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Kaido shot backward. Two waves, each a thousand meters high, rose behind him in the wake of the slash, blotting out the sky.

The strike shook the surrounding waters. The sea seemed to detonate, becoming a ravenous beast that could swallow everything.

Whitebeard, rushing toward him, saw a dark line on the distant sea driving a black silhouette straight at them. His expression changed.

He could not yet tell what the line was, but he could see that it was extraordinarily sharp. It had split the sea, leaving a wave nearly a thousand meters tall behind it.

Most people would have struggled just to stand at the sight, let alone think of stopping it.

The faces of the few aboard the Moby Dick who had devoted themselves to Observation Haki had turned ashen.

Whitebeard narrowed his eyes and planted Murakumogiri beside him. He clenched his fists and drove them outward to either side. Space shattered instantly.

This time, he held nothing back. The power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit poured out, breaking space and setting the nearby waters trembling.

The shock reached across nearly a hundred li of sea around him.

The ocean churned like an enraged beast. Its surface tilted, and surge after surge of force erupted from the depths.

In the blink of an eye, two sky-blotting waves rose on the Whitebeard Pirates' side and hurtled toward Kaido!

Whitebeard meant to answer wave with wave.

That was bad news for Kaido, still pinned by the slash and unable to escape. A gaping wound had opened across his chest. The Dragon Armor, Armament Haki, and Oni physique he prided himself on had torn like paper before it.

The black slash carried a faint trace of green. That trace had instantly ripped through his first defense, Armament Haki at the level