It Was All Doflamingo's Fault!

Seeing Kaido's "saliva" spraying toward his face, Su Yu erupted. He hurriedly broke free of Kaido's iron-hoop grip, then shot away from him so fast that black spatial rifts appeared along his path.

Because Kaido had been holding him so tightly, Su Yu actually broke his arms as he pulled free. Coated in Armament Haki and black as obsidian, those arms were now covered in cracks like real stone.

Kaido felt helpless when he saw Su Yu escape his grasp so easily. He had thought he could at least restrain Su Yu for a second this way, but Su Yu had broken free before even an instant had passed.

But there was no turning back now. His dragon breath was fully charged, and Kaido decisively blasted it at Su Yu.

It still did no good. Once again, Su Yu raised just one hand and blocked the dragon breath. Then he stepped forward, walking straight toward Kaido against the blast, slowly but inexorably.

As Su Yu drew closer, a trace of panic appeared in Kaido's eyes, something that hardly seemed to belong there. In his panic, he instinctively increased his output, but it was utterly useless. Instead, his footing began to feel unsteady, and his own dragon breath ended up pushing him several meters backward.

Kaido was in an awkward spot now. He knew perfectly well that his dragon breath did jack shit to Su Yu, but he simply didn't dare stop. The situation fell into a stalemate.

But would Su Yu let that stalemate continue? Of course not!

Under Kaido's slightly terrified gaze, a figure stepped out of Su Yu's body. He looked exactly like Su Yu. Of course he did-he was Su Yu's clone!

Su Yu No. 2 walked toward Kaido. Still blasting away to hold off Su Yu's main body, Kaido could only watch helplessly and despairingly as Su Yu No. 2 appeared beside him as though teleporting, then delivered a stylish uppercut to his chin at a speed he couldn't even begin to react to!

Shoryuken!

Before Kaido could even stop his dragon breath, his mouth was forcibly slammed shut. The blast exploded inside it, mangling his mouth into a bloody mess and blowing away both his teeth and his jaw.

Kaido himself went spiraling skyward. Su Yu's uppercut launched him over a hundred meters into the air, so fast that sparks flew as he scraped through the atmosphere.

After a while, Kaido finally crashed to the ground like a small meteorite, smashing out another rough crater.

Lying in the crater, Kaido stared blankly at the sky. He had never felt this powerless in his life. Strength, speed, techniques-his opponent had utterly crushed him in every respect. As for recovery, he had no idea, because he hadn't managed to hurt so much as a single hair on Su Yu's head from beginning to end!

By now, Kaido had completely abandoned any thought of continuing the fight. If he could, he wanted nothing more than to leave this miserable place. But he had been the one to provoke Su Yu this time, and whether Su Yu would let him go was another question entirely.

Seeing that Kaido had returned to the ground, Su Yu No. 2 walked back into Su Yu's main body. Then Su Yu approached the edge of the large crater and looked at Kaido, who lay in its center, having completely given up resisting.

"What, you're not going to keep going? I haven't had my fill yet!"

At Su Yu's words, every muscle in Kaido's body involuntarily twitched. You haven't had your fill? You've already beaten the shit out of me, all right! It wasn't quite fair to say he had been utterly unable to fight back. He had merely spent the entire fight getting beaten up...

He could even hear a hint of disappointment in Su Yu's voice. Fucking disappointment? Well, sorry I couldn't take more of a beating!

"I admit defeat! Do whatever you want!"

There was no helping it. Su Yu had defeated him head-on through sheer strength. No, "defeated" wasn't the right word-he had utterly crushed him. This was an absolute gap in power, with no other factors involved. Kaido could accept a loss, so he decisively conceded. Of course, it was also possible that Su Yu had beaten him into being afraid...

An experience where he could only take a beating, couldn't fight back, and couldn't even see the person hitting him was something he only needed once in his lifetime...

Su Yu rubbed his chin, considering what to do with Kaido. Although Kaido was a fairly important figure in the One Piece World, he had come looking for trouble of his own accord this time. That had established a karmic connection between them, so even if Su Yu killed him outright, it wouldn't matter.

But Kaido was such a huge dragon. Wouldn't killing him outright be a bit of a waste...?

He would definitely leave the One Piece World eventually. When that happened, Miland would be the only one left in the bar. Perhaps he should find him some company...

"Kaido, do you want to die?"

"If you're going to kill me, get on with it! Stop dithering!"

Kaido didn't actually know whether he truly wanted to die. His constant "jumps off buildings" and endless brushes with death had seemed more like a game, albeit a rather thrilling one. As for whether he genuinely wanted to end his life, he was a normal person, after all. Yes, Kaido had always considered himself perfectly normal, even though most people thought he was a lunatic. As a normal person, the instinct to survive was still etched into him, so he probably didn't want to die...

But there was no point thinking about that now. His life was no longer in his own hands. Though he was known as Kaido the Undying, he was certain Su Yu had a way to kill him, and it probably wouldn't be any harder for him than crushing an ant.

Although Kaido didn't want to die, he certainly wasn't afraid of death, so he was quite calm now.

Rubbing his chin, Su Yu said, "Actually, I think killing you outright would be a bit of a waste!"

At those words, Kaido suddenly lost his composure. His muscles contracted uncontrollably, and he shuddered. What do you mean, a bit of a waste?! Explain it to me. What the fuck do you mean by a fucking waste?! Have you still not had enough? Do you want to keep using me as a punching bag?!

Kaido couldn't help imagining that scene. From then on, he would become Su Yu's punching bag. Whenever Su Yu felt like it, he would come over and pound him for hours, leaving him aching all over and coughing up blood nonstop. But because of his powerful recovery, he would soon be back in good shape. Then Su Yu might start round two...

And his vitality was so strong that he wouldn't even be able to kill himself...

Just thinking about it made Kaido feel that his future was utterly bleak and hopeless. It was as though all the color had drained out of him.

At that moment, he suddenly hated his past self for deciding to come looking for Su Yu. Just how out of his mind had he been to pick a fight with a monster like Su Yu...?

As for Doflamingo, who had told him about this, Kaido wanted to flay him alive right now!!!