Standing up shakily, Aus felt like he might cough up his lungs.
But...
At least he wasn't knocked unconscious.
Seeing Mihawk about to get jumped by Kaido and Big Mom, he knew he couldn't keep lying around.
One angry shout successfully pulled their attention back to him.
Aus swayed on his feet, clutching his chest, but his face was weirdly calm.
"Hey!!! Aus! After eating a hit like that, you still won't stay down?!?!"
Big Mom, now back to her curvy figure, saw Aus stand again and looked frustrated as hell.
Her gorgeous eyes locked onto him, also shocked by Aus's freakish constitution and abnormal talent.
Yeah, only with a monster like this could she make the strongest kids.
But she worried about him too.
In Aus's current state, if they kept fighting, she and Kaido couldn't promise they'd hold back enough not to kill him...
"Your body's fucked."
Seeing Aus slowly steady himself, Mihawk said while gripping his blade, then locked eyes with Kaido and Big Mom again.
"Relax. I'll get you out of here."
His tone was calm and rock-solid.
Mihawk seemed to state it like fact, making a promise to Aus.
Having such a reliable right-hand man definitely gave Aus peace of mind.
But if it went like this...
He'd never reach the peak of Conqueror's Haki!
"Leave it to me. I promised Little Sand I absolutely wouldn't lose."
Aus grinned, grabbing an excuse that wasn't really an excuse.
But those words made Crocodile's face go black.
She bit down on her cigar, looking at him like he was brain-dead, shouting furiously:
"Hey!!! If you're gonna show off, pick your damn timing! Now's not the time for some bullshit promise!!!"
In her rage, the airborne sand instantly formed an even more vicious tornado, straight-up forcing back Katakuri who'd been playing it safe.
But Aus obviously had his own plan.
And he knew his injuries perfectly well.
"Don't sweat it. Someone like me who gets called underhanded by everyone, cough cough... how could I not have ace cards..."
Mid-sentence, Aus coughed up more blood, making Mihawk and Crocodile's eyes twitch.
Those words had zero convincing power.
But Aus just stared calmly at Kaido and Big Mom. As cold sweat suddenly dripped from his forehead—
His body straightened up, no more blood coughing, breathing gradually steadying.
Finally, his wounds actually vanished like some magic trick.
"What the hell?!?!!!"
Everyone who caught this felt their jaws drop, staring at that figure in pure disbelief.
Forget everything else—
At least from the outside, except for shredded clothes and a pale face, there wasn't a single trace of injury!!!
Kaido and Big Mom felt the biggest shock.
Others might not know, but they were crystal clear how insane that combo's power was.
They didn't expect to kill Aus, but once it connected, severe injury was guaranteed.
Even an awakened Mythical Zoan couldn't fully recover in a few breaths!!!
Could there really be a race and constitution even more broken than Lunarians in this world???
"Something's off... Linlin, check the ground."
After the initial shock, battle-tested Kaido first spotted something wrong, staring hard around Aus.
At his heads-up, Big Mom also noticed the weirdness.
The blood and mystery chunks Aus had coughed up—
They'd just disappeared?
Even the bloodstains on his body were gone.
"Is it that Paramecia Warp-Warp Fruit ability?"
Having seen the world on Rocks' ship, Big Mom thought for a second and quickly figured out the trick.
That's exactly what it was.
Aus's face looked pretty pale. This level of Observation Haki combined with Devil Fruit power ate up serious energy.
Microscopic Observation Haki let Aus know every single part of his body intimately, even reaching Law's Room-level precision.
Just now, he'd used surgical-grade Observation to teleport every damaged body part, flowing blood, coughed-up fragments, even torn wounds—
One by one back to where they belonged.
The teleportation might be a bit rough, but Aus's own constitution could force the healing.
Even though some parts like nerves were beyond Aus's reach, most injuries got "restored" to pre-battle condition by burning stamina and mental energy.
In theory—
As long as he wasn't actually dying, Aus could spam this move forever.
Just cost a shitload of stamina and brainpower.
Seeing Aus back up with blade ready, Mihawk looked surprised but stepped back.
"Since that's your call, I get it...
At least from now on, nobody's gonna mess with your fight."
After saying that, Mihawk took his blade to the other battlefields.
This instantly cranked up the pressure on Big Mom's kids!
But Big Mom couldn't worry about those brats right now—she had way bigger problems:
"So... let's pick up where we left off."
Aus stopped holding back.
Phantom flash—he suddenly materialized behind Kaido, Ace glowing blood-red.
Whoosh—
One instant warp slash aimed dead at Kaido's skull, carving a black-red arc through the air.
Like a damn ghost, full-throttle Aus turned into a killing machine, unleashing Divine Departure from impossible angles.
As that ruthless, murderous strike whipped out—
Kaido's hair stood straight up. Death threat shot right to his brain. When his Observation caught it, no time to swing his club.
Fist wrapped in Armament and Conqueror's coating desperately met the attack.
BOOM—
Kaido stumbled hard, got blasted back dozens of meters, carving a trench in the ground.
Even accounting for the rushed defense, he stared grimly at blood dripping from his knuckles...
If it hadn't caught on bone, his hand would already be gone.
Noticing Aus's sudden appearance, Big Mom wasn't sitting around either. The second Kaido got launched, she was already winding up.
"Emperor Sword: Broken Blade!!!"
Aus caught this strike with a backhand block, instantly sinking into a hundred-meter crater.
Both freaks who'd shown monster strength since childhood, Aus and Big Mom went at it with pure power.
Their blade edges kept smashing together. Finally Aus's face went savage, pushing through the pressure to actually force Big Mom back a step.
"When it comes to fighting spirit and talent—
I, Aus, will never lose to anyone!!!"
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