A raging inferno engulfed the battlefield, erupting outward like a colossal fireball that swallowed the sky itself. It surged across the cracked, battered earth, the searing heat hissing against the ground and making it snap and sizzle.
Pirates who had dared raise their heads now collapsed in terror, pressing their faces to the scorched earth. The blaze painted their pale, frozen expressions in harsh relief, exposing every trembling breath, every wide-eyed mont of despair.
"AAAAHHHH!!"
Within the sea of flas, Queen's massive form rolled wildly, his skin and armor ablaze. His agonized screams tore through the din, a chorus of raw pain that reverberated across the devastated base.
"Now's my chance!!"
Bullet's pupils dilated. Bloodlust ignited in his gaze—deep, red, murderous. Queen was vulnerable. If he struck now, he could end it. The humiliation, the tornt, the poisonous agony forced on him—he would return it all tenfold.
He braced to leap, feet coiling for the strike.
But a firm hand seized his shoulder.
"No, Bullet. We're done here. We need to go."
Bullet blinked, fury pausing for the briefest mont.
Beside him, Darren's fingers sparked with arcs of electricity. In the silent rhythm of invisible magnetism, weapons and wreckage scattered across the blood-soaked ground flew skyward—rifles, swords, broken machinery—twisting, warping, lting in the air.
They fused.
Forged in midair, a sleek, silver vessel shaped like a streamlined ark hovered before them. Gleaming under the flickering firelight, it looked like a chariot crafted from battle itself.
Darren threw the unconscious Señor onto the craft and stepped forward—
Until a roar cracked the sky.
"DARREN!! BULLET!! YOU CURSED FOOLS—HOW DARE YOU!!"
The voice was thunder and storm, raw wrath made sound. Lightning streaked across the heavens. Wind howled like a beast uncaged.
Bullet stiffened.
That voice.
Kaido.
He was back.
Far above, the clouds churned. From their depths, a colossal silhouette writhed through the heavens.
Wreathed in wind and lightning, its every movent tore the skies asunder. The air bent around it. The world itself seed to recoil.
"That's... a dragon!"
"Kaido-sama!! It's him!!"
"We're saved!! They're finished now!!"
Excitent flared like wildfire in the eyes of the watching Beasts Pirates. Despair flipped to euphoria in an instant. They shouted, scread, voices overlapping.
Suddenly—
A slicing shriek tore through the air. A screech like a blade cleaving the sky.
"Kaifu!!"
Dark green wind blades ripped through the cloud cover—dozens, then hundreds—sweeping down like death itself.
Darren's gaze sharpened. Without hesitation, he raised a single arm.
tal answered his call, coalescing into a dod shield before him and Bullet. Haki surged across its surface, turning steel black with armored will.
This was Kaido's Kaifu—no ordinary wind. It cut like wrath incarnate.
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!
Blade after blade rained down, slicing deep gashes into the shield, peeling away tal like bark from a tree.
CRACKLE! SNAP!
The last gust struck—and the shield shattered.
Through the falling shards, the dragon's titanic head erged. It broke through the cloud bank like a mountain falling from heaven.
Kaido saw his base in ruin, his n fallen, the bodies scattered across scorched earth.
His golden slit pupils flooded with bloodshot rage.
"UNFORGIVABLE!!"
The dragon's roar shook the skies.
He inhaled.
His body swelled.
From the depths of his throat, a fireball ford—massive, molten, terrifying.
"Damn it—it's that move again!"
Bullet's eyes narrowed. He rembered the chaos. The trap. The pain.
Kaido had used this very breath to subdue them once before.
But not this ti.
Bullet's lip curled into a sneer. His arm surged with Haki, cloaking in a sheen of lethal black.
"That won't work again. Not on us."
"Bullet. Kaido's mine. Watch our rear."
The calm voice belonged to Darren.
Bullet growled, instinct clashing with pride.
He didn't like taking orders. Not from anyone.
But his body moved.
His gaze scanned the skies. A black blur streaked through the smoke.
Wings of fla cut the air.
King.
The Wildfire.
He dove like a predator, aiming not at them, but behind—
The ark.
Front and rear. A coordinated strike.
"DAMN YOU, DARREN! I'M NOT YOUR DAMN UNDERLING!!"
Bullet cursed—but his body obeyed.
He stomped forward.
Earth and steel surged up to greet him. His body was swallowed in stone, in tal, in power.
He rose.
A ten-ter colossus.
"rge!!"
The giant raised its arm. A single swing—aid at the diving Pteranodon.
Air scread. Shockwaves blood.
Behind him—
Click.
A coin flicked into the air.
Darren stood tall, hair tousled in the gale. His finger aid.
The coin spun—glowing blue.
Aid straight for Kaido's flaming maw.
The world stilled.
Two warriors. Back to back.
Two titans. Facing death head-on.
And then—
BOOM!!
Scarlet fla erupted from Kaido's jaws.
A blue cannon roared from Darren's finger.
King launched golden laser beams.
The giant hurled its fist like a falling teor.
All t in the sky.
"Heat Breath!!"
"Magnetic Overload — Railgun!!"
"Barizodon!!"
"dium Bullet — Super Heavy Cannon!!"
A heartbeat of silence.
Then—
BOOM!!
BOOM!!
Explosions rocked the heavens.
Shockwaves blasted in all directions.
The Beasts Pirates were thrown—blinded by white light, ears shattered by sound.
The earth scread.
The island cracked. Chasms yawned open. The sea rose—towering waves surged toward the land.
As if the world had shattered.
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To be continued...
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