Chapter 192: The Finale! (Two-in-one)
"Bang...!!!"
Another earth-shattering bang, like an earthquake!
Under the dozens of continuous, furious blows from Uchiha Madara's hundred-meter-tall Susanoo,
Kaido's massive, scarred Azure Dragon body finally couldn't withstand such inhumane torment.
Like a dying, colossal star falling from the heavens, his serpentine form plummeted directly from the turbulent, dark storm clouds.
The sheer velocity of his descent ignited the surrounding air, creating a terrifying screech that threatened to rupture the eardrums of everyone below.
He crashed heavily into the solid bedrock of Onigashima with the force of a catastrophic meteor strike!
"Rumble...!!!"
The entire island groaned and trembled violently under the unfathomable kinetic impact.
Mountains shook, rivers of lava deep underground were diverted, and the solid ground for several kilometers around Kaido's impact point instantly cracked open like fragile glass.
Deep, jagged fissures spiderwebbed outward, swallowing debris and bodies alike into the dark abyss.
Countless shattered boulders and pulverized stone shot thousands of feet into the sky.
They formed a massive, choking gray smoke column that pierced straight through the storm clouds.
The dust rapidly expanded, dyeing half the sky over Wano Country a gloomy, apocalyptic shade of grey.
The resulting shockwave, carrying lethal fragments of shattered stone and splintered wood, swept out across the battlefield like a raging, unstoppable tide.
However, just when everyone thought the invincible "Strongest Creature in the World" would finally fall silent forever, a heavy sound emerged.
A deep, wet, and incredibly muffled groan came from within the epicenter of the hazy, suffocating dust.
Immediately after, a terrifyingly burly silhouette miraculously began to rise from the depths of the crater.
Though his footing was violently unsteady, swaying like a mountain on the verge of collapse, he stood up!
He had reverted from his colossal dragon form back to his base human state.
Kaido was completely covered in dark, steaming blood from head to toe.
His signature, durable clothing was tattered into pathetic rags, looking as though he had been relentlessly chewed upon by a pack of mythical beasts.
Every single inch of his exposed, usually impenetrable skin was heavily covered in deep, gruesome, bone-visible cracks and blackened, charred burns.
His legendary spiked club, the Hassaikai, had been knocked flying during the brutal descent, lost to who knew where in the vast ruins of Onigashima.
He was now completely bare-handed, relying solely on his raw, monstrous physique.
He was barely supporting his massive frame with that unyielding, tempered steel body of his.
It was a body that had been relentlessly pounded, slashed, and crushed countless times throughout this war, yet his Awakened Zoan vitality stubbornly refused to let him break.
His breathing was incredibly heavy and labored, sounding exactly like a severely damaged, rusted bellows desperately trying to draw in air.
With every single inhale he took, a sickening, grating sound of shattered ribs and torn cartilage rubbing together echoed loudly from within his massive chest.
But even standing at the absolute precipice of death, looking more like a battered corpse than a living Yonko, he did not yield.
In his crimson, bloodshot, beast-like eyes, an unextinguished, terrifyingly primal ferocity still burned with blinding intensity!
"Tsk, what an absolute monster."
Suzaku, watching the scene unfold from a comfortable distance, couldn't help but exhale a breath of genuine admiration.
He crossed his arms over his chest, narrowing his sharp eyes as his gaze fell squarely upon Kaido's horribly riddled, mangled body.
"After being brutally and mercilessly beaten by Madara's Perfect Susanoo for so long, this guy can actually still find the leg strength to stand up..."
Suzaku shook his head, a smirk playing on his lips.
"His sheer vitality is probably more than a whole notch stronger than a mutated cockroach's. It's simply, defyingly exaggerated!"
His tone naturally carried a hint of sincere appreciation for the peak physical prowess of this world.
But more than that, it carried a playful, detached amusement at Kaido's incredibly tenacious, stubborn will to fight.
In Suzaku's analytical view, Kaido's desperate struggle, though undeniably magnificent and worthy of songs, was already firmly destined to end here.
Down in the crater, Kaido gasped violently for breath, tasting the heavy iron of his own blood on his tongue.
His crimson, glowing gaze began to slowly sweep across the devastated surroundings, forcing his blurry vision to take in everything on the ruined battlefield.
What exactly did he see of his glorious, invincible empire?
...Not far from him, standing amidst a field of frost, was his absolute most loyal right-hand man.
The Disaster of Flame, King the Wildfire, the last of the Lunarians who had always followed him like a steadfast shadow.
A man as powerful, destructive, and reliably unyielding as fire itself.
He was now completely, utterly frozen into a massive, tragically lifelike ice sculpture by the chilling power of General Esdeath.
King was forever trapped in a desperate, forward-lunging, sword-wielding posture.
Through the translucent, eternal blue ice, his face was still perfectly frozen with a final, uncharacteristic trace of deep surprise and profound unwillingness!
That cold, unforgiving blue color, glittering under the gray sky, felt like a jagged, poisoned thorn fiercely piercing Kaido's hardened heart.
He forced his heavy head to turn in another direction.
There lay his other top executive, the fat and notoriously bloated Disaster of Plague, Queen.
A man possessing unparalleled technological genius and deadly viral mastery, capable of destroying entire nations with a single chemical weapon.
He now lay pathetic and crumpled on the shattered ground, completely unconscious and broken like a discarded child's toy.
A massive, gruesome section of his cybernetic chest was entirely caved in, sparking with short-circuiting electricity and leaking dark fluids, clearly having suffered a devastating, fatal blunt-force blow.
And then there were his prized Tobi Roppo cadres!
The vanguard of his army, the terrifying Ancient Zoan users.
Page One and Sasaki were lying nearby, their usually tough dinosaur hides completely charred pitch-black.
They looked exactly like lightning-struck, hollowed-out withered trees resting lifelessly on the cold, unforgiving ground.
And Ulti, the girl known for her explosive, fiery personality and unbreakable thick skull, had met a brutal end.
She had been ruthlessly, mercilessly hammered completely senseless by Rem's massive iron morningstar.
Her mask was shattered, her eyes rolled back into her head, and she had passed out in a pool of her own blood.
Looking further around, the once glorious, terrifying stronghold of Onigashima had literally become an apocalyptic hellscape.
The remaining, once-proud members of the Beasts Pirates were rapidly collapsing and routing like a receding tide.
They were breaking entirely under the overwhelming, inhumane force of the Shadow Legion, Albedo, and Esdeath.
They were fighting an impossible war against a group of absolute "non-humans" who felt no fatigue and showed no mercy.
Those few Gifters, Pleasures, and ordinary grunts who had miraculously survived the initial crossfire now only held pure, unadulterated despair and soul-crushing fear in their wide eyes.
Some cowardly dropped their weapons and fled in sheer, chaotic panic, tripping over the corpses of their comrades.
Others were mercilessly, silently cut down from the shadows by the relentless, glowing-eyed Shadow Soldiers before they could even scream.
The Ice Knights, conjured by Esdeath's chilling magic, were systematically executing anyone who dared to stand their ground.
And those elusive, terrifying Shadow Soldiers were smoothly harvesting lives like actual ghosts roaming a graveyard.
And standing amidst this absolute massacre were the two women, Albedo and Esdeath.
Their pristine dresses and immaculate uniforms were completely untouched by the filth of war.
They even had a hint of cruel, highly lingering, sadistic smiles painting their beautiful, flawless faces.
They were casually charging through the crowded battlefield, treating it like a leisurely stroll, where each casual strike and flick of the wrist took away massive swathes of pirate lives.
The battle was definitively lost.
The grand, invincible army of thirty years was entirely routed!
The unextinguished, primal ferocity burning deep within Kaido's eyes, upon witnessing the total annihilation of everything he had built, did not wane.
Instead, his spirit finally seemed to be fiercely scorched by an intense, unbearable heat.
His gaze became even more violently crimson, even more insanely focused!
"Your will is indeed somewhat extraordinary."
From high above, resonating from within the glowing forehead crystal of the towering Susanoo, Uchiha Madara's voice boomed.
It carried a very rare, fleeting hint of warrior's approval, yet it fundamentally remained incredibly arrogant, distant, and god-like in its coldness.
"But mere physical tenacity and raw stubbornness cannot change the inevitable outcome of reality.
Before my absolute power, all your desperate struggles and pitiful roars are destined to be entirely futile!
Get on your knees. Surrender, Kaido."
This voice, sounding exactly like a divine judgment handed down from the heavens, echoed loudly in Kaido's ringing ears.
But to the proud Emperor of the Sea, it sounded like nothing more than the most insulting, unbearable mockery!
"Hahahahahahahahaha...!!!"
Upon hearing this demand for submission, Kaido, instead of getting angry or succumbing to the pressure, burst out laughing!
He unleashed a thunderous, deeply manic, earth-shattering laugh that forced more blood to spill from his lips!
His heavily blood-stained, bruised face was completely filled with absolute defiance and endless, unyielding scorn!
"Surrender? Just who the hell do you think I am?!"
He stood tall, staring intently upwards at the glowing blue giant, ignoring the searing pain in every fiber of his being.
His voice was as deafening, raw, and powerful as a violent volcanic eruption!
"I am Kaido! I am the undisputed 'Strongest Creature in the World'!
I am 'Beasts' Kaido! How could I ever bow my head and surrender to you... you arrogant group of 'brats' who are still completely wet behind the ears?!"
His defiant words carried the incredibly deep, unbreakable contempt and absolute unwillingness of a true king who chose death over dishonor.
"Damn old man! Wake up and look around you!"
Just then, a highly familiar, intensely angry, and crisp female voice violently pierced through the roaring winds from not far away.
Yamato, tightly holding her legendary spiked club, Takeru, stood atop a mound of rubble.
She casually sent several desperately charging, panicked Gifters scattering into the air with a single, sweeping blow of her weapon.
Her wide eyes were burning with a complex mixture of intense fury and lingering sorrow.
She stared intently at Kaido's battered form and shouted at the top of her lungs, her voice cracking slightly.
"You have absolutely no chance of winning this! Look at your precious subordinates!
King is down! Queen is down! The entire Tobi Roppo is almost completely wiped out!
Your grand, invincible pirate crew is completely, utterly finished! You've already lost the war!
Just surrender! We will definitely defeat you here and now!"
Yamato's desperate roar, ringing out like a sharp thunderclap, exploded directly within Kaido's nearly shattered, chaotic will.
Her voice was so incredibly familiar to him, having heard her defiant shouts for twenty years, yet right now, it sounded so fundamentally strange.
It lacked the usual blind rebellion and instead carried the heavy weight of true, undeniable reality.
Upon hearing his daughter's words, Kaido's wild, manic laughter gradually began to subside.
He didn't roar back or swing a weapon in response immediately.
He simply stood there in absolute, heavy silence for a long moment.
His incredibly heavy, wet breathing sounded particularly harsh and loud in the sudden, eerie quiet of their immediate battlefield.
No one present knew exactly what this towering man, universally feared as the "Strongest Creature in the World," was truly thinking at this final moment.
Was it a boiling, uncontrollable anger at her betrayal?
Was it a deep, hidden sadness at the complete destruction of his life's work?
Was it the bitter, stinging unwillingness of a fallen king facing his absolute end?
Or was it... a highly complex, twisted emotion of acknowledging his daughter's ultimate growth and unyielding determination to forge her own path?
After a long, suffocating moment, Kaido slowly raised his heavy, horned head.
His blood-red, beast-like eyes deeply and intensely gazed at his daughter standing proudly not far away.
He looked at Yamato, who held her spiked club with a perfect stance, full of incredible, explosive vigor, yet still retaining a slight hint of youthful immaturity.
He saw the blazing, undeniable determination in Yamato's clear eyes.
He saw the true freedom radiating from her posture—a freedom that was no longer chained or bound by his oppressive shadow!
Slowly, against all odds, he smiled.
This time, the smile was no longer wildly manic, and it was no longer dripping with arrogant, dismissive mockery.
Instead, it carried a very strange, almost imperceptible hint of genuine relief.
It held a deeply hidden hint of twisted pride, and a father's incredibly complex, contented feeling that absolutely no one else in the world could ever understand.
"Hahahaha... If you truly think you can do it, then come and try! Yamato!"
He laughed wildly one last time, his voice incredibly hoarse, tired, and broken, yet still carrying an absolutely unshakeable, monstrous resolve!
As soon as his final words fell, Kaido's massive, battered body underwent a violent, explosive transformation once again amidst a blinding, dazzling light!
"Roar...!!!"
Accompanied by an absolutely earth-shattering, heaven-piercing dragon's roar that parted the clouds above, he forcefully pushed his limits!
He once again transformed back into his colossal Azure Dragon form, violently soaring straight up through the stormy sky!
However, this current "Azure Dragon" no longer possessed the majestic, god-like spirit it had once displayed when it confidently looked down on all beings above Wano Country!
The massive, miles-long azure dragon body was completely, horrifyingly covered in shocking, gaping wounds.
The incredibly hard, supposedly impenetrable dragon scales were violently torn apart by advanced Conqueror's Haki impacts.
This revealed the dark, bloody, and thoroughly mangled flesh beneath, making the legendary beast appear severely, fatally damaged.
Even the monstrous, terrifying dragon head bore deep, purple bruises, cracked horns, and massive abrasions.
In its massive, crimson dragon eyes, absolute physical fatigue and primal madness deeply intertwined, battling for dominance.
Yet, the burning, pure fighting spirit within him never extinguished for a single second.
He was exactly like a giant, glorious battleship that had been utterly ravaged by a century-long storm.
Though completely riddled with massive holes and taking on water, it was still standing tall, refusing to sink.
He was forcefully launching the absolute most desperate, final suicide charge straight towards the deadly eye of the final storm!
Even knowing in his heart that this was a completely hopeless, final last stand, Kaido would never, ever retreat!
He forcefully squeezed and used every single last ounce of his remaining cellular strength, driving his broken, bleeding dragon body forward.
With a sonic boom, he charged head-on towards Uchiha Madara's towering, invincible Susanoo!
"Boom...!!!"
Mid-charge, slicing through the air, Kaido suddenly opened his massive, gaping maw, a mouth capable of swallowing entire boulders whole!
Blazing, hyper-concentrated thermal energy frantically and violently condensed deep within his throat.
The surrounding air instantly warped and shimmered violently from the sudden injection of extreme, unimaginable heat.
A blinding, terrifying, enormous beam of superheated light, capable of instantly incinerating everything in its path, violently erupted from his mouth!
"Heat Breath...!!!"
Wherever this catastrophic, fiery column of concentrated light passed, whether it hit solid steel weapons or dense bedrock, it didn't matter.
Everything was instantaneously vaporized into nothingness by the extreme heat, leaving a massive, charred, glowing abyss permanently plowed into the ground!
Its terrifying, concentrated destructive power was more than enough to completely erase a towering mountain peak from the face of the earth in a fraction of an instant!
Such a powerful, desperate, life-burning attack required even someone as arrogant as Madara to prepare his Susanoo to defend with all its divine might!
However, just a microsecond before this all-consuming, apocalyptic Heat Breath was about to violently crash into the Susanoo's ethereal armor!
"To think he can actually still forcefully launch such a destructive attack... Never mind, Hashirama, let's step in too."
Suzaku's calm, composed voice suddenly echoed, carrying a very slight, almost imperceptible sigh of finality.
"It's about time to finally put an end to this long battle."
Before his casually spoken words even finished echoing in the air, his figure moved with a speed that completely defied physical comprehension.
As if literally teleporting through the fabric of space itself, with a single, untraceable flash, he appeared directly in the very front of that terrifying, incoming Heat Breath!
Without activating any visible barrier, Haki defense, or magical shield, Suzaku simply raised his hand.
He casually, almost lazily, held out his legendary fire-tipped spear, pointing the blade directly at the incoming inferno.
Like an agile swallow diving through a summer breeze, he weaved his spear through the absolute center of the flames.
And then, the impossible happened.
The terrifying, mountain-melting inferno slowly, inexplicably vanished right before his very eyes.
As if the raging fire had violently crashed into an invisible, absolute wall of nothingness, or had been completely devoured by a higher authority of flame.
He single-handedly, effortlessly blocked the Yonko's ultimate attack, ensuring that not even a single, microscopic corner of his pristine clothes was touched or singed!
This completely absurd, reality-breaking scene made Kaido's tired, massive dragon eyes shrink suddenly to the size of mere pinpricks!
His absolute proudest technique, his "Heat Breath," his strongest, most devastating flame attack capable of vaporizing entire islands over time...
Was it actually... completely, utterly ineffective against this smiling "brat"?
Seeing his final, desperate attack have absolutely no effect whatsoever, a deep trace of truly desperate, unhinged madness flashed intensely in Kaido's eyes!
He knew with absolute certainty that he was at the very end of his rope, his stamina completely bottomed out.
But even so, he would gladly burn away his own soul to use every last ounce of life force to tear these arrogant "brats" to bloody shreds!
"Roar...!!"
He let out an incredibly unwilling, heaven-shaking roar, his massive, miles-long dragon body suddenly violently curling up upon itself in mid-air.
Then, spinning like a massive, uncontrollable top, it began to violently rotate in a circular motion at an astonishing, supersonic speed!
"Tornado...!!"
As Kaido's rapidly, violently rotating dragon body moved, the surrounding atmospheric pressure was instantly and catastrophically stirred.
It rapidly formed several enormous, violently destructive tornadoes!
Each of these terrifying tornadoes reached hundreds of meters high, physically connecting the shattered earth to the dark heavens above.
They looked exactly as if they wanted to violently tear the entire island of Onigashima apart at its very seams!
They roared and howled with deafening intensity, violently sweeping up thousands of tons of surrounding debris, shattered weapons, and remnants of buildings.
They formed massive, destructive white storms filled with deadly shrapnel.
They began rushing aggressively towards Suzaku, Madara, and Hashirama, who had not yet approached from a distance.
The winds attempted to forcefully blow them away into the ocean and tear their flesh to absolute shreds!
The violent, uncontrollable hurricane raged mercilessly across the entire battlefield, emitting wailing, ghostly, high-pitched roars.
It felt as if the very fabric of space and time itself would be violently torn apart by the sheer wind pressure!
"Hahaha! Are you all enthusiastically joining in on the fun? How can I possibly be left out of this!"
Just then, an incredibly bold, hearty, and utterly carefree voice arrived over the howling winds!
In the distance, Hashirama Senju's tall, imposing figure stood completely unmoving and unbothered in the center of the fierce, tearing wind.
A bright, pure excitement glinted intensely in his deep, steady dark eyes!
He looked at Kaido's wildly spinning, destructive figure with a slight, almost excited smile on his face.
"Watch closely at what I can do! Sage Art: Myojinmon!"
Hashirama forcefully clapped his hands together with a resounding slap, and massive, unimaginably dense Sage Mode chakra surged frantically and violently between his palms!
"Rumble...!!!"
Accompanying the violent, protesting trembling of the earth beneath them, the sky above warped.
Countless enormous, heavily weighted red torii-shaped wooden structures suddenly and miraculously appeared out of thin air!
They manifested directly around Kaido's rapidly spinning, tornado-generating dragon body!
Each of these massive, divine wooden torii soared high into the storm clouds.
Like absolute, unbreakable divine shackles sent from the heavens themselves, they plummeted downward!
They firmly, brutally pressed Kaido's massive body, which was in the middle of creating the tornadoes, violently down to the shattered ground from all conceivable directions!
They locked his neck, his tail, and his claws to the bedrock!
"Roar...?!"
Kaido let out a desperate roar of pure shock and blinding anger.
His massive, powerful dragon body was now firmly, inescapably trapped by these sudden, impossibly heavy torii gates, unable to move even a single, agonizing inch!
The massive, sky-tearing tornadoes that could have torn apart heaven and earth also gradually, inevitably lost their kinetic power source as he was completely restrained.
They merely wailed softly in the wind, rapidly losing their shape, before eventually dissipating completely into harmless breezes!
"Hashirama...!!"
The exact moment Kaido was completely, humiliatingly sealed and pinned to the dirt by the Myojinmon,
Uchiha Madara's deeply angry, highly offended roar came booming from within the protective crystal of the Susanoo!
"Who the hell gave you permission to interfere in my hunt?!
With my, Uchiha Madara's, absolute power, I am perfectly, entirely capable of defeating this pathetic enemy alone! You meddling bastard!"
Grumbling loudly with immense annoyance, Madara's glowing, chakra-coated hands did not slow down their assault in the slightest!
His spinning, hypnotic eyes were fixed murderously on the pinned Kaido.
The massive, blue, armored giant arm of the Perfect Susanoo suddenly lifted high into the dark sky!
"Yasaka Magatama...!!!"
The very next second, dozens of incredibly huge, glowing magatama, densely condensed from highly concentrated, destructive chakra, manifested.
They shot out violently from the Susanoo's massive palm exactly like a deadly, apocalyptic meteor shower, accompanied by a piercing, high-pitched whoosh that tore the air!
Each of these glowing magatama contained enough volatile, world-destroying power to level a city block.
Now, carrying the absolute, suffocating aura of death, they accurately, mercilessly struck Kaido, who was completely unable to dodge while sealed by the Myojinmon!
And Hashirama, acting exactly as if he hadn't heard a single word of Madara's angry, competitive roar at all, completely ignored his rival.
He still wore his signature, completely carefree "natural airhead" smile, rapidly forming complex, ancient hand seals once again!
"Wood Release: Sage Art Wood Golem!"
"Rumble rumble rumble...!!!"
Before Madara's devastating Yasaka Magatama barrage had even fully landed on its target, the dark, stormy sky was once again miraculously enveloped in a warm, blindingly golden Buddha light!
A colossal, unimaginably massive, sky-obscuring Thousand-Hand Buddha statue, dwarfing even the mountains, violently erupted from the earth!
It carried the terrifying, absolute divine might to suppress all heavens and crush all demons.
It materialized completely out of thin air, looming directly above Kaido's pinned head!
Countless massive, hardened Wood Release fists, each the size of a galleon, pulled back.
Accompanied by whistling, tearing wind, they rained down heavily, indiscriminately, and brutally on Kaido, who was firmly, helplessly bound by the Myojinmon!
"Bang bang bang bang bang...!!!"
The incredibly dense barrage of wooden fists, carrying the immense, crushing physical power of Sage Art, first smashed mercilessly onto Kaido's already broken, bleeding dragon body.
Each individual, colossal punch was accompanied by a sickening, bone-grating sound of thick dragon bones violently breaking and splintering into pieces!
The sheer kinetic force caused Kaido to violently cough up gallons of blood, letting out agonizing, painful roars as his blood splattered across the ruined landscape!
Immediately after the physical barrage!
"Boom...!!!"
Madara's highly explosive "Yasaka Magatama" also directly struck Kaido's already mangled, pulverized dragon body.
His form, which had just been mercilessly battered by the thousand Wood Release fists, took the blasts like a terrifying doomsday judgment!
The concentrated magatama erupted violently with blinding, searing white light.
A massive, unstoppable torrent of pure, destructive energy instantly and completely engulfed Kaido's entire form!
A violent, apocalyptic explosion loudly reverberated through heaven and earth, temporarily blinding everyone watching.
The massive physical shockwave from the Buddha and the volatile energy storm from the Susanoo overlapped perfectly, completely submerging the entire space sealed by the Myojinmon in absolute destruction!
"Whoa,"
Suzaku couldn't help but raise an eyebrow, a playful smile on his face.
"With you two attacking together, who could possibly withstand that?"
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