The Great Battle Ends, Haku Victorious!

"Brat! You're dead!"

"Great Fire Dragon"

Watching Haku before him, Kaido created a massive fire dragon to envelop his own body and charged at the Haku who was right in front of him!

Anything the flames touched would instantly melt!

Too bad that was just a bit of fire—compared to the temperature of his Ryujin Jakka, it was far too inferior!

Haku instinctively swung the Ryujin Jakka in his hand, effortlessly blocking Kaido's ferocious attack!

"How can this be!"

Kaido was shocked. Before the other party had put on that mysterious mask, he had a rough idea of how strong Haku was!

But with the mask on, Haku's strength had already matched his own!

"Ahhh! I almost completely fell under the mask's influence!"

Haku, who hadn't spoken in a long time, finally managed to talk. He had spent considerable effort breaking free from the negative emotional influence the mask had on him!

But the result of breaking that influence brought him a huge surprise!

Haku could clearly feel that he had begun to initially master the Hollow Mask.

And with his initial control over the Hollow Mask, it meant that from now on, whenever he put it on again, he would rarely be affected by its negative emotions!

Most importantly, Haku could sense that he could wield the power of Hollows more freely!

"Brat! You dare to get distracted while fighting me!"

Seeing Haku lost in his own world, Kaido immediately launched an attack at him!

"Breathes Fire!"

A pillar of flame shot from Kaido's mouth, aimed at Haku!

Snapping back to reality, Haku looked at the attack and curled his lips into a cold sneer!

"Cero!"

Haku pointed the Ryujin Jakka toward Kaido! A small black sphere condensed at the tip of the blade!

In an instant, a black energy beam shot toward Kaido's Breathes Fire!

The two techniques clashed, and within moments, Kaido's Breathes Fire couldn't hold out and was instantly shattered!

"Impossible!"

Kaido let out a final roar as his body was struck by the Cero!

A devastating storm of energy swept across the area. When it subsided, all that remained was a crater, and at the bottom of it lay Kaido's charred body.

After enduring that attack, he could no longer maintain his full Beast Transformation and eventually reverted to his human form!

Haku looked down from the air at Kaido below. The man's right arm was gone, and the right horn on his head had been sliced off by Haku!

His most severe injury was the cylindrical wound on his lower right abdomen—the one Haku had just inflicted with the Cero!

Kaido was now gravely wounded, with not a single spot on his body unharmed.

Haku slowly descended, looking down at the dying Kaido lying on the ground.

"Navy... you've won."

Lying on the ground, bloodied and mangled, Kaido spoke to Haku with difficulty. He was so badly injured that even his words came out weak and labored.

"Yeah! So I'm thinking, should I take you and lock you up in Impel Down?"

Kaido burst into laughter! But it only made him groan in pain from his injuries!

Kaido said to Haku, "Haku, right? Why do you want to lock me up instead of killing me?"

Haku fixed his gaze on the man.

He said slowly, "That's because I'm not happy with the World Government. Taking you away doesn't seem to bring me any benefit!"

After hearing Haku's reasoning, Kaido's expression froze!

Then, he burst into another round of laughter!

This laugh was both painful and joyful.

In all his long life, he had never heard such an amusing explanation!

He could imagine what kind of waves this kind of thinking would stir up if it ever got out to the World Government!

Kaido then spoke, "Since you don't want to capture me, and you don't want to kill me, then, brat, what the hell did you come to Wano Country for?"

Hearing this, Haku suddenly remembered, "Ah! If you hadn't mentioned it, I would've forgotten. I came to Wano to track down a batch of Seastone that was stolen here!"

With that, Haku turned into a bolt of lightning and vanished from the spot!

And after hearing his answer, Kaido was left completely stunned.

After Haku had been gone for a long while, he roared in anger, "Damn Marine brat! I'm not done with you!"

Before long, King, also heavily wounded, dragged his battered body over to Kaido's side.

Seeing Kaido's condition, he exclaimed in shock, "Boss! Are you alright?"

As the one who had followed Kaido the longest and was his most trusted man, in King's memory, he had never seen Kaido so severely injured!

No matter how recklessly Kaido courted death, he had never seen him end up in such a sorry state!

When Kaido saw that it was King, he spoke in a dying breath, "King! Investigate thoroughly who has been hijacking the Marines' Seastone in Wano Country recently!"

After saying this, Kaido finally couldn't hold on any longer and collapsed unconscious on the spot.

"Boss! Boss!"

Seeing Kaido pass out, he cried out in alarm.

At the same time, a storm raged in his heart.

From Kaido's words, he guessed that the Seastone stolen in Wano Country was one of the reasons that had drawn this absurdly powerful Marine Admiral here.

A sense of absurdity spread endlessly in his mind.

He kept thinking: You Marines, who aren't short on money, is it really worth it? For a pittance of Seastone, there's no need to flip an entire Four Emperors' pirate crew upside down, is there?

He looked at his own injuries, then at Kaido's.

King felt like dying himself!

But there was no time to dwell on it. Dragging his broken body, with the help of Queen, who was also badly hurt and had just returned, they hastily carried Kaido's body and severed arm back to Onigashima for treatment.

Holy Land Marijoa · Five Elders' Conference Room

The Five Elders' Birthmark said, "Word from Wano Country has come back."

The other Five Elders members, who had been somewhat relaxed, all turned their attention to the Five Elders' Birthmark, everyone eager for the outcome.

The Five Elders' Sword then said disdainfully, "I imagine that brat has already lost, hasn't he? After all, his opponent was a veteran Four Emperors, and Wano Country is his turf."

The Five Elders' Birthmark was silent for a moment, then spoke, "That brat won."

"Impossible!"

Everyone exclaimed in shock. In their view, there was no reason for Haku to win while causing trouble in the enemy's stronghold!