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Chapter 940: Sky is My Home Ground!
Chapter 940: Sky is My Home Ground!
"Kuro!!"
Watching Oni's Island completely erased, Kaido's eyes burned with bloodshot rage. Before he could act, Kuro gripped the Yokai Blade and slashed forward.
Strike first, strike hard!
"Lion!!"
A blood-tinged black-gold slash erupted chaotically toward the two foes.
"Hmph?!"
Charlotte·Big Mom's brows shot up. Gripping Napoleon, she cleaved her blade upward, unleashing a massive shockwave.
"Viguo!!"
Boom!!
The shockwave met the slashing energy midair, erupting in a vortex of force that shattered the atmosphere. A violent gale blew outward, scouring the battlefield.
"Going all-out? Mamacita, Kuro, then I'll keep you and Lucius Kro both here!"
Big Mom growled, "The Navy'll lose half its strength without you two!"
"Yohohohohoho! True enough!"
Kaido's incarnated Azure Dragon bellowed, "Oni's Island? Let it sink. All the commanders are at Wano Country for the festival anyway—what's left isn't worth caring about!"
They were Four Emperors, the pinnacle powers of the Grand Line, the world's ultimate strongmen. Such trifles wouldn't shake their composure.
After the storm's passing, Kuro stood slightly hunched, Haki swirling across his face. A cross-shaped mark burned at his brow's center, tear streaks darkening beneath his eyes. "You're really careless, Kaido."
"Yohohohoho! Kuro!" Kaido's dragon claws pointed sharply. "We were just talking about you! Here's a new offer—join Old Man's crew! He'll marry you his daughter, make you my deputy Governor! When Old Man dies, you'll rule Beast King Pirates and protect Wano Country as Ming King! Refuse, and die here!"
He admired strong men. To him, powerful warriors were always welcome.
Especially Kuro, who'd wounded him in youth, now clearly stronger. With such a force allied, no corner of this world would resist them!
"Pfft. A backwater nation and a pirate crew? You think you can match my current privileges?"
Kuro spat a laugh. "Only you obsessed with the One Piece would offer such trash."
As an Admiral candidate, he already wielded immense Navy rights. Under World Government protection, he could operate anywhere across seas!
Grand Line, New World—he roamed freely. Pirates? Chasing bounties while hiding in the Grand Line's backwaters? That was just another jail.
Besides... Laugh Tale? He had one. He didn't care.
"A shame, then. Die here!"
Kaido twisted his serpentine body, four claws gripping invisible force. "You're not the only one with 'Catastrophe' strength, Kuro!"
Whoosh!
His writhing form churned the air into countless tornadoes. Seas roared, cyclones spiraling skyward. The howling vortices, sharp enough to hum death's hymn, ravaged the Grand Line's waters.
"Dragon Cyclone Barrage!!"
The colossal tornadoes surged toward Kuro at Kaido's roar, each capable of obliterating cities. Catastrophe-level power? For Four Emperors, child's play!
"Viguo!"
Simultaneously, Charlotte·Big Mom's thundercloud Zeus expanded, crackling with lightning. Thunderbolts lashed forward.
Wind and lightning clashed!
Kuro narrowed his eyes, avoiding a direct blade block. Instead, he summoned a sky-piercing stone pillar from the sea, swinging the titanic column to intercept the storm and lightning.
Crash!!
The pillar's tip shattered, rubble plunging into the ocean, splashing waves skyward. Kuro's "Continent" defenses were endless—this deadlock could last hours.
"Kaido!" Big Mom roared.
"Got it!" Kaido replied. His dragon form shrank, resolving into a humanoid figure. Scaled skin glistened, fangs protruded, horns crowned his head with smaller spikes flanking—a tail lashed behind, howling winds roaring with its swing.
Dragon-Man hybrid! Bestial form!
He gripped his staff, hands back for the strike.
Big Mom likewise raised Napoleon, targeting the pillar.
"One strike."
They roared in unison: "Destroy it!!"
The pillar suddenly rocketed skyward, breaking free of storm and lightning. The landmass covering the Sky followed, ascending en masse.
Like hell I'll let you waste my reserves.
Kuro didn't know their plan, but sensing their rising auras—he knew trouble.
As the pillar vanished skyward, Kuro blazed upward, reappearing beneath Big Mom. Yokai Blade slashed upward.
"Momentum Blade!"
The blood-hued slashes wove a spiderweb, slicing through the thundercloud.
"Mother!!"
Zeus cried, body shredded into scattered black clouds exploding outward.
Big Mom lurched downward, her flightless form plummeting.
"You bastard!" she roared.
"Tch. You two together are unbeatable? Better separated."
He slashed downward, accelerating her fall.
Two Admirals united? Unstoppable. Two Four Emperors? Same story.
Even foolhardy Kuro wouldn't challenge two at once. Separate them first!
"Huh?!" Kaido's staff swung downward.
"Stay down!!"
Kuro's five fingers spread—Haki activated, halting Kaido's howling winds. Simultaneously, a slash struck, blasting Kaido backward.
He'd seen it—when Kaido used his tail's wind to hover, the turbulence was too crude. Temporary stalling only. No flight.
Beast-form Kaido couldn't fly.
No land nearby? Easy prey.
Without land, the Sky became Kuro's domain. All others? Irrelevant!
(End of Chapter)
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