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

"Terraman".

"You still have the energy, right?"

Luo looked up, paused for a moment, and then frowned:

"What do you want to do?"

"Take them to a safe place."

Luffy's voice was calm, but what he said next made everyone's expression change.

"Leave the battle here to me. I will definitely defeat Kaido."

The air fell silent for a moment.

Then Zoro was the first to speak: "No."

His voice was hoarse but firm, "You're all alone—"

"Zoro."

Luffy interrupted him, turning to look at his companion who had come all the way from the East Blue.

Luffy's face no longer held his usual carefree expression; instead, it wore an extremely serious and solemn look.

"Believe me."

Zoro looked at him and remained silent for several seconds.

Sanji took the cigarette butt from his mouth and stomped it out.

"Can you manage on your own?"

Luffy smiled.

That silly laugh, exactly the same laugh as usual.

"Of course."

Sanji stared at him for a long time, then exhaled.

"Don't die."

Luffy nodded.

Luo took a deep breath and opened up the operating space.

A semi-transparent light shield covered everyone at the edge of the roof—Zoro, Sanji, Kid, Apoo, Hawkins, Bege, Drake, the Nine Red Scabbards, Inuarashi, Nekomamushi, and the wounded who could still move in the distance.

"Straw hat is the head of the household."

Luo's voice came from inside the light barrier, "Be careful."

"Okay, okay."

Luffy waved at him.

The light shield in the operating room suddenly contracted, and then everyone's figures disappeared from the roof.

The next second, they appeared on a relatively intact high platform at the edge of the Skull Hall.

This would allow them to remain unaffected while still having a clear view of the entire battlefield.

If Kaido wants to attack them, he must first get past Luffy.

Or take care of Luffy first.

Kaido stood in the middle of the ruins, watching Law use his surgical space to transfer everyone away, and snorted.

"Did you let them go?"

"Um!"

Luffy turned to face Kaido, feet shoulder-width apart, fists clenched, Conqueror's Haki lightning crackling on his knuckles once more.

"Kaido! This must be Conqueror's Haki!"

Luffy looked down at the black and red arcs of electricity crackling on his fist and grinned.

"I understood after I was hit by your stick."

He looked up at Kaido, a hint of seriousness creeping into his smile.

"I have to thank you for that."

Kaido looked at the pulsating black and red lightning on Luffy's fist, and a smile suddenly appeared on his lips.

It wasn't a mocking laugh, nor an angry laugh, but a laugh that came from the heart and was full of fighting spirit.

"Hmph! So what if I know?"

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

"You don't actually think you can defeat me just because you've mastered Conqueror's Haki Entanglement, do you?!"

"Kid! You're still a long way off!"

Before he could finish speaking, Kaido's Conqueror's Haki erupted.

That power was more intense than ever before. Black and red lightning erupted from Kaido's body like a volcanic eruption, spreading wildly in all directions.

Wherever the lightning struck, the stone slabs cracked inch by inch, and the rubble was shaken up from the ground, filling the air with a piercing explosion.

The entire battlefield was stained a dark red by Kaido's Conqueror's Haki.

Kaido's massive body, nearly seven meters tall, transformed into a black lightning bolt, and the stone slab beneath his feet blasted open a crater several meters in diameter the instant he leaped.

The next instant, he was already above Luffy's head.

The Eight Precepts were raised high, and black and red lightning frantically condensed on the spiked club, forming a dark red energy ball that kept expanding and contracting.

The oppressive aura emanating from that energy sphere caused the surrounding air to distort and deform.

Luffy did not dodge.

He spread his feet apart, squatted slightly, and threw his right fist out from behind him.

The Gum-Gum Fruit allowed him to stretch his arms to an exaggerated degree, and the black and red lightning wrapped around his fists drew a dark red trail in the night sky.

Then his fist bounced back.

The fist wrapped in Conqueror's Haki and the spiked club wrapped in Conqueror's Haki collided in mid-air.

The fist and the stick were separated by a distance of more than ten centimeters, but the two Conqueror's Haki energies were already tearing each other apart frantically.

Black and red lightning crackled and danced between the two, each collision unleashing a visible shockwave.

The surrounding stone slabs shattered inch by inch under the pressure of the shockwave, and the fragments were crushed into powder by the two energies before they could even fly out.

"boom--!!!"

A circular shockwave exploded from the point of impact, spreading wildly in all directions.

Using the force of the impact, Luffy retreated rapidly, somersaulting several times in the air before landing on a piece of flying gravel.

The piece of gravel paused in mid-air before being crushed to pieces by his foot.

Luffy himself used the force of the rebound to transform into a dark red lightning bolt and punched Kaido in the abdomen.

Kaido raised his club to block.

Luffy's fist slammed into the staff of the Eight Precepts, and Conqueror's Haki lightning exploded from his fist, vibrating through the staff and reaching Kaido's arm.

Kaido was so shocked that he took a step back.

Luffy didn't stop.

His fists rained down on Kaido like a storm, each punch crackling with black and red Conqueror's Haki, each aimed precisely at Kaido's vital points.

Kaido swung his club in retaliation, and the two attacks collided wildly in mid-air.

No one held back, no one retreated.

Two figures moved at high speed through the ruins, sending debris flying and explosions booming wherever they went.

On the high platform at the edge of the roof, the Straw Hat Alliance members watched the battle, all of them stunned.

"Straw Hat Boy... he actually fought Kaido to a draw?"

Ap's voice trembled, but not with fear; it was with shock.

Becky, with a cigar in her mouth, took a deep drag, and smoke slowly escaped from the corner of her mouth.

"Looks like we made the right bet."

Drake silently watched the battlefield, a complex light flashing in his eyes.

Zoro, Sanji, and Kid all had the same thing burning in their eyes—envy.

As people who also possess Conqueror's Haki, they know all too well what it means to be enveloped in Conqueror's Haki.

That is the pinnacle of Conqueror's Haki, a symbol that stands above all other users of Haki.

And now, Luffy has reached that threshold.

boom--!!!

Another collision.

Luffy's fist slammed into the Eight Guardians, and the Conqueror's Haki lightning collided violently, the shockwave blasting away all the ruins around them.

Luffy used the momentum to step back, shook his numb arm, and wore a confident smile.

That fearless expression reappeared on his face.

Kaido!

Now I possess the same power as you!

All that's left is to knock you flying!

Kaido was taken aback.

Then he covered his face and let out a series of low, suppressed laughs.

The laughter grew louder and louder, eventually turning into wild, unrestrained laughter as the person looked up at the sky.

"Ooh lol lol lol lol lol!!!"