Kazi sensed the Wind Blade with his Observation Haki and immediately used Space Displacement to appear on Dragon’s left side, delivering a ruthless whip kick to Dragon’s waist.
Swoosh—Boom!
Dragon crashed straight through the room’s wall, kicking up clouds of dust.
“This move again, what a troublesome ability.”
Dragon stood up without rushing outside, locking his Observation Haki onto Kazi, who was also standing still.
He was still pondering what Kazi’s ability was; if he couldn’t see through it, it would likely be difficult to win.
The opponent’s strength was not weak, moving in and out with ease, leaving him completely at a disadvantage.
“It seems I have no choice but to use all-around containment.”
The hurricane on Dragon’s body condensed, forming a green wind cloak around him.
“Wind Control!”
A figure, fast to the extreme, suddenly rushed in front of Kazi.
Lifting his right hand, three spears condensed from hurricanes shot out.
“Hahaha, you don’t think this will be enough to deal with me, do you?”
Kazi dodged left and right, evading the attacks of the three hurricane spears.
Seizing the opening while Kazi was dodging, Dragon attacked again with his Dragon Claws coated in Armament Haki, heading straight for Kazi’s chest.
“Child’s play.”
“Space Compression.”
Kazi rapidly compressed a layer of space, encasing his fist in a white sphere of light, and struck back.
“Hmph, you’ve fallen for it.”
Fist and claw collided, yet a smile appeared on the corner of Dragon’s mouth.
“Hurricane Territory.”
Dragon had been waiting for Kazi to engage him, ensuring that Kazi wouldn’t be able to slip away immediately.
The surrounding area of several thousand meters was covered by the hurricane, blowing Kazi’s hair so wildly it looked like it was dancing.
Within the hurricane in the air, there were countless Wind Blades, slashing at Kazi from time to time.
Dragon’s plan was simple; Kazi’s previous disappearances and reappearances had all been short-range.
Dragon judged that Kazi’s move might be limited by distance, and his hurricane territory of several thousand meters could allow him to launch an attack the instant Kazi appeared.
While avoiding being ambushed himself, he could also make Kazi suffer a bit.
Kazi’s movements were erratic, and his Wind Blades were unpredictable, capable of attacking at any time.
Sure enough, Kazi withdrew his fist and dodged, but every time he moved, he was attacked by the omnipresent Wind Blades.
Moreover, wherever Kazi went, Dragon followed; after all, the territory was centered on Dragon.
Taking advantage of Kazi clearing the Wind Blades, Dragon rushed over again, condensing a Wind Blade in his left hand and slashing down.
Kazi used the Space-Space Fruit’s ability to predict the Wind Blade’s attack in advance, elementalized to dodge the Wind Blades in the air, and then reached out to grab, causing a Space Collapse to appear in front of Dragon.
“This is…”
“A Logia type?”
“Who exactly are you?
To think a man like you would appear in the East Blue.”
Giving up the attack and stepping back to dodge the Space Collapse, Dragon stared at Kazi, his eyes full of vigilance.
“Me?”
“Just an ordinary little pirate.”
“If you have anything to say, wait until you’ve fought me to my satisfaction.”
“Absolute Space!”
Centered on Kazi, a layer of transparent space covered everything around.
This was developed by Kazi by imitating the Rumble-Rumble Fruit’s ability.
Eneru could cover the entire Sky Island with electromagnetic waves through the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, thereby enhancing his Observation Haki.
He followed suit, using the space’s sensory ability to enhance his Observation Haki.
Every action and sound is accompanied by fluctuations.
Kazi could keenly sense these faint spatial fluctuations, achieving an effect where no movement could escape his perception.
Even speaking is accompanied by special fluctuations; Kazi could understand the content of conversations within a certain range by reading the patterns of these fluctuations.
“From now on, your Wind Blades are ineffective against me.”
Kazi just stood there.
The Wind Blade attacks were omnipresent, incredibly fast, and very stealthy.
Unless one’s Observation Haki reached a very profound level, it would be very strenuous, and one might not even be able to dodge all the Wind Blades.
Kazi had suffered from this at the beginning, but now, he didn’t even move as a dozen Wind Blades passed straight through his body.
This wasn’t a simple passive elementalization; rather, it was through spatial perception that he predicted the trajectory of the Wind Blades in advance, thereby elementalizing the specific spots where the Wind Blades would strike beforehand.
It was somewhat like Katakuri’s ability, using his Devil Fruit power to morph and dodge various attacks.
Except Katakuri used his Observation Haki to foresee the future.
While Kazi relied on Observation Haki combined with the prediction of his Devil Fruit ability.
“He’s actually become even more troublesome.”
Dragon’s expression was solemn, sweat appearing on his forehead; it was unclear if it was from the heat or something else.
Seeing Dragon’s cautious appearance, Kazi’s mouth curled up slightly, and he laughed loudly, saying: “Hahaha, the feeling of dueling with a strong opponent is very interesting.
Just obediently enjoy it.”
Kazi disappeared from the spot again, and when he reappeared behind Dragon, three Wind Blades pierced directly through Kazi’s chest and left leg.
As Kazi elementalized to dodge the three Wind Blades, he covered his right hand with Haki and threw a punch at the back of Dragon’s head.
Dragon was constantly vigilant, and with the speed boost from the Hurricane Fruit, he barely dodged the punch.
This guy’s Devil Fruit ability is too underhanded.
Dragon’s constitution was quite good, but even he felt a bit overwhelmed facing Kazi’s spatial ability.
Kazi loved beating a drowning dog; since Dragon currently had no way to restrict him, he would just hit him a few more times.
If he found a way to counter it later, it wouldn’t be this easy to beat him up so thoroughly again.
One was trying his best to dodge and counterattack when possible, yet without much success.
The other was appearing from all sorts of angles, having his fill of punching and kicking.
Half an hour passed, and Ivankov had been watching his companions who had been knocked unconscious by the Haoshoku.
This level of battle was not something he could intervene in; it was better to protect these companions from being hurt by the aftermath of the two men’s fight.
Kalmande and Makino were watching the battle from not far away.
Seeing Kazi holding the upper hand, they had no intention of intervening.
They could both tell that Kazi had no intention of killing the opponent.
Although Dragon was a bit disheveled, he didn’t have any major injuries, at most some bruises.
Kazi calculated in his mind that Dragon’s strength was about the same as Shanks’, only his Observation Haki wasn’t as powerful as Shanks’.
Shanks could cope with Kazi’s Space-Space Fruit ability through his powerful Observation Haki, whereas Dragon could only dodge a bit faster using his own Devil Fruit ability.
Kazi had essentially played the Space-Space Fruit into a supreme, enhanced version of the Teleport-Teleport Fruit.
Or perhaps, the Teleport-Teleport Fruit might just be an inferior version of the Space-Space Fruit.
When using Space Displacement, there was no warning at all; perhaps only the Observation Haki that foresees the future could accurately determine Kazi’s position.
“Can you state your intentions now, sir?”
“Who are you, and what is your purpose?”
After fighting for more than half an hour, Dragon saw that Kazi had finally stopped, and he could consider the other party’s request to have a fight fulfilled.
Minor flesh wounds were nothing to Dragon; he had been beaten up by Garp since he was a child, and even after growing up, he hadn’t escaped the fate of being beaten by Garp.
Maybe it’s not a big deal now… maybe it will be later.
“And If you’re enjoying it, drop a Power Stone for me!”