On another island in Totto Land, compared with Blackbeard's hidden schemes and dirty tricks, the air here held only the most primal, violent scent of destruction.
Cain thought back on everything he had experienced along the way.
To obtain power that could change the situation, he had eaten the artificial Azure Dragon Fruit.
To find Ace, he had abandoned his identity as a Marine and gone out to sea as a pirate.
Then, after the Summit War ended, Uta's condition had forced him to come to Totto Land…
All in all, only a few months had passed, but to Cain, it felt unbearably long.
Every action felt as if some invisible force kept pushing him forward, forcing him to keep moving without ever letting him stop.
Because of that, he rarely had time to enjoy those ordinary, beautiful moments.
As a pirate, he had already saved Ace.
But he had not forgotten the promise he made to Fleet Admiral Sengoku and his own grandfather when he left the Marines.
To the Marines as a whole, there was still an extremely important reason for him to become a pirate.
He had to infiltrate the Beasts Pirates.
And facing Kaido directly, drawing the man's attention, was a necessary condition for accomplishing that mission.
Although in a certain sense, Kaido had already noticed him…
Still, he had never expected to meet him under these circumstances!
By now, Cain had already rushed in front of Kaido.
Without the slightest hesitation, he leapt high into the air, Armament Haki wrapping around his fist as he brought it crashing down toward Kaido's head.
"Fist Bone Clash!"
Bang!
Kaido's expression did not change.
He did not even make any movement to dodge and simply took the attack head-on, letting Cain's fist smash into his skull.
The next instant, a terrifying shockwave exploded outward.
With the point of impact between them as the center, the ground violently split open into a pitch-black crack over ten meters long.
Then it spread wildly like a spiderweb, expanding beyond a hundred meters in the blink of an eye.
The entire earth let out an overwhelmed groan and collapsed with a roar, forming a massive crater.
Kaido's drunken, unsteady steps were forced backward by that enormous force.
His figure swayed once, and then his whole body was smashed straight to the ground.
Cain had not used Conqueror's Haki coating in that strike, but even so, it still injured Kaido of the Beasts.
Thin streams of blood flowed from Kaido's nose, and those originally cloudy eyes gradually cleared from their drunken haze under that violent impact.
Kaido spread his arms and slammed the ground, using the force to slowly sit up.
However, the wild counterattack Cain expected did not come. Instead, Kaido completely lost control of his emotions.
This towering monster suddenly burst into tears, sitting in the center of the crater and crying loudly, his voice filled with twisted pain.
"WUUUUUWAAAAAAA…"
That heart-wrenching howl, mixed with drunken grief, crashed into the surroundings and kicked up violent clouds of dust.
Cain stood against the shockwave coming from Kaido.
He froze when he hear Kaido's crying.
'Did that punch just now still not sober him up?'
But the very next second, Kaido's crying stopped abruptly.
With one hand, he swung the heavy black kanabo without warning, using that wildly unpredictable drunken momentum to smash it straight toward Cain's head.
"THUNDER BAGUA!"
Facing that lightning-fast attack, Cain's eyes sharpened, and his right fist suddenly shot out.
"Fist Bone Impact!"
Boom!
The instant the kanabo and iron fist collided, dense red-black lightning continuously blasted into the surroundings and surged wildly into the sky.
This was completely different from Cain's previous clash with Big Mom.
If his exchange with Big Mom back then had only been an ordinary test, then this time, both of them were being especially serious.
The ground around them groaned under the crushing force, sounding as if it were about to split apart.
The crater beneath their feet suddenly sank deeper, and the hard rock was instantly shaken into powder.
The broken stones had not even flown up before the violent airflow crushed them into dust.
The gale swept up earth and sand, forming a destructive ring that spread outward toward the sea.
Directly above the two of them, the churning black clouds looked as if they had been cleaved by a massive blade stretching across heaven and earth.
Rumble!
The entire sky was torn in two.
That enormous, endless rift neatly cut through the clouds, revealing the pitch-black sky beyond.
"The… the sky! It split open!"
Brûlée tilted her head back, staring at the vast scar across the heavens in near terror as she cried out.
"THIS… THIS IS EVEN FIERCER THAN WHEN CAIN CLASHED WITH MAMA BEFORE!"
At that moment, Uta was spreading a defense, shielding everyone from the storm formed by the aftermath.
Her gaze remained fixed on the man at the center of the crater, and she subconsciously clenched her fists.
…
"Wororororo! You actually blocked that attack. Not bad, kid!"
Kaido felt the rebound force coming from Hassaikai, and a sickly excitement appeared on his once-savage face.
"Heh. I'm already used to these unreasonable surprise attacks."
Cain let out a light laugh.
He could not help thinking back to his days training under his grandfather.
It had been the same back then, too. No warning, no explanation, just a fist coming straight at him.
The exact same kind of overbearing violence.
"Wororororo! I remember now. You're that brat from the Summit War! That ability of yours caught my eye quite a bit!"
Kaido's gaze gradually became deep and aggressive.
He suddenly increased his strength and pressed down with the kanabo, his voice rolling like muffled thunder.
"Still, that Fist Bone of yours isn't even one-tenth of Garp's! Show me what you've really got, brat…"
"Let me see with my own eyes what gives you the right to have the same ability as me!"
Before his words fully fell, the mountain-like force Kaido had been pressing down with suddenly withdrew without warning.
Cain's Observation Haki instantly caught that strange opening.
Acting on instinct, he kicked off the ground and shot backward.
In the next instant, a suffocating aura covered the entire sky.
"ROAR!"
Along with a dragon's roar that shook the clouds, Kaido's human body expanded at terrifying speed in an instant.
Azure scales covered his entire body, and his fearsome, winding body, stretching nearly a thousand meters, filled everyone's vision.
Zoan-Type Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Model: Azure Dragon!
The enormous azure dragon blotted out the sky without even needing to move.
It simply opened its massive jaws and bit down on Cain, who was still retreating through the air.
The azure dragon swung its massive body and dragged Cain high into the sky by force.
Then, inside the dragon's mouth, heat powerful enough to melt stone began gathering wildly. Blinding fire lit up the darkening sky.
"Boro Breath!"
Boom!
A pillar of fire dozens of meters wide blasted straight into Cain's face at point-blank range.
A terrifying explosion erupted high in the sky, like a small sun bursting open inside the clouds. Enormous flames and shockwaves instantly lit up half the island.
However, in the center of those destructive flames, an equally massive power was stirring in resistance.
Inside Kaido's fang-filled mouth, Cain's hands were wrapped in top-level Armament Haki.
He braced himself firmly against the upper and lower jaws that were still spewing fire, forcefully prying open a gap in the azure dragon's massive mouth.
Under the glow of the blazing flames, Cain's body also began to swell.
Unlike Kaido's azure scales, pieces of pink scales with a soft, rosy luster quickly covered his entire body.
"ROAR!"
Another earth-shaking dragon roar echoed through the clouds.
Under everyone's stunned gazes, a pink giant dragon whose size did not lose to Kaido's tore through the fireworks filling the sky and emerged across the heavens.
Artificial Zoan-Type Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Model: Pink Dragon!
The instant the pink dragon broke free, its thick, powerful tail swung violently, smashing hard against the azure dragon's head.
The enormous impact forced even Kaido's massive dragon head to snap sharply to the side.
Above the clouds, two dragons faced each other.
One was azure and imposing, its overwhelming Haki filling the sky.
The other was soft pink yet sinister, strange and extraordinary.
Two colossal creatures stretching nearly a thousand meters coiled in the air above the island.
Cain looked at the azure dragon before him.
Judging from the result of their exchange just now, the other party was already sober.
So Cain questioned him directly.
"Kaido! Your original target shouldn't have been me, right? Why did you come to Totto Land? What exactly are you after?"
"That kind of thing…"
The azure dragon's massive head glared fiercely at the pink dragon in front of him.
Seeing this kind of dragon stirred an even more uncontrollable nameless rage in Kaido's heart than before, as if this was a massive insult to his very existence.
Kaido opened his mouth slightly.
The remaining flames and the smell of alcohol spread out as he roared the reason he had descended upon this place.
"Why did I come here? I came to…"
The enormous dragon eyes suddenly went hazy, and his voice stopped cold.
After a long silence, the azure dragon let out a huge drunken hiccup and said blankly.
"I…Forgot."
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