"The main event has arrived!"
Shiki held his swords in both hands, leisurely watching the Divine Dragon soaring towards him.
He did not fear Kaido. Or rather, he had come today specifically to seize Wano right in front of Kaido.
As a pirate, what he desired, he would take by force.
Queen, seeing that Shiki's attention was no longer on him, immediately maneuvered the robot towards King.
Shiki glanced at it, but didn't care. The monk may run away, but the temple cannot.
Queen arrived before King. The robot's hands gently lifted the weakened King from the pile of rubble, and quickly fled the scene.
King gasped, forcing a smile. "Thanks, fatty."
Queen smiled indifferently. "Don't mention it. Didn't the Vice-Captain always say?"
"We're all damn pigeons!"
When the Divine Dragon arrived above Shiki, Shiki bit his cigar, greeting him casually as if nothing was amiss.
"Yo, Kaido, it's been a while, hasn't it!"
Kaido ignored Shiki. His dark yellow pupils quickly caught sight of King's figure. Sensing King's weakened aura, the Divine Dragon was enraged as if its reverse scale had been touched, radiating murderous intent!
"You did that to him!"
Shiki, however, didn't put Kaido in his eyes, smiling indifferently. "Yes, what about it?"
"Then die!"
Kaido opened his maw and unleashed a torrent of dragon's breath, a pillar of burning fire, striking towards Shiki.
Shiki's expression remained unchanged. With a light swing of Otohime, the surging pillar of fire was split in two, whistling past Shiki on both sides, plunging into the earth below.
The dragon's breath struck the ground, and the terrifying high temperature began to melt the soil. Only the ground where Shiki stood remained unaffected.
Moments later, Kaido's dragon's breath had incinerated the earth, creating a bottomless abyss. In the center of the abyss, Shiki stood atop a pillar of earth.
Shiki lightly flicked his finger, and the ground began to tremble. The earth surged, and countless mud and stones rapidly gathered under the influence of the Fuwa Fuwa no Mi.
Shiki's figure continuously rose, and beneath his feet, he stood on a towering earthen lion, as massive as a mountain.
The earthen lion roared at the Divine Dragon in the sky, baring its fangs and claws, as if infused with life.
Shiki bit his cigar, his eyes arrogant and contemptuous, grinning savagely. "Brat, don't get so agitated."
"I'll agitate your motherf***ing ass!"
"Shiki, I'll f*** your mother!"
Kaido unleashed a torrent of curses, then transformed into his dragon-human form, a terrifying pressure erupting from him.
Conqueror's Haki, combined with Kaido's towering rage and chilling murderous intent, transformed into violent dark red lightning, pulsing restlessly around his Hassaikai.
Kaido spun Hassaikai with both hands, drawing the lightning from the sky and the dark red lightning formed by Conqueror's Haki into one, coiling it around the club.
Then, gripping Hassaikai tightly with both hands, he plunged down towards Shiki with the force of a collapsing mountain!
"Descent of the Three Worlds: Ragnarok!"
"Conqueror's Haki infusion? You have it too?" A flicker of surprise crossed Shiki's eyes.
He hadn't expected that the intern brat from back then would grow to this extent. Possessing Conqueror's Haki infusion already placed him among the top-tier experts.
However…
Even if he did, what of it?
He was…
Shiki the Golden Lion!
On the blades of Shiki's Otohime and Kogarashi, dark red lightning exploded directly. Looking at Kaido, who was descending with the might of a thunderbolt, he held his swords and crashed into him without hesitation.
Boom!!
In the next second, Hassaikai and Shiki's two famous swords collided in mid-air.
Two terrifying Conqueror's Haki clashed and intertwined in the void between them, neither giving way.
The aura unleashed by the collision swept through like a raging storm. The earthen lion beneath Shiki's feet crumbled back into dust, the ground was directly ripped apart, turning into giant waves of mud and stone, and trees were uprooted!
Dark red lightning raged across the sky. Wherever it passed, everything was annihilated.
Even the clouds high in the sky continuously dissipated, torn apart by these two Haki.
A clash of Conqueror's Haki infusion!
In the distance, King, sitting on the robot, trembled uncontrollably, his heavily injured body shaking.
This power, this intoxicating and terrifying power.
Conqueror's Haki infusion, I must learn it!
Queen clicked his tongue in wonder. "Damn it, the sky's tearing open again."
He then glanced at the excitedly trembling King, frowning. "Hey, King, aren't you going to get treated first? You're so heavily injured."
King shook his head indifferently. "It's just a fatal wound. It's nothing."
The residents of Ringo, whether locals or crew members, without exception, fell into a childlike sleep.
Only a few, furtively, watched the clash of Conqueror's Haki in the sky with expressions of profound shock.
They were World Government agents who had infiltrated Wano when it was taking in a large number of people.
Noro had made all the crew members attend political lessons with Matty Tao, but the vagrants didn't have that luxury.
"Should we report the intelligence here?"
"Nonsense, of course we should. Otherwise, what do you think we're here for?"
"Who do you think will win, Shiki or Kaido?"
"Who cares? Hopefully, they'll both be severely wounded!"
An agent pulled out a Den Den Mushi, cautiously transmitting the news of Shiki's attack on Wano and his battle with Kaido back to the World Government.
After the clash of Conqueror's Haki, both sides pulled back.
"Jihahahahaha…"
Shiki grinned arrogantly:
"Kaido, I didn't expect you to grow to this extent. How about joining my Flying Pirate Fleet? I'll make you vice-captain, and we'll rule the world together!"
Yes, he suddenly wanted to recruit Kaido, just as Rocks had gathered many strong individuals under his command.
His Golden Lion Flying Pirate Fleet also needed powerful executives.
Shiki's arrogant attitude deeply angered Kaido. Did he really think he was still that intern who stood like a minion?
Kaido, furious, laughed instead. "Wororororo… Shiki, you're more suited to be my subordinate. No, I wouldn't even want you as a subordinate. Shiki, today you won't leave Wano alive!"
Shiki's eyes narrowed, a cruel smile curving on his lips. "Just like your foolish subordinate, then. So your answer is that you want me to kill all of your Beasts Pirates today?"
"I'm going to smash your lion's head!"
"Blast Breath!"
Kaido roared, his dragon maw wide open, a dense barrage of wind blades slashing down towards Shiki below.
"Heh!"
Shiki sneered disdainfully. Gripping Kogarashi in his other hand, he swung his sword.
"Zanba!"
A crescent-shaped slash, trailing dark red lightning, powerfully collided with the dense wind blades.
Kaido's wind blades, upon encountering this slash, shattered one by one like eggs hitting a rock.
The slash continued its trajectory, cutting directly towards Kaido's chest.
Kaido reacted extremely quickly, sharply turning his body. The slash grazed his body as it flew past.
Looking at the relaxed and casual Shiki below, Kaido's expression was unprecedentedly solemn.
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