Looking at the thousand-meter-long Azure Dragon in the sky above, Nami, Robin, and the others had expressions of pure astonishment.
"So that's Kaido? His Dragon form is exactly the same as that idiot Leno's," Nami said, her tone filled with awe. 'No wonder Leno always said his fruit ability was a copy of Kaido's. I had only heard him talk about it before and didn't feel much. But now, another living Azure Dragon has so abruptly appeared before my eyes.'
'Besides the different color of their scales, their appearances are almost completely identical.'
"Yeah, other than the color, this Azure Dragon looks just like Leno's!"
Although Carmen's body still felt a primal fear, looking at the behemoth before her, she naturally thought of Leno's transformed appearance and immediately became excited.
"That's not right. It should be said that Leno's fruit form looks like Kaido's form. After all, Leno's ability is a copy of his," Robin corrected the order in Carmen's tone with a straight face. At the same time, she was also filled with shock. 'So there really are two identical Devil Fruit users in this world.'
"So you've finally come, Kaido!"
"KAIDO!!!"
Interrupting Leno's muttering, Yamato gritted her teeth and stared at Kaido above. Her body trembled slightly, and her fingers gripping her kanabo turned white. Looking at the huge dragon, the memories of fear slowly awakened within her. Although her eyes remained defiant, she still couldn't suppress her body's instincts.
Leno stepped forward and gently patted Yamato's shoulder, looking at her with a smile. Seeing Leno's confident and composed smile, Yamato was dazed for a moment. Then, her previously somewhat grim face instantly relaxed. The corners of her tightly pressed lips unconsciously turned up, and her eyes filled with a smile. 'Leno said he would handle Kaido. I have to believe in my partner.'
After strengthening her resolve, when Yamato looked at Kaido again, her gaze had become much calmer.
Kaido, who had been enjoying his foolish son's fear, narrowed his eyes when he saw the change in Yamato.
"Wororororo..."
"Foolish son! You'd rather follow a stranger than stay by my side!"
"Who gave you the courage to escape Onigashima? Hmm?"
Seeing Yamato below no longer afraid of him, Kaido's anger burned. He had raised him for so many years, originally thinking he would be of some use in the future. Now, it seemed impossible. Thinking of this, a sky-high killing intent suddenly erupted from Kaido's pupils.
"Since you don't want to stay by my side, then you are useless. In that case... all of you can die!"
The dragon's head suddenly opened its great mouth, and flames began to gather in its throat. Kaido's gaze was fixed on the group below; he had already sentenced them to death in his mind.
"Everyone, be careful! Kaido is about to use his Dragon's Breath!" Seeing Kaido's posture, Yamato knew what kind of attack he was about to make and hurriedly warned everyone.
In fact, even without Yamato's reminder, Nami and the others had already guessed his attack method the moment they saw the Azure Dragon open its mouth. After all, back in the West Blue, Leno had used this very move to beat Aokiji...
However, although they knew the Azure Dragon's attack method, it was already too late to dodge. Nami, Nojiko, and the others quickly looked to Leno to see what his plan was, but he was already gone from their side. It turned out that the moment the Azure Dragon had started to move, Leno had already turned into a flash of lightning and disappeared.
"RUMBLE"
A huge explosion suddenly came from high in the sky. The group hurriedly looked up and saw that Leno had appeared under the giant dragon's head at some point. His jet-black iron fist slammed viciously into the dragon's chin. "BOOM!" A violent impact sounded, and the terrifying shockwave created a white ripple in the air. The dragon's originally open mouth was slammed shut, and the Dragon's Breath that had just gathered exploded inside his mouth.
Flames, accompanied by a huge roar, lit up the sky. The giant dragon's head was enveloped in thick smoke from the explosion, and Kaido's pained screams could be heard from within.
Before Kaido could make another move, the 'tiny' Leno had already appeared above the giant dragon, looking down on the Azure Dragon beneath him with a condescending gaze.
"Thunder God Form, Amaru!!" he muttered.
Leno's originally 'tiny' body suddenly exploded into a flash of lightning. Amidst the flickering thunder, his body slowly transformed into a thousand-foot-tall thunder giant. The giant, composed of lightning, emanated a brilliant white light. Its appearance was a magnified version of Leno's.
Brilliant white lightning formed into flaming clouds that circled around its body. The giant slowly lowered its head, looked at the huge 'long worm' beneath it, and suddenly shot out its left hand, grabbing it by the neck. Raising its other hand, clenched into a fist, it slammed it down on the dragon's head, which was shaking, trying to escape the smoke.
"BOOM" "BOOM" "BOOM"
The thunderous fists rained down on its head, causing the Azure Dragon to scream repeatedly. It also tried to wrap its body around the giant, wanting to crush it with its strength. However, as soon as its dragon body coiled around, it was submerged in lightning. The smell of cooked meat wafted through the air, followed by another round of miserable screams.
Below, watching the scene in the sky of Leno, transformed into a sky-supporting titan, holding down a 'scaly snake' and beating it senseless, Nami, Carmen, and the others were dumbfounded, swallowing hard.
That mythological battle scene was now unfolding right before their very eyes.
"Is... is that really the blockhead Leno?"
Nami, shocked into speechlessness, slowly turned her head and stared blankly at Nojiko beside her.
Hearing Nami's whisper, Nojiko, who had snapped out of her daze, had an excited expression and a flushed face.
"You're not mistaken. That's our Leno."
"B... but..." Looking up at Leno, who was beating the Azure Dragon senseless, Nami's eyes were filled with confusion. At that moment, Leno's god-like figure was deeply engraved into her mind.
'That idiot Leno... he couldn't really be a 'god', could he?'
Feeling that Leno was drifting further and further away from her, Nami suddenly felt a pang of panic and grabbed Nojiko, who was next to her.
"Hey, Nojiko, that idiot Leno won't leave us in the future, right? Right? He won't."
"Nami, why would you think that? Of course Leno won't leave us."
"I don't know, I just... I just..." Unable to express the feeling in her heart, Nami was on the verge of tears. She couldn't just say it was an inexplicable feeling.
Nojiko looked at her strangely. 'What's wrong with this girl? Shouldn't she be happy to see Leno beating Kaido?'
"Awesome! So awesome! Leno, you're too amazing! You're really too amazing!"
Seeing Kaido being beaten senseless by the thunder-giant Leno, Yamato was incoherently excited, waving her kanabo, wishing she could also go up and give Kaido a few whacks. This scene was simply too shocking. From childhood, her impression of Kaido was that he was 'invincible,' and no one could defeat him. Until now, she had thought that at most, Leno would be able to resist and entangle Kaido, which would have been very impressive. Now, seeing the transformed Kaido being beaten so badly he couldn't even fight back, she realized she had far from understood Leno's true power.