"Another loudmouthed brat. If you can do it, then come and try."
Kaido looked domineering as he swung his kanabo, stirring up a wild gale with high spirits.
Having just finished fighting the three of them, he bore wounds all over his body. Zoro alone had left several sword cuts on him, while Luffy and Sanji's punches and kicks had inflicted even more injuries. Calling him battered all over would not have been an exaggeration.
Now that he faced Reiner, he had no intention of resting to recover his wounds. Waiting until he had returned to his peak before accepting a newcomer's challenge would have been far too insulting to him.
Besides.
Kaido looked Reiner over from head to toe. The bloodstains on his clothes had not yet dried, and fresh flesh had only just grown over the penetrating wounds in his abdomen and arms. It was not hard to tell that he had come straight from another fight as well.
Were those two supernovas called Law and Kid?
Kaido fell into thought.
When he came back to himself, a flicker of Azure Flame danced in Reiner's hand. In the blink of an eye, a savage battle axe, pale white from end to end, had appeared in his grasp, wrapped in a white aura containing the ultimate power of destruction.
"I see. A method like Linlin's, then."
Sensing that familiar power, Kaido immediately recognized what was special about the battle axe.
The two stood facing each other with several stone peaks between them. Lightning flashed across the sky, briefly illuminating the stone forest and dragging countless long black shadows behind it.
A few seconds later.
Boom!!
Thunder rumbled as both men moved at once. The giant axe and kanabo collided, throwing up sparks as the blast of sound overlapped with