"Hokage?"
Katakuri heard that the other party cared a lot about this identity, but no matter how much he thought about it, he couldn't remember what a Hokage was.
"Are you a Marine?"
Katakuri kept using Observation Haki, looking for a weakness, and at the same time asked.
Is Hokage a new position in the Marine?
And this person, he felt strange, as if he had no life.
"No, I am a Ninja."
"This is Uchiha... Uchiha's territory, and other pirates are not welcome."
When Senju Hashirama said this was Uchiha's, he felt a bit complicated, like an ex-girlfriend mentioning an ex-boyfriend's name.
However, he didn't immediately make a move. If the other party didn't attack first, with his personality, he wouldn't bully anyone.
"Someone from Uchiha!"
Hearing this, Katakuri's brow furrowed.
He hadn't expected Uchiha to have such a strong individual.
On Smoker's side, he felt a sense of relief and tried to rescue his subordinates. Most of them were alive, including Tashigi. Katakuri had just casually attacked and hadn't used his full power to unleash a destructive force.
"You could say that."
Recalling that Uchiha was now in charge of Konoha, and Senju was also a part of Konoha, Senju Hashirama also felt that he was now a member of Uchiha.
After all, back then, he had wanted Madara to be Hokage, but his younger brother refused, and Madara also backed down, so he had no choice but to become the First Hokage.
Katakuri was silent. He looked at Senju Hashirama, finding it hard to imagine that someone less than two meters tall could possess strength that made him feel pressured.
Is he like Red Hair, a Haki specialist?
"If I defeat and capture you, Uchiha Tamahiko should be very upset!"
"Although I don't know why you make me feel so dangerous, I will defeat you!"
Katakuri said coldly.
Since he was an enemy, there was no need to hesitate.
As his voice fell, he launched his attack first.
"Unrivaled Mochi Blade Bullet!"
Katakuri transformed his right hand into the shape of a machine gun barrel, firing a large number of mochi rice cakes coated in Armament Haki towards Senju Hashirama.
"Wood Release: Tree Bind Jutsu!"
Senju Hashirama instantly shunshin-ed away, but Katakuri had already changed his attack direction, predicting Senju Hashirama's escape location. At the same time, he directly jumped onto another broken wooden board, dodging the Wood Release that rose from the board beneath him.
Seeing this, Senju Hashirama had no choice but to pull out a Kunai, infuse it with Chakra, and knock away all the mochi rice cakes charging at him.
"What powerful force!"
Feeling the power of the mochi bullets, Senju Hashirama exclaimed.
"It's similar to the wood Uchiha Tamahiko released just now. Is it the same power?"
Katakuri, on his side, was also gathering intelligence. His previous attack was also a test, but he didn't gather much information, only seeing that the ability that was about to attack him was wood, which reminded him of the ability Uchiha Tamahiko used during their recent battle.
This made him feel relieved. After all, the leader of the Uchiha faction, using this level of wood ability, couldn't cause him too much trouble. How strong could his subordinates be?
Katakuri gained confidence.
"Grilled Mochi!"
Katakuri raised his right hand and aimed it at Senju Hashirama, wrapping the area before his forearm in heat and Armament Haki, and firing it like a rocket launcher.
A flaming fist shot directly towards Senju Hashirama.
Senju Hashirama, on his side, was also done playing. He clapped his hands together and shouted, "Wood Release: Wood Dragon Jutsu!"
A giant wood dragon burst out of the sea, charging towards Katakuri's Grilled Mochi.
However, Senju Hashirama had not learned Armament Haki, so the hardness of his wood could not compare to Katakuri's attack, which involved his arm wrapped in Armament Haki.
The fist-like attack directly pierced through the wood dragon's head, continuing to push backward, destroying the entire wood dragon. After that, it had little power left and was directly blocked by a wooden stake that extended from Senju Hashirama's palm.
Katakuri's arm, which he had launched earlier, quickly regenerated. He looked slightly surprised but thought it was normal, believing the opponent's strength was probably similar to Smoothie's level.
"With this one blow, I will defeat you."
Katakuri pointed at Senju Hashirama, intending to end the battle decisively.
As his voice fell, the scattered Marine wreckage around him transformed into mochi rice cakes, forming donut shapes that floated around him until there were nine of them.
From the center of these donuts, arms extended, poised to strike.
"Interesting!"
"In that case, I'll fight with all my might as well!"
Senju Hashirama laughed heartily, clasped his hands together, and a Sage Mode face appeared on his face.
Katakuri's expression tightened when he saw this, but then immediately turned to horror.
"Sage Art: Wood Release: Wood Golem: True Several Thousand Hands!!!"
Senju Hashirama roared.
A giant Buddha statue instantly rose from the sea, supporting Senju Hashirama. The waves caused by the rising Buddha pushed away the surrounding Marine personnel.
Behind this great Buddha, there were a thousand Wood Release hands!
However, because he was in the Edo Tensei state, and it wasn't the improved Edo Tensei from the Ninja World War, his strength could at most be eighty percent of his full power.
So this Buddha statue was only about a hundred meters tall, but with the hands behind it, its height reached over two hundred meters.
Seeing this, Katakuri began to doubt his life.
What on earth was going on!
Did he make a mistake??
Smoker's cigar, which Katakuri had been gripping, hadn't fallen out until now, but at this moment, it dropped into the sea in shock.
He immediately used his ability, gathered his subordinates, and rushed towards Dressrosa.
"Big Brother, you're going too far. I can handle a character like this!"
Senju Tobirama expressed his dissatisfaction.
The Akatsuki Organization members remained silent.
"As expected of the God of Shinobi!"
Orochimaru felt that the First Hokage's nickname was well-deserved.
Only Kakuzu had cold sweat on his forehead at this moment, grateful that he had run fast back then and hadn't believed Takigakure's words about killing the First Hokage.
He now only wanted to go back and kill Takigakure!
"Aren't you ready yet?"
Senju Hashirama saw Katakuri, who only had a few circles around him, looking a bit shabby, and couldn't help but ask Katakuri curiously.
"Even if it's huge, it doesn't possess absolute power!"
"Mochi Ginya!"
Senju Hashirama's question, in Katakuri's eyes, was undoubtedly a provocation!
This made him unable to bear it, and he immediately activated his ability, controlling the arms in the donuts to launch directly.
He had wrapped Armament Haki around each arm, making these nine arms, plus his own two arms, a total of eleven arms, strike wildly.
But what greeted him was the True Several Thousand Hands, with over a thousand arms, all punching towards him.
At first, Katakuri's face was calm, because he found that the power of his attacks was much stronger than the power of the opponent's giant fists. With one punch, the opponent's wooden fist would shatter.
But soon his face turned grim, because the opponent had too many fists!
It's not fair!
This thought flashed through his mind at this moment!
Why do you have so many hands, and I only have eleven!
His eleven arms were almost cramping, but their speed couldn't keep up with the opponent's endless barrage of fists.
Soon he realized that the opponent's fists were not weak in power; they just weren't hardened with Armament Haki. But for some reason, there was another kind of energy on this wood that made his mochi body, which was almost immune to impact, feel pain, and he was quickly knocked into the sea, directly losing consciousness.
The entire island of Dressrosa felt the tremor.
Although most of the punches landed on the surface of the sea, the residual power of the impact made the people on Dressrosa feel the ground shaking.