Boom!!
After finishing the combo, Ron spun up a thunderstorm and brought his final kick crashing down from the sky.
Amid an earth-shattering explosion, his heel smashed down like a block of iron onto Kaido's crown. With a crisp cracking sound, Kaido's legs gave out, and his knees slammed heavily into the ground, kicking up a ring of dust.
His one remaining eye widened in disbelief. Kaido stared viciously into the empty air ahead, roaring inwardly without stop.
"How is this possible?!"
"I actually... I, Kaido..."
"Am going to lose?!!!"
The title "strongest in a one-on-one fight" had become an obsession for Kaido, because it was simply true. Even Whitebeard in his prime as one of the Four Emperors would have been hard-pressed to survive a fight against him.
He had always believed that only Whitebeard at his peak several decades ago—the Whitebeard who stood alongside the other "Three Great Legends" and whom people like him could only look up to—was worthy of making him fight to the death.
Yet what was happening now?
Ron's attacks came from viciously tricky angles, every strike aimed at the vital points of his head. Not once did he take the easy route and attack his limbs or torso.
In human form, his defense did not have the flaws and weaknesses of his Azure Dragon form. Since that was the case, why attack places that were equally difficult to hit but not vital?
Every move Ron made struck only at the key points!
The repeated heavy blows violently shook his brain, leaving his limbs weak and powerless. The electrical force surging through his body had damaged his nerve endings as well, repeatedly preventing him from defending at critical moments through paralysis.
"Cough... Uwah!!!"
At that moment, Kaido tasted blood in his throat. Lowering his