"Is it noon already?"
The not-too-loud voice, laced with indifference and arrogance, echoed over the ruins, lingering for a long while.
As they watched Qin Yu slowly walk out once more, looking completely unscathed, everyone present's pupils abruptly contracted, their faces filled with disbelief.
Kaido's successive attacks had been so powerful that any one of them would have been enough to severely injure, or even instantly kill, all of them.
Yet they had never expected that, when they landed on Qin Yu, they would have no effect whatsoever.
Was this the terrifying gap in strength?
More importantly, the Qin Yu who had appeared this time gave them an indescribably powerful feeling.
"No, impossible! There's no way you came out completely unscathed! You must be putting on an act! I refuse to believe my attacks had no effect at all!"
Kaido's face darkened to the extreme. His huge mouth opened slightly as he roared in fury once again.
His massive body suddenly swung, tearing through the air as he rapidly closed in on Qin Yu again.
Endless Haki surged forth once more, wildly pouring into the gigantic spiked club.
As crackling Haki arcs burst forth, the moment he drew close, without any flourish at all, Kaido swung the gigantic spiked club again.
"Thunder Hakoku!"
Boom!
The enormous spiked club, carrying rolling thunderous might, smashed heavily into Qin Yu.
In an instant, the ground beneath them was the first to buckle beneath the tremendous impact, shattering apart like a spiderweb.
It spread outward in all directions with terrifying speed.
Inuarashi and the others standing in the distance had no time to think. They grabbed Kozuki Hiyori, intending to hurriedly evade.
However, the words that reached their ears made them completely abandon that thought.
"He blocked it!"
Those simple four words struck everyone's