New World, East of Wano Country's defense line.
This area was guarded by King, facing Borsalino, who was driving the remnants of the Red Hair pirates towards here.
However, what he didn't know was that Borsalino had already evacuated from there and had even disappeared from the world...
King stood at the highest point of the island, holding a Den Den Mushi and reporting the situation to Kaido:
"The Red Hair side is acting strangely."
"According to the pirates driven here by the Marines."
"Since last night, the Red Hair Pirates have been unreachable."
"I have a bad feeling..."
Before he could finish speaking, his entire body was engulfed in shadow.
His unfinished words were interrupted by the cold voice of Sakazuki, who had suddenly appeared:
"Your premonition is correct."
King, holding the Den Den Mushi, froze stiffly and slowly turned his head to look.
Sakazuki stood behind him, gazing at him as if he were looking at a dead man:
"Magma Dom."
Four cold words were uttered, but what erupted was scorching magma.
Rumble—
A fiery aura like the sun swept through, and endless magma erupted, instantly engulfing the entire island. Countless pirates were submerged in the lava.
Under the tremendous impact, the island was torn apart and slowly sank...
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New World, Central defense line of Wano Country.
This was an island guarded by Kaido. If this line were breached, the Wano Country's main base would be exposed.
When Sakazuki's damned voice came through King's Den Den Mushi, Kaido already sensed that something was amiss, but...
With a grim expression, Kaido put down the Den Den Mushi and looked at the two people who had suddenly appeared, brought by someone:
"Barrett..."
"Garp..."
He slowly stood up, reaching for the Nine-Section Cudgel at his waist.
If he wasn't mistaken, the heads hanging from the waist of the person who could teleport were none other than Hearl Shindeku, Shanks, and...
Charlotte Linlin's head!
His Observation Haki sensed nothing; they had simply appeared via teleportation.
As one of the Four Emperors, Kaido, though sometimes reckless, was not stupid. Through the teleporting individual, he understood how those three had died.
No one could have imagined that Sakazuki's trump card was something like this...
A weak-looking Marine with the ability of a teleportation fruit had become the mastermind behind the downfall of the Four Emperors. Kaido inexplicably felt it was absurd...
So easily...
Whoosh—
The teleporting figure reappeared, causing Kaido's pupils to contract.
It wasn't an illusion. The three heads hanging from that person's waist were indeed theirs, but then they disappeared again.
Accompanying him were Sakazuki and King, whom Sakazuki was dragging along...
At this moment, King in Sakazuki's hands was like a drowned dog.
Having endured an island-destroying self-detonation at close range, his internal organs were ruptured, and he had fallen unconscious, spitting blood. Sakazuki, who had appeared here, casually tossed him towards Kaido:
"Are you ready to lose everything?"
Kaido's expression was grim, his face expressionless. He merely glanced briefly at King:
"So what if I kill him."
"Do you think this trick will still work on me?"
His entire body began to swell, transforming into a dragon-man state. The Nine-Section Cudgel in his hand was wrapped in Conqueror's Haki, crackling with lightning. He paid no attention to King.
Sakazuki glanced at him indifferently:
"You've gotten bolder."
Kaido remained silent. A fierce glint flashed in his dragon eyes, and he transformed again from his dragon-man form into a massive azure dragon, enveloped in flame clouds and lightning.
It was as if an ancient behemoth was staring at three weak humans, but Kaido knew that he was the weak one at this moment...
It felt like a dead end.
He wanted to escape, but with Barrett's speed, he would never get away.
If he fought to the death...
What a joke. He couldn't win against those three, no matter how many lives he had...
As Kaido confronted the three below.
Barrett sneered, took a step forward, and his form instantly appeared before the azure dragon-form Kaido.
With a Double Trigger Awakening, the nearly one-hundred-meter-tall blue demon stretched out its giant palm, reaching for Kaido, who was like a loach in comparison to the current Barrett.
Kaido's dragon pupils contracted. He had no time for further thought. His coiling dragon body shot straight up into the sky, but at the last moment, Barrett still managed to grab his dragon tail.
Without giving Kaido any more time to think, golden light burst forth from the sky.
Dong—!!!
A sound like a giant golden bell rang out.
High in the sky.
A golden Buddha, also nearly a hundred meters tall, descended from the heavens and slammed its palm onto Kaido's dragon head. The bell sound echoed throughout the heavens and earth.
Accompanying it were two giants, pinning the azure dragon whose head and tail were seized, and smashing it to the ground.
Boom—!!!!
The nearly one-hundred-meter-tall blue demon Barrett, one hand holding its tail and the other pressing down on its hindquarters, pinned it down firmly.
Similarly.
Sengoku, transformed into a giant golden Buddha, held its dragon head with one hand and gripped its dragon neck tightly with the other.
With their combined strength, they pinned Kaido firmly to the ground.
Kaido's dragon head, having suffered Sengoku's heavy blow and the impact of crashing to the ground, was dizzy and seeing double of Sakazuki and Garp below.
However, extremely high-temperature energy gathered in his mouth, aimed at Sakazuki and Garp. The scorching flames illuminated the island.
Whoosh—
Carol's figure appeared.
The several heads hanging from his waist clinked. He chuckled:
"Here comes the bomb."
A figure was thrown from his hand, tossed into the mouth of Kaido's azure dragon form.
Sensing a familiar aura, Kaido's eyes widened in rage. Before the figure could be thrown into his dragon mouth, he forcefully retracted the gathered energy, causing himself to writhe in pain from the burns.
Boom!!!!
A violent explosion erupted from Kaido's mouth. Even Kaido's body trembled from the blast.
A girl with horns similar to Kaido's, wearing a white sleeveless kimono, was blasted out of the explosion and rolled onto the ground, unconscious and covered in blood.
It was Yamato, Kaido's daughter, whom Carol had teleported to Wano Country and found.
Blood trickled from the corners of Kaido's dragon mouth. He stared intently at Sakazuki, who was walking towards Yamato:
"Stop it for me!!!"
Roar—
An angry dragon roar, accompanied by a blast of roaring air and Conqueror's Haki, swept out.
But under the suppression of two hundred-meter-tall giants, and against Sakazuki, who possessed incomparably powerful Conqueror's Haki, it was all useless...
Appearing so powerless, so weak...
Sakazuki slowly walked in front of Yamato, placed a foot on her head, which bore the same horns as Kaido's, and looked at Kaido with a hint of question in his voice:
"Useless?"
Hum—
Black Armament Haki coated his leg. He stomped down.
Crack!!!
The headless body of the white kimono-clad girl trembled, and her life force vanished.
Looking at the enraged azure dragon and the struggling Kaido, Sakazuki slowly raised his finger and aimed it at the unconscious King.
"You think you've conquered fear?"
Bang—
Like a gunshot, his Finger Pistol shot out.
Snap!!!
King, in his unconscious state, unable to resist, had his head shattered.
One was his sole trusted subordinate since Kaido was in his teens, and the other was his daughter, sharing the same bloodline. Both died so easily.
Sakazuki slowly raised his finger and blew on it, as if the Finger Pistol was too dirty for him. His cold voice echoed softly:
"No."
"You were just deceiving yourself..."