Kaido the Mighty and His Filial Daughter

"Boom—rumble!"

Accompanied by Kaido's wild laughter, as if it came from the depths of hell, dark-purple Conqueror's Haki lightning formed a violent web that completely engulfed the skull rooftop. In his human-beast form, Kaido retained human agility along with the terrifying power and defense of the Azure Dragon Devil Fruit. The muscles all over his body bulged like cast steel, and his blue-scaled face radiated suffocating savagery.

"Brats, the game is over."

Kaido suddenly clenched the black, spiked club Hassaikai in his hand, and the rock beneath his feet instantly shattered.

Too fast!

Even Rain and Luffy, who possessed the strongest Observation Haki present, saw only an afterimage.

Because Rain had struck ahead of schedule, he had directly disrupted the original timeline. As a result, Luffy had never gone through that period of dedicated training at the Udon quarry. His Armament Haki remained at its previous level, and he had yet to master Ryuo, the advanced Armament Haki capable of Internal Destruction.

"So fast! It's coming for me!"

Luffy's pupils shrank sharply. Though his brief Future Sight had caught Kaido's movement, his body simply could not react quickly enough to keep up with this completely berserk monster!

"Gear Fourth: Bounceman! Armament Haki: Hardening!"

Luffy could only cross his arms with all his strength, concentrating all his Armament Haki at one point in an attempt to withstand the blow.

"Thunder Bagua!"

"Bang—crack!"

Dark-purple lightning exploded across Luffy's arms! There was no suspense whatsoever. Even though Luffy had been prepared, before the crushing force of absolute power, the defense he had been so proud of in Gear Fourth was torn apart like fragile window paper.

"Pwah—!"

Luffy spat out a mouthful of blood, and his eyes instantly rolled back. Like a cannonball fired from its barrel, he was blasted away at ten