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Chapter Cover Side Story · The Days on Kuja's Eastern Route · ?? Ultimate ?? Bliss ?? Pure ?? Land ??
Over here, Robin was smiling as she controlled the Shadow Stream Lord. Suddenly, she felt as though someone was missing. Acting on instinct, she turned around and looked back…
There stood Hancock, dressed in a red floral outfit with a high-slit skirt, holding an elegant pose. One arm was raised higher than the other, her toes lightly touching the snow. Her proud gaze rested calmly somewhere off in the distance.
Snow swirled through the air.
Seeing this, Liam snapped his fingers at his Stand. Immediately, a different piece of irresistibly catchy music began playing from the black faceplate, and Hancock started dancing to the rhythm...
Her two younger sisters, grinning from ear to ear, also ran over one after another, taking positions on either side of their elder sister as they joined her in dancing Gokuraku Jōdo (Pure Land Paradise)...
…
Corrida Colosseum – Contestants' Waiting Room
The wall cracked open.
Pulling himself out of the depression in the wall, Sentomaru extracted his body from the fissure. Giorno's kick had been far too vicious.
"In just a few short years, his strength has become countless times greater than it was back then..."
Leaning on his giant axe, Sentomaru rubbed his numb stomach.
"You brat! How dare you wreck the waiting room and suddenly come flying in here..."
A huge shadow suddenly fell over him.
"Do you even know what kind of place this is?!"
"Hm?"
Only then did Sentomaru notice his surroundings.
"Who are you?"
Around him stood arena fighters clad in armor and carrying swords and one-handed shields. Blocking his path was a large, bald middle-aged man with ferocious muscles and a body covered in scars.
"Hmph. You must have a death wish."
The bald man grinned viciously as a palm nearly half the size of Sentomaru's body came slamming down toward the fat man in the bib.
"If you dare enter this arena, you'd better be prepared to die!"
Before this, the others had already been whispering among themselves. The bald man standing in Sentomaru's way was Teres, the undefeated champion who had won the monthly title nineteen times in this colosseum and had virtually no rivals.
This chubby little guy was probably…
Huh?!!
The arena fighters had just begun feeling sorry for Sentomaru when they saw him remain completely calm in the face of Teres's descending palm. Swinging his giant axe, he hooked the flat of the axe around the back of Teres's hand, locking down his entire arm…
"I don't have time... to play around with small fry like you!!"
BOOM!
The giant axe came down like a mountain, pinning Teres's hand beneath it and forcing his massive body flat onto the ground. The impact shattered and collapsed the floor beneath him...
Dust filled the waiting room.
The other gladiators stared dumbfounded at the bib-wearing fat man carrying the huge axe. Then the fat man suddenly narrowed his eyes.
The fighters jumped in alarm, but quickly realized he wasn't targeting them. Instead, he charged straight toward the hole he had crashed through earlier.
Dragging his giant axe behind him, Sentomaru sprinted forward and shouted:
"You treacherous villain!"
He rushed off in pursuit.
Soon afterward…
BANG!
Sentomaru came crashing back while locked in combat with another figure.
Kyros had come out shopping with his wife and daughter, so naturally he hadn't brought any weapons. Driving Sentomaru back into the waiting room, he moved about as if he were returning home. Casually, he grabbed a broadsword hanging from the wall.
CLANG!
The sword collided with Sentomaru's giant axe just as the latter recovered his bearings.
"Hah..."
The two wrestled for dominance, and the force generated by their clash was astonishing.
The other fighters in the waiting room were completely dumbstruck.
That fat guy in the bib had casually flattened Teres, the nineteen-time monthly champion, with a single swing of his axe.
Who was this man who could actually contend with him?!
As the rising dust gradually settled, everyone finally got a clear look at the person standing before the fat man.
"It's Kyros?!"
"That Kyros~~?!!"
The gladiators' eyes, teeth, and tongues practically flew out of their faces in shock as they stared at the figure whose name thundered throughout this colosseum like that of a god of war…
The legendary man who had once fought 3,000 consecutive matches and won all 3,000 of them.
After achieving 3,000 consecutive victories, Kyros had been recruited by King Riku into the army. Later, word spread that he had retired. No one had expected to see him here again today, in the very Corrida Colosseum where he had once written his legend!
"As expected of Kyros..."
"To be able to contend with that 'Bib Monster', he's a monster himself..."
The gladiators watched the clash between the two men, some shocked, some sighing in admiration, others cheering excitedly.
With a swing of his axe, Sentomaru knocked Kyros's broadsword aside and shouted angrily…
"Who are you?! Why are you getting in my way?!"
"Rebecca is still with him..." Kyros gripped his broadsword tightly. His eyes were as fierce as a demon's as he gritted his teeth and said, "I will never allow any danger to come near her! Even if I have to become that 'beast' again, I won't hesitate..."
Sentomaru snapped back irritably,
"What are you even talking about? You're making no sense!"
The bib-wearing fat man charged forward again, swinging his giant axe. Kyros showed no intention of retreating and immediately raised his broadsword to meet him.
The fierce battle left the other fighters in the waiting room thoroughly entertained.
This was far more exciting than the ordinary duels held in the arena!
Either one of these two men would unquestionably become champion if they entered the tournament…
No, wait. Kyros was already the legendary gladiator with 3,000 consecutive victories!
That bib-wearing fat man was truly incredible if he could fight such a legend to a standstill!
As Kyros and Sentomaru remained locked in combat, he suddenly heard Rebecca's soft, timid voice from behind him.
"Daddy..."
"Rebecca..."
Kyros's sword paused for an instant as he turned around.
'Idiot! Are you trying to die?!'
When Sentomaru saw his opponent suddenly become distracted and look elsewhere, he inwardly cursed Kyros's carelessness. His axe was already in motion.
Little Rebecca had been set down by Liam. Seeing the giant axe slashing toward her father's back, the frightened girl covered her mouth with both hands.
Kyros realized the danger at the same moment.
Not good!
Sentomaru had no desire to attack someone from behind either, but his axe had already been swung. In that split second, it was impossible to pull it back.
Just as even the arena fighters couldn't bear to watch Kyros be cut down by the axe—
A tall man in casual clothes and sunglasses suddenly appeared between Sentomaru and Kyros.
It was Liam.
Naturally it was Liam.
Who else could it have been?
Using Soru, he flashed behind Kyros in an instant. Raising his hand and coating it with Armament Haki, he directly grabbed the razor-sharp edge of the axe.
BOOM!
The tremendous force of the blow, received barehanded, crushed and split the ground beneath his feet.
"You've got to be kidding me... Bare-handed..."
The gladiators in the waiting room stared in disbelief.
"He caught such a terrifying axe... with his bare hands..."
Liam smiled.
"Oye fatty, attacking people from behind isn't very nice."
Sentomaru ground his teeth in frustration. Just as he was about to retort, Giorno seized the edge of his axe and flung his arm outward.
Whoosh!
Sentomaru once again transformed into a shooting star in a bib and flew off to the side.
The watching gladiators couldn't even begin to describe what they had just witnessed.
The only way to express it was probably by describing their own feelings:
They were trembling.
The bib-wearing fat man who had seemed overwhelmingly powerful moments ago, a fighter capable of battling the legendary 3,000-win champion on equal footing, was completely helpless before this man in sunglasses.
Who was he?
Just who was this man in sunglasses?
Damn it! He threw me again!
Sentomaru was so angry he nearly coughed up blood.
He crashed through another wall deeper inside the waiting room, and soon another figure was thrown in after him.
"Waaah! Bad big brother! Why did you throw Daddy too..."
Little Rebecca felt utterly wronged. She pounded Liam's leg with her tiny fists.
Liam lowered his hand and said helplessly,
"Sorry. My hand slipped just now, and I accidentally threw your dad along with him..."
A figure suddenly burst out from the freshly made hole deeper inside the waiting room.
It was the cold and taciturn Kyros.
Having picked up another greatsword from inside, he charged straight at Liam.
"Kyros!"
Scarlett, who had just entered the waiting room together with Robin, shouted loudly.
"Stop, Kyros!"
The King of Dressrosa, King Riku, Scarlett's father and little Rebecca's grandfather, had somehow arrived as well, accompanied by soldiers.
Cold sweat trickled down his temples as he looked at Giorno, who stood there as though everything happening had nothing to do with him.
"Violence won't solve this problem...
"And especially not when the person involved is Giorno Giovanna."
(End Of This Chapter)