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At the highest peak of Lapugas Island, biting mountain winds swept past, tossing Dawn's dazzling golden hair like sunlight. He stood atop the summit, calmly looking down at the two black dots steadily approaching along the winding path below.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time. What took you so long?"

Oven's face instantly flushed crimson with rage.

"Brat! Is this the place you chose to be buried? But I won't even leave you a whole corpse, so I'm afraid your wish won't come true!"

He clenched his fists. The surrounding air warped from the heat, and even the rocks beneath his feet began to show signs of melting.

Yet Dawn did not spare him even a glance. His gaze passed straight over him and fell on the flat-headed old man beside him, whose expression was somewhat complicated.

"Chinjao, are you going to attack with him?"

"Heh yah ho ho~ I would never join forces with someone else to deal with a junior like you. The king's order to me was merely to witness your death."

With that, Chinjao actually stepped back several paces, plopped down on a huge boulder, and assumed the posture of a spectator. Of course, if he had been willing to expend the effort to carefully sense the entire island with Observation Haki, he absolutely would not have remained so calm and composed.

"Bastard! You dare humiliate me like this? Die!"

Having been insulted earlier and now ignored, Oven could no longer suppress his fiery temper. With an angry roar, the ground beneath his feet exploded, spiderweb-like cracks spreading in an instant. He shot forward like a cannonball, carrying temperatures hot enough to melt steel as his right fist punched straight at Dawn's face.

Dawn merely tilted his head slightly, and the scorching fist