-Onigashima.
Kaido sat cross-legged deep inside the Japanese-style palace, shadows obscuring most of his face and making his expression unreadable. His gaze, however, remained fixed on his Hassaikai.
The spiked club had no special abilities, but it was made of exceptionally solid materials. In terms of durability alone, it was among the very best.
Yet now, a perfectly round hole the size of a bowl's rim pierced the club, with slight traces of melting around its edges.
And it had been pierced while he was using Great Vajra: Thunder Bagua with Conqueror's Coating.
"..."
Thick bandages were wrapped around his left upper arm and the right side of his chest. Beneath them, however... were similar wounds that went clean through.
A section of the ulna in his left upper arm had simply "disappeared." Part of a rib and some lung tissue were missing from the right side of his chest.
A single strike had pierced his Conqueror's-coated weapon, then passed through his arm and chest. Those three penetrations...
-It was as though it had met no resistance at all.
Kaido narrowed his eyes, looked away, and picked up the large wine jar on the floor. Ignoring his injuries, he began gulping it down.
He could not make sense of the Great Angel.
Why? Why? Why?
Could it really be this man!?
Wasn't the true Joy Boy supposed to be someone who turned the entire world upside down?
How could some lukewarm tinkerer possibly be him? He shouldn't be!
"Cough, cough-cough-"
His agitation made Kaido cough up several mouthfuls of blood. The missing lung tissue had yet to regenerate.
If not for his unusual constitution and the recovery powers of the Fish-Fish Fruit, Model: Azure Dragon, as a mythical Zoan, his condition would likely have been much worse.
"B-b-b-b-boss-!"
A bald,