Marineford, Marine Headquarters.
Amid the pitch-black canopy of sky and layers of dark clouds, Kaido's massive Azure Dragon Form rapidly shrank, transforming into a human-beast form covered in azure-blue scales.
Kaido clenched the Wolf Fang Club, Eight Precepts Mace, tightly in his right hand. Opening his mouth, which was missing several teeth, he spoke through gritted teeth:
"Sephiroth, you damned brat!
I'll definitely kill you!"
"Hmph! Kaido, since you came here today, don't even think about leaving... Die here!" Sephiroth said coldly.
As though he had heard some hilarious joke, the anger vanished from Kaido's face, replaced by unrestrained laughter. He said mockingly:
"Wororororo! Brat, take a good look!
The Marines are already trapped in a disadvantageous position, attacked from both front and rear. Before long, they'll suffer a crushing defeat...
If you don't tuck your tail and run now, you're destined to die here today!"
Even now, Kaido still vividly remembered how Sephiroth had fought him in a bloody battle for an entire night, only to suddenly flee in the end.
That was why he mocked Sephiroth now.
"Heh! No matter how numerous they are, ants are still only ants!
Do you really expect them to turn the tide at a critical moment in the war?"
Sephiroth sneered upon hearing that. Looking down at the more than fifty thousand Beast Pirates members charging across the ice toward the military harbor's bay walls, his eyes were filled with indifference.
The next moment.
He suddenly raised the Nether Flame Blade high into the air. Above his head—
Rings of orange-red flame rippled outward from the blade's tip. In the blink of an eye, they expanded into a flaming disk sixty or seventy meters across.
Whoosh!
Flames surged across the disk, rapidly compressing and condensing into a gigantic fireball sixty or seventy