One Piece: The user of the Nen-Nen Fruit, who overturned the sea.

In the plaza below,

To everyone's astonishment, the sky-covering azure dragon was punched down by a human whose teeth were smaller than his.

The Azure Dragon's massive body traced a slanted arc through the air, accompanied by a whistling wind, as it plummeted towards the top of the Skull Palace.

The massive dragon's body crashed onto the top of Ghost Island, causing the entire Skull Palace to tremble violently upon impact.

Dust fell from the dome, and several torches inside the hall were extinguished.

Smoke and dust billowed into the sky, completely engulfing Kaido's dragon body.

Luffy fell from the sky, and after the attack, his Gear Fourth form quickly shrank back to its original size.

Zoro, Sanji, Kid, Law, and others also ascended to the top of the main hall.

Those stronger warriors and mink warriors who had followed held their weapons and stared nervously at the still billowing cloud of dust.

No one spoke, but everyone gripped their weapons tightly.

Luffy's punch was indeed shocking, but everyone present knew in their hearts that Kaido couldn't be defeated so easily.

Those are the Four Emperors.

A monster with a bounty of 4.6 billion Berries.

If he could be defeated with a single punch, he wouldn't be Kaido.

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On the roof of the Skull Palace, the Straw Hat Alliance members stood in a row, swords drawn, their eyes fixed on the area shrouded in smoke and dust.

No one speaks.

"Thump-thump-thump!"

Heavy footsteps echoed through the smoke and dust.

Immediately afterwards, a hand as large as a palm-leaf fan emerged from the smoke and dust, and with a casual wave,

The resulting wind pressure swept away all the smoke and dust within a radius of several meters.

Kaido stood in the middle of the ruins he had created.

He has transformed back into human form from his dragon form.

Standing seven meters tall amidst the rubble, he was radiating heat, and his skin still bore faint red marks from Luffy's punches.

He carried the Eight Precepts on his shoulder, his eyes gleaming with a dark golden light in the moonlight.

"Giggle giggle!"

"Kid, you've improved."

Kaido cracked his neck, producing a series of crisp snapping sounds.

"That punch just now was much stronger than the one you threw in the Flower Capital."

Luffy grinned: "I told you I was going to beat you up."

"Hehehe—beat me up?"

Kaido removed the Eight Guardian Rings from his shoulder; the spikes on his spiked club gleamed coldly in the moonlight.

"That punch just now? You're far from it."

Before he finished speaking, his aura changed.

Kaido's eyes narrowed, and an indescribable sense of oppression erupted from him.

Black and red Conqueror's Haki lightning exploded from Kaido's body, pouring out in all directions like a torrential rain.

The stone slabs on the roof began to crack under the pressure of this force, and the slabs closest to Kaido were directly shattered into powder.

The air trembled wherever the lightning struck.

Usopp was the first to sense that something was wrong.

His knees began to buckle, and the slingshot in his hand fell to the ground with a thud.

Chopper rolled his eyes and almost rolled off the edge of the roof, but Robin quickly pulled him back using the Flower-Flower Fruit.

Nami's face turned deathly pale, and her hand holding the Clima-Tact trembled violently.

"What...what is this?!"

Ap's voice was trembling.

Hawkins' hand, which was about to flip the card, froze in mid-air, a layer of cold sweat beading on his forehead.

Becky's cigar finally fell to the ground.

Drake gritted his teeth and forced himself not to kneel down, but his legs were already trembling.

Even some of the older samurai among the Nine Red Scabbards couldn't help but take a half step back under the oppressive aura of this Conqueror's Haki.

Kin'emon's forehead was covered in cold sweat, but he gritted his teeth and did not back down an inch.

Denjiro's hand holding the sword trembled slightly, not from fear, but from the memory of that night twenty years ago surging up under the stimulation of this Conqueror's Haki.

Kaido's Conqueror's Haki continues to wreak havoc.

That power was truly terrifying.

Having lived and fought for so many years, his Conqueror's Haki had long been honed to its pinnacle.

The aftershocks alone are enough to knock out a person with a weak will.

But at that moment...

Another burst of overwhelming power erupted.

Luffy stood at the very front of everyone, his feet shoulder-width apart, his hands clenched into fists and hanging at his sides.

His Conqueror's Haki surged from his body, and dark red lightning crackled and danced around him, colliding head-on with Kaido's Conqueror's Haki.

Two overwhelming colors collided in mid-air.

From a distance, the scene was both eerie and spectacular—

Two bolts of black and red lightning formed two hemispherical shields in the air, one pressing down from Kaido's side and the other pushing back from Luffy's side, colliding wildly in the middle.

Where lightning struck, the air was torn apart with a deafening roar, and the stone slabs of the roof cracked under the pressure of the two forces.

Gravel flew out from the crack, only to be broken into powder by the lightning's energy before it hit the ground.

But it's clear that Luffy is at a disadvantage.

His Conqueror's Haki-enhanced spheres are being gradually pushed back by Kaido.

It's not that Luffy isn't strong enough, it's that Kaido's Conqueror's Haki is too overpowered.

That was the pure, unadulterated color of the Conqueror, forged through decades of war.

Luffy's Conqueror's Haki is strong, but it's still too weak compared to Kaido's.

His hemisphere shrank continuously under Kaido's pressure, from hundreds of meters to just over ten meters.

Luffy gritted his teeth, exerted force with his feet, and managed to withstand the attack.

His legs bent slightly under the pressure of the Conqueror's Haki, leaving two deep footprints on the stone slab beneath his feet, but he did not retreat an inch.

The two sides' Conqueror's Haki was once again locked in a stalemate.

"Um?!"

Kaido narrowed his eyes.

This little brat wearing a straw hat didn't break down despite being suppressed by his Conqueror's Haki.

They held on?

interesting.

That's so interesting.

After a brief test, Kaido withdrew his Conqueror's Haki, and Luffy breathed a sigh of relief.

With a soft "pop," the two hemispherical shields disappeared simultaneously.

The lingering lightning crackled a few times in the air before finally subsiding completely.

Kaido stood there, looking at Luffy, and made a rough judgment in his mind.

Although this kid's Conqueror's Haki is not as good as mine, my Conqueror's Haki cannot completely overwhelm his.

It's not impossible to forcefully suppress someone with Conqueror's Haki, but it's too time-consuming and not satisfying enough.

Since Conqueror's Haki can't determine a winner, let's settle it with fists.

With a loud bang, the stone slab beneath Kaido's feet suddenly shattered.

His massive seven-meter-tall body unleashed a speed completely out of character for his size, transforming into a blur as he pounced towards Luffy.

The Eight Precepts traced an arc in the moonlight, and the black and red lightning wrapped around the spiked club pulsed wildly.

"Overlord of the Sea—!"

The moment the Eighth Regiment swung out, a green shockwave carrying Conqueror's Haki exploded from the tip of the staff, engulfing everyone in the Straw Hat League.