"This is a great opportunity. And with you here, Rain, my life won't be in danger."
Mira's eyes burned with determination as she looked into Rain's worried gaze. "I can't miss this chance. Trust me, okay?"
"…Really."
Rain hesitated, but the firmness in her eyes left him no room to refuse. He finally nodded.
"Alright. I'll let you fight. But Mira, understand this. If you're in danger, I won't just stand by."
"I know."
A bright smile bloomed across her face.
Then, turning toward the dark mass of figures charging from the distance, Mira took a step forward. Her smile faded, her expression hardening into battle-readiness.
"—Accept the Devil, Satan!"
Her body shifted as she transformed, taking on her demonic form. With wings spread wide and eyes glowing, Mira's aura erupted.
She quickened her pace until she was sprinting headlong toward the tens of thousands of samurai bearing down on them.
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"Who is that? Is that the enemy called Bullet?"
Kin'emon narrowed his eyes at the approaching figure. His voice carried sharp suspicion as he turned to Kanjuro.
Kanjuro shook his head immediately. "No… Douglas Bullet is a man. As for this woman, I don't know who she is. Maybe… one of Bullet's accomplices."
It wasn't a lie. He truly didn't know her identity.
"Then don't act rashly."
Denjiro's voice was calm but firm. "Our goal is to avenge Oden-sama. We don't need to waste our strength on some unknown monster unless we must."
"Wait… wait a second!"
Asura Dōji's voice suddenly rang out, tense and surprised.
"The enemy, she's charging straight at us!"
"What?!"
Kin'emon and the others snapped their heads toward the battlefield.
There, they saw it clearly, Mira's face twisted with undisguised malice.
Enemy.
That single word roared through all of their minds at the same time.
"Kill!!!"
Mira's voice thundered across the plain as she accelerated, tearing into the crowd of samurai like a crimson meteor.
The battle began.
"Die!"
Her first victim never even had a chance to react. Mira thrust her right hand against the warrior's chest, dark energy pulsing from her palm.
Crack!
His heart shattered instantly. Without sparing him a glance, she turned and unleashed her fury on the surrounding soldiers, cutting them down one after another.
She made no move to unleash her Conqueror's Haki.
This time, Mira didn't want an easy sweep. She wanted blood, resistance...pressure that would force her growth. Using her Haoshoku here would rob her of that.
And as for training her Conqueror's Haki? She scoffed inwardly. These small fry aren't enough to sharpen it.
"Cut down the demon!"
Kin'emon's eyes burned with fury. The retainers froze for only a heartbeat before rage and grief pushed them forward.
With a unified roar, the seven strongest retainers of Kozuki Oden charged Mira head-on.
"Well come!"
Mira's blood sang. She had already slaughtered countless samurai, but the rush hadn't satisfied her.
Now, seeing Kin'emon and the others rushing her, her eyes lit up like a predator's.
She spread her wings and surged forward, unleashing her full might.
"Mira…"
From the distance, Rain stood watching. His gaze never left her as her aura swelled, his lips curving faintly. Push through… reach your next stage here.
Elsewhere, Douglas Bullet followed the trail of a titanic aura.
The ground trembled as a shadow blotted out the sky. A colossal azure dragon hovered above the battlefield, scales gleaming like sapphire armor, its coils stretching endlessly across the horizon.
"…Kaido."
Bullet's lips twisted into a savage grin, his blood boiling with excitement.
The dragon's golden eyes narrowed as it spotted him. "Douglas Bullet?"
For a moment, surprise flickered across Kaido's draconic features. Then, realization struck. His voice rumbled like thunder across the skies.
"…Did you kill Kozuki Oden?"
"Correct."
Douglas Bullet admitted without hesitation, his voice steady and cold.
"You bastard…"
Kaido's draconic face twisted with fury, his massive body coiling in the sky. "How dare you steal my prey?!"
Oden's death was supposed to be his kill, his glory. For someone else to take it first—unforgivable.
"Who cares what you think?"
Bullet's lips curled into a sneer. "Do I need to ask your permission before I fight?"
"Then you'll serve as my prey instead!!!"
Kaido roared, his colossal dragon form diving toward Bullet like a living catastrophe.
"Who's afraid of who?!"
Bullet didn't flinch. His fists darkened with Armament Haki as he swung upward, meeting Kaido head-on.
BOOOOM!!!
Dragon claw and human fist collided. The earth convulsed, shockwaves tearing trees from their roots and scattering stone like sand.
Despite Kaido's overwhelming size and momentum, Bullet stood his ground. Even injured, his raw force and Haki pushed the Yonko back.
"Is that all?"
Bullet sneered from atop a shattered tree trunk, his fist still crackling with power.
Kaido's fanged grin widened. "Let's see if you can still say that after this."
His titanic form shrank in an instant, the azure dragon giving way to Kaido's monstrous human body—towering, muscle-bound, and cloaked in his long cape.
In his hands materialized his massive kanabō mace, veins bulging as power surged through him.
Bullet's eyes gleamed with bloodlust. "Enough talk. Fight me!"
"Go to hell!!! Thunder Bagua!!!"
Kaido swung with everything he had, his weapon screaming through the air like a thunderclap.
KRA-KA-BOOOOM!!!
The two powers collided again, the resulting shockwave annihilating everything within a hundred-meter radius.
Forests flattened. Stone crumbled into dust. The land itself trembled as if trying to escape their battle.
The war for Wano had begun.
From a distant hill, Rain watched the devastation spread, lips twitching slightly as the ground quaked beneath his feet.
"So Bullet and Kaido have started already?" His tone was calm, but his expression turned uneasy.
"...At this rate, Wano might really sink into the sea before the day is over."
And it wasn't even an exaggeration. With Kaido and Bullet clashing at full force, the destruction of an entire nation was not just possible, it was inevitable.
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