Faced with Gern's icy demand, brimming with almost tangible killing intent, Kaido did not back down. Instead, it seemed to ignite some spark of wild excitement within him.
He froze for a moment, then an even more frenzied,
even more exhilarated laugh erupted from the crater in the mountainside, shaking loose stones from the surrounding walls.
"Worororororo...!!!"
As Kaido laughed, he wiped the blood from his mouth with his massive palm. The pain on his face swiftly gave way to the sheer ecstasy of a hunter who had found his prey.
"It hurts! It really hurts!!!" He savored that long-forgotten agony, his voice filled with twisted pleasure.
"How long has it been... since I felt a power that could shake me!"
Amid his wild laughter, Kaido's already enormous body underwent an even more terrifying transformation!
He grew larger still. His muscles writhed and bulged as though alive, and hard, blue-black patterns resembling dragon scales appeared across his skin!
The curved horns on either side of his head thickened, becoming more fearsome, while scorching white breath poured from his mouth and nose.
Parts of his lower limbs also began to show faint draconic features.
A massive dragon tail covered in hard scales snapped through the air with a crack, smashing the mountain wall behind him to pieces!
[Zoan · Fish-Fish Fruit · Mythical Zoan · Azure Dragon Form · Human-Beast Form!]
The instant he entered his strongest combat form, a surge of dark red Conqueror's Haki, even more savage and tyrannical than before,
rose from Kaido like a blood-red tsunami and slammed into Gern's dark purple Haki in midair!
Crackle!
At the center of the clash between those two supreme torrents of Conqueror's Haki, space warped. Black-red lightning and dark purple arcs intertwined wildly, producing a chilling sound of