"Come fight!"
The aura around Kaido exploded outward the moment he spoke.
Holding his massive kanabo, he stared toward Whitebeard.
At the same time Kaido's body suddenly began to transform.
His entire physique underwent a heaven-shaking change.
Faint dragon-like scales appeared across his body.
Even when facing an already heavily injured Whitebeard, Kaido still did not dare to be careless.
Right from the start he used his strongest form.
The awakened state of a Zoan Devil Fruit his human-beast hybrid form!
"Good!"
A trace of battle intent flashed through Whitebeard's eyes as well.
With a single motion he tore away the IV tubes and medicine bottles attached to his body.
Then, with a light step he shot forward and landed on the island, standing directly opposite Kaido.
The naginata in his hand immediately began gathering the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
Cracks rapidly spread outward in every direction.
"Die!"
The very first move was made with full power!
Whitebeard gripped his naginata with both hands and swung it violently toward Kaido!
The power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit burst from the blade's edge.
Countless fractures spread outward through the air.
It looked as if everything around them was about to be torn apart.
"Excellent!"
Kaido's kanabo instantly became wrapped in his Conqueror's Haki.
This was the highest-level application of Conqueror's Haki.
Conqueror's Coating!
The coating directly enhanced the might and destructive force of his attacks.
Kaido showed absolutely no fear toward Whitebeard's Tremor power.
He charged forward with his kanabo head-on!
BOOM!!
The kanabo and naginata collided directly.
The glowing white Tremor power filled with black fractures and the crimson lightning-like Conqueror's Haki intertwined violently at the point of impact.
Terrifying waves of destruction spread wildly around Kaido and Whitebeard.
For a moment sand and stones exploded into the air.
Even the island beneath their feet began to crack apart.
BOOM!!
Another explosion erupted.
Kaido and Whitebeard separated.
Kaido took three steps back.
Whitebeard took seven.
At first glance neither side appeared to have gained the advantage.
But a trace of blood slowly flowed from the corner of Whitebeard's mouth.
Looking at Whitebeard in front of him, Kaido spoke again,
"Looks like…"
"The injuries you suffered during the Summit War still haven't recovered much."
"Heh."
Whitebeard let out a cold laugh and gave no further reply.
The injuries he suffered during the Summit War had already damaged his internal organs.
Without at least half a year of recovery, there was no way he could fully heal.
Kaido obviously knew that.
The fact that he deliberately brought it up now clearly meant he was intentionally trying to provoke him.
"Lord Kaido is invincible!"
At that moment someone from the Beasts Pirates suddenly shouted.
The next second an overwhelming wave of cheers and roaring support erupted from the Beasts Pirates' side!
"Lord Kaido is invincible!"
"What's Whitebeard supposed to be? He's just a broken old man!"
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?!"
The Whitebeard Pirates naturally became furious after hearing the Beasts Pirates mocking them.
"We just finished fighting the Summit War! You all know Pops is injured, and you still have the nerve to celebrate that?!"
"Why wouldn't we?"
The accusations from the Whitebeard Pirates had absolutely no effect.
Instead, it only made the Beasts Pirates mock them even more.
"Then you should've hidden like turtles and avoided the war!"
"Since you accepted the challenge, then every excuse is meaningless!"
"You bastards!"
The Whitebeard Pirates were practically driven mad from anger.
But because the Beasts Pirates technically had a point for a moment, they could not find a good rebuttal.
"Despicable scum!"
"We really are despicable scum."
"So if you want to act honorable, then stop making excuses!"
As expected when shameless people completely stop caring about their reputation, they become unbeatable.
The Beasts Pirates were currently proving the truth of that statement perfectly.
Every insult and accusation thrown by the Whitebeard Pirates was simply accepted without care.
As long as they did not care then none of it mattered.
That was practically a law of nature.
"The people below seem pretty excited."
Compared to the Beasts Pirates and Whitebeard Pirates currently arguing back and forth.
Kaido and Whitebeard on the island remained much calmer.
Kaido held his kanabo in one hand.
At this moment, orange-colored flames began gathering around him.
The terrifying heat from the flames was so intense that even the ground beneath his feet started burning.
Looking toward Whitebeard Kaido's eyes overflowed with battle intent.
He truly loved fighting.
Because of that obsession, he had spent years attempting insane forms of "suicide."
But if he could win then who would willingly choose to lose?
That was the real truth.
"Newgate."
"After today, I hope you'll finally be able to reunite with Roger and the others."
As he spoke Kaido began walking toward Whitebeard.
Every place he stepped became a path of blazing fire.
The rocks and soil beneath him were burned into molten magma by the terrifying flames!
"Gurararara!"
Whitebeard's signature laughter rang out once again.
An extremely dense layer of Armament Haki appeared around Whitebeard's body.
At the same time the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit was fully unleashed.
Wave after wave of vibrating energy rapidly gathered onto his naginata.
Armament Haki for defense.
The Tremor-Tremor Fruit for offense.
This was Whitebeard's strongest state!
BOOM!!
A thunderous explosion erupted.
The entire island split apart at that moment!
Kaido and Whitebeard had exchanged only two attacks yet they had already destroyed an entire island!
Fortunately this was an uninhabited island.
It could barely even be called an island at all.
It was simply a giant reef protruding from the ocean surface.
"Ace, did you see that?"
On the Moby Dick Renji stared at Kaido with a shocked expression on his face.
He had never before seen someone train a Zoan Devil Fruit to such a terrifying level.
Even if it was a Mythical Zoan this was still absurdly monstrous.
Ace looked toward Renji, confusion filling his eyes.
"See what?"
"Kaido's use of flames, obviously!"
Renji said with a disappointed expression, as though Ace had failed to meet expectations.
"Even though Kaido is a Zoan-type Devil Fruit user"
"That doesn't stop you from learning flame manipulation from him."
At that moment, Renji recalled the descriptions written in the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia.
It claimed that the Magma Fruit was the superior version of the Flame-Flame Fruit.
Renji completely scoffed at that idea.
Physics and thermodynamics already explained everything.
The temperature of flames could absolutely surpass magma.
And not by a tiny amount either.
Not by a few degrees or even dozens of degrees.
But by differences of tenfold, hundredfold or even thousandfold temperatures!
"Flames aren't just for burning things."
"They have far more possibilities."
"As long as you desire it…"
"You can burn away everything in this world!"
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