender gunstock collided right in the center of the battlefield. The impact was overwhelming.
Crack crack crack crack.
Conqueror's Haki exploded outward in wild surges. A vacuum zone formed between the two weapons, black and red lightning grinding against each other and spraying in all directions.
The shockwave was so intense that even the two birds fighting in the sky were thrown off balance and blasted far away.
As for a certain baby dragon, it had long since been buried somewhere under the completely reshaped terrain.
In the end, Ozz, already drunk and hyped up, pressed the advantage. He glanced at the still gritting Kaido, his mouth curling upward, bloodshot eyes filled with manic delight.
"Hahahahaha."
"Not bad. You can really take a hit. In that case…"
As he spoke, the aura around Ozz surged again. Terrifying light and shockwaves wrapped around his entire body. He looked like a demon king walking out of hell.
"King's Thunder Bagua."
His power spiked to an even higher level. The blow that Kaido had barely been able to trade with before now felt like several mountains suddenly crashing down on him. His hands shook violently.
He could not hold it.
Ozz's gunstock forced its way past the kanabo's guard and smashed straight into Kaido's skull. His eyes nearly rolled back white on the spot.
Boom.
The single, brutal strike slammed Kaido's head deep into the ground and blasted open a crater hundreds of meters across.
And Ozz still was not done.
Grinning like a lunatic, he treated the briefly unconscious Kaido like a training dummy. He casually tossed Black Gun aside. Both hands clenched into fists, instantly coated in thick Haki.
Bang bang bang bang.
Under the stunned gazes of the two birds and one baby dragon, and under Kaido's dazed, pain filled stare that barely had time to process what was happening, they could only see that wild eyed man whose face was twisted with excitement.
His fists were like steel drills as they hammered down on Kaido's now unprotected body.
Splat.
Splat.
Bang bang bang bang.
His hands blurred into overlapping afterimages. Miserable screams echoed through the heavens. Even King, a man well versed in torture, could not bear to keep watching.
It was too brutal.
Blood sprayed everywhere, splashing across Ozz's face and clothes, but he did not even notice. He was still shaking with excitement, punching at a speed of hundreds of blows per second.
Every fist carried that faint spatial distortion, and for Kaido, whose Haki defense had just been broken, that was a level of pain that could only be described as worse than death.
Dust and debris geysered into the air. King watched, heart pounding, desperate to rush in and help, but the raging storm winds kept throwing off his movements.
Red veins crawled across his eyes as he turned to look at Queen lying on the ground.
"Hey, Queen. Get in there and help stall Black Gun."
"M… me?!"
The moment he heard King's words, Queen's eyes bulged out so far they almost popped from his skull. His neck stretched forward, his tongue curled like a wave, and cold sweat soaked his entire round body in an instant.
"This…"
He turned to look at Ozz.
That monstrous figure was wrapped in Conqueror's lightning and spatial distortion. His eyes glowed crimson.
Absolutely not.
If he went over there, he would be killed in an instant.
"N… no no no no."
"In that state, Black Gun is several times more terrifying than usual."
Standing in place, Queen watched Kaido getting pounded and tried several times to move his legs, but they simply refused to obey him.
Dust rolled across the battlefield until a painful dragon roar tore through the sky. A massive Azure Dragon burst out of the ruined earth.
Forced to his limit, Kaido shifted into full beast form just to barely escape the storm of punches.
King stared at the battered state Kaido was in and froze for a moment, only to be swept up by the gale and sent tumbling to the ground.
Even then, his gaze did not leave the crater.
In the swirling haze, two blood red lights shone first.
Then a figure stepped out of the smoke.
He moved with a savage grin on his face, his entire body wrapped in black and red Conqueror's lightning. Space fractured with each of his steps as he walked forward.
Just one look was enough to know this was something that should not exist in the world.
Even for a Lunarian, a race known as "gods" for their absolute environmental adaptability, standing before such a being still made their whole body tremble and their scalp go numb.
Unbeatable.
Absolutely.
Even Kaido could only choose to back away before such a monster. It did not feel like he was facing something that could be called human at all.
Queen was even worse off. He did not dare move a muscle. He was terrified that Ozz would notice him and target him again like he had in the past. His whole body was drenched in cold sweat.
"That guy… is he really human?!"
With those monstrous, strength boosted fists, wrapped in Conqueror's Haki and spatial distortion, if he took even a single punch he was sure he would die.
"To think that getting drunk turns him into this kind of demon. Ozz, you bastard…"
High above, Kaido circled in the air. His long dragon body was covered in horrific wounds. If he had not been so unbelievably tough, he would have been dead already.
"In that terrifying state, he really does look like that man…"
Kaido stared at Ozz, who was wreathed in that monstrous aura. His dragon eyes trembled.
"Rocks D. Xebec."
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