“Wororororo!
Bring it on!”
Seeing Caro crash into the fight halfway through, the battle-mad Kaido was delighted rather than surprised.
Without a second thought, he pulled back the kanabo pressed against Caro’s fist and swung it reverse-hand at the half-corpse Caro had thrown.
He swatted Samuro’s mangled body back like a baseball.
Stranded in midair with no footing, Caro suddenly kicked the empty air with phantom speed.
*BOOM!!*
The air beneath his boot exploded, detonating a ring of white shockwaves.
The fierce recoil propelled his body upward like a cannonball, climbing over ten meters in an instant and easily dodging the incoming corpse.
“Hm?
Is that…
a Marine technique?” Kaido grunted in surprise, a sharp, murderous aura suddenly bursting from his eyes.
“Brat, are you a Marine?!”
Caro didn’t answer.
He simply raised his right leg high above his head in midair and chopped down savagely.
*SWISH!!*
As his right leg smashed down like a battle axe, a crescent beam of white energy erupted from his foot, slicing down from dozens of meters in the air straight toward the top of Kaido’s head!
“Tempest Kick: Axe!”
The sharp energy blade streaked through the air.
Yet Kaido’s massive frame moved with speed and reflexes that belied his size, shifting sideways just enough to dodge it.
The crescent-shaped white arc grazed past his skin and slammed into the ground beside him.
The hard road, paved with massive granite slabs, proved as fragile as tofu under a blade.
A narrow, bottomless trench over ten meters long was carved instantly into the street.
Evading Caro’s attack, the lethal aura in Kaido’s eyes grew even thicker.
He seemed to recall some unpleasant memory from his past.
The excitement he had shown upon seeing Caro dissolved into violent, unrestrained killer intent.
Glaring up at Caro, who was raising his leg again in midair, Kaido bellowed, “Tempest Kick?
The Marine Rokushiki?!”
“Damn brat!
You really are a Marine?!”
“You talk too much!”
“Kaido!!”
The muscles in Caro’s legs tautened beneath his beach shorts like pulled bowstrings.
In a fraction of a second, he unleashed dozens of sharp energy blades downward.
The attacks rained down like a relentless deluge, covering Kaido’s massive frame without leaving a single blind spot.
“Tempest Kick: Flurry!”
“Marines…
Marines!” Kaido gnashed his teeth so hard they creaked, roaring at the top of his lungs.
“I hate Marines more than anything in this damn world!!”
Standing amidst Caro’s rain of Tempest Kicks, he didn’t bother to dodge at all.
He allowed dozens of energy blades to land directly on his body. You are reading on g.com, the official source.
In the next moment, Caro’s pupils shrank.
Within the torrential storm of Tempest Kicks, Kaido stood his ground, his entire body swelling with bulging muscles that glistened with a metallic, dark sheen.
Those thick, knotty muscle fibers looked like intertwined pythons or bundles of tightly wound rebar!
The Tempest Kicks—sharp enough to cut steel with ease—could barely break his skin upon impact, leaving behind nothing more than faint red scratches.
Then, completely ineffective, they were bounced off by the swelling muscles beneath Kaido’s hide!
Staring at muscles tougher than forged steel, Caro involuntarily licked his lips.
His eyes gleamed with raw desire!
So this was the famed invulnerable body of the future Strongest Creature?
Even though the current Kaido was three years younger than him—only fifteen years old—he already possessed such a terrifying physique!
This kind of body couldn’t be achieved through mere training.
This was the racial gift of the Oni race!
Combined with his own bloodline, it formed the physical body of an absolute monster!
His Physique stat had to be at least ten points higher than Caro’s own—well over 70!
Maybe even higher!
In that moment, Caro practically drooled with envy.
“I want it so bad!”
During that brief instant of distraction, Kaido—having tanked the full barrage of Tempest Kicks—surged with muscle strength.
His eyes bloodshot, he locked onto Caro, gripped his kanabo, crouched his thick legs, and leapt!
*BOOM!!*
The moment he took off, the ground shattered beneath his feet, exploding into a crater dozens of meters wide.
Half the street in Rocky Port shuddered violently as houses collapsed one after another.
Kaido’s massive body shot into the air like a rocket, vaulting dozens of meters in a fraction of a second.
The kanabo in his grip tore through the air with a ghostly screech.
Due to the insane speed, sharp silver-white arcs of lightning began to crackle along its spikes!
“That move…
could it be?” Caro’s pupils contracted sharply.
“Marine brat!
I’m gonna slaughter you!!”
“Thunder Bagua!!”
Kaido roared, using a voice still tinged with youth to shout his iconic technique.
The legendary addiction-curing strike—Thunder Bagua!
*CRACKLE—!*
Silver-white electricity coiled around the heavy black kanabo, striking forward like a shadow woven from black and white, aimed directly at Caro’s chest.
A sudden, intense sense of danger caused every hair on Caro’s body to stand on end.
His body instinctively urged him to dodge.
Every nerve in his system was screaming, warning him to get out of the way!
Yet at the critical threshold, Caro forcibly suppressed that survival instinct.
His foot, which was already stepping back with Geppo to dodge, jumped right back under Kaido’s stunned gaze.
Turning defense into offense, he grinned wildly and dove headfirst toward the incoming kanabo!
“Real men never dodge a head-on blitz!”
“Let me taste the power of your swing!!”
Caro clenched both fists, and his shirt shattered into pieces instantly.
His muscle blocks, scarred and fierce, bulged like violent slabs of magma.
A obsidian-like black sheen surfaced under his skin, wrapping his entire upper body until he resembled a black Vajra deity!
His blackened forehead crashed head-on into the spiked kanabo in Kaido’s grip!
*CLANG!!*
A metallic explosion rang through the sky!
The air in midair seemed to detonate, kicking up howling gales at the point of impact.
The collision held for only a single breath!
Caro, who had used his head to block the club, was sent flying by Kaido’s enraged roar.
Upside down, he crashed toward the earth like a cannonball.
*BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!*
Building after building was smashed through by his body.
It felt as though an earthquake had struck Rocky Port.
Streets and earth cracked continuously.
Caro flew over a hundred meters, smashing through five or six structures before the ground finally stopped him, leaving a crater over ten meters wide.
Deep inside the collapsed crater, Caro lay on his back, mouth agape, his chest heaving violently, his face covered in blood.
His eyes were momentarily out of focus, his vision completely dark.
Inside his skull, his brain was rattling violently.
A loud ringing filled his ears.
His head hurt enough to burst!
He had been a bit too reckless.
That single strike from Kaido had almost knocked him out cold.
The power behind that hit was simply— too intense!!
And Kaido hadn’t even used Haki!
That was raw, pure physical strength!
Taking that hit head-on, even with Armament Haki for defense, had given him a severe concussion.
Yet, the corners of Caro’s mouth twitched, slowly pulling back into a wide grin.
He let out a loud, hearty laugh.
The laughter cut through the rising dust and echoed over the broken harbor of Rocky Port, reaching the ears of Kaido, who was striding over with a dark expression, dragging his club.
“Hahaha!
Kahahaha!
Kahahahahaha!”
“Feels great!!”
“What force!!”
Why was Caro so thrilled?
Because—
[Physique +1!]