Luffy, how can you become the Pirate King if you don't work hard!

The black and white vibrating ball silently blended into the almost invisible birdcage threads.

The birdcage, which was previously invisible, became visible to everyone when they looked up; the thin line above their heads had turned into a black and white stripe.

Then the birdcage, which had been continuously gathering, suddenly stopped, and the surroundings began to shake.

Then, with a snap.

Doflamingo's face went blank. "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

His birdcage is broken!

......

"Hey, what are you looking at?! Fight me with all your might, you little straw hat brat!"

Before he finished speaking, Kaido's enormous body unleashed a terrifying speed that was disproportionate to his size, appearing almost instantly to Luffy's side!

With a snap.

A red light flashed in Luffy's eyes, and he placed his hands in front of him.

"Thunderous Eight Trigrams!"

With a sneak attack, Luffy was sent flying.

Until his body was embedded in a huge rock.

"I have been constantly defeating those guys who claim to be stronger than me, and before I knew it, I had been called the strongest."

Kaido, carrying his spiked club, stared in Luffy's direction. "But what can you see from the position of the strongest? It's so boring! It's like there's no one stronger than yourself in the landscape."

"Straw Hat Luffy!"

"If you can do it, then come on!"

The two sides have exchanged blows countless times by now.

You can see that the surrounding terrain has been reshaped. This place was originally a forest, but now all that's left are rocks.

To be honest, Luffy didn't want to take Kaido's spiked club, which was imbued with Conqueror's Haki, headfirst.

That feeling was definitely unpleasant.

Just like Kaido would never dare to take Luffy's knife head-on.

Each of their attacks is capable of breaking through defenses.

"You stood up so quickly? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!"

Kaido grinned as he looked at Luffy, who had broken free from the rocky crevice. "Your physical abilities are unbelievably tough, Straw Hat! That last hit was a solid one, and I even coated it with a full dose of Conqueror's Haki!"

That sneak attacker has no sense of sportsmanship.

"It hurts a little,"

Luffy stood up, and the rocks behind him quickly turned into rubber. "Let me show you my Conqueror's Haki."

He gripped the blade tightly in his right hand, its jet-black tip pointing diagonally at the ground.

"Oh, oh, oh, oh! That's more like it. With this level of Conqueror's Haki, I knew you'd reached our level too." Kaido laughed.

In the battlefield of top-tier powerhouses, you can't even get a ticket to enter without being entangled in Conqueror's Haki!

Luffy grinned.

He gradually mastered the Conqueror's Haki entangling technique, which serves as a threshold for entering the ranks of top-tier powerhouses, during his battles with Shiki.

The naval admirals of the Sabaody Archipelago.

Impel's Battleground for the Strong.

Through constant battles with powerful opponents, his Conqueror's Haki now allows him to kill even the immortal beings among the Five Elders.

Luffy doesn't underestimate Kaido.

He has only been systematically training in the One Piece training program for a little over two years, while the monster in front of him, known as the strongest creature in the world, has been fighting for decades since the New World and is now at its peak.

Although Kaido always makes a lot of noise and sounds like he's just bragging, there's one thing he's right about.

In the current world of one-on-one battles on the high seas, Kaido is undoubtedly the king; no one dares to claim to be number one.

Before entering the New World, Luffy might still be a little short of his full potential.

However, two years of training had brought his body to its peak condition.

No, or rather, after a year of training and another year of fighting against powerful figures from various eras using the Time Fruit, his willpower was honed to a terrifying level.

Kaido also noticed it just now.

Even in a deadly battle against someone of his caliber, Luffy was still able to spare some of his mind and energy to attend to what was happening in Dressrosa.

That's why Kaido said that later.

He finally saw the scenery after he became invincible, and now someone else has seen the same scenery as him!

But only one person can stand at the summit and see that ultimate view!

So, who will be the last one standing?

“Oh, Rong Rong Rong Rong,”

Kaido stared intently at the sword in Luffy's hand, his pupils glowing red. "Is this your Conqueror's Haki?"

This level of refinement is truly unmatched by those half-baked ones!

"So, do you deserve it?" Luffy grinned.

"Oh, oh, oh, oh! Of course! Absolutely!"

Kaido's already surging dark red Conqueror's Haki surged towards Luffy like a raging flood.

At this level of combat, the contest is no longer just about physical strength, speed, defense, and Devil Fruit abilities.

Those are the foundation, the carrier.

The real key to victory is willpower!

The so-called domineering spirit is above all else; domineering spirit is the embodiment of willpower.

In a sense, it means that will trumps everything!

Kaido's physical strength is monstrous, but Luffy's physical strength in Gear 5 is not much weaker.

In a game, he'd be a tanky, durable tank.

If you punch me, I'll slash you. No matter how big the fight looks, it won't end well in ten days or half a month.

Just like the battle between Aokiji and Akainu, the two monsters without Conqueror's Haki turned the battle into a war of attrition.

However, those who possess Conqueror's Haki are different.

An attack imbued with Conqueror's Haki can shatter an enemy's will in an instant. No matter what ability or body they possess, once their will is broken, nothing remains!

That's the key to victory!

Therefore, Kaido always looked down on those pirate kids who didn't have Conqueror's Haki, thinking they were just playing pirate house.

Because they simply don't deserve to reach the top of the world!

But the Straw Hat Luffy in front of me is definitely not that kind of brat!

Faced with the terrifying surge of Conqueror's Haki surrounding him, Kaido laughed loudly, "You think you're Joyboy?!"

Kaido, like a giant, purplish-black arrow released from a bow, tore through the air and charged toward Luffy with a deafening sonic boom!

His speed was so great that he left a series of afterimages and shockwaves behind him!

"What joyboy?!"

"I'm going to be the Pirate King!!"

The moment Kaido moved, facing the onrushing torrent of black and red Conqueror's Haki, Luffy was already flying away.

Boom!!

Kaido's attack came first. The giant Eight-Section Garland, wrapped in purplish-black, crashed down like a collapsing pillar towards Luffy's head!

Before the baton even arrived, the ground cracked inch by inch.

Luffy slid to the side and backward, leaving a giant crater with a diameter of over fifty meters in the spot where he had been.

Almost simultaneously with dodging the blow, Luffy swung his sword.

Kaido dodged to the side.

A huge, bottomless chasm was cut open behind Kaido!

boom!

Kaido's counterattack followed immediately!

The thick dragon tail, covered in blue scales, lashed out at Luffy with a howling sound of wind and thunder.

He's covered in weapons!

Luffy reacted extremely quickly. There was no time to sheathe his sword. His left hand was instantly covered with black and red Haki and white shockwave. He clenched his fist, neither dodging nor avoiding, and punched the dragon tail that was whipping out!

"Shockwave!"

With their fists clashing, Luffy's fist firmly blocked the dragon's tail strike, and the shockwave from his fist penetrated directly into Kaido's body.

Kaido frowned, and was sent flying by the shockwave.

Luffy followed closely behind, transferring the demonic energy from his right hand to his left. His free right arm instantly began to spin at high speed like rubber, turning his entire right arm into a blurry afterimage!

"Rubber Jet Spinning Whip!"

One strike, two strikes, three strikes!

Kaido's body kept floating in the air.

"Black Lightning - Thousand Whirlwind Slash!"

The knife in his hand also began to spin continuously, drawing countless strange arcs.

Bang bang bang!

The dense slashing sounds bombarded Kaido's body. Even his thick dragon scales couldn't withstand it. After a burst of sparks, his skin was torn open, and blood began to gush out.