The silver-haired Marine boy stood on the earth, his shattered body swaying precariously. Moria didn't know what kind of will and conviction could sustain such a broken, fragmented physique.
He looked at the Marine soldiers lying sprawled on the sand in front of him and suddenly understood.
It must be his comrades.
That kid, just like himself over ten years ago, after landing in Wano Country and fighting Kaido.
Only, at that time, he had chosen to flee, choosing to abandon his comrades who fought to the death without retreating.
His dreams, ambitions, even his soul, had died that day.
What remained now was merely an empty shell in human form.
Yet, this Marine boy before him showed no fear, daring to face Kaido head-on.
With a shattered body!
At this moment, Moria's hatred for Rorschach was more than halved.
He even hoped, if it were possible, that the Marine boy before him could defeat Kaido.
At the very least, he wished he could leave that arrogant bastard Kaido with an unforgettable pain.
Clang, clang.
Moria gritted his teeth, his limbs on the ground, dragging his clanking Seastone shackles as he crawled towards Hina, who had been knocked unconscious by Conqueror's Haki.
His bloated, corpulent body was like a clumsy green worm, making a look of disgust appear in Kaido's eyes.
"You're quite an eyesore, Gecko Moria."
As he spoke, Kaido raised the spiked club in his hand, aiming it at the crawling Moria.
As if sensing Kaido's killing intent, Moria's corpulent body froze. Like an ostrich, he buried his head in the sand beneath him, trembling with his rear end sticking up.
"Pah! Worthless trash! You became this pathetic after one defeat. You're even worse than those guys who only play pirate make-believe games. Get lost! Don't pollute my sight here!"
Kaido spat on the ground, ignored Moria, and strode towards Rorschach, a cruel, savage grin on his lips.
"The hardest bones are what I love most in this life, so all my subordinates are hard bones. But what I hate most are also hard bones, especially those who overestimate themselves!"
"Is that so? Then I apologize, my bones are indeed very hard."
Rorschach showed a blood-stained smile, his speech somewhat slurred due to the missing tip of his tongue.
He again raised his lightning-flashing right thumb and fiercely jabbed it into his chest.
He jabbed with such force.
Pfft!
The thumb directly pierced through the muscle and scales over his heart, entering his body.
"Overlimit Overload!"
Boom!
Clash of Titans
Boom!
Two bursts of yellow sand exploded, and two burly figures simultaneously stepped into the air, fiercely crashing into each other.
"Fist Bone!"
Rorschach opened his cracked arms, clenched his massive fists, and slammed them towards Kaido's face.
"Meteor Shower!"
Kaido wielded the Hassaikai with one arm, swinging the weapon in his hand into countless illusions.
The overwhelming visual afterimages of the spiked club covered all of Rorschach's vision.
"Gundari! Dragon's Army!"
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!
Giant fists and the ferocious spiked club clashed, immense power unleashed wildly, stirring up howling storms across the land.
Rorschach's thrown punches, hammered by Kaido's spiked club infused with advanced Armament Haki, caused flesh and blood to splatter, quickly revealing the jade-white finger bones beneath.
Excruciating pain surged through Rorschach like a tide, but he ignored it, simply punching, punching, and punching again!
"Oraoraoraora!"
"Wororororo! Time to lie down, brat!"
The Hassaikai in Kaido's hand was swung so fast and tight that not even water could get through.
Boom!
Suddenly, Rorschach's right punch was half a beat slow, exposing his undefended ribcage, which was grazed by the spiky tip of the Hassaikai.
With a chilling, scalp-raising tearing sound, a large section of Rorschach's scale-covered skin and muscle beneath his ribs was ripped away by the powerful, heavy spiked club.
Crimson blood immediately cascaded down like a waterfall, turning Rorschach into a blood-soaked figure.
The sky grew darker, and the sun set, nearing dusk.
Behind him, the red-eyed Moria finally found what he wanted on Hina's body.
A set of keys.
Seastone keys.
He gripped the keys with trembling large hands and inserted them into the keyholes of the Seastone shackles on his hands and feet.
With two crisp clicks, the heavy shackles detached from his body. Long-lost power returned to his heavily injured physique.
"Kishishishishi, Kaido! You just wait, I... I'll make you pay!"
He raised his hand, and the shadows beneath his feet rose upright, transforming into countless black threads smaller than hair, rushing towards the fallen Marine soldiers in front of him and the more distant royal capital residents.
Moria looked down at Hina, Hibari, and the others, whose expressions, even in unconsciousness, carried a look of determination. He grinned, revealing a mouth full of fangs.
"I suppose you wouldn't mind, Marines."
"Shadows! Gathering Ground!"
The black threads formed by Moria's shadows instantly connected to the shadows beneath everyone.
Then, the black threads wriggled, their tips transforming into tiny scissors, cutting off the shadows of over two hundred unconscious Marine soldiers and absorbing them along the black threads towards Moria.
In the distance, even Cobra's shadow was cut off. Losing his shadow, he froze, then fell backward onto the sand.
The panicked crowd behind him also collapsed by the thousands, like cut wheat.
All the shadows beneath them detached from their bodies, surging rapidly along the black threads towards Moria.
Thousands of shadows, like a black tide, surged across the desert ground, continuously gathering towards Moria.
But Moria did not absorb these shadows into his body.
He raised his right hand, and shadows swarmed, converging in his hand, forming an ink-black mass of shadow, pulsating like boiling water.
Moria turned, looking at Rorschach, who was being hammered by Kaido's spiked club, flesh and blood flying, steadily losing ground. His bloated body trembled uncontrollably, and a horrifying laugh erupted from his cracked mouth.
"Kishishishi, kishishishishi!"
"Kaido! Taste my revenge!"
As he laughed, the thousands of shadows he had gathered in his hand immediately transformed into a surging black tide, rushing across the increasingly dim desert ground towards Rorschach.
"Marine brat! If you can do it, make that beast Kaido taste the counterattack of the weak!"
Amidst Moria's hysterical shriek, the thick black tide surged along Rorschach's legs, pouring madly into his body.
"Hmm?"
Kaido, who was still relentlessly hammering Rorschach, now deprived of his ability to fight back, frowned. He stopped his actions, turning his head coldly to glance at the cackling Moria.
"A boring trick, Moria. You annoying trash dare to interrupt my fun? If that's the case, then you shall die..."
"Thunder..."
Kaido turned towards Moria, raising the Hassaikai in his hand high.
Just then, Rorschach's eight-meter-tall body behind him was already covered and submerged by a massive surge of shadows.
He was like an insect that had fallen into crude oil; no matter how much he struggled, he couldn't break free from the viscous black tide.
"Ahhhhhh!"
Every shadow that entered made Rorschach feel as if his mind was collapsing, his soul tearing, and his head was about to explode.
One thousand.
Two thousand.
Three thousand.
Four thousand.
Five thousand!
A full five thousand shadows were gathered by Moria using his Shadow's Asgard technique and crammed into Rorschach's body.
The power contained within shadows is proportional to the power of the shadow's owner.
Although 95% of these shadows came from ordinary residents of Alubarna, and only about two hundred were from slightly stronger Marine soldiers.
But five thousand shadows in quantity, let alone Rorschach, even Moria, the Shadow-Shadow Fruit user himself, could absolutely not contain them. If forcibly accepted, his body would most likely explode!
But at this moment, Moria, desperate for revenge against Kaido, wouldn't care if Rorschach's body could withstand such an immense influx of shadows.
Even if he knew, he probably wouldn't care.
Because if Rorschach died, he would be dragged down with him!
Crack, crack, crack, crack!
The explosive sounds of bones growing and stretching were continuous, like popping beans.
The terrifying injuries Rorschach sustained from Kaido rapidly healed at an exaggerated rate, filled by wildly growing muscles.
Thick tendons coiled and bulged from within his body, like struggling pythons.
"Ugh, oh oh oh!"
An unimaginable, terrifying power filled every cell of Rorschach's body, as if it would burst all his cells from the inside out.
His eight-meter-tall body, amidst a series of popping sounds, forcibly swelled and grew by four meters, reaching the colossal height of twelve meters, like an adult giant.
His azure pupils turned into bottomless black, like two black holes leading to the underworld.
His entire head of silver hair grew wildly, also stained black by the black aura emanating from his body.
Strands of black aura escaped from the gaps in his scales, leaping over his body like black flames.
His azure scales also turned a bluish-black, appearing incredibly eerie and sinister.
Pitch-black bone spikes grew outwards from all his joints, exuding extreme violence.
An indescribably terrifying aura permeated from his twelve-meter-tall, monstrous, muscular body, making Kaido's figure pause, and he suddenly turned his head.
The instant Kaido turned.
"Hmph..."
Rorschach exhaled a puff of black smoke from his mouth. His right arm, covered in bluish-black scales, swelled, and his muscles bulged. He punched, shattering the void. The terrifying punch seemed to crush the sky with a single blow, trailing a long, black glowing tail like a comet, and slammed into Kaido's face.
Boom!
A sonic boom roared. Kaido's body was sent spinning in mid-air by the punch, head over heels. Pressed into the ground by Rorschach's pillar-like massive arm, he was punched into the earth in front of him.
BOOM!!
This earth-shattering roar could only be described as the tearing apart of heaven and earth.
With just one punch, centered on Kaido's body, the earth exploded outwards in a radiating pattern, collapsing.
Tens of square kilometers of desert, along with the distant royal city highlands, all cracked inch by inch and sank!
"Cough! Ah!!"
Kaido coughed out a large mouthful of blood.
His eyes widened, staring at the deep blue armor shimmering on Rorschach's bluish-black massive arm.
"This is... advanced Ryuo!"
And it was Ryuo of extremely high quality! At this moment, caught off guard, even his own powerful advanced Haki was shattered by Rorschach's punch.
An immense force, like a volcanic eruption, poured into his body, furiously destroying Kaido's flesh, making him cough up blood uncontrollably.
Rorschach, filled with five thousand shadows by Moria, had unknowingly allowed his Deep Blue Haki to advance, successfully stepping into the threshold of advanced Armament Haki!
On the cracked and shattered ground, Moria, seeing Kaido spitting blood from Rorschach's punch, laughed maniacally like a madman.
"Kishishishi, kishishishishi!"
"How was that, Kaido? Did you taste the counterattack of the weak?"
"Marine brat! Smash his dog head!"
Moria's unrestrained laughter caused thick blue veins to bulge on Kaido's forehead.
"Wororororo! Interesting! Truly interesting!" He laughed in anger, his powerful Haki once again covering his entire body, forming flowing armor. He charged headfirst into Rorschach's large hand.
However, a large, tendon-wrapped hand suddenly seized the white horn on his head, lifting Kaido's body from the sand.
The next second, another bluish-black giant fist, shimmering with deep blue armor, struck Kaido's jaw from below.
Thump!
Blood spurted from Kaido's clenched teeth. The skin on his face wrinkled from the impact of the violent punch. His burly body shot into the sky like a rocket, smashing through air walls, and was sent thousands of meters into the sky by Rorschach's punch.
On the ground, the twelve-meter-tall, scale-armored giant, wreathed in black aura, squatted, shattering thousands of square meters of earth with one foot. He shot up like a cannonball, pursuing Kaido who was launched skyward. His thick right leg spun like a whirlwind, delivering a kick to Kaido's neck.
"Cough!"
Kaido spat out another large mouthful of blood, his head feeling hazy from the whip kick.
His body spun like a howling pinwheel, constantly turning in the wind, and was thrown towards the distant sky.
Behind him, Rorschach's terrifying bluish-black muscular body vanished again. When it reappeared, it was stomping down with a foot shimmering with deep blue Haki towards the spinning Kaido.
This terrifying kick was aimed at Kaido's face.
Kaido's face twisted in rage and humiliation. Gripping his heavy spiked club, he swung it towards the incoming massive foot.
"That's enough, brat!"
"Blast Breath Bagua!"
Boom!
A large cloud of white air exploded, and the air cracked into countless tiny fissures.
The Hassaikai in Kaido's hand was pushed back by Rorschach's descending large foot. The terrifying immense power was so great that even Kaido couldn't stop it. He could only watch helplessly as his old face was covered by that large foot shimmering with deep blue Haki.
Thump!
Rorschach, like a demon god on earth, with black flames billowing around him, stomped on Kaido's face, pressing down on the enraged Yonko, plummeting from thousands of meters in the sky towards the ground below.
(End of Chapter)
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