Mommy and Kaido formation

"You're not worried about your captain at all? That kind of injury isn't enough to be fatal for someone like Kaido, you know."

Stussy smiled as she spoke to June, her gaze shifting towards the sky.

[AN- For those who missed announcement, From now on I will call OG stussy as stussy and our one as June]

Above the high altitude.

Nicholas hovered there, looking down at the deep pit where Kaido had fallen, surrounded by billowing smoke.

Meanwhile.

As the smoke gradually dissipated, a tall figure emerged.

Realizing that his Azure Dragon form was likely to be beaten unilaterally, he chose to transform into his strongest Beastman form to confront the situation. 

After all, the Azure Dragon form's body was too bulky, and while it could be overwhelming for those weaker than himself, it felt somewhat awkward in a fight against an evenly matched opponent.

In this Beastman form, Kaido's body was covered with dragon scales from his head to his back, even his arms had turned into dragon claws, and a huge dragon tail swung behind him.

There was a deep, visible cut on his forehead, and even in his Beastman form, the scales near the wound had not healed, still oozing blood. In his hand, he held a menacing wolf-tooth club, crackling with electricity.

However, at this point, the wolf-tooth club was clearly not yet at its peak power, and it had not become the super rookie killer it would later be known as.

"Ah, it hurts. It's been a while since I last bled... Ohohoho, it seems like this time, we've got a real challenger."

Kaido touched the wound on his head, then brought his blood-stained palm to his mouth, licking it with his tongue. Clearly, he wasn't concerned about the wound on his forehead, but rather about the individual, Nicholas, who could inflict such damage.

After licking the blood off his palm, Kaido's expression turned ferocious, and he raised the wolf-tooth club, crackling with lightning, adopting a stance reminiscent of the Eight Trigrams of Thunder.

In his fierce dragon eyes, a hint of red appeared.

Then, accompanied by his draconic aura and his own beast-like presence, Kaido's imposing aura spread unabated, causing the surrounding ground to tremble.

Kaido looked at Nicholas, his rugged face suddenly filled with intense fighting spirit.

Only by facing strong opponents could he have the opportunity to grow stronger!

And in his Beastman form, Kaido could be said to be at his strongest state.

The wolf-tooth club, surrounded by purple lightning, emitted an even more palpable sense of danger as Kaido's aura continued to rise.

Thunder Bagua!

Kaido suddenly moved, his figure disappearing into thin air.

It was a speed completely incongruent with his massive body!

The purple electric light coiled around the wolf-tooth club was compressed into a purple line rushing towards Nicholas in an instant.

Then—

There was no "then". Almost as soon as Kaido's Thunder Bagua closed in, Nicholas elementalized, avoiding Kaido's lightning strike.

With a clang!!!

Nicholas appeared again, blocking Kaido's subsequent strike with his weapon.

The collision of forces from different directions created shockwaves that shattered the surrounding ground into countless cracks.

The commotion caused by this head-on clash made all those watching the battle on Cake Island and the surrounding waters involuntarily tense up.

"This is... the power of those monsters!"

"They're truly terrifying."

"These monsters are no longer opponents that ordinary humans can contend with."

"And Nicholas, fighting two monsters in a row, he..."

As they watched Nicholas and Kaido locked in confrontation on the battlefield, beads of sweat formed on the spectators' foreheads.

In this level of battle, they couldn't even intervene; staying within the range of the fighting opponents could be life-threatening.

"Ohohoho, impressive power indeed. But after fighting with Charlotte Linlin for so long, your stamina must be running low, right?"

Boom!

Accompanied by a deafening blast of air, Kaido exerted force with his arms, sending Nicholas flying.

Boom boom—

The force was so overwhelming that visible shockwaves trailed behind Nicholas as he flew hundreds of meters away.

Just by listening to the continuous blasts, one could gauge how terrifying the force applied to Nicholas was.

"You're indeed a monster on par with Charlotte Linlin. Your brute strength is truly terrifying. However, you're still far from your peak, Kaido."

In the blink of an eye, Nicholas appeared unscathed in the air.

Then, a massive slash was aimed directly at Kaido.

Facing this slash, Kaido swung his wolf-tooth club to shatter the crescent-shaped attack coming at him.

Thunder Bagua!

Without warning, Kaido launched another attack.

His colossal figure charged towards Nicholas.

At such incredible speed, the ground below couldn't keep up, raising billowing dust.

In the face of such speed, Observation Haki without sufficient depth was utterly useless.

Before the spectators could understand what was happening, Kaido's figure emerged tens of meters behind Nicholas, still holding the posture of swinging the wolf-tooth club.

And behind him, Nicholas was dispersing into lightning, reassembling into form.

"You, you're just going to dodge all the time!?"

At this moment, Kaido appeared particularly furious, evidently provoked by Nicholas's evasive tactics that countered his preference for direct confrontation. Perhaps it could be said that Kaido, he was losing his patience.

"Is it my fault for not confronting the Awakened Zoan or Mythical Zoan ability users head-on, or is it your fault for having a brainless fighting style?"

In response to Kaido's words, Nicholas replied sarcastically, knowing that provoking the opponent to lose their rationality in battle was undoubtedly one of the methods to win.

As Nicholas's words fell, his figure disappeared in an instant.

Then, the dust around Kaido stirred without wind, and a flickering figure moved continuously around him.

Kaido's eyes flashed red as he fully utilized his Observation Haki, continuously tracking Nicholas's movements.

Suddenly, his arm surged with force, swinging the wolf-tooth club towards an empty space where no one was present.

Unfortunately, if Nicholas's Observation Haki wasn't as strong as Kaido's, then Kaido's preemptive strike would have accurately hit Nicholas's head.

However, the unpredictability of Observation Haki lies in the mind games. It's about whether you predict my prediction, or I predict your prediction of my prediction, or perhaps I predict your prediction of my prediction of your prediction.

So, Kaido's strike ended up hitting nothing but air.

Almost immediately after Kaido's swing missed, Nicholas appeared behind Kaido.

A slash aimed at Kaido's nape.

However, although Kaido was at a moment of exhaustion, his Armament Haki almost instantly covered his neck as soon as he thought about it.

Coupled with the dragon scales on his body, it was as if he had put on a layer of black armor.

Clang!

As the attack failed, Nicholas's figure once again distanced itself from Kaido.

After this repeated several times, Kaido suddenly burst into laughter, then stared at Nicholas with a cold smile. "Ohohoho... You've realized it, haven't you? Then you should know what you'll face next, right?"

"Nicholas!!!"

Echoing Kaido's voice was Big Mom's furious roar and a dazzling white cylindrical shockwave emanating from afar.

It was Charlotte Linlin's Conqueror's Haki.

After Nicholas clashed with Charlotte Linlin's Conqueror's Haki, what he saw was Big Mom, wielding Napoleon burning with flames, standing side by side with Kaido on Zeus, the thundercloud.

The Mom-Kaido combination was now on the scene.