"The sky is being torn apart!" Doll stared at the sky in a daze. A rumor secretly circulated among the Marine's upper echelons suddenly flashed in her mind… it was said that Akainu had been defeated by this Warlord.
She had initially scoffed at this rumor. How could a mighty Marine Admiral possibly lose to a mere Warlord?
Yet now, this thought grew wildly in her heart.
"Somehow I feel... even if the old man arrives, he probably couldn't intervene in their fight?" Sentomaru muttered to himself. It wasn't that he doubted Kizaru's strength.
It was just that this brutal, flesh-pounding melee before their eyes was utterly incompatible with Kizaru's agile, swift-fighting style.
"It's too scary... Will I even survive this?" Caesar, having regained consciousness from the Conqueror's Haki shockwave, trembled in a corner. He felt he would have been better off staying unconscious.
High above, every swing of Kaido's Kanabo carried devastating power, while Setsuna's fists were also wrapped in Conqueror's Haki. Each collision between the two sent tremors through the earth.
Kaido suddenly leaped upward. Hassaikai, entwined with even more violent Conqueror's Haki, smashed down.
"Conquered Three Worlds, Attracting Hell!"
Setsuna raised his four arms simultaneously to block. Muscles bulged like forged steel. Double-layered Haki wove into the most solid defense.
Kaido's Kanabo pressed down hard against Setsuna's four arms, his eyes gleaming with excitement. "To actually generate an extra pair of arms... You really are a monster, brat."
"Right back at you," Setsuna said. The two arms on his back suddenly unleashed a Solar Flare. The dazzling light made Kaido instinctively squint his eyes.
In that instant, Setsuna's right fist shot towards Kaido's face.
Kaido couldn't dodge in time. The punch landed solidly, sending blood flying from his nose. But almost as a reflex, the moment he was hit, he head-butted Setsuna with brutal force.
Setsuna grunted but didn't retreat an inch. His left hand formed a claw, tearing viciously towards Kaido's chest.
Rip. Dragon scales shattered. Blood sprayed.
Both were wounded simultaneously, and both were driven further into savagery by their injuries. They laughed wildly as they lunged at each other again.
Their battle raged from the sky to the sea surface, then moved from the sea surface back to the island. The island's topography was completely altered.
Kaido's Kanabo bombarded the earth. Setsuna's fist winds tore through mountain ranges.
The Marine officers who had barely managed to stay conscious under the Conqueror's Haki shockwave all stared, dumbfounded, at this battle that defied common sense.
"Is... is this destruction really something humans can cause?"
"Kaido is one thing... but that Warlord named Setsuna... he's actually fighting him evenly?!"
"Quick, photograph and record their battle footage!"
"Thunder Bagua: Bolo Breath!" Kaido's roar shook the world. The kanabo, wrapped in black-red lightning, came crashing down once more.
Setsuna blocked with all four arms, but the impact still sent him flying back hundreds of meters. Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth. Even the arms he had grown on his back were twisted and deformed from repeated blocking.
Before Kaido could laugh triumphantly, Setsuna actively retracted the two mangled arms.
The muscles on his back squirmed, and in the blink of an eye, two brand new, perfectly intact arms grew out.
Even Kaido couldn't help but widen his eyes. "You really are a monster, brat."
He couldn't resist extending another invitation. "Brat... want to become my son?"
The corner of Setsuna's mouth twitched. "What, do you think you're Whitebeard?"
"I'm telling you to marry my daughter," Kaido said, sounding unusually frustrated.
He truly couldn't understand. While he hadn't been exactly great to Yamato, he was at least better than that crazy hag Big Mom, wasn't he?
So why were Big Mom's children so fearful and respectful of her?
Hearing Kaido's words, Ace couldn't help but laugh. "Haha, with Kaido's looks, his daughter must be..."
Ace suddenly felt a chill down his spine. He turned to see Robin, Uta, and Hancock all glaring at Kaido with murderous intent.
"Shameless!"
"Disgusting!"
The terrifying killing intent made Ace shut his mouth instantly.
"Don't joke around. I don't want a woman who calls herself Kozuki Oden," Setsuna flatly refused.
Veins bulged on Kaido's forehead, 'Had Yamato's terrible reputation already spread this far?!'
"Continue!" Setsuna closed in again. Four iron fists transformed into a sky-filling storm of shadowy punches, raining down on Kaido like a downpour.
Kaido's dragon scales cracked and shattered under the blows. But he ignored it, letting Setsuna attack while he swung his kanabo in a vicious sweep.
Setsuna was sent flying by the club. His chest caved in, ribs broken. But his formidable regeneration quickly stimulated the wounds to heal.
The two clashed madly in mid-air. Each collision triggered tsunami-like shockwaves.
Kaido's dragon scales were incredibly tough. Even attacks infused with Conqueror's Haki found it hard to break through in one hit.
Setsuna's defense was slightly inferior. Every time he took one of Kaido's hits head-on, he was wounded. But his recovery ability was downright terrifying.
The regeneration from Namekian cells, combined with recovery from Food Honor, meant his injuries healed almost instantaneously.
They wounded each other again and again, recovering again and again, like indestructible monsters.
"It's such a despair-inducing level of strength," Ace couldn't help but shake his head. He had always wanted to surpass Setsuna.
But now it seemed, even if Setsuna stood still and let him attack, the likely result would be him collapsing from exhaustion first.
Sentomaru fell silent. He liked to boast about having the world's strongest defense, but the two monsters before him were the true pinnacle of defense.
"Brat! How much longer can you last?!" Kaido roared. Hassaikai, entwined with unstoppable Conqueror's Haki, smashed down.
"Longer than you think!" Setsuna's four arms erupted simultaneously. Fist force surged to meet it like a tidal wave.
"You're a good opponent, but I don't have much time to waste on you here," Kaido said. Though he claimed to not fear the World Government, he didn't actually want to get caught.
He suddenly shot upward, transforming into the Azure Dragon and soaring into the sky. Blazing flames instantly enveloped his entire body.
"Actually... I was thinking the same thing," Setsuna smiled faintly. A third pair of arms extended from his back. Palms cupping a small, crystal-clear energy sphere.
After transplanting the Namekian cells, he hadn't awakened psychic abilities. But his ability to listen to the voices of all things had evolved, allowing him to communicate with all things.
After confirming Kaido was trading injury for injury and had stopped using Future Sight, he had secretly grown this pair of arms, quietly gathering Genki.
Although the gathering efficiency wasn't extremely high because he was fighting simultaneously, in Setsuna's view, it should be sufficient.
"What is this?" Kaido, about to end the battle with his Flame Dragon Great Torch, felt a sudden chill in his heart upon seeing the energy sphere in Setsuna's hand.
The sphere wasn't large, but it gave him a hair-raising sense of danger, as if it could truly threaten his life.
Kaido widened his eyes, trying to foresee his own future. But no matter which future fragment he saw, he was blasted away for who knows how many kilometers.
"What nonsense is this?! I am Kaido, the King of the Beasts!" Kaido roared. The glimpsed future, instead of deterring him, stimulated his competitive spirit. With bull-headed stubbornness, he dove down, determined to shatter this ridiculous prophecy with his strongest form.
Unlike Kaido's state of mind, Doll's and Sentomaru's eyes were filled with despair.
Compared to Kaido's Flame Dragon Great Torch, the energy sphere Setsuna held aloft was too tiny. To anyone watching, it looked like a final, desperate struggle.
Setsuna threw the Genki Dama. The minuscule sphere collided with the colossal flame dragon in the sky.
In an instant, the sky were violently torn asunder. The cataclysmic shockwave transformed into a blinding white sun, illuminating the entire sea.
"Hm? What's that?" Kizaru, having just arrived, had no time to react before the violent blast wave sent him flying to the ends of the horizon.
If even he was affected so, Kaido at the explosion's epicenter was naturally far worse off. He was instantly blasted away, vanishing without a trace. Only his furious roar echoed:
"I'LL BE BACK!!!!!"