Chapter 193: Suppressing the Beast!
He watched Kaido, assailed by two world-shattering forces, a strange light flickering in his eyes.
Before him, a scene straight out of ancient, forgotten mythology was unfolding in brutal, uncompromising reality.
To the left, Senju Hashirama's colossal Sage Art Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands dominated the skyline.
The gigantic wooden Buddha, a towering monument of overwhelming life force, slammed down massive, building-sized fists in a relentless, rhythmic frenzy.
Each individual strike carried the weight of a falling meteor, smashing mercilessly onto the writhing form of the Azure Dragon.
The sickening, bone-grating sound of thick dragon scales violently cracking and splintering echoed with every thunderous impact.
To the right, Uchiha Madara's towering, perfect blue Susanoo rained down a catastrophic barrage of Yasaka Magatama.
The massive, spinning blue jewels of concentrated chakra detonated against Kaido's battered body with blinding, searing flashes of destructive light.
The pure kinetic force from the Buddha and the highly volatile energy storm from the Susanoo perfectly overlapped, creating an inescapable zone of absolute devastation.
The sheer scale of the destruction was enough to immediately suffocate any ordinary mortal who merely glanced at it.
"But… since it's the finale, I'll join the fun too!"
Suzaku chuckled, his voice entirely devoid of tension.
His tone, though deceptively light and casual, carried a chilling, absolute certainty that cut cleanly through the roaring tempest of the battlefield.
The beautifully crafted fire-tipped spear in his hand droned and quivered violently.
It resonated deeply with his soaring battle intent, singing a high-pitched metallic song of impending slaughter.
Golden flames, pure and intensely divine, rapidly danced across the intricately carved shaft as though they were a living, sentient entity.
They burned with a terrifying heat that immediately melted the shattered, rocky ground beneath his boots into bubbling, glowing magma.
Simultaneously, an incredibly heavy, suffocating pressure erupted from the very core of his being.
Thick red lightning coiled like angry, horned dragons around the golden fire, violently pulsing with terrifying Conqueror's Haki!
The air itself visibly distorted and cracked like fragile glass, completely unable to bear the sheer, overwhelming density of his infused supreme king's will.
The dark clouds hovering high above Onigashima split wide open, forcefully pushed apart by the sheer magnitude of his aura.
With a thunderous, explosive crack that instantly cratered the liquefied ground he stood upon, he moved.
He flashed forward and appeared at the very heart of the twin attacks!
Under the combined, heaven-defying onslaught of Sage Art Wood Release and Yasaka Magatama, Kaido's massive dragon body was already riddled with gruesome, fatal wounds.
His once-impenetrable, prideful azure scales had been violently ripped away in massive chunks, exposing deeply charred flesh and shattered, splintering white bone.
Rivers of boiling, high-temperature dragon blood rained down continuously upon the ruined earth.
The crimson liquid instantly vaporized into thick, metallic-smelling mist upon touching the searing ground.
The legendary 'Strongest Creature', a title feared across the entire globe, was being mercilessly battered into a helpless, bleeding pulp.
The sheer agonizing pain overwhelming his nervous system made it completely impossible for him to concentrate.
He was entirely unable to maintain his colossal, majestic dragon form any longer.
With a deeply sorrowful, fiercely unwilling roar that shook the very tectonic foundation of Wano below, his colossal frame reverted to human shape amid the violent explosion!
The blinding, apocalyptic shockwave from his sudden transformation sent massive boulders and debris flying for miles.
It left behind a terrifyingly deep, violently smoldering crater in the very center of the skull dome.
Kaido was now at his absolute last gasp!
He crashed heavily into the deepest center of the pit, his massive weight kicking up a thick, suffocating cloud of grey ash and pulverized stone.
When the heavy smoke slightly cleared, the towering figure of the fearsome Yonko looked utterly, incredibly miserable.
Charred and mangled beyond belief, his immense, unbelievably muscular body was laced with deep, gruesome cracks like a spider's web.
Blood poured freely and rapidly from countless lacerations, painting his tan skin in a horrific, abstract mosaic of dripping crimson and burnt black.
The overwhelming agony tearing through his completely crushed internal organs was rapidly, mercilessly nearly robbing him of consciousness.
Every single labored breath he desperately took sounded exactly like a broken, rusted bellows, violently wheezing and rattling with the heavy scent of his own pooling blood.
Yet, despite the overwhelming pain threatening to plunge his mind into the dark abyss, those blood-red beastly pupils stayed fixed on Suzaku!
They burned intensely with the undying, stubborn ferocity of a truly cornered king, absolutely refusing to show even a singular sliver of weakness or submission.
Without a single moment of hesitation, Suzaku raised the spear high above his shoulder.
The supreme weapon was entirely wreathed in roaring, hungry golden fire and wildly crackling, destructive red lightning.
The atmospheric pressure around him violently plummeted, violently drawn into the terrifying vortex of energy gathering at the spear's glowing, superheated tip.
And like an unstoppable meteor violently cleaving the dark void of space, he thrust it straight at the defenseless, human-form Kaido!
"Hakoku: Blaze Fall…!!!"
The terrifying attack viciously tore through the air, instantly breaking the sound barrier dozens of times over.
It left a perfect vacuum trail of pure, destructive light in its wake, completely obliterating any remaining oxygen in its direct path.
Faced with that terrifying, inevitable, world-ending strike, Kaido either lacked the physical strength to dodge or simply chose not to.
He didn't desperately attempt to raise his shattered arms, nor did he uselessly try to coat his broken body in a final layer of Armament Haki.
He simply stood his ground, letting his heavily battered, bleeding body face the incoming, absolute judgment.
He stared straight at Suzaku, those scarlet pupils seeming to burn Suzaku's image into his very soul.
Time seemed to slow to an absolute, agonizing crawl in the weary eyes of the dying Yonko.
"Never imagined…"
His hoarse, incredibly broken voice carried an odd, metallic heaviness, violently grinding against the sudden silence like two deeply rusted iron blades.
Yet, hidden entirely beneath the immense exhaustion and pain, there was also a worldly, profound admiration.
"…that you, brat, could coat your attacks with Conqueror's Haki… to such a monstrous degree… not bad at all!"
It was the ultimate, genuine acknowledgment from a man who had stood unopposed at the pinnacle of the seas for decades.
Before the fading echoes of his heavy words could even dissipate into the howling wind, the spear of golden flame and red lightning unstoppably—squelch!—
A dull, sickeningly meaty sound loudly echoed across the devastated crater.
The fire-tipped spear, carrying an overwhelming, concentrated force easily enough to pierce anything in this entire world, skewered Kaido's broad chest!
It violently entered right through the center of his massive sternum, the terrifying momentum instantly shattering his incredibly dense ribcage into powder.
The fiery, glowing tip violently erupted from his back, tearing a massive, gaping hole entirely through the Yonko's torso.
Blood gushed like a highly pressurized spring from the massive, fatal wound.
However, the searing, divine heat was so absolute that the crimson liquid was only to be incinerated by the surrounding golden flames before it could stain the spear.
It instantly vanished into rapidly hissing puffs of crimson steam, leaving the beautiful golden shaft completely unblemished by the emperor's blood.
The sudden, world-ending agony made Kaido's colossal frame convulse uncontrollably.
His massive muscles tightened into incredibly hard knots, his jaw clenching so hard his sharp teeth violently cracked under the immense pressure.
Yet, as if in a final, insanely defiant resurgence of his legendary vitality, his spirit flared!
He coughed mouthfuls of dark, thick crimson; the broken cascade dyed the scorched ground at his feet.
The heavy, metallic tang of his blood completely saturated the violently heated air between them.
His massive, tree-trunk-like knees finally buckled under the immense trauma, forcing him to drop heavily onto one knee before the hovering, pristine youth.
But his dimming, beast-like pupils locked tight onto Suzaku's handsome, completely unbothered face!
He absolutely refused to look away, desperately demanding to see the true, unhidden nature of the young man who had successfully brought him down.
In that fleeting, final instant, Kaido's weathered, battle-scarred eyes seemed to glimpse a distant, intensely familiar figure overlapping perfectly with Suzaku.
A terrifying, overwhelming phantom from a violently bygone era emerged rapidly from the deepest depths of his memories.
It was his former Captain, the man who had once been the absolute sovereign of the seas—the indomitable Rocks!
He saw the exact same overwhelming, heaven-swallowing ambition, the same monstrous aura of absolute supremacy, the same terrifying ability to gather unimaginable monsters under one single banner.
"With so many monsters under you…"
Blood kept spilling continuously and heavily from his lips as he forcefully pushed out each agonizingly heavy word.
Yet for once in his chaotic, incredibly violent life, his tone held absolute sincerity and a burning, genuine question:
"Brat… do you, too, wish to be King of the World… like Rocks?"
The heavy question hung in the violently heated air, carrying the immense weight of a dying emperor's final, desperate curiosity.
Suzaku, casually gripping the end of the impaled, burning spear, looked down coldly at the fallen giant.
Suzaku's lips slowly curved in a highly confident, immensely domineering smile.
It was a smile that held absolutely zero regard or respect for the so-called legends of the old era.
"Rocks?"
He gave a soft, highly dismissive laugh, genuine, unfiltered contempt heavily lacing his tone.
"No—Rocks was merely a pathetic loser who ultimately failed to grasp his own ambitions."
He deliberately paused, his deep, dark eyes locking intensely and ruthlessly with Kaido's rapidly fading red ones.
He made absolutely sure his next sentence would be the very last thing the Yonko ever processed.
Each word ringing out clear, cold, and entirely unshakable, vibrating with absolute, unquestionable authority,
"And I, do not lose!"
The absolute, terrifying certainty in Suzaku's voice struck Kaido's soul much harder than any physical blow.
Kaido blinked, his heavy, blood-soaked eyelids trembling as the profound realization washed completely over him.
Then, pushing entirely past the agonizing, fatal pain in his shattered chest, he burst once more into his wild, highly unrestrained laughter!
"Oro-ro-ro-ro-ro-ro… is that so?"
His booming, thunderous mirth echoed loudly across the ruined landscape, but it no longer bore its usual drunken madness or stubborn reluctance.
It carried a profound, deep acceptance, and perhaps, even a strange, incredibly peaceful sense of relief.
The heavy, suffocating burden of being the strongest, the endless, boring wait for Joy Boy, the decades of stagnation—all of it was finally, truly over.
"With those… terrifying monsters at your side… maybe… you really… can pull it off… Oro-ro-ro…"
He laughed, his massive, broken chest heaving painfully against the searing spear, laughed until the absolute last drop of his legendary life burned out.
The bold, earth-shaking echoes of his voice began fading rapidly, growing highly hoarse and weak.
Until like a fragile, dying candle in the freezing winter wind, they flickered out entirely,
And… a heavy, absolute silence fell.
The monstrous, seemingly infinite vitality that had defined his terrifying existence simply vanished into the void.
His massive, horned head drooped forward heavily, completely lifeless.
Those once-proud, fiercely ferocious pupils that had terrorized the entire New World for decades lost their terrifying light forever.
The imposing, massive figure remained kneeling, held upright only by the glowing spear impaled entirely through his chest, a morbid monument to a fallen era.
Thus the supreme Governor-General of the Beasts Pirates, one of the Yonko ruling the New World,
The legendary pirate hailed globally as the world's strongest creature—user of the Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan Type, Azure Dragon model, Kaido… perished!
With Kaido's historic, world-shaking fall, the brutal war for Onigashima is all but over.
The grandest, most terrifying obstacle had been utterly eradicated from the face of the world.
All that remains is to casually sweep up the grand "fireworks" left on the battlefield and happily tally the bountiful spoils of their absolute victory.
—
As Kaido's final, highly ragged breath left him and his massive, horned head hung down in absolute defeat,
The entire, chaotic battlefield seemed to instantly hit a sudden pause button, plunging into an eerie, suffocating silence.
The chaotic, deafening symphony of clashing steel, roaring cannons, and screaming men abruptly ceased entirely.
Only the dying, crackling electrical aftershocks of the massive energy storm remained heavily in the atmosphere.
And the soft, highly peaceful rustling sound of countless glowing motes drifting down like gentle, warm snow as the colossal Thousand-Armed Buddha and the towering blue Susanoo slowly dispersed into nothingness.
Suzaku smoothly and effortlessly withdrew his golden spear, letting Kaido's massive, heavy body finally collapse completely onto the blackened, scorched earth with a heavy thud.
Suzaku swept his calm, highly piercing gaze across the thoroughly devastated land, taking in the grand scale of the destruction.
His eyes first found the incredibly tall girl with the heavy spiked club standing not far away from the epicenter.
Yamato.
She stood completely frozen, her white-knuckled grip on her heavy weapon visibly trembling as she stared blankly at Kaido's lifeless, bleeding hulk.
Her beautiful expression was an incredibly complex, swirling storm of chaotic emotions—
Deep, heavily aching weariness from the relentless, brutal battle mingled with an unmistakable, highly overwhelming wave of profound relief.
She silently watched the thick blood pool rapidly around the massive man who had brutally kept her chained in explosive cuffs for two agonizing decades.
A few, agonizingly long seconds later, her extremely taut, battle-ready frame entirely relaxed.
The heavy, invisible, suffocating shackles tightly binding her soul completely shattered into microscopic pieces.
The corners of her delicate mouth slowly lifted, highly trembling at first,
Until she threw her head back entirely and burst into bright, completely unhinged, heartfelt laughter!
"Oh-hahaha… yes! YES!"
Hot tears of pure, unadulterated, overwhelming joy streamed rapidly down her deeply dirt-streaked, beautiful cheeks.
Raising her heavy, incredibly dense club, "Narukami," extremely high overhead toward the slowly clearing skies, she shouted with absolutely all the strength in her lungs to the heavens,
"Kaido's down! Wano is free!"
Her highly emotional voice carried rapidly across the howling wind, holding absolutely not a single trace of sorrow for her biological, abusive father—only the pure, ecstatic joy of physical and mental chains completely broken.
Seeing her profound, entirely unfiltered emotional release, Suzaku's own handsome lips curved in a highly amused, cynical smile.
"Such touching father-daughter love."
He gave a silent, highly mocking quip entirely to himself, finding the absolute irony of the dramatic situation highly entertaining.
Then, he coldly turned his sharp, calculating attention to the other, far more chaotic corners of the wide field.
Kaido's undeniable, highly public death struck the violently remaining enemy forces exactly like a massive, physical hammer directly to the brain.
It was ruthlessly, completely shattering the absolute last sliver of will belonging to the Beasts Pirates' heavily battered remnants.
The terrifying news spread exactly like a highly deadly plague, completely paralyzing every single pirate who witnessed the unbelievable fall of their invincible leader.
"G-General… dead? This… this has to be a highly twisted nightmare!"
"Impossible! Lord Kaido is entirely invincible! He cannot possibly lose to a mere human!"
"It can't be… the undeniable, supreme 'strongest creature'… can't possibly die… he's supposed to be immortal!"
Their highly panicked voices overlapped completely in a pathetic, terrified chorus of absolute, mind-numbing denial.
After the incredibly brief, suffocating moment of complete disbelief came an unstoppable, massive avalanche of pure, unfiltered despair and terror.
Pirates who had ferociously, mindlessly fought exactly like rabid, bloodthirsty beasts to the very end now looked entirely hollow-eyed.
All the adrenaline, anger, and physical strength drained incredibly rapidly from their violently trembling, weak limbs.
Some simply let their heavy, blood-stained weapons clatter entirely uselessly to the highly ruined ground and collapsed directly onto their shaking knees, staring entirely blankly at the sky.
Others aggressively and desperately clutched their sweaty heads, violently tearing at their own dirty hair, and wailed loudly in absolute, pathetic agony.
Their supreme, invincible spiritual pillar, the terrifying god they blindly believed would easily conquer the entire world, had abruptly, permanently fallen.
For the terrifying, highly loyal "monsters" summoned entirely under Suzaku's absolute command, this pathetic, highly disorganized rout became exactly nothing more than a highly efficient, completely one-sided harvest.
There was absolutely zero mercy to be found, only absolute, completely systematic extermination.
Ram and Rem moved incredibly smoothly in perfect, highly lethal synchronization, beautifully dancing exactly like highly elegant yet deeply deadly butterflies entirely through the thoroughly disordered, panicking enemy ranks.
The beautiful elder sister's highly precise, incredibly sharp wind magic violently sowed absolute chaos and insurmountable, deadly obstacles.
Invisible, razor-sharp blades effortlessly, cleanly sliced entirely through thick iron armor and screaming flesh alike, leaving highly severed limbs in their wake.
The cute younger sister's massive, incredibly heavy iron meteor hammer mercilessly, brutally crushed absolutely every last ounce of remaining will to resist.
The terrifying weapon swung with massive momentum, completely shattering thick skulls and spines with terrifying, incredibly loud bone-crunching impacts.
Blood sprayed violently into the air exactly like highly macabre fountains, rapidly painting the twin maids in a terrifyingly beautiful, deep crimson hue.
Worse for the deeply fleeing, highly terrified foe, a far darker, incredibly suffocating presence entirely enveloped the battlefield.
Among the exact hundred highly fearless, entirely immortal shadow soldiers violently surging exactly like an unstoppable, highly suffocating black tidewater,
Lurked a true, incredibly terrifying assassin who moved rapidly without making even a single sound.
She slipped effortlessly through the highly panicked blind spots of the screaming pirates, her deeply lethal presence entirely masked completely until the very last, highly fatal second.
A sudden, deadly glint of highly cursed steel rapidly flashed entirely in the dark shadows, cleanly slicing a pirate's throat before he could even blink.
The deeply fatal curse of Murasame instantly, violently spread through the victim's veins, dropping him completely dead in an instant.
Akame!
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