A dull boom resounded between heaven and earth, and the light that erupted in an instant shone like a newly risen sun.
Flames from the explosion soared skyward, while the blast whipped up towering waves that battered G-1 Base.
"Rear Admiral Aequus!"
Inside the base, the soldiers stared wide-eyed at the fireball in the sky, their eyes reddening.
"Aequus!"
Thunder crackled around Christa. Then she turned into a streak of lightning and appeared beneath the fireball.
Just as she arrived, she saw a dark figure plummet out of the flames.
It was Aequus, his entire body charred black.
Christa hurriedly reached out and caught him.
"Aequus, how are you?"
"...Not... not dead yet."
Aequus spoke weakly.
That single attack had consumed more than half his Armament Haki.
Even so, he had still suffered serious injuries.
Seeing that Aequus could still speak, Christa breathed a sigh of relief.
Then she glared at Kaido.
With a thought, she called down a bolt of lightning a full ten meters thick, which struck Kaido with savage force.
This was the strongest lightning Christa could currently unleash.
Yet when the flash faded, Kaido remained completely unscathed. He had not lost even a single scale.
Christa's pupils contracted.
"Hmm? An interesting little girl.
That brat brought you all the way here himself. You must mean a lot to him.
If I sent him your head, I bet he'd be delighted!
Worororo!"
Kaido had felt nothing from the lightning strike.
He laughed wildly, his voice shaking the heavens.
His vicious dragon eyes fixed on Christa.
Both Aequus and Christa paled at his words.
"Kaido, fuck your ancestors! Just try laying a finger on her!"
Just then, a furious roar rolled in from the distance.
That voice sounded so sweet that it instantly swept the gloom from everyone's