On Punk Hazard Island, shrouded in poisonous fog.
"Fuck!"
"Damn it!!"
"It's Kizaru!"
Dongye Huanglong's expression was extremely grim. The bloody holes in his body rapidly healed under his terrifying recovery ability and Lunarian flames.
The moment he thought of Kizaru's overwhelming strength and terrifying speed, the killing intent and rage in Dongye Huanglong's eyes rapidly faded.
With Kizaru, a Marine Admiral, present—
There was simply no way he could complete his revenge today!
With his current strength, how could he possibly defeat a Marine Admiral?
And he had not even learned Haki. How was he supposed to deal with Kizaru, a Logia-type Glint-Glint Fruit user?
After only a moment's thought, Dongye Huanglong turned and retreated, wishing he could leave Punk Hazard immediately.
If the island was surrounded, he might not be able to escape Kizaru's blockade.
A gentleman could take revenge even ten years later!
"Damn it, I'll remember this grudge!"
The Crimson Giant Dragon did not hesitate and flew at high speed toward the other side of the island.
As he flew, he rapidly familiarized himself with and controlled his reactivated Ancient Giant bloodline, shrinking his colossal dragon god form back to the size of a normal divine dragon.
"I never expected Kizaru's massive laser cannon to scare out the Transparency bloodline factor's ability!
In that case, where in this vast world can't I go in the future?"
Dongye Huanglong joyfully familiarized himself with his new ability as he sped toward the other side of the island, making a strategic retreat.
He could not stubbornly and recklessly go head-to-head with Kizaru right now.
He needed more time to grow and become stronger.
As long as the green hills remained, there would be no shortage of firewood.
But he would definitely take this revenge!
Sooner or later, he would take Caesar's dog life!
Not even Kizaru could stop him!
And Saturn was also among Dongye Huanglong's ultimate targets for revenge.
Punk Hazard was not a small island. Coupled with the purple poisonous gas covering it, even Kizaru, a Marine Admiral, could not use Observation Haki to cover the entire island.
Thus, on the other side of the island, Dongye Huanglong successfully escaped this hellish island that had left him with countless dark memories while in his transparent state.
"Caesar! Saturn! Just you wait!"
After crossing all of Punk Hazard and rushing some distance out over the sea, Dongye Huanglong turned back toward the island and growled.
But in the next instant, he saw more than a dozen dazzling yellow figures suddenly appear above the island, causing his pupils to constrict sharply.
"Kizaru's light clones?"
At the sight of those yellow figures, Dongye Huanglong's muscles instantly tensed, and cold sweat broke out.
Fortunately, he had left without hesitation and possessed the Transparency factor's ability. Otherwise, Kizaru might really have blocked him.
Dongye Huanglong frantically accelerated, desperately putting distance between himself and that seemingly lazy but truly terrifying Marine Admiral.
At that moment, Kizaru suddenly looked toward the direction in which Dongye Huanglong had vanished, as though he had sensed something.
Could that monster have escaped Punk Hazard already?
Yasakani no Magatama!
Kizaru frowned slightly. Regardless of what was going on, he decided to fire off a barrage of lasers first.
Seeing Kizaru's laser shots, Dongye Huanglong fled even faster, desperately running atop clouds and dodging the light bullets in every direction.
But faced with such a dense barrage of laser shots, he was still hit.
Even after taking dozens of laser shots, Dongye Huanglong desperately maintained his transparent ability. He could not let his body be exposed.
However, the splattering blood was still detected by Kizaru's Observation Haki.
"Oh, so he really escaped?"
Kizaru raised a brow. More than a dozen light clones instantly merged into one, then transformed into light particles and chased after him at extreme speed.
Fuck!! Kizaru, you bastard, why the hell are you chasing me?!
Seeing Kizaru pursue him, Dongye Huanglong's scalp went numb. He cursed furiously in his heart as he rapidly lowered his altitude and flew just above the sea surface.
He knew that without a place to land, Kizaru's Glint-Glint Fruit ability should not allow him to keep flying over the sea indefinitely.
So Dongye Huanglong had to flee far enough away to shake off Kizaru's pursuit.
"Oh, quite the nice transparency ability. But for the sake of giving the sea fewer headaches, I can't let you leave!"
Following the direction in which the blood had splattered, Kizaru tracked the transparent giant dragon's approximate location and continued firing a large-scale barrage of laser shots.
As laser shots swept across the sky, blood sprayed out again, and Kizaru swiftly and accurately pinpointed the giant dragon's position.
"Subject 88, surrender!"
Kizaru shouted with a relaxed expression. He was merely an experiment subject who had gone from an ordinary person to the strongest Cyborg, not even comparable to the Great Pirates of the New World.
If the Five Elders had not ordered him to capture Subject 88 alive, he could have killed this giant dragon already.
"Admiral Kizaru, let me go, and I'll give you one billion Berries in a year as repayment!"
Under the constant laser fire, Dongye Huanglong finally could no longer maintain his transparent ability and revealed his giant dragon form. He shouted anxiously at Kizaru.
"Oh, are you trying to bribe me? That won't do. Capturing you is an order from the World's Highest Power, after all."
Seeing Dongye Huanglong reveal himself, Kizaru's expression became a little more serious. This divine dragon wreathed in peculiar flames reminded him of Kaido of the Beasts, one of the Four Emperors.
A golden light sword instantly formed in his hand as he charged forward at extreme speed.
"Kizaru, did you join the Marines of justice just to help the Celestial Dragons bully ordinary people?!"
Dongye Huanglong cursed furiously. The flames around his body surged as his dragon claws desperately swiped at Kizaru, while Laser Beams and Flame Dragon Breath wildly swept toward him.
"Slash!"
"Big fellow, you're too slow!"
Ignoring Dongye Huanglong's words, Kizaru transformed into light particles beneath the dragon claws and effortlessly evaded the attack. As lasers flashed, blood sprayed out, and he slashed Dongye Huanglong's dragon claw with his sword.
Then, amid countless streaks of high-speed light, blood continuously spattered from the giant dragon's body as vicious wounds appeared one after another.
"Oh, what powerful defense and recovery ability. You really are a monster!"
As Kizaru watched the giant dragon sustain injuries and continuously recover from them, a trace of shock appeared in his eyes.
This experimental monster had indeed given him quite a few surprises.
He had not expected that even with his powerful attack strength, he could only break through its defenses instead of completely piercing the giant dragon's body.
"Kizaru!!"
Dongye Huanglong's furious eyes were filled with unwillingness. Under Kizaru's extreme-speed attacks, he once again felt the helplessness of being a lab rat in the laboratory.
That despair of wanting to resist yet being powerless to struggle.
As Kizaru continued his fierce assault, Dongye Huanglong's dragon body was constantly injured and constantly healed, rapidly draining his stamina and turning his face pale.
At this moment, Dongye Huanglong's heart completely sank.
"My apologies, Subject 88."
Kizaru continued hacking at Dongye Huanglong at extreme speed as though bullying a weakling, continuously slashing him to rapidly exhaust his stamina and prepare to capture him alive.
"Ahhh!!"
The divine dragon Dongye Huanglong had transformed into could not hit Kizaru, who possessed extreme speed. Flame Dragon Breath, lasers, and Inazuma were all easily evaded.
In the end, he could only endure Kizaru's attacks and continue fleeing.
He even flew close to the sea surface, using fierce winds to whip up Seawater in an attempt to shake off Kizaru, but it still had no effect.
His heart grew increasingly anxious.
He could not be captured again. He could not return to that hell and become a lab rat!
"Accept reality!"
Kizaru suddenly erupted, carving a wound so deep that Dongye Huanglong's internal organs could be seen into his dragon body and instantly dealing him a heavy blow.
"No!"
"Kizaru!!"
Dongye Huanglong roared unwillingly. How could he fall here? He would rather die than be captured again and turned into an experiment subject.
Remembering those agonizing modification experiences, under extreme pain and resentment, a terrifying aura erupted from Dongye Huanglong's body.
Countless Black-Red Lightning bolts poured forth and raged wildly.
Under that terrifying aura, Kizaru fell into a brief state of shock.
Seizing the opportunity, Dongye Huanglong furiously unleashed a Flame Dragon Breath and Laser Beam filled with killing intent, blasting Kizaru apart with a thunderous explosion into light particles scattered across the sky.
Before Kizaru could recover from his light-particle form, Dongye Huanglong, pale-faced, entered his transparent state again and fled frantically.
As the Black-Red Lightning continued crackling, Kizaru slowly recovered bit by bit, his expression becoming exceptionally grim.
What was that?
Was that Conqueror's Haki?
Or some special Conqueror's Haki that could restrain a Logia-type ability user's recovery?
Looking at the empty sea, Kizaru had no land on which to land. After using Geppo to quickly scan the area, he could only transform into a laser with a dark expression and return to Punk Hazard at extreme speed.
After returning to the warship, Kizaru darkly issued orders for all Marines to search for and capture the severely injured Experiment Subject 88.
If Experiment Subject 88 escaped, or fell into the sea from his severe injuries and was eaten by sea beasts, Kizaru would be in serious trouble.
He truly had not expected that this experiment-subject brat could awaken Conqueror's Haki too—and a special type of Conqueror's Haki at that. It had caused him to make a major mistake through carelessness.
He reported the latest information and significant threat posed by Experiment Subject 88 to Marine Headquarters and the World Government through Den Den Mushi.
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