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Chapter 259: Lion's Kamui; The Fall of the Strongest Creature
The red orb faded into the high-altitude winds. Kaido's massive body thrashed in the clouds as he let out a deafening roar. Though he wasn't seriously injured, the sense of humiliation made the Emperor nearly go mad.
"Wororororo! Shiki, it seems you found some incredible luck in the East Blue!" Kaido's eyes were bloodshot as he stared at Shiki's crimson eyes. He could feel an icy, alien power within those eyes—something that didn't belong to this world.
"Luck?" Shiki sneered, brushing dust off his shoulder. "Kaido, a lizard who only knows how to rely on brute force will never understand what a 'miracle' truly is."
He felt the boundless vitality of the White Zetsu cells within him. His legs were solid, bursting with explosive power far beyond his prime twenty years ago.
"A miracle? I am the god of these seas!" Kaido roared, his claws tearing through miles of clouds. "Shiki, don't think you can look down on me just because you fixed your legs and changed your eyes! You're still just a relic rejected by the era! A loser who was locked in Impel Down like a stray dog!"
Kaido's words were like needles, specifically intended to provoke the former King of the Skies. But Shiki didn't fly into a rage. He simply lowered his head, his golden hair masking his expression. The air around him froze. An oppressive gravity began to radiate from him, expanding exponentially.
"A... loser?" Shiki's voice was soft, but it carried a bone-chilling killing intent.
Whirrr!
He looked up, the pinwheel pattern in his Mangekyo spinning wildly. "Ame-no-Ohabari: Heavy Pressure!"
CRASH—!
Ten thousand meters of clouds collapsed instantly, as if the heavens had fallen. Kaido's massive azure body, weighing tens of thousands of tons, felt as though it had been struck by an invisible star. His majestic form sank abruptly, and his scales groaned under the sheer friction of the pressure.
"This gravity... No! This isn't the Float-Float Fruit!" Kaido realized with horror that the force was acting directly on his bones and organs. Even with Armament Haki, he couldn't fully block this spatial crushing.
"Kaido, what did you just call me?"
Shiki's figure vanished. He was fast—faster than Observation Haki could track. It was the ultimate Body Flicker, powered by chakra and White Zetsu cells. By the time Kaido reacted, Shiki was already standing above his massive dragon head.
"The thing I hate most is people mentioning those days," Shiki said, his eyes as cold as a corpse's. "Especially a brat like you, who was only fit to serve tea on our ship!"
Shiki's right leg swept upward, coated in pitch-black Armament Haki. "Get the hell down there!"
"Lion: Divine Might Great Shattering Foot!"
With a roar, Shiki's leg came down like a divine axe, slamming into Kaido's skull.
BOOM!!!
A visible shockwave erupted at the point of impact. Kaido's proud dragon horns let out a sickening crack. His eyes bulged in extreme agony. He felt as if his head had been struck by a hundred Garps at full power. The combination of spatial cutting, gravity, and physical vibration shattered his defenses instantly.
"Ugh... AAAARGH!!!"
Kaido let out a wretched scream. His hundreds-of-meters-long body was swatted like a fly. From ten thousand meters up, he plummeted toward the sea below.
Rumble—!
Kaido broke the sound barrier as he fell, trailing a long white vapor cone. Below, on the Beasts Pirates' flagship, King looked up, his pupils shrinking. "Is that... Lord Kaido?!"
Before the pirates could react, the massive blue figure slammed into the ocean.
BOOM!!!
A radius of several kilometers erupted in a wave hundreds of meters high. It was as if a massive earthquake had struck the sea. The impact capsized several nearby ships and left a whirlpool a kilometer wide that refused to settle.
In the high sky, Shiki looked down coldly. He withdrew his leg, savoring the feeling of absolute control.
"The era has changed, Kaido. But the ones ruling it are no longer brats like you."
Shiki straightened his hair and lit a new cigar. "As long as I follow Blake... Garp, Sengoku, and this whole world will kneel before the Lion!"
The wind howled at ten thousand meters. Shiki stood with one hand in his pocket, treading on thin air. His Mangekyo Sharingan looked down with indifference at the churning sea.
"How boring."
He exhaled a cloud of smoke, feeling a sense of loneliness at the top. He had thought the 'Strongest Creature' might provide some fun, or at least force him to use his real power. But he was too weak. Before god-like power, even an Emperor was just a slightly larger ant.
The confidence I lost against Garp... I've found it again. It's not that I'm weak; it's just that Garp is a freak.
"Time to go."
With a thought, the Float-Float Fruit activated. Shiki turned into a golden streak, ignoring air resistance as he raced toward Foosha Village, leaving nothing but a lingering sonic boom in his wake.
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