"Moreover..."
"As long as I am alive."
"How can you speak of defeating fear?"
Sakazuki's icy words stimulated Kaido's nerves. Kaido, with bloodshot eyes, struggled violently.
Flaming clouds, fire, and storms raged here, but to no avail.
Two giants nearly a hundred meters tall pressed down on the massive azure dragon. The island trembled, the ground cracked. From afar, the scene resembled a myth.
Sakazuki watched Kaido struggle, unmoved, and casually produced a Den Den Mushi and threw it to the ground.
The moment this special Den Den Mushi hit the ground, a projection tens of meters wide and high appeared in the air.
The screen showed multiple split views, and Kaido recognized them at a glance...
It was Wano Country, but when had so many surveillance Den Den Mushi been deployed in Wano Country?!
Sakazuki looked at Kaido's dragon head, pinned to the ground, and said:
"I said I would make you lose everything."
"Now it's time to fulfill my promise."
He reached into his pocket and pulled out a communication device:
"Begin."
Carrot's voice came from the other end:
"Yes."
Then, the massive projection switched to Carrot, the view from above.
From this aerial perspective, Carrot was positioned above Wano Country, next to a large iron cylinder resembling a missile, with 'L.B' printed on it.
Beside it was a Jinbe Seraphim, but it was several times larger than a normal Seraphim, like a giant fatty, yet it moved with unusual agility.
As Carrot gave the order, the Jinbe Seraphim smoothly tossed the missile-like iron cylinder downwards towards the island.
At the same time, it stomped its foot, moving slightly faster than the iron cylinder, smashing into the ground of Wano Country like it was water, creating splashes and disappearing.
The iron cylinder missile, marked with 'L.B', suddenly exploded at an altitude of over five hundred meters above Wano Country.
The violent air currents generated by the explosion, carrying toxic spores cultivated from various poisonous fungal fruits, instantly swept across the entire Wano Country.
A faint purplish-pink toxic mist enveloped Wano Country, but what followed was terrifying.
In the multiple split-screen projections.
Areas affected by the purple toxic mist rapidly dissolved. Everything, whether people or plants, all living things were attacked, melted, and disappeared.
Then, one by one, the Den Den Mushi lost their video feeds, clearly having been affected and dissolved by the toxic mist.
But many images were still visible.
Shipyard overseers and pirates rapidly dissolved, followed by prisoners, leaving only their shackles on the ground.
In one scene, the one that lasted the longest was a gaunt old man with a tuft of blue hair on his head, but he too eventually turned to blood.
There was a luxurious general's mansion, a scene of a lewd, purple-haired old man embracing a peerless beauty with light green hair and laughing heartily.
But as the toxic mist surged in, the light green-haired beauty, wearing a kimono embroidered with peacocks, turned into a pool of blood with a look of terror and pain in her eyes, leaving only the blood-stained kimono.
The lewd, purple-haired old man's body contorted, transforming into a giant eight-headed serpent monster, but it was powerless and vanished and melted after only a few more seconds.
There were Wano citizens in tattered clothes, and the deeply hidden Nine Red Scabbards...
But all of it, all of it, led to one outcome: dissolving into blood.
Kaido gave up struggling, his dragon head expressionless. He watched the scene in the projection, his inner thoughts unreadable.
Until the last Den Den Mushi was dissolved, and the screen went completely black, returning to Carrot's aerial view of Wano Country.
Sakazuki looked at the expressionless, ice-cold Kaido and chuckled:
"This thing was originally prepared for Charlotte Linlin."
"But who told you to dare to flip my table?"
"As punishment, I have brought about everything you are experiencing now."
"Watching your only trusted subordinate turn into a headless corpse."
"Watching your only bloodline die before your eyes."
"Watching the foundation you've strived for decades to build be swept away."
"And the cause of all this."
"It was simply because you flipped my table, so I casually transferred the suffering I intended for Charlotte Linlin onto you."
"Tell me."
"Do you regret your 'lawlessness'?"
"Hmm?"
Kaido's suppressed dragon head moved slightly, and a voice devoid of emotion echoed:
"I no longer care about these things."
"Heh..."
"If you're going to act, hurry up."
Kaido's dragon eyes closed, as if he had given up struggling, which was indeed the case. Struggle was futile, and facing these four individuals, anyone would end up regretting it...
Sakazuki looked at Kaido, who seemed to be waiting for death, and said leisurely:
"Your talent is not bad, your luck is the best, and you have a vast force."
"Among the ridiculous dreams of the Four Emperors, you were the closest to realizing yours. Do you know why?"
Hearing this, Kaido's dragon eyes widened slightly, wanting to see what trick Sakazuki was playing.
Sakazuki looked at the Den Den Mushi projection overlooking Wano Country and said:
"A weapon with the name of 'God', which has traversed the entire history of the world."
"The Ancient Weapon Pluton, which countless pirates and overlords throughout history have sought."
"It is buried beneath Wano Country..."
Sakazuki strolled casually to Kaido's dragon head, looking at Kaido's disbelieving eyes, and chuckled softly:
"Within the magma..."
This news shocked Kaido, and stirred infinite waves within his heart, leaving him unable to calm down for a long time.
Sengoku and Garp were equally shocked. They never imagined that something as dangerous as Pluton had been hidden right under the nose of an Emperor...
Sakazuki looked at Kaido and said:
"This is why I say your luck is the best."
"Countless pirates and powerful individuals throughout history have yearned for it but could not obtain it, yet it was buried beneath your feet. But you guarded a treasure mountain unknowingly."
"If you had known this, your dream would have been realized long ago."
"You could have leveled Mary Geoise with a single shot, sunk Marineford with a single shot, and ignited a war for freedom in the shortest possible time."
"You could have easily realized your dream and plunged the entire world into war."
"But you didn't know this. Your entire life spent like a headless fly, to those of us who knew the news, was so..."
"Foolish..."
"In truth, your life was wasted..."
Sakazuki's insidious words stimulated Kaido's brain, and denial and self-denial clashed endlessly in his mind.
Until Wano Country in the projection suddenly trembled and sank into the sea.
It was the Jinbe Seraphim, which had infiltrated underground and self-destructed, completely destroying the towering Wano Country.
Now, only the turbulent sea remained in the image, with no trace of the island.
Knowing the news was useless now. Even if he could escape, he couldn't dig it up. Everything was buried in the sea...
ROAR——
An angry dragon roar sounded, and the island trembled.
Endless flaming clouds surged from the azure dragon's body, swirling in a spiral pattern across the entire island, lifting it into the sky.
A deafening roar echoed through heaven and earth, and waves tens of meters high surged in layers.
Kaido, taking advantage of the sudden ascent, twisted his body and unleashed immense power, dragging the two giants towards the figure he hated to madness:
"Sakazuki!!!"
Endless heat accumulated in his mouth, and a scorching pillar of energy erupted, a torrent of flames that seemed to burn everything in existence to ashes.
At the same time, flames ignited around him, distorting the air, and converging towards his head as he charged at Sakazuki.
From afar, Garp stomped his foot, instantly appearing above Kaido.
He swung his right arm, covered in dense Armament Haki. This unparalleled Haki shattered the clinging flames and struck directly at Kaido's fiery dragon head.
CRACK——
A faint bone-cracking sound was heard, and the dragon scales on his forehead cracked.
His head taking a heavy blow, Kaido's mind went blank for a moment, allowing the bodies of Barret and Sengoku, propelled by inertia, to regain the upper hand.
Four large hands tightly gripped Kaido's dragon body.
Sakazuki looked at the dazed Kaido, and his wide-open dragon mouth was directly engulfed in the Red Lotus mode, like a crimson stream of light rushing into his body...
"Magma Bomb."
BOOM!!!!!!!
Kaido's azure dragon body's abdomen rapidly expanded, his originally slender dragon form ballooning like a giant balloon.
"Magma Bomb."
BOOM!!!!!!!
The giant balloon expanded several times more.
"Magma Bomb."
BOOM......
By now, Barret and Sengoku had already retreated to a considerable distance. The giant balloon seemed to have reached its limit...
BANG!!!!
Compressed air currents and magma erupted, and the blood from the bursting dragon body was instantly vaporized.
Only the slowly shrinking, incomplete fragments of flesh and bone scattered about, showing the traces of Kaido's existence.
Barret's figure flashed.
He appeared in the direction the head was flying.
SNAP!
He caught Kaido's head, still attached to a section of the spine with scraps of flesh hanging from it...
This greatest struggle for maritime supremacy in world history.
Pirates...
OUT!!!