"Huh?! You forgot?!"
The air in the sky instantly froze.
Cain's massive pink dragon head tilted at an angle that seemed to question the meaning of life itself, his eyes filled with disbelief.
He had thought Kaido had come here with some scheme powerful enough to shake the entire sea, but this guy… had actually blacked out at a time like this!
"You bastard…"
Cain's voice rumbled through the clouds like muffled thunder, filled with deep helplessness.
"Is your brain soaked in booze?!"
"Wororororo… If I can't remember, then I can't remember…!"
A fierce light flashed in Kaido's enormous dragon eyes, and that confusion was instantly crushed beneath a sickly kind of madness.
His thousand-meter-long azure dragon body churned through the sea of clouds, every scale grinding violently with a sharp creaking sound.
"But if I came here, then I definitely had something to do! Since I can't remember, I might as well take you back with me too!"
"Hey! Don't say that like it's perfectly natural! You kidnap everyone you meet? What are you, a human trafficker?!"
Cain shouted back.
"That's pirate logic, you bastard!"
Kaido answered with an attack. A storm surged wildly inside his mouth.
"Demolition Gust!"
The azure dragon suddenly opened his mouth, and several massive crescent-shaped wind blades howled out, slicing toward Cain like a storm covering the sky.
"Demolition Gust!"
Possessing the same fruit, Cain refused to be outdone and spat out wind blades of his own to block them.
For a moment, the sky looked as if it had been shredded into paper scraps.
The two of them fought evenly, neither side gaining the advantage.
Seeing that long-range attacks were not getting him anywhere, Kaido simply drove his enormous dragon body forward like a collapsing mountain.
Cain's temper flared as well, and he charged straight at him.
Who would have expected Kaido to twist his body with a ferocious grin, veering away from his original path midway?
Cain's Observation Haki caught the movement, but Kaido was simply too fast. Cain's massive dragon body could not adjust in time.
After all, when it came to controlling a dragon form, Kaido was far superior to Cain.
In that split second, the azure dragon took advantage of the movement and coiled tightly around the pink dragon.
Cain struggled desperately, his body swinging violently, but he soon discovered, in a strangely horrifying way, that his dragon body and Kaido's had fallen into an absolutely terrible posture.
Cain's expression suddenly changed.
"Hey, Kaido! Don't move around! Where the hell did you throw your dragon tail?!"
"You're the one who shouldn't move, brat! My neck is getting strangled by you!"
Kaido also realized something was wrong and let out a furious roar.
Both of them felt a massive resistance and instinctively tried to pull back.
The result was a sharp creak.
The two thick, long dragon bodies suddenly tightened and actually tied themselves into a firm knot in midair.
Even worse, at that exact moment, both of them subconsciously used Conqueror's Haki coating.
"—!!!"
In an instant, Kaido and Cain's eyes bulged at the same time, their faces turning red from the strain.
With that top-tier Haki reinforcing them, the pain of their muscles being twisted into a pretzel shot straight to the tops of their skulls.
"You little brat, stay still!"
Kaido felt pain for the first time in a long while, and the anger in his heart instantly ignited.
He opened his huge bloody mouth and bit down hard on Cain's dragon body.
"OW! Are you a dog or something?!"
Cain also felt the pain.
Getting ruthless, he snapped back and clamped his jaws tightly around Kaido's tail.
"AGH!"
Kaido was shocked.
This brat's teeth could actually bite through his defenses?
A trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, but anger immediately took over, and he bit down even harder!
And so, these two legendary divine beasts became like two giant loaches fighting over food, their bodies twisting tighter and tighter around each other.
The two dragons tangled, wrapped, knotted, and finally somehow tied themselves into a gigantic ball of flesh…
No, it was more like a massive "dragon ball."
This was truly "two dragons playing with a 'balls'!"
The unbelievably heavy "meatball" struggled and rolled wildly in the air.
Both dragons had originally relied on flame clouds to fly, but now they were too busy biting and trying to break free to control their flame clouds properly.
As a result, they rolled straight out of the buoyancy range of their flame clouds and fell like a meteor, plummeting straight downward.
Below, among the ruins, Brûlée and Uta had already moved everyone on the island into the Mirro-World.
They were now craning their necks to watch the fight, their expressions gradually shifting from shock to… something indescribable.
A moment ago, this had been a world-shaking duel between two dragons.
How had it turned into an airborne rolling meatball in the blink of an eye?
"Is this how top-tier fighters battle?"
The corner of Brûlée's mouth twitched violently as she spoke in disbelief.
"But what I saw from Mama wasn't like this at all!"
In her understanding, clashes between the strong were supposed to split the heavens and shatter the earth, not fall from the sky while biting each other like a giant ball of tangled meat.
Uta's mouth twitched as well.
Looking at the rapidly enlarging dragon ball in her vision, accompanied by bursts of cursing and Conqueror's lightning crackling everywhere, she fell silent too.
Boom!
The earth trembled.
Rolling dust shot into the sky, and violent shockwaves swept outward like a tsunami. Fortunately, Uta defended against the impact in time.
Within the spreading smoke and dust, the two tangled dragons were finally forced apart by the tremendous force of the collision, and both of them returned to human form.
They stood up at the same time on the cracked ground.
Although they had just gone through a ridiculous fall, the oppressive aura that belonged only to top-tier fighters instantly returned the moment they steadied themselves.
Cain took the weapon from his back and looked toward Kaido, who had also raised his kanabo.
That twisted feeling of having their dragon bodies knotted together just now had been unbearably frustrating.
No matter how strong their physiques were, that bizarre entanglement had not felt good.
Compared with turning into giant dragons and tearing at each other, a hard clash of fists and weapons still felt much better.
"Round two, Kaido!"
"That's my line, you… what was your name again? Pink brat!"
"Stop calling me that weird nickname!"
Cain frowned tightly and swung his weapon across his body.
Haki surged violently around him once again, and his body rapidly changed, transforming into his pink human-beast form.
"Wororororo… the pink brat doesn't like being called pink… hahaha!"
Kaido grinned savagely and swung his kanabo.
Azure-blue scales covered his whole body as he also transformed into his human-beast form.
He kicked off the ground with both legs and leapt high into the air, shouting down at Cain below.
"Since you're so unhappy with that color, I'll use this move to dye your whole body blood-red!"
"Conqueror of Three Worlds: Ragnaraku!"
The kanabo, wrapped in Conqueror's Haki and flashing with purple lightning, descended from the sky with a destructive force.
"Don't look down on me, Kaido!"
Cain stood on the shattered ground with no intention of backing down.
He swung his own weapon as well, meeting that meteor-like pressure from below with a fierce upward strike.
"Eighty Gods Vacuum Strike!"
Purple lightning and black-red Conqueror's Haki twisted together, pouring out with the swing of his weapon and smashing hard against the black kanabo in midair.
(Shanks and Garp are still on the way… by the way)