265 10 Vs 10000!!!

Kaido and Charlotte Linlin stood side by side.

In front of them lay two lifeless bodies and the headless corpse of Orochi, smashed into pulp.

Kaido placed his massive club beside him and eagerly drank from the sake gourd handed to him.

Obviously, the frustration from not being able to fully enjoy his fight with Oden had found release after dispatching Orochi.

"Orochi, stop pretending. If you're not dead, get up now!"

After wiping the sake stains from his mouth with his thick arm, Kaido slowly addressed Orochi's body on the ground.

As Kaido spoke, the headless body of Orochi on the ground began to stir.

Then, the headless corpse gruesomely stood up.

Seeing the revived Orochi, Toki, who was holding Momo and weeping on the side, was also startled.

Soon, a fierce snake head emerged with a wave of slime from the neck of the headless body.

Quickly retracting, the snake head transformed back into the appearance of Orochi.

Seemingly uncomfortable, Orochi moved its head a few times, then became incredibly angry upon seeing the two piles of flesh on the ground.

Although Orochi had supported himself as the Shogun of Wano during his tenure, whether due to the hatred of the Kurozumi family or other reasons, one thing remained unchanged: these two individuals, Kurozumi Higurashi and Semimaru, were Orochi's two aces. Now that they were gone, Orochi couldn't help but feel furious.

"Kaido, why did you kill Higurashi and Semimaru!?"

Orochi angrily demanded.

Facing Orochi's question, Kaido's mere gaze startled Orochi, making him stutter in his speech.

"Orochi, who do you think you are!? You can sit on the throne of Wano's Shogun because I allow you to. If you dare to interfere in my battles again, I will crush you into a pulp without hesitation!"

Kaido slammed the sake gourd on the table and spoke.

Obviously, being interrupted in his fight with Oden at a critical moment was as frustrating as being interrupted just before reaching the climax during s*x. This made Kaido quite angry and displeased.

If it weren't for the fact that Orochi had provided adequate supplies to the Beast Pirates and performed well in other aspects during his tenure as the Shogun of Wano, he would have been obliterated for daring to interfere in his battle just now.

"Ugh, where am I?"

Just then, a voice sounded in the hall, and everyone's gaze turned to the center of the hall, where Kozuki Oden, with a noticeable indentation on the back of his head, was slowly waking up.

As Kozuki Oden regained consciousness, he saw Kaido and Charlotte Linlin looking at him with their bright eyes.

Facing such a combination, a sense of despair welled up deep inside Kozuki Oden's heart.

To think that he never felt such despair even when facing Roger.

However.

Although he couldn't see any opportunity, it didn't mean he would sit back and wait for death.

Even if he died, he would uphold Wano until the very end.

...

The next day, the fires that had burned throughout the night in Flower Capital of Wano gradually died down. All the residents noticed that the armies directly under the Shoguns were splitting into two groups, one heading for Kuri and the other following the Beast Pirates toward Hakumai.

"They're coming."

At the border of Hakumai, the Rebel Corps, already armed, watched as huge wyverns appeared in the distant sky and earth dragons rose from the ground. Honda Tadayoshi, mounted on a horse, said to the swordsman beside him, Ichinomiya Isshin.

"It's okay. The message has been sent out. All we have to do is hold them off until the reinforcements arrive! You take care of the airborne guy; I'll handle the ground troops."

Isshin looked at the approaching Rebel Corps and Orochi Coalition in the distance and spoke calmly.

"No problem."

Honda Tadayoshi didn't say much, just agreed directly.

Then he saw Isshin bowing and bending his waist, and then the long sword at his waist suddenly unsheathed. A huge slash was sent towards the airborne enemy.

Almost as soon as Isshin drew his sword, red light representing Observation Haki appeared in his eyes.

[AN- These 2 new guys are random guys with potential. ie OC]

In this situation, there was no possibility of negotiation.

The only choice left for both sides was to fight to the death.

This was the enemy relationship.

So—

In the middle of flying, King suddenly made a move.

In mid-air, he released his ability, returning to his original form, and his large black wings folded back. His tall and straight body shot straight towards the ground.

The elongated blade in his hand, different from usual, was engulfed in raging flames.

"Flame King, Hook Claw!"

After the slash, Isshin also stomped on the ground and charged towards King.

The two clashed in mid-air, unleashing their armament haki and power to the fullest. King's long sword wrapped in flames slashed down from above towards the opponent's vital point, while the samurai's long sword wrapped in blood-colored light also slashed upwards, intending to split the opponent in half.

Isshin stared at the flame blade coming straight at him, his eyes reflecting a sharp and dangerous claw-shaped slash.

As the attacks neared, they aimed directly at Isshin's vital points.

But Isshin remained unfazed, calmly watching the flame blade approach, and blocked it with his sword.

Then—

Before the words "Flaming slash" could even be uttered, King's eyes slightly narrowed, and then he saw the samurai in front of him suddenly used American Haki to pull out a flintlock pistol from his waist and shoot directly at him.

Almost instantaneously, King wrapped his body in solid armament haki, like lightning, and kicked towards the opponent's chest.

This kick, however, landed on the charging blade.

The violent impact passed through the blade directly to Isshin's body.

Sending him flying far away.

"Although your swordsmanship is good, your strength and armament haki are not as good as mine. As for the damage caused by the firearms..."

In an instant, King's face looked slightly unsightly.

Because he clearly felt a special force beginning to spread throughout his body, and he felt a bit out of sorts all over.

Then his fingers tapped the direction where he was hit by the firearm, and a bullet made of seastone appeared between King's fingers.

"Seastone? It's indeed a good idea to deal with Devil Fruit users, but I'm not that easy to deal with!"

Saying that, King directly threw the seastone bullet in his hand onto the ground.

Just as he was about to deal with the samurai who combined swords and firearms, a tremendous pressure suddenly came from the sky, followed by several figures falling.

"..."

Looking at the figures falling from the sky, King suppressed the tremors in his heart and forced himself to calm down.

Seconds later.

Accompanied by several explosions, a huge smoke rose in the centre of the battlefield.

On the flat ground a hundred meters away.

Originally in the form of a transformed Brachiosaurus, equipped with various weapons and mercilessly sweeping the Rebel Corps, Queen subconsciously felt something was wrong and tried to retreat behind everyone, but because of his large size, he couldn't do it at all.

King looked at Vista with a complicated expression. He knew that if this guy appeared, then Nicholas must have arrived as well.

He glanced around.

The attack launched by Nicholas's Pirate crew actually only had a dozen or so people.

On the other hand—

Ignoring the pirates left in Onigashima and Flower Capital, just the number of people who came to conquer Hakumai was as many as ten thousand. You should know that these people are not ordinary soldiers but pirates who can take on several ordinary people at once.

10vs10000!

What a huge difference in numbers.

However—

King's gaze, filled with a sense of gravity, kept shifting to the several separate battle circles around him.

From this position, he could even clearly hear the continuous sounds of battle emanating from around the battlefield.

The number of people on their side was clearly about 1000 times that of the enemy.

But under the enemy's onslaught, the camp with the numerical advantage of their side was the one being suppressed.

King felt heavy-hearted.

In these few seconds of observation, he "saw" the reason why their side was at a disadvantage.

He "saw" the female swordsman wielding two swords and killing everywhere in their camp, as well as the sniper who accurately killed senior executives of their side from a distance. In addition to these two, there were also some guys with wings, dressed like primitive people, wielding various strange weapons, catching their side off guard.

There was also that huge bird circling in the sky, every dive sending out steel-like feathers and wind blades with each flap of its wings, taking away dozens of lives each time.

Of course, the most threatening of them all was the skeleton holding a cane, wearing a suit like a gentleman, leisurely strolling through the battlefield. In the ominous atmosphere surrounding Brook, those bodies lying on the ground would reanimate, pick up their weapons, and continue to fight.

In the face of Brook's eerie ability...

The balance of numbers was quietly shifting.

King, filled with a solemn expression, kept glancing at the several battle circles that had been separated.

He "saw" that the reason for their side's disadvantage was due to these individuals who had entered the battlefield.