Both start in hell: but their talents are multiplied a hundredfold.

Even from several kilometers away, Shen Jue could smell the strong odor of alcohol.

Kaido's breath created a fierce wind that uprooted trees on the mountain and sent rocks weighing tens of tons rolling down the ridge like pieces of paper.

This drunken blue dragon is singing.

The indistinct melody sounded like a folk song from Wano Country.

But every lyric was turned into a howl by drunkenness, and that howl shook the entire sky.

This pirate emperor of the high seas has a bounty of 4.6111 billion Berries from the World Government.

This monster is known as the "strongest creature".

They roamed freely across this vast ocean.

Kaido, the strongest creature, was captured eighteen times and sentenced to death forty times.

The noose of the gallows could not break his neck.

The guillotine blade struck Kaido's neck, and the blade shattered.

The spear, covered in Armament Haki, couldn't pierce Kaido's skin.

Kaido was so bored that he jumped off a sky island to commit suicide, crashing onto the deserted island and creating a crater.

Kaido, who was lying at the bottom of the pit, let out a burp, then stood up and left.

Unharmed.

At this moment, Kaido, in his blue dragon form, was swaying in the sky.

His dragon tail flicked unconsciously, like someone who's drunk and casually swings their arm.

boom!

A small hill was formed on the ground.

Shen Jue had no idea how many innocent people Kaido had accidentally killed while in a drunken state.

His fists clenched.

The finger bones tightened one by one, making a cracking sound.

The swaying azure dragon seemed to have noticed Shen Jue in the sky.

Just like discovering a fun toy, the drunken Kaido Dragon spewed out a breath of dragon fire!

A beam of light, carrying devastating heat, hurtled straight toward Shen Jue!

This dragon breath is Kaido's signature move in his Azure Dragon form.

One breath from it could evaporate a mountain.

In the original One Piece storyline, Kaido in his Azure Dragon form wiped the entire Oden Castle ruins off the map with a single breath, leaving not even ashes behind.

Shen Jue raised her head.

"roll."

One punch.

Armament Haki Flowing Sakura materialized and was simultaneously unleashed along with Conqueror's Haki, the most powerful of the three types of Haki!

The moment the fist and the dragon's breath collided, the pillar of light was split in two!

The two streams of energy that split open crashed into the mountain peaks on either side, blasting out two gaps hundreds of meters in diameter!

The rubble was crushed into dust by the blast wave before it even hit the ground!

The lingering force of the punch had not dissipated.

After cleaving through the dragon's breath, that force continued to advance.

The air had no time to escape and was squeezed into a visible white film by the fist, wrapping around the shock wave like a meteorite flying backwards, crashing straight into Kaido's dragon head.

Kaido's drunken eyes were still not focused.

Only a growing black shadow was reflected in the dragon's eyes.

Then the residual force of that punch arrived.

The moment it struck the dragon's face, there was a loud boom!

Those are the blue dragon scales on Kaido's left cheekbone!

The dragon scales, harder than steel and more solid than sea stone, exploded!

Scales flew everywhere!

Each piece rotates and cuts through the air, nailing into the mountain walls on both sides and embedding itself deeply into the rock!

Kaido's dragon head suddenly swung to the right.

His eyes widened!

The intoxication was torn open by the excruciating pain in that instant!

Kaido felt his skull cracking.

A crack started from the left cheekbone and spread all the way to the upper edge of the eye socket, like a dried-up riverbed bursting open and branching on the surface of the skull.

pain.

This word was as foreign to Kaido as a language from another world.

He once jumped from a sky island and crashed into the ground unharmed.

But now Kaido is in pain.

"?!?!"

Kaido opened his dragon mouth, trying to make a sound, but the sound was blocked by the shockwave.

The residual force of the punch pushed his dragon head, which dragged his neck, and the neck pulled on the dragon's body, which was thousands of meters long. His entire body was sent flying by the punch!

The dragon's body, which was thousands of meters long, was blasted into a straight line, like a blue spear thrown by a giant, flying backwards along the surface of Wano Country!

Kaido crashed through the mountain peak.

The mountain is broken in the middle.

The upper half of the mountain was smashed by the dragon's body, and millions of tons of rocks were blasted into pieces. Before they could even land, they were sucked into the vacuum created by Kaido's backward flight trajectory, and dragged into a long tail of rubble.

Kaido, in his Azure Dragon form, crashed through the clouds.

His dragon body sprang up, propelled into the sky by the residual force of the impact.

The clouds were blasted open, the edges of which were as clean as if they had been cut with a knife.

The dragon's body passed through the clouds and flew above the sea of ​​clouds. The sunlight shone on its scales again, but the cracks on the scales were also clearly visible in the sunlight.

Cracks spread like a spider web from the left cheek to the dragon's neck, and from the dragon's neck to its chest.

His dragon claws hung limply.

The dragon's tail trailed behind it, like a dead snake.

Kaido wanted to make a move.

His brain was issuing commands, but every part of his body was refusing to carry them out.

The impact of that punch hadn't completely dissipated; it was still buzzing in his bones, numbing all his reflexes.

Kaido flew across the entire Inland Sea.

The pressure from the dragon's body cleaved the sea surface, creating a trench that caused the seawater to surge to both sides, revealing the underwater reefs.

The fish in the sea were stunned and floated to the surface belly up, forming a white path.

Then Kaido crashed into Onigashima.

Above the Flower Capital, on the island perched atop a giant skull, lies Kaido's own lair.

The dragon's body crashed into the rocky bed at the bottom of Ghost Island.

boom!

A huge hole was blasted open in the rock!

Cracks radiated out from the edge of the hole, spreading across the entire bottom of the ghost island!

The rubble flew everywhere like cannonballs, but failed to hit the streets, rooftops, and squares of the Flower City.

The residents of the Flower Capital screamed and scattered in all directions, looking up to see the island they had feared for twenty years falling from the sky with stones.

The stone, however, was strangely floating in mid-air.

That was Shen Jue's Phantom Breath Technique: Gravity Manipulation.

Kaido's dragon body did not stop.

He crashed through the rocky slab of the island, smashing in from the bottom, passing through layer after layer of rock, soil, and man-made underground cells, and finally bursting out from the top of the island.

Then he stopped.

The dragon's body is embedded in the rock at the top of Ghost Island, like a nail driven into a wall.

The dragon's head was tilted to one side, and most of the scales on its left cheek were broken, revealing dark red muscles and pale bones underneath.

The cracks on the skull were clearly visible, extending from the left eye socket all the way to the base of the dragon horn.

Kaido lost one of his dragon horns.

The severed dragon horn stuck at the other end of Oni Island, wobbled twice, then rolled down and crashed into the moat of the Flower Capital, splashing water dozens of meters high.

Blood flowed like a stream from Kaido's dragon mouth.

The eyes of this most powerful creature were open, and he was no longer drunk.

In the dragon's vertical pupils, the murky smell of alcohol had been completely replaced by excruciating pain and shock.

Kaido was panting heavily, each breath spitting out blood foam and the smell of alcohol.

The dragon's body was still twitching slightly, a primal resistance against the fist force that was still raging within him.

"cough!"

Kaido spat out a mouthful of blood that flowed like a waterfall.

Blood splattered on Ghost Island, burning a crater.

Then Kaido's dragon body began to shrink.

The Azure Dragon's form is fading, its scales are shrinking back into its skin, its horns are shrinking from the broken base, its claws are degenerating into fingers, and its tail is retracting into its spine.

The dragon's body, which was thousands of meters long, shrank to the size of a human in a few seconds.

Kaido, in his human form, knelt amidst the rubble of Onigashima.

His left cheek was swollen and deformed, with a noticeable indentation at the cheekbone.

Those are the marks of a fist.

The cracks on the skull did not disappear during the shrinking process; instead, they became clearer.

Blood streamed down Kaido's forehead, covering half of his face.

Kaido raised his head.

There was no rage, no madness in his eyes, only one thing: clarity.

Completely and utterly awake.

And confusion.

Who? Who hit me? What did they use? Why were they able to shatter my scales? Why were they able to break my dragon horns? Why were they able to send me flying from the edge of Wano Country to Onigashima with a single punch?

Kaido stood up.

His knee wobbled, but he regained his balance.

Then he felt it.

above.

There was something directly above him.

Kaido raised his head.

The sky was overcast, and factory smoke and dust blocked out the sunlight.

But he still saw a figure.

Standing against the light in the sky, I looked down at him.

The figure had no wings, no Devil Fruit characteristics, and stood in the air as steadily as if it were standing on the ground.

"you......"

Kaido's voice was hoarse, and there was blood in his throat.

Shen Jue looked down at Kaido, who was in a sorry state and surrounded by rubble.

His fist was still clenched, with two colors of Haki wrapped around his knuckles, giving this land and Kaido a deep sense of oppression.

"What kind of emperor are you again?" Shen Jue asked slowly.