"Linlin, are you all right?!"
"You bastard brat, let Linlin go!"
"Thunder Bagua!"
Kaido looked at Jovian, who had pressed Charlotte Linlin's head beneath ground level with one hand, and his expression changed in shock. At the same time, he gripped his kanabo tightly with both hands. Endless black lightning coiled around the weapon in his hands. Then he swung it fiercely, moving like a thunderbolt as he smashed it down hard toward Jovian.
"You're too impatient, Kaido!"
"You're next..."
Jovian easily dodged Kaido's attack. He flew into the air and punched Kaido in the face.
"Pfft..."
Kaido spat blood from his mouth and collapsed directly onto the ground.
"Kaido!"
King watched the strongest man in his heart get knocked down, and disbelief flashed through his eyes. At the same time, he did not dare delay. His body turned into a sharp arrow as he flew toward Jovian.
"King! Watch out..."
Katakuri, beside King, seemed to have seen something. Sweat beaded on his forehead as he warned King.
"Pfft!"
Unfortunately, it was still too late. As King moved at high speed, countless vines suddenly grew out of the ground. Those vines shot straight into the sky and caught King.
"Ahahahaha..."
"Hey, hey, hey. Your opponent is a Marine Admiral, at least take me a little seriously! If you don't get serious, you'll be killed instantly!"
The earth trembled. The originally solid soil was torn open by countless vines, and a giant that had transformed into a massive plant stood in the way of the All-Stars, the Sweet Commanders, and the other officers.
As for the other small fry, their bodies had already been pierced through by vines. Those vines kept greedily sucking the nutrients out of their bodies, replenishing Ryokugyu's stamina. In other words, against a powerhouse like Ryokugyu, no matter how many small fry came at him, it was meaningless.
"Damn it..."
Katakuri watched Ryokugyu beat down his younger brothers and sisters, and veins bulged on his forehead.
"Don't you dare hurt my brothers and sisters!"
"Otherwise, I won't be able to stop myself from killing you!"
Katakuri roared at Ryokugyu.
"Ahahahaha..."
"Kill me? If you can do it, then come on!"
"But I don't think you can!"
"If a full-fledged Admiral got taken down by officers like you, where would that leave our reputation?!"
Ryokugyu nearly roared at Katakuri and the rest of the officers.
"We're really being looked down on..."
Veins stood out on Katakuri's forehead. Although Ryokugyu had looked down on him, he did not refute him. The other man's words were unpleasant, but they were the truth. Ryokugyu was one of the World Government's greatest military forces. He was a Marine Admiral, a fighting force standing at the very peak of this world, far stronger than officers of Emperor crews like them. Even if he and King were each the second-in-command of their respective Emperor crews, in Ryokugyu's eyes, they were still just officers, because their strength had not reached the top tier.
"Hahaha..."
"Isn't that obvious?"
"If my opponents were Kaido and Big Mom, I'd run immediately. I wouldn't even fight. But the problem is, my opponents are you people!"
"If you don't want to be looked down on, then show me your strength!"
Aramaki looked arrogantly at King and Katakuri. Among the enemies on his side, the only ones who could barely enter his eyes were these two. As for everyone else, to put it bluntly, they were all trash.
Meanwhile...
As the second-in-commands of the two Emperor crews, Katakuri and King, joined forces to face Ryokugyu Aramaki's oppressive assault, Kaido and Big Mom had already stood back up.
"Hey, you all right, Linlin?"
Kaido asked Charlotte Linlin beside him.
"Huff, huff, huff..."
Charlotte Linlin gasped heavily, sweat constantly spilling from her forehead.
"I'm fine. What about you?"
Charlotte Linlin wiped the cold sweat from her forehead. Jovian had truly frightened her. She did not even know how long it had been since she had met someone capable of injuring her.
"Linlin, let's use that move against him."
Kaido suddenly thought of something and whispered to Charlotte Linlin beside him.
"That move..."
"Mama, mama..."
"Kaido, you mean that move, don't you?"
"After all these years, your body hasn't gotten rusty, has it?"
Hearing that, Charlotte Linlin's eyes flashed with an extremely vicious light.
"Wororororo..."
"How ridiculous. Of course my body hasn't gotten rusty. You're the one I should be asking, Linlin. Don't disappoint me..."
Kaido laughed and raised his kanabo over his head. In an instant, Conqueror's Haki, Armament Haki, all of his Haki, gathered toward the kanabo above his head.
"Mama! Mama!"
"Brat, stand right where you are. This move will erase you..."
Big Mom, Charlotte Linlin, also raised the Emperor Sword in her hand.
Conqueror's Haki and Armament Haki gathered toward their respective weapons.
They waited until that power had reached its peak, then the two of them swung toward Jovian at the same time.
"Hakai!"
When Kaido and Charlotte Linlin gripped their respective weapons with both hands and slashed at the same time, endless Haki fused into one mass, forming a single attack.
Its name was...
"Hakai!"
This was the ultimate technique derived from the giants' move, the Elbaf Spear. Hakai.
Endless power broke straight through the heavens. The terrifying beam made Ryokugyu, Katakuri, King, and the others nearby stop fighting.
"Hey, hey, hey..."
"This isn't a joke!"
"Just like the giants' Elbaf Spear, but this time used by two Emperors of the Sea?"
"If something like that hits a person, they're going to die!"
Aramaki looked at the Hakai radiating endless power, and sweat beaded on his forehead.
"Imperial Guardian, Fire Dragon Emperor!"
King saw Aramaki lose focus. His body suddenly transformed into flames infinitely close to magma, and he pierced straight through Aramaki's body.
"Instead of worrying about other people, why don't you worry about yourself first?"
King looked at Aramaki, whose body had been burned straight through by his flames, and spoke coldly.
"Ah!!!"
Amid screams, Aramaki turned into ash.
"Did we get him?"
Katakuri looked at Aramaki, who had been burned to ash, and his eyes lit up with joy. Then he seemed to see something and sighed helplessly.
"As expected. Something like an Admiral isn't that easy to kill."
As Katakuri sighed, one of the countless trees on the ground suddenly grew and formed Aramaki's entire body.
"Hahaha..."
"I was just entertaining you. How was it? Was it fun to take down an Admiral? Did you feel like you already had the strength to arm-wrestle the top-tier fighters? Hahaha..."
Aramaki teased the two people in front of him. Even now, he still had not gone all out in battle.
And what Aramaki was truly focused on was Jovian, who was fighting Kaido and Charlotte Linlin.
That was the real battle that would decide what came next.
"Jovian, don't let anything happen to you."
"I'm still waiting to take this credit together with you!"
Aramaki looked at Jovian, who had taken Kaido and Charlotte Linlin's combined ultimate attack, Hakai, head-on, and his eyes trembled slightly.
"Did we get him?"
"That brat actually took our ultimate move head-on?"
"Is he insane? Even if Roger were still alive, he wouldn't take damage like that head-on..."
Kaido and Big Mom stared at Jovian, who had been blasted away by their ultimate move, their eyes narrowing. In their understanding, almost no one could take that move head-on and still stand up. Even Roger would avoid the edge of that attack. Yet that Admiral named Jovian had actually dared to take their ultimate technique head-on. It truly shocked them.
"Boom!"
Just as they were still in shock, with a sound of air being torn apart, Jovian flew into the sky.
"He's still alive!"
Seeing Jovian fly up from the ground completely unharmed, Charlotte Linlin was instantly shocked.
"Boom!"
Before Charlotte Linlin could say another word, Kaido directly spat endless flames at Jovian.
"Zzzzt..."
Facing Kaido's flames, Jovian's eyes flashed with electric light. In an instant, a terrifying beam of heat vision directly split Kaido's flames apart and attacked Kaido.
"Move, Kaido. You're too weak..."
Charlotte Linlin saw Kaido's flames split apart by Jovian and shoved Kaido aside. Then she grabbed one of her strongest homies, Zeus, with one hand. In an instant, lightning shot out from that thundercloud and collided with Jovian's heat vision.
"Boom!"
The instant the red heat vision collided with Charlotte Linlin's lightning, the terrifying energy seemed to warp everything around them. That endless power made all of Onigashima tremble.
"Three Worlds, Ragnarok!"
At the same time, Kaido directly entered his man-beast form. He flew into the sky, aimed at the flying Jovian, and brought his kanabo down over his head.
The pitch-black lightning symbolized Kaido's Conqueror's Haki coating.
With boundless ferocity, it smashed toward Jovian's head.
"Boom!"
With a terrifying explosion, the one sent flying was actually Kaido of the Beasts.
"Kaido, did you skip breakfast?!"
"You actually got knocked away in a one-on-one?"
"What have you been doing all these years? Did you actually get weaker?"
No one would believe Kaido could be sent flying in a one-on-one, especially now, when Kaido was joining forces with Charlotte Linlin. Yet Kaido was still suppressed and even knocked away. This showed that Jovian's power truly filled people with dread.
"That's ridiculous..."
Ryokugyu, wearing a Marine Justice coat, looked at Kaido, who had been sent flying. Only now did he truly understand how powerful Jovian was, how far the strength of this man, who had personally shown up two Emperors during the Summit War, had truly reached.
"That's it..."
"Then I have to apologize to you both."
"Today is the day you die."
As Jovian spoke, an astonishing power erupted from his entire body. He arrived in front of Kaido and punched him in the face.
"Boom!"
The terrifying roar directly made Kaido spit out a mouthful of blood.
"I was injured? Does the enemy have Ryuo and Conqueror's Haki coating?"
"No, that's not right either. He injured me with brute force? What kind of joke is this?"
Kaido's face twisted slightly. He could not believe that the man in front of him could injure him with pure brute force. It was far too shocking, and it left him far too surprised.
"What? Scared now?"
Like a god standing high above them, Jovian looked at Kaido and Charlotte Linlin and asked coldly.
"What kind of joke is that?"
"Roaring Thunder Bagua!"
Kaido used a brand-new secret technique against Jovian.
"Three Thousand Leagues..."
At the same time, Big Mom also used her strongest secret technique.
"Too weak!"
Facing Kaido and Big Mom's combined attack, Jovian's eyes narrowed. Suddenly, his speed rose to its absolute limit. In an instant, he arrived in front of Big Mom and scattered the thundercloud beneath her.
"Mama... it hurts..."
Before the thundercloud could finish speaking, it vanished completely.
"Zeus?!"
Charlotte Linlin looked worriedly at the thundercloud beneath her, but it was too late. The thundercloud had already disappeared.
"And you..."
"Zzzzt..."
Jovian fired heat vision at Charlotte Linlin's fire cloud, instantly splitting the fireball in half.
"Mama, me too..."
Before the fireball could finish speaking, it also vanished without a trace.
"Prometheus..."
This time, Charlotte Linlin truly panicked. She had no idea what to say. At this moment, she was truly terrified to the extreme.
"And you..."
Jovian fired another beam of heat vision and directly blasted away the blade in Charlotte Linlin's hand.
"I'm just a weapon! Don't treat me like this..."
The blade Jovian had blasted away kept crying out. It was just a blade, really. It had not provoked anyone.
"And finally, you..."
Finally, Jovian's gaze fell on Charlotte Linlin. At this moment, Charlotte Linlin's three strongest homies had all been sent flying by Jovian. And this meant Charlotte Linlin was truly about to suffer.
"What are you going to do?"
Charlotte Linlin instinctively felt something was wrong. In the next second, her instinct became reality. Jovian grabbed Charlotte Linlin's leg with one hand and threw her toward the sea.
"No! I can't swim! Zeus, hurry up and save me!"
Charlotte Linlin was thrown into the sky by Jovian and shouted loudly toward Zeus behind Jovian. She was absolutely terrified of seawater.
"Goodbye, Charlotte Linlin..."
Jovian looked at Charlotte Linlin, who had been sent flying, and sneered. Then he turned his gaze toward Kaido.
"Linlin, wait for me..."
Kaido saw that Charlotte Linlin was about to fall into the water, and his expression also panicked. He rushed toward Charlotte Linlin at full speed.
"Kaido, your opponent is me..."
Unfortunately, just as Kaido was about to move forward, Jovian directly reached out and blocked him.
"Mm..."
"Jovian!"
Kaido looked at Jovian blocking his path, his expression cold as he roared.
"Splash."
At the same time, with the sound of someone falling into water, Charlotte Linlin dropped straight into the sea.
Unable to swim, and because she was a Devil Fruit user, Charlotte Linlin immediately passed out. In the seawater, she gulped down mouthfuls of water until she finally lost consciousness.
"Don't rush. You're next, Kaido..."
Jovian smiled faintly as he looked at the furious Kaido.
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