A Battle on the Verge of Eruption, Susanoo Blocks Red-Haired's Slash!

Kaido's enormous dragon head lowered slightly. His flame-burning eyes first swept over Shanks, then turned toward Whitebeard.

"Worororororo—!"

Deafening laughter exploded across the sea like rolling thunder!

"Red-Haired brat! Old man Whitebeard! What, you're not welcoming me?"

Kaido's voice was rough and domineering, filled with arrogant defiance.

"I brought my son out to see the world! Let him see what the Four Emperors look like... and just how far they fall short of me!"

As Kaido spoke, he deliberately swayed his massive dragon head, gesturing toward Lynn perched atop it.

Lynn still looked delicate and harmless, his large black eyes curiously studying the two enormous pirate ships below and everyone aboard them.

"..."

The moment those words were spoken.

Whether they were the commanders of the Whitebeard Pirates or the officers of the Red Hair Pirates, every last one of them was dumbfounded.

Marco's mouth twitched.

Benn Beckman held a cigar between his lips, looking utterly speechless.

Usopp opened his mouth as if to say something, but in the end, it became a low, absurd mutter: "Fuck..."

See the world?

He brought his son out to see the world?

What did he take a meeting between Four Emperors for?

A street circus performance?!

Or a day trip to the zoo?!

That excuse was absurd beyond belief!

"Kaido!!!"

Whitebeard's aged yet still majestic roar erupted like a volcano, making the entire Moby Dick tremble!

His huge body abruptly rose from the throne. The medical equipment attached to him emitted a piercing alarm, but he paid it no heed!

His hawk-like eyes locked onto Kaido, fury nearly bursting from them!

"You bastard! This is my ship!"

"And you! Red-Haired brat!" Whitebeard turned toward Shanks again, the anger in his voice only growing stronger. "What do you two take this place for?!"

"An amusement park?!"

"Now! Immediately! Get the hell out of here!!!"

"Otherwise, don't blame me for getting rough!!!"

A terrifying pressure erupted from Whitebeard, sweeping outward like a tangible tsunami!

Even the air seemed to turn thick at that moment!

Some of the weaker pirates foamed at the mouth and fainted beneath that pressure!

Whitebeard's chest heaved violently. He was clearly truly enraged.

Two Four Emperors had arrived uninvited and were already at each other's throats aboard his ship. Now there was another unwelcome guest—and it was that madman Kaido!

This was a blatant provocation!

An insult to his title as the "Strongest Man in the World"!

"Wororororo! Getting rough?"

Rather than showing any fear, Kaido became even more excited!

Blazing battle intent ignited within his enormous dragon eyes!

"Whitebeard! You think I'm afraid of you?!"

"Perfect! It's been a long time since I stretched my muscles! Today, I'll show you whether I've gotten weaker over the years!"

Kaido roared as his massive dragon body churned through the sky, stirring up the clouds and winds!

His terrifying aura clashed fiercely with Whitebeard's pressure in midair!

Crackle! Crackle!

Countless invisible flashes of lightning seemed to flicker through the air, unleashing piercing detonations!

The sea itself seemed to boil, throwing up towering waves!

It was over!

This was completely over!

Two Four Emperors were about to unleash an unprecedented all-out battle in these waters!

Just at that critical moment!

Suddenly!

Whoosh—!

An incomparably swift and razor-sharp red slash shot out from Whitebeard's ship without warning!

Its target was Kaido's enormous dragon head in the sky!

"Who was that?!"

Everyone focused their eyes.

They were all astonished.

Red-Haired Shanks had made the first move!

He had actually been the first to shatter that delicate balance!

He had still held back with this strike.

He had not used a full-power attack like Kamusari.

Instead, he had deliberately restrained his Conqueror's Haki and Armament Haki.

He had used only fifty percent of his strength.

He knew perfectly well that such force could not break through Kaido's defenses, but it was enough to serve as a warning.

"Red-Haired, you want to challenge me too?!"

Kaido's dragon eyes narrowed. He had clearly not expected Shanks to attack him so suddenly!

That red slash, capable of destroying everything, was about to strike Kaido's dragon head head-on.

In that flash of an instant.

A small figure suddenly appeared directly in the path of the slash.

It was the Demon Child, Lynn!

His tiny body floated in midair.

Facing that terrifying slash, enough to make any powerhouse pale.

He remained as calm and unruffled as ever.

Only, a strange crimson hue quietly emerged within his black eyes.

The blood-red Mangekyō slowly rotated.

The next second.

"Buzz—!!!"

A gigantic blue skeleton radiating an ominous aura emerged, completely enveloping his small body.

Susanoo!

"Boom—!!!!!"

Red-Haired Shanks's terrifying slash, powerful enough to split mountains and sever seas, struck the blue skeleton solidly!

A violent explosion filled the sky and sea.

Sparks flew everywhere!

The terrifying residual energy became visible shockwaves that spread wildly in every direction!

The Moby Dick and the Red Force rocked violently beneath the impact of those shockwaves, as though they could capsize at any moment!

The pirates aboard staggered about, crying out in alarm!

However.

Although the blue skeletal arm was carved with countless dense, web-like cracks and immediately began collapsing and dissipating.

It had still blocked it in the end!

It had completely and forcibly stopped Red-Haired Shanks's earth-shattering slash!

"What?!"

"It actually blocked Red-Haired's slash?!"

"What kind of ability was that?!"

"That blue skeleton... what was it?!"

"What is going on?! That blue skeletal thing is growing back?"

"What terrifying defense!"

"..."

Whether they were members of the Whitebeard Pirates, officers of the Red Hair Pirates, Whitebeard and Shanks themselves, or even Kaido.

Every single one of them wore expressions of utter shock.

So it was true.

The rumors were true.

The three-billion bounty was true as well!

With this strange and terrifying defensive ability alone.

There was no longer any doubt that Doflamingo and Gild Tesoro had been defeated by this little brat in open-crotch pants!

"Eeya!"

"You attacked."

"My father."

"Bad people!"

"I challenge... you!"