The earth trembled as several figures plummeted from the sky, crashing onto the shores of Boro Town.
"What the hell, Trafalgar?!" Kid clutched his head, cursing angrily as he climbed out of the crater.
Looking up, he saw Law silently rise from his own crater, drawing his cursed blade, Kikoku.
"You—"
Kid was about to say more when he noticed an enormous, bottomless pit had formed in the ground before them.
The shape of the crater resembled a massive, horned humanoid figure—colossal beyond measure.
Kid stiffened. The scene felt eerily familiar.
Had he experienced this before?
"Kaido?"
Finally, it came back to him.
Back in the New World, on a small island, right after he had formed an alliance with Hawkins and Apoo, they had encountered Kaido—who had leaped from ten thousand meters in the sky!
But the crater before him now was even larger than the one from that day.
Kid's mind roared as a name he would never forget surfaced in his thoughts.
"Borororo! BORORORO!"
From within the humanoid crater erupted a deafening, thunderous laughter.
The sound rolled like thunder, shaking the skies above Boro Town, making the earth itself tremble in fear!
Across the town, the people of Wano Country—who had endured hellish suffering the day before—suddenly looked up, their bodies trembling uncontrollably.
But this wasn't the trembling of fear.
It was excitement.
Joy.
The trembling of those who had just been pulled from the depths of hell.
Inside a tavern, the owner—who had been nailed to a table—somehow found the strength and courage to rip his hands free.
Ignoring the gaping wounds in his palms, tears streaming down his face, he burst out of the tavern in a frenzy.
Sprinting down the crimson-stained streets, he screamed hysterically to the world:
"HAHAHA! Everyone! HE'S HERE! THAT MAN—HE'S COME!!"
From house to house, faces twisted in overwhelming joy wept uncontrollably as people rushed outside, cheering.
On Kid's forehead, beads of cold sweat formed against his will. His face darkened as he stared at the crater before him.
The earth groaned, splitting open into a massive chasm as a monstrous, godlike figure emerged from the depths.
Standing at a towering 9.21 meters, his body was forged like blackened steel, his terrifying muscles gleaming with a dark golden sheen under the morning sun.
His arms were like the mythic pillars of the heavens, every tendon coiled like pythons and dragons, pulsating with unimaginable, overwhelming violence.
A wild mane of black hair cascaded over broad, powerful shoulders, revealing a face chiseled with masculine dominance, exuding an aura of unyielding strength that now filled Kid and Law's vision.
His towering, mountainous frame cast a vast shadow, completely enveloping the two smaller figures.
"Caesar!!"
Kid's face twisted with intense hatred as he spread his right hand.
The earth trembled once more, splitting open as metal-laden ores and buried weapons surged from the fissures, converging into his grasp.
Caesar gazed down at them with cold eyes, his Observation Haki surging outward in an instant, blanketing all of Boro Town in its scope.
Within moments, he had assessed the entire situation, a killing intent glint flashing in his eyes.
The overwhelming power within him began to stir—just the mere surge of his energy caused the air around him to distort, as if unable to bear the sheer might of his physical form.
Seeing Caesar dismiss him so utterly, Kid's fury erupted!
His hatred for Caesar momentarily overpowering his instinctive fear, Kid roared, unleashing the full might of his magnetic powers.
"Magnet-Magnet Fruit Awakening! Maximum Output—Super Electromagnetic Cannon!"
Gripping his left arm—a mechanical prosthetic—his right hand channeled a blinding surge of electricity.
Waves of destructive energy rippled outward, laced with annihilation, firing like a laser cannon at the colossal figure standing mere feet away.
"ROOM—Spatial Leap!"
To prevent Caesar from evading Kid's attack, Law instantly expanded a massive energy field, enveloping all three of them.
The eerie power of the Op-Op Fruit activated, and Kid's Electromagnetic Cannon vanished from its trajectory—only to reappear directly in front of Caesar's chest, striking him point-blank!
BOOM!!
The explosive shockwave sent both Kid and Law flying backward, while Caesar's form was swallowed by the billowing dust.
"Hahaha! Take that, you arrogant bastard! How do you like my Super Electromagnetic Cannon?!"
Kid halted his backward momentum with a wave of his hand, summoning countless floating metal fragments that swiftly assembled into a towering, dozens-of-meters-tall steel golem.
"Magnetic Demon!"
As the dust slowly cleared, the terrifying figure emerged, striding forward with unhurried, almost leisurely steps.
It was as if Kid's devastating attack had achieved nothing at all.
Caesar's aura was frigid, his body encased in an imperceptible armor of Armament Haki—an impenetrable barrier shielding his titanic form.
"Eustass Kid... just a young man in his twenties, yet capable of such a decent attack. Your strength has already reached the level of an Admiral.
So, the Magnet-Magnet Fruit has awakened, has it? No wonder you managed to wound Linlin's 'Iron Balloon.' The combined force of magnetism and electricity can indeed pierce even our ultimate physical defenses.
Given another decade or two of refinement, you might even manipulate the planet's magnetic field—multiplying your power exponentially, becoming a humanoid calamity."
Kid's face twisted in disbelief at what he was seeing.
The Electromagnetic Cannon he'd just unleashed was at least ten times more powerful than the one he'd used against Kiku yesterday.
His current strength far surpassed what it had been over a month ago when he and Law had teamed up to defeat Linlin...
Had this attack landed on Linlin, it would have caused massive concussive injuries, just like during the Onigashima war, leaving her body drenched in blood.
"The gap can't be this huge! Trafalgar!"
Kid's expression bordered on madness as he roared, pressing his arms downward toward Caesar.
Behind him, a steel colossus dozens of meters tall rumbled as it swung a pillar-like iron fist toward the sky!
The terrifying steel fist crackled with electricity and magnetism, simultaneously gleaming with both Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki!
In this moment of absolute fury, Kid had actually grasped a sliver of Conqueror's Haki Coating!
"Leave it to me, Kid-ya!"
"K-room!"