"Admit defeat?"
Hearing Barrett's words, Shano chuckled softly:
"Couldn't tell that a guy with muscles for brains could be quite humorous."
"I wasn't joking!"
Barrett grinned wickedly, controlling the Giant to suddenly swing a massive fist covered with Armament Haki, bringing destructive power towards Shano.
But...
Shano's figure suddenly disappeared right before his eyes, leaving only an afterimage slowly dissipating in place.
"Huh?!"
Barrett's pupils contracted sharply, before he could react, a terrifying impact had already struck from the Giant's abdomen!
Boom!
The rock giant, as tall as a thousand meters, was forcibly lifted off the ground by this one blow!
"When did..."
Barrett was utterly shocked, but before he could adjust his posture, Shano had already appeared above the Giant's head.
Looking down with an indifferent gaze, he raised his right hand towards the Giant, slowly opening it.
Then, he suddenly clenched it into a fist.
"Clashing Fang..."
Shano's right fist suddenly erupted with dazzling black and white light, entwined with black and red Inazuma, roaring like a wild dragon.
His figure slightly leaned back in midair, then poured all his strength into a devastating punch!
"Dragon Slayer Fist!"
Boom!!!
Two streams of fist winds, one white and one black, roared out like a giant dragon, harshly crashing onto the Giant's skull!
Where the fist winds passed, space seemed to be torn apart, dark cracks spreading through the air.
The rock skull covered with top-tier Armament began to disintegrate the moment it touched the fist winds.
Countless large cracks spread rapidly across its body.
Rumbling!
A continuous dull collapse echoed repeatedly.
Within just one or two seconds, the enormous body completely crumbled, countless rubble falling like a torrential rain from the sky.
"Impossible!!!"
Barrett, in disbelief, roared unwillingly from inside the Giant, frantically activating his composite Fruit Ability, trying to repair the Giant's body.
But the shockwave of the Clashing Fang Dragon Slayer Fist had already decisively exploded at this moment!
Boom!!!!
The terrifying shockwave erupted like a nuclear explosion, forming a massive mushroom cloud!
The grand-scale shockwave pushed outwards, creating a formidable gale that swept across the sea, over Udon, over Hakumai, over Kuri, even over Wano Country's Flower Capital's sky...
The dense clouds were scattered, countless birds and insects, fluttered down from the night sky.
Many Wano Country residents who were already asleep were awakened by this commotion, gathering by their windows in twos and threes, looking blankly at the sky.
"What an exaggerated commotion."
In the Flower Capital, at the Shogun's mansion, Aokiji leisurely leaned against the gate, hands in pockets, "Even when dealing with that Hundred Beasts Kaido, it ended faster than on my side?"
"Is it over?"
At the armory of "Shimotsuki", Marco sat on the roof, looking up at the unusual sky, chuckling:
"I didn't sleep that night, dad, if you had taken that blow during training, I'd probably be visiting your grave now?"
"It's over, there's no mistake about it."
Outside the cemetery in "Ringo", Kuina casually shook the blood off Sakura Yuki, smiling as she softly spoke:
"It's the Clashing Fang Dragon Slayer Fist, there's no one in this world now who can withstand that blow from Master."
...
On the now-barren Ghost Island.
It took a while for the smoke and dust to clear.
Amidst the rubble, Barrett lay prone on the ground like Yamcha, covered in wounds, practically turned into a man of blood.
He breathed heavily, finally extending a hand to grip the ground, trying to support his body, but even with all his strength, he still... couldn't stand up.
"Why!"
Barrett raised his head, looking at the figure coldly overlooking him from the air, clenching his blood-stained teeth with a grinding sound.
"Why does a monster like you exist..."
One punch.
Just one punch!
The strongest composite form he prided himself on was completely disassembled like a child's set of blocks!
Why!
He couldn't resign to this! Couldn't accept it!
The humiliation of being incarcerated in Impel Down twenty years ago, twenty years of hellish training, finally waited for the day to re-emerge in the seas, finally having the chance to let the name of the strongest resound around the world...
This should have been his era!
Shouldn't it?!!!
But just as his dreams were within reach, at the official first step, they were shattered by this man in front of him, with an insurmountable chasm-like gap!
Roger!
If you were still alive, could you maintain the same composure and confidence, proclaiming yourself as the Pirate King in front of such a monster!
"Damn it..."
He struggled to raise his arm once more, trying for a final resistance, but Shano noticed and casually tossed a fist wind, hitting his back, knocking him out cold.
"Rest easy, we don't know each other well, not interested in chattering with you."
Shano landed on the ground, gave Barrett one last glance, then turned and walked in another direction.
"Worororo..."
By the shore, Kaido, kneeling on one knee, suddenly laughed aloud. He had been watching with wide eyes, clearly seeing everything.
That Barrett—the monster even he had to dread.
A formidable defense and Haki honed to the utmost, yet in front of Shano, it was all as fragile as paper.