Benedict arrived behind Kaido.
He extended his hand and gave a push.
Kaido, wracked with intense pain, collapsed onto the ground.
Benedict immediately extended his foot.
He stepped on Kaido's head.
Benedict looked up at the sky, his gaze sweeping across the surroundings.
"Golden Lion Shiki, before his death, specifically told me."
"You must be careful of you."
"Therefore, I paid special attention to you."
"I know your Devil Fruit ability is very strong, growing stronger as you fight, granting you near-invincible defense."
"But, this can still kill you."
"Just like now, in front of me, you've become a pool of mud."
"Not long ago, that aura that appeared, those tentacles that appeared, were they your reliance?"
When Sima Yi was fighting with the Calamity King Jack, the tentacles that appeared in the void, the aura they released.
Although they only appeared for a brief moment, Benedict, engaged in intense battle, had still captured them.
The aura from that moment undoubtedly possessed the strength of an Admiral.
So, was there a powerful being hidden within the Beast Pirates?
Or perhaps, was this what the Golden Lion had specifically warned him to watch out for before his death?
Kaido, with Benedict's foot pressing him to the ground, still had a ferocious expression. Facing Benedict's question, he let out a cold, hoarse laugh.
"I will not die."
"You cannot kill me!"
"Hahaha!"
Benedict applied more force to his foot, driving Kaido's head into the mud.
However, Kaido's head was too hard, and the ground was a bit soft. Although it pained Kaido, it couldn't crush his head.
"Truly tough."
"Since that's the case, let's concentrate the power on a single point. I wonder if your head can still withstand it!"
Benedict condensed the energy of Conqueror's Haki into a needle-like form beneath his foot.
Kaido felt the power and penetration of Benedict's attack, a look of panic appearing on his ferocious face.
If he couldn't dodge this, he might truly die.
"Guizang!"
Kaido roared in terror.
"Damn bastard, I cannot die."
Benedict did not stop Kaido's shouting.
However, his foot was slowly descending.
He was waiting for someone named 'Guizang' to appear.
As the needle formed from energy neared Kaido's cheek, impacting and causing it to indent, a black hole appeared before Benedict, followed by an octopus tentacle that lunged towards Benedict.
Benedict was prepared. He reached out and grabbed it.
*Bang!*
Slippery!
The tentacle slipped from Benedict's grasp and continued to lunge towards Benedict with extreme speed.
Benedict was shocked and quickly dodged.
However, the tentacle instantly changed direction, shifting from a stab to a whip.
Before Benedict could react, he was sent flying.
Having struck its target, the tentacle did not continue to attack Benedict. Instead, it quickly coiled around Kaido and prepared to retreat.
But at this very moment, Benedict used the Flying Thunder God Technique, causing his airborne, recoiling form to instantly appear before Kaido, and he slammed his fist forward.
The tentacle, carrying Kaido, was subjected to the impact of immense force. No matter how slippery it was, it couldn't escape.
The pain caused the tentacle to throw Kaido away.
Kaido, flung away, crashed to the ground with cracking sounds, his already injured body sustaining further damage.
"Come out!"
Benedict formed his hands into claws, his Armament Haki covering them, making them incredibly dark.
That slippery appendage, due to Benedict's preparation, no longer slipped away.
He pulled with all his might!
One meter, two meters, three meters... ten meters!
Benedict pulled the tentacle to a length of ten meters in one go, revealing a tentacle nearly twenty meters long.
And yet, that was not all of it.
The innermost part revealed at this time had a diameter of nearly four meters.
"So long!"
"Let's see how long you can hide."
Benedict directly activated the Eight Inner Gates, opening the Gate of Wonder.
With the explosion of terrifying power, Benedict forcibly pulled out nearly thirty meters of the tentacle.
The original black hole was also stretched open to nearly a hundred meters, revealing a part of a massive head.
Benedict's eyes gleamed, and he pulled again.
But at this moment, three black holes appeared successively around Benedict.
Three tentacles instantly pierced out from the black holes.
"Hey!"
Benedict retracted his force, the now-straightened tentacle rapidly recoiling. Benedict also moved forward quickly, dodging the incoming tentacles.
This was merely Benedict's feint, a strategy of retreating to advance.
Grabbing a tentacle, he turned and performed a back suplex.
*Bang!*
The tentacle broke and slammed heavily onto the ground.
Benedict staggered for a moment.
Simultaneously, more tentacles pierced towards him from all directions.
Benedict flew upwards, evading the attacks.
"Three Thousand..."
As he flew upwards, Benedict immediately used the "Three Thousand Thunders" skill.
"Thunder Strike!"
He turned and delivered a punch.
"Guizang," who had forced Benedict back, extended a tentacle from the black hole, coiled around Kaido, and disappeared.
The other tentacles also rapidly retreated.
The black hole, which had revealed half of the massive head, was also rapidly healing.
*Boom!*
As the black hole was about to close, Benedict's punch arrived.
A roaring sound echoed, and the almost-closed black hole was torn open.
Screams also ensued.
It was the roar of a wild beast, like an enraged octopus, bellowing from the depths of the sea.
"Ah!"
"Bastard."
"Benedict, I will kill you."
Terrifying energy raged within the black hole. Even after the black hole closed, it continued to shake violently, like ripples on a lake.
Kaido's voice also emerged as the black hole closed.
Benedict's brow furrowed as he looked at the tentacle still writhing and bouncing on the ground.
The encounter was very brief.
But in such a short exchange, Benedict believed the opponent's strength was above S-class, likely reaching SS-class.
Benedict's only regret was not being able to pull the opponent out of the black hole.
Just as he was about to pull it out, it had severed one of its tentacles.
And at this moment, Kaido was rescued.
"Marshal." Sima Yi, holding the Calamity King Jack, arrived beside Benedict and said with a smile, "Here's one. What should we do with him?"
*Bang!*
Jack's body fell from the sky, landing before Benedict and the two of them.
Then, Kozuki Oden walked over, sword in hand.
Benedict looked at the severely wounded Jack, who was missing both arms, and his lips curved into a smile. "Oden, what kind of preference do you have? You actually sliced off his arms."
Kozuki Oden smiled slightly and said, "If I didn't know you wanted to personally kill the Devil Fruit users, he would be a corpse right now."
"The result is the same!" Benedict heard this, stepped forward, and raised his foot.
*Bang!*
Jack, deceased!
The Calamity King Jack, seeing the deceased Jack, showed no change in his expression.
"Fire Tribe, a pity."
Benedict looked at the Calamity King Jack and said indifferently.
"If it weren't for the Governor-General back then, I would have died."
"Today, giving up this life is only dying a few decades later."
The Calamity King Jack's demeanor was very calm.
Benedict wasted no words.
He delivered a punch to him.
The Calamity King Jack, deceased.