Black Maria's Pleasure Quarter, Onna Nan, stood at the outermost edge of the skull's left-brain tower, so it led directly to the Left Mountain Path.
-Boom!
Kaido unleashed Thunder Bagua with zero startup frames, sending Sephiroth flying out of the Pleasure Quarter's pavilion with a single swing.
Before Kaido attacked, Sephiroth had already sensed his intentions, so he immediately "drew" the Pure White Lightsaber to meet the blow.
Because his sword-drawing stance looked a little too much like a Kizaru cosplay, Teacher Kaido hit him that much harder.
Thunder Bagua collided with the Pure White Sword.
At the instant of collision, Kaido's kanabo abruptly seemed to lose all its "kinetic energy," if only for that single instant.
At the same time, the Pure White Lightsaber turned blue-white almost simultaneously. The color change had no "transition" whatsoever, as though the scene had skipped a frame.
The sensation of an "insurmountable obstacle" lasted only for the instant of impact. Immediately afterward, Kaido's weapon felt "normal" again.
That change made the exchange feel utterly wrong to Kaido.
There was no sense of impact at all. The force vanished into thin air the instant their weapons touched, and what followed became a simple contest of strength.
...Of course, how could Sephiroth's brute strength possibly match Kaido's?
Thoroughly annoyed, Kaido followed through with his kanabo and sent Sephiroth "flying."
Since there was no "impact," it was less like being knocked away and more like being "thrown."
Sephiroth used the force that had sent him "flying" to adjust his posture, tracing an arc through the air before landing on the slope to the left.
Then the blue-white lightsaber in his hand abruptly turned pure white again.
The Pure White Lightsaber was formed from "electrons fixed in an ambiguous state."
The instant they struck an object, they