"You lunatic! Did you really think an admiral was someone you could fight on a whim?"
Kaido transformed into an Azure Dragon, carrying Shane on his head.
"It's not like I died."
Shane smiled. He felt pretty good-he had gotten stronger again!
"What the hell is that thing? Hiding in Devil Fog, of all places."
Kaido hadn't expected something like that to exist in this world either.
That little tickle just now had surprised him too.
From the looks of it...
Having grasped Advanced Armament Haki earlier, and having focused solely on developing his Azure Dragon form...
Kaido had become more specialized. In this battle, he had faced Byrnndi World's hundredfold speed head-on, taking his Observation Haki to another level.
Although he had thoroughly enjoyed the fight, Bondi, whose fruit powers were beyond the norm, didn't see it that way.
As far as he was concerned, he hadn't even managed to beat an Apprentice Crew Member from the Rocks Pirates!
Back then, Rocks had personally invited him to become a full-fledged crew member!
If he couldn't even beat one of his Apprentice Crew Members, that would be far too humiliating.
Kaido leaving the battlefield just to save Shane made Bondi feel even more insulted.
In fact...
Kaido simply didn't want to owe Shane a favor.
At Ohara, although he had been responsible for covering their retreat, Shane had still been the one to rescue him in the end.
If Shane had to hold off Admiral Zephyr again this time, wouldn't that be shameful?
"Looks like Bondi didn't beat you to death. Gotten stronger?"
Lying there, Shane felt that the air up in the sky was pretty nice.
Boom!
The gigantic battleship struck the Super-Giant Creatures like a cannonball.
What had been a tickle before was now a collision with a