Elsewhere.
Charlotte Linlin rode a thundercloud toward the God Tree.
From afar, she spotted the towering tree, as well as Kaido hovering in front of it.
She froze for a moment.
"Kaido?"
"That fellow is still as fast as ever."
Charlotte Linlin's voice rang out shrilly, but Kaido ignored her completely.
Halfway toward her, his dragon body began to change.
His four limbs touched down, his scales receded, and his muscles bulged as he assumed a half-human, half-beast form.
He gripped a spiked club, then swung it down at Charlotte Linlin.
"Get lost, you old hag!"
Charlotte Linlin's eyes turned cold.
"Napoleon!"
"Mama..."
The hat on her head instantly transformed into a long blade.
Charlotte Linlin seized Napoleon and held it across her body.
Boom!!
The club slammed into the blade. With a thunderous crash, Conqueror's Haki erupted from the point of impact, red lightning streaked in every direction, and a rift tore through the clouds overhead.
"Kaido, have you lost your mind?"
Charlotte Linlin gritted her teeth and held back the club, her face a mixture of shock and fury.
"Die, you old hag!"
"Thunder Bagua!"
Kaido pulled his club back, then swung it around for another blow.
Black lightning coiled around the club-Advanced Conqueror's Haki, with ten times the force of his previous strike.
Refusing to back down, Charlotte Linlin coated Napoleon in Conqueror's Haki as well and slashed at him.
"Ha! You think I'm afraid of you, Kaido?"
The two weapons collided, unleashing an explosive shock wave.
They traded blows in a battle that darkened the sky.
Kaido's club smashed into Charlotte Linlin's Napoleon, and Charlotte Linlin's blade cut into Kaido's shoulder.
Both wielded Advanced Conqueror's Haki, and every strike could have leveled a mountain.
The rock face along the edge of the Red Line cracked under