At the highest peak of Lapugas Island, the biting mountain wind swept past, stirring Dawn's brilliant golden hair like sunlight. He stood tall at the summit, calmly looking down at the two black dots gradually approaching along the winding path below.
"I've been waiting for you two for a long time. What took you so long?"
Oven's face instantly flushed with furious red.
"Brat! Is this the place you chose to bury your bones? But I won't even leave you an intact corpse, so I'm afraid your wish won't come true!"
He clenched his fists, and the air around him warped from the intense heat. Even the rocks beneath his feet began to show signs of melting.
Dawn did not spare him so much as 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 heh heh~ I would never join hands with someone else to deal with a junior like you. The king only ordered me to witness your death."
With that, Chinjao actually took several steps back and plopped down on a huge boulder, adopting the posture of an onlooker.
Of course, if he had been willing to expend the effort to use Observation Haki and carefully sense the entire island at that moment, he definitely would not have remained so calm and composed.
"Bastard! How dare you humiliate me like this? Die!"
Having been insulted before and now ignored, Oven could no longer restrain his explosive temper. With an enraged roar, the ground beneath his feet exploded, spiderweb cracks spreading in an instant. He shot forward like a cannonball, his right fist carrying enough heat to melt steel as it smashed toward Dawn's face.
Dawn merely