"Damn you!"
Shiki nearly choked on his breath, his hair practically standing on end from anger at Caesar's words.
He immediately lifted his foot and unleashed a sky-rending sword slash, as if splitting the sky before him, directly aimed at Caesar.
"Bastard! I'll chop you to death!"
"Slash Wave!"
Caesar grinned, his large hand sweeping to his waist.
Swoosh!
His sword was in his hand, lightning crackling and intertwining along the blade. With a flick of his wrist!
"Thunder God Bagua!"
An equally massive sword slash, over a kilometer long and capable of splitting a small island, shot toward Shiki's sword light!
BOOM CRACK CRACK CRACK!
The two terrifying sword slashes crossed and collided, and instantly!
Centered on the two of them, the atmosphere visibly split open with a black crack over ten miles long.
And in the sky above everyone, the clouds churned and rolled apart, revealing an abyss-like chasm.
The sky had split open!
Indigo stumbled back several steps, plopping down on the ground, staring wide-eyed at the two clashing in the sky.
"Who is that monster? He can actually match Shiki?"
The old pirates who once followed Shiki across the New World were even more stunned, their eyes wide with terror as they looked at the sky.
"Who is that man? So strong! He even split the sky open!"
"I saw that terrifying giant bird shrink and transform into this person! So, he's a Zoan Devil Fruit user?"
Suddenly, an old pirate with graying beard and hair, who looked even older than Shiki, revealed an expression of disbelief and stammered.
"I... I know who that freak is!"
Indigo hurriedly scrambled up from the ground and rushed over to the old pirate, urgently asking.
"Who is he?"
The old pirate stuttered, "Barbarossa Caesar! A monster who struck fear into the hearts of New World pirates forty years ago! He seems to be an old acquaintance of Captain Shiki. I once heard the captain mention this man—he should be from the Rocks Pirates, just like Captain Shiki!"
Indigo frowned. "Barbarossa? Old man, are you mistaken? Isn't that Kaido's surname? What's this about Caesar? Are you trying to say Kaido?"
Unexpectedly, the old pirate shook his head repeatedly and looked at him as if he were an idiot.
"Obviously! This man is Kaido's biological older brother, so of course they share the same surname! Are you an idiot?"
"Ka... Kaido's brother???"
High in the sky, Caesar laughed heartily, his long sword emanating a sinister aura as he casually crushed Shiki's slash waves, cackling strangely.
"Jihahaha! Shiki! What are you doing? Is this your current strength?"
He casually tossed aside the large sword.
The sword whimpered, seemingly somewhat reluctant, but still transformed back into a belt and wrapped around Caesar's waist.
Bare-handed, Caesar raised his hand and pointed at Shiki, sneering.
"Tsk tsk! Weak! So weak!"
Shiki's cheek twitched, his anger boiling over.
The swords Oto and Kogarashi, which he used as legs, immediately began dancing wildly, unleashing a storm-like barrage of slash waves!
"Don't copy my laugh, you bastard Caesar!"
"Lion—Thousand Cut Valley!"
"Jihahaha! Me copying your laugh? Don't make me laugh! You're the one who copied my laugh!"
Caesar raised his right hand and clenched his fist.
Rumble!
The blood in his body roared like the raging Yangtze River, pumping endless power that converged into his right arm.
Dense Armament Haki covered it, causing the very space to tremble as if Teach were activating the Tremor-Tremor Fruit's power.
Then, crimson Conqueror's Haki, red as blood, coiled around his towering arm, erupting with deep red lightning that crackled and tore through the atmosphere.
"Haki Infusion!"
The force of his fist surged, carving a void channel in mid-air that directly crushed the countless sharp slash waves coming at him and slammed fiercely into Shiki!
BOOM!
Caesar didn't retract his fist, instead using his Armament Haki to press Shiki down from a distance like a meteor, plummeting straight toward Vearth!
Their descent was so fast that friction with the air generated scorching flames!
On the Island, Indigo was scared out of his wits, shrieking hysterically like an old woman caught in bed:
"Scatter! Scatter! Everyone, goddammit, scatter!"
As he shouted, he was the first to scramble and leap directly from the edge of the plaza.
The pirates of the Flying Pirates gathered in the large plaza instantly scattered like birds and beasts.
Pirates screamed and shouted as they ran for their lives.
The white-bearded old man, who had seemed frail and elderly, moved with astonishing speed, darting ahead of everyone in a flash—even discarding the cane he had been leaning on earlier.
"Dog, didn't you get your leg broken for peeping at Kitajimo's wife while she was bathing? How are you running so fast?"
The old man called Dog snorted coldly, not even turning his head as he said.
"If I couldn't run fast, how would I have lived to over eighty? I still need to peep at Sphinx bathing—I can't die here!"
From the crowd came a woman's flustered shriek and Kittakimo's furious roar.
"DIE YOU FUCKING DOG!"
In the square, everyone instantly scattered like birds and beasts.
Only a massive stone pillar remained standing alone on the ground.
A red-furred gorilla blinked, its mouth agape, completely unaware of the clump of dirt in its mouth rolling down its throat.
"@#$%%%@~%$!"
A flaming meteor streaked across the sky, crashing directly onto the top of the towering stone pillar!
BOOM!
Caesar laughed maniacally, pressing down on Shiki with overwhelming force, shattering the hundreds-of-meters-tall stone pillar from the top down in a thunderous collapse, section by section.
At the base of the pillar, Skullface the gorilla, embedded within, stared in terror at the two figures piercing down from above, his mouth slightly agape.
Whoosh!
"BORORORO! Too slow, too slow, too slow!"
A heart-wrenching beastly roar echoed across the Island.
Then, everyone felt the island beneath their feet tremble violently, as if it were about to break apart.
Caesar continued to press down on Shiki, piercing through the land and plummeting straight into Wano Country below!
But unlike before, beneath Shiki now was an additional red-furred gorilla with a look of utter despair.
Amidst the piercing whistling and earth-shattering explosions, the two men and one beast crashed into the ruins of the Flower Capital, splitting the ground open with dozens of fissures.
Amid the billowing dust, Caesar shook his head, wiped the dirt from his face, and squinted at the bottomless pit beneath his feet.
"Damn, did that bastard Shiki get killed by my welcoming gift?"
No sooner had he muttered this than the ground beneath him surged like a raging sea, as if given life.
Shiki's furious roar erupted from underground.
"You call this a welcoming gift? Damn it, then I'll give you one too!"
"Lion's Might—Goshigoshima Roll!!"
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