Kaido charged into the ruins, roaring with laughter. He was going to kick a man while he was down. He needed to take this purple midget's head back to the Manager to claim the highest reward.
Captain Ginyu lay in the rubble. Kaido had snapped several of his ribs, and blood bubbled relentlessly from his mouth. Yet, within those narrow eyes flickered a crazed, manic excitement.
Now.
Ginyu watched Kaido rush toward him. Suddenly, he planted his hands on the ground, arching his entire body into a bizarre, unnatural bow. He opened his mouth wide, aiming directly at Kaido's laughing face.
"What the hell do you think you're doing!?"
Every instinct in Kaido's body screamed of immense danger. He raised his fist, ready to smash Ginyu's skull into paste, but he was a fraction of a second too late. Using every last ounce of his strength, Ginyu roared.
"Change!"
A blinding white beam erupted from Ginyu's mouth. The beam moved with a speed that defied time itself. It completely bypassed Kaido's Armament Haki defenses and instantly sank into his forehead. At the exact same moment, a sphere of black light was forcibly ripped from Kaido's body, following the trail of white light right back into Ginyu's physical form.
The entire process happened in less than a split second. The space and time around them seemed to freeze.
Jeice and Burter watched with their jaws slacked. They knew this technique intimately. It was Captain Ginyu's deepest, most closely guarded trump card: the Body Change. As long as that beam hit, their souls would instantly swap.
The light faded, and the battlefield returned to an eerie calm. Two silhouettes stood quietly in the ruins. A gust of wind blew past.
The ten-meter-tall pitch-black Demon Dragon suddenly moved. He raised a massive, thick dragon claw and touched his own face, then looked down at the black scales covering his colossal torso. He felt the violently explosive life force practically overflowing from within.
"Ohohohoho!"
A shrill, highly dramatic laugh tore from the Demon Dragon's jaws. "This is simply wonderful! This flesh is absolute perfection! I can feel an endless treasury of power hidden within this body!"
Ginyu, now occupying Kaido's body, danced around in sheer ecstasy. He literally broke into an eye-searing tap dance right there in the rubble. A ten-meter-tall dragon twisting his waist and shaking his ass in the ruins was a genuinely horrifying spectacle.
Kaido felt like his head was splitting open. He struggled to pry his eyes open, finding his line of sight unnervingly low to the ground. He realized he was lying facedown in a pile of crushed rocks. Agonizing, heart-tearing pain flared across his entire body. The shattered ribs made even drawing a breath agonizing.
He instinctively tried to push himself up, only to see a pair of purple, wrinkled hands. Kaido froze. He violently jerked his head up, and his eyes fell upon a sight he would never forget for the rest of his life.
His proud Demon Dragon physique—the very body of the Governor-General of the Beasts Pirates that struck terror across the entire New World—was currently standing with its hands on its hips. Its left leg was hoisted high, its right leg bent, and its ass thrust out in an absurdly flamboyant 'S' curve.
"The Ginyu Force's brand new Captain Ginyu, reporting for duty!"
The ten-meter-tall black dragon struck a pose and screamed the catchphrase at the top of its lungs.
"Congratulations on the new body, Captain!" Jeice and Burter immediately sprinted over, clapping wildly around the black dragon. "This body looks incredible! With this combat power, the Captain is easily in the top three in the universe!"
Kaido lay prone on the ground, watching his own body perform the most nauseating sequence of movements imaginable. His mind completely snapped.
"You miserable bastard!" Kaido roared, his voice coming out in Ginyu's raspy tone. "You dare use my body to strike a pose like that!? I'll kill you!"
Kaido tried to stand, but this purple body was far too heavily damaged. The moment he tried to move, he face-planted into the dirt.
Ginyu turned around, using Kaido's draconic face to flash a mocking, condescending sneer. "Ohoho, to the former tenant of this body. You seem to be having a bit of trouble adapting to that injured shell. What a pity. Those are the wounds you inflicted yourself just moments ago."
Ginyu strolled over, towering over the purple midget. "Rest easy, though. I'll end your suffering swiftly. This black dragon body belongs to me now. I will use it to conquer the universe in the name of Lord Frieza. As for you... take my broken shell and rot in hell."
Ginyu raised a massive dragon claw, fully intending to squash Kaido like a bug.
"Squash him, Captain! Don't let him dirty your new body!" Jeice cheered from the sidelines.
Watching his own familiar dragon claw descending toward him, Kaido's heart burned with unparalleled humiliation and rage. He, a glorious Yonko, was about to be crushed under his own foot. It was the biggest joke in the world. If Garp ever found out about this, that old geezer would laugh so hard he'd roll out of his chair.
"Get the hell away from me!" Kaido roared in desperation.
He desperately tried to draw out the power within this purple body. He remembered that this guy named Ginyu could casually toss out Energy Blasts. Kaido waved his hands wildly in front of his chest, trying to mimic Ginyu's previous motions. But he had absolutely no concept of what "ki" even was. He just stood there, red in the face, glaring fiercely but producing nothing.
Watching this, Ginyu laughed so hard tears pooled in his eyes.
"What a foolish native. You don't even know the basics of ki control. Even if I handed you this body with a power level of 120,000, you wouldn't be able to draw out even a tenth of its power."
Ginyu's dragon claw stomped down mercilessly. Right as the claw was about to turn Kaido into a bloody paste, Ginyu's body suddenly stiffened. He realized he had completely lost control of the black dragon's body.
"Hm? What's going on?"
Ginyu stared at his claw in confusion. He tried to draw out the black energy they called "Haki." He strained with all his might, but not a single spark of black-red lightning materialized. He opened his jaws, trying to fire off that dark-gold Bolo Breath, but all that came out was a pathetic puff of black smoke.
Ginyu was completely dumbfounded. "Where did this body's special energy go!? Why can't I use any of it!?"
Lying on the ground, Kaido watched Ginyu's comical display and suddenly erupted into arrogant, booming laughter.
"Wororororo!" Kaido laughed so hard he spat up purple blood.
He finally understood. Devil Fruit powers. Conqueror's Haki. These weren't plug-ins attached to the physical flesh. They were manifestations of the soul and the will. They were authorities etched into the very depths of his soul, granted by the Dungeon Shop's Manager, Blake. You stole my flesh, but you can never steal my undying will!
Hearing Kaido's mockery, a deeply ominous premonition swelled in Ginyu's chest. "What are you laughing at!? Even if I can't use those strange energies, the raw physical strength of this body is more than enough to stomp you to death!"
Ginyu raised the dragon claw once more. But this time, he realized the purple midget was already standing up.
Kaido dragged Ginyu's battered body upright. He straightened his spine. In those purple eyes burned a frenzied, unprecedented lust for battle.
"Who the hell do you think I am? I'm the man who's going to be the strongest security guard in the Myriad Heavens!"
Kaido let out a deafening roar. A terrifying, invisible shockwave violently erupted from the purple body. This wasn't the "ki" of the Dragon Ball world. This was the pinnacle of the One Piece world: Conqueror's Haki. Black and red lightning thrashed wildly around the purple midget. The sheer pressure of his Haki pulverized the surrounding rubble into fine dust.
Ginyu was blasted back by the sudden, overwhelming pressure, stumbling on his massive feet. He felt his very soul tremble.
"Impossible! I already crippled that body! How can it output this kind of power!?"
In the distance, Jeice and Burter's eyes rolled back into their heads as the Haki washed over them, and they collapsed, foaming at the mouth.
Kaido felt the reserves within this purple shell. Even heavily injured, the foundation of a 120,000 power level was still there. It was a significantly higher base stat than his original flesh.
"I see. So this is what you call a 120,000 power level. Not a bad container at all."
Kaido pulled his purple lips back into a vicious grin. He raised his hand, tightly coiling his Conqueror's Haki around his fist. Black-red lightning danced across the purple skin.
"Purple clown. Let me show you what real technique looks like."
Kaido stomped off the ground, vanishing instantly. He moved so fast Ginyu's eyes couldn't even track him.
Bang!
A heavy punch draped in supreme Conqueror's Haki slammed ruthlessly into the black dragon's jaw. Ginyu shrieked as the massive draconic body was launched high into the air.
Kaido didn't stop. He turned into a streak of purple lightning, rocketing into the sky and unleashing a brutally one-sided beatdown on his own original body.
"You dare tap dance in my body!?"
Bang!
"You dare stick my ass out!?"
Bang!
"I'm turning you into actual mincemeat today!"
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