Bang!
A muffled explosion that seemed to shatter the air suddenly erupted. Chikara's enormous white shark head was violently knocked back by the sudden blow of the club. A savage burst of air exploded behind his head, and even the blood and moisture beneath his scalp were blasted from his pores by that unmatched force, forming a mist of blood in midair.
Chikara's head swam from the blow, and his massive body lost balance, flipping backward as it plummeted toward the ground below like a small meteor falling from the sky.
"Damn it... you damned blond brat!"
Just before crashing into the earth, Chikara barely snapped out of his dizziness. He shook his leaden head and stomped heavily on the air with his large webbed foot.
With a thunderous boom, the air beneath his foot burst apart from the force of his stomp. The powerful recoil launched him skyward again. His scarlet eyes locked onto Yamato, who was charging toward him, while every muscle in his body knotted like steel.
"You're Kaido's daughter, aren't you?" Chikara opened his fang-filled maw and let out a deafening roar, humiliation surging in his heart hard enough to burn through his reason.
"Your strength is nothing special. You're just a little faster, that's all!"
He had always secretly measured his own strength against Kaido's, yet today, he had nearly been knocked to the ground in a single exchange by Kaido's daughter. How could he possibly swallow that humiliation?
"Today, I'll teach you what real strength is!"
Chikara unleashed a primal beastlike roar, clenched his enormous sledgehammer-sized fist, and swelled his muscles several times over in an instant. Pushing the Force-Force Fruit's power to its limit, he hurled his Armament Haki Hardened fist savagely at the charging Yamato.
He stood nearly eight meters tall, with