Mere hot wind was nothing more than showing off one's slight skill before an expert when facing Rayquaza, who could control weather patterns with divine authority.
Acting as if others didn't possess flame abilities themselves.
With a focused thought from Kai, the high-temperature hot wind that had been wrapping around him, attempting to roast him alive, obediently separated from his body and gathered within his dragon mouth.
"Returning the favor!"
"Heat Wind!"
Even more scorching and violent airflow than what Oven had originally released was controlled by Kai, tearing through the air and roaring back toward Oven on the ground below.
What?
How is this even possible!
Oven's pupils contracted sharply, his mind going completely blank with disbelief.
But the undeniable facts before him confirmed it was all real. The hot wind he'd created had truly been blown back at him in an even more terrifying form.
WHOOSH!
The hot wind instantly engulfed Oven completely.
Due to his Heat-Heat Fruit immunity, the temperature of the hot wind didn't cause Oven substantial damage, but the overwhelming violent airflow still pressed him down immobile and blew him away.
"GAH!"
Oven crashed heavily into the muddy ground. The powerful inertia made him tumble like a broken sack, carving a deep furrow dozens of meters long in the earth.
Damn it all!
Oven struggled to climb out of the mud pit, his face mixed with dirt and intense unwillingness and humiliation.
He was a man who would become a Sweet Commander someday. How could he fall so pathetically in such a place!
Suddenly, his peripheral vision caught sight of the ocean not far away.
That's it.
Oven's eyes lit up with renewed determination as he ran quickly toward the seaside.
His arms had already become red-hot during his sprint, radiating high temperatures that distorted the surrounding air.
"HAH!"
Oven roared and plunged his iron-like palms deep into the seawater.
SIZZLE!
The sharp sound of vaporization exploded across the battlefield.
Before long, the calm sea surface began churning and bubbling frantically with his hands as the center.
The azure seawater rapidly changed color under the terrifying high temperature, transforming in the blink of an eye into a boiling, rolling, orange-red hot sea that radiated deadly heat waves.
"Taste this!"
"Netsu Kai Hell!"
With Oven's triumphant roar, the center of the boiling hot sea suddenly exploded.
A massive water column over ten meters in diameter, as scorching as magma, rose up and shot violently toward Kai in the sky.
"Oh? Playing with hot water attacks?"
"Then I'll respond with this move!"
"Ice Beam!"
Kai opened his mouth, transforming the energy within his body into frigid freezing air that gushed out toward the hot water column.
BANG!
The freezing air and hot water column collided, causing a massive explosion.
At the explosion's center, the hot water column continuously vaporized, forming an enormous steam cloud that instantly obscured Kai's form.
Katakuri, who was fighting King, suddenly shuddered violently, his eyes instantly bursting with unprecedented panic and fury, as if he'd witnessed a terrible future.
"Hm? You dare get distracted while fighting me?"
King's tone was playfully dangerous: "Did you see a bad future?"
As one of the New World's top fighters, Katakuri mastered the advanced Observation Haki technique called future sight.
With this technique, he could even make his Mochi-Mochi Fruit work like a Logia.
Perfect opportunity!
"Imperial Bow!"
King's eyes lit up with predatory focus. Taking advantage of Katakuri's moment of distraction, he spread his wings and launched a fierce attack.
Strike while the enemy is down.
King had no intention of engaging in fair combat.
This was a battlefield. Only the victor could claim everything.
Facing King's tide-like offensive, Katakuri ignored everything, actually abandoning defense in some positions, even taking several heavy hits that made blood flow from his mouth as King struck him.
His gaze was locked deadly on his brother by the seaside as he shouted with all his might:
"Oven, jump into the sea! The deeper the better!"
If any later...
The terrifying future he foresaw, where his brother would be instantly annihilated, would become reality.
"What?" Oven was shocked by the urgent warning.
SWOOSH!
The instant Katakuri's words fell, a black meteor tore through the steam clouds, charging straight for Oven.
"Body Slam!"
In just seconds, Kai descended from the high heavens to the mortal world.
Kai curled his massive pitch-black dragon body into a ball and, like an asteroid impact, carried unmatched kinetic energy and pressure as he crashed directly toward the coastline where Oven stood.
BOOM!
A terrifying explosion loud enough to rupture eardrums echoed across the entire battlefield.
Dirt and rocks were blasted fountain-like dozens of meters into the air.
The nearby seawater was forcibly pushed back by this world-destroying power, forming several giant waves dozens of meters high and exposing the seabed that had never seen daylight.
Any pirates near the seaside were hit as if by an invisible giant hammer, spitting blood from their mouths and noses as they screamed and were violently sent flying, their fate unknown.
In an instant, the entire battlefield fell into stunned silence.
"You've got to be kidding me!" Smoothie stopped her actions, staring woodenly toward where Kai had struck.
Where the originally flat coastline had been, there was now an abrupt, bottomless, massive crater!
The backflowing seawater was making deafening roars as it frantically poured in.
It was predictable that after the war ended, this would directly form a natural deep-water port.
Even Queen was so shocked his eyeballs popped out of their sockets, breaking his sunglasses.
How could that kid Kai be so ridiculously strong!
Asking the same question was Kizaru, who was observing from the battlefield's edge.
"Kowai ne (Scary)! Today's young people are truly remarkable."
Kizaru adjusted the brown sunglasses on his nose bridge, speaking in his signature mocking tone.
However, his widened eyes beneath those sunglasses showed unmistakable shock.
This war between the Beast Pirates and Big Mom Pirates... he probably couldn't remain completely hands-off.
In the distance, Katakuri, who had taken King's series of fierce attacks and gained several wounds on his body, ignored his own injuries and commanded loudly:
"Aladine, Praline! Go save Oven!"
"Yes!"
The fish-man couple immediately left their battle circle and rushed toward the turbulent seawater at top speed to rescue Oven.
"Hmph, still have the leisure to worry about family at a time like this, Katakuri?"
Even the usually cold King's tone carried rare admiration, but his attacks became even more fierce.
The best respect for an enemy was to use full strength!
SLAP!
A dragon claw grabbed the crater's edge.
Kai, transformed into his dragon-human form, looking somewhat disheveled, leaped up from the deep pit.
"Hiss! My whole body is crying out in pain."
Kai supported his lower back, grimacing with obvious discomfort.
He should have known better than to test such a health-draining ultimate move on Oven.
The cost-performance ratio was far too low!
"Bastard! You dare beat my brother to the point where his life and death are unknown!"
A man with short yellow hair, wearing a blue cotton jacket with a belt featuring a magic lamp pattern around his waist, jumped out, his face filled with grief and anger.
"I, Charlotte Daifuku, will make you pay the price!"
With that declaration, he stretched out both hands and began vigorously rubbing his abdomen, causing gray mist to float out.
The next second, a lamp genie that was entirely blue-purple and carrying a long-handled large sword materialized from the gray mist.