After a moment of silence, Huang Yuan nodded and replied.
"Powerful, very powerful. Although I don't want to admit it, the current Silver-Haired one is at least stronger than me."
"Really that strong!"
Momonga looked up, gazing at the cracked sky above Dressrosa, his face filled with astonishment.
Thinking about meeting the person his elder was talking about, who was even stronger than him, and also Emperor Kaido, his expression turned serious.
...
Dressrosa.
In the sky.
Kaido frowned.
When the Marines looked in their direction, he had naturally noticed the Marines as well.
And on the Marine warships, he detected the presence of the Yellow Monkey, whom he disliked, and also Garp's aura.
The Yellow Monkey was manageable.
This old fellow Garp, encountering him on the high seas, even he would only have to escape. Otherwise, if it turned into a stalemate, he would only be captured.
Raising his dragon head, Kaido shouted loudly at Kong Tai, "Hey! Kid, where is Caesar?"
His main purpose for coming this time was Caesar.
Fighting with the kid in front of him was just incidental.
Through the clash of Conqueror's Haki just now, he had already sensed that the kid in front of him was on the same level as him.
To defeat him in a short time would be wishful thinking.
"Caesar?"
Kong Tai tilted his head slightly, appearing as if he didn't know this person, "Who is that?"
"Don't joke around, kid."
The dragon head moved forward, its massive dragon eyes staring intently at the tiny figure before him. Kaido said sternly, "Caesar is a key figure in my Hundred Beasts Pirates. I advise you to hand him over."
Kong Tai stared at Kaido, shrugged his shoulders, spread his hands to his sides, and said helplessly, "It's a pity I really don't know who this Caesar you're talking about is?"
"You ask me to hand him over, but I don't have him. What can I hand over!"
"Moreover..."
Just then, before Kaido could speak, Kong Tai spoke again.
He lowered his hands, stared into Kaido's eyes, and a killing intent emanated from his azure pupils as galaxies swirled within them, "Moreover, even if I knew where Caesar was, so what?"
"Who do you think you are?"
"You tell me to hand him over, and I will? Do I have no pride?"
"You're just some mere Emperor, do you think you're the Pirate King? Or do you think you're Shanks and want me to give you face."
Looking at the babbling Kong Tai, Kaido remained calm. After Kong Tai finished speaking, he finally said, "Kid, I admire your courage."
"Are you done?"
He could feel Kong Tai's killing intent, and of course, his own killing intent was also radiating outwards.
His primary objective for coming here was Caesar, and his secondary objective was to see the kid in front of him.
Although he hadn't expected the Marines to arrive so quickly, what did their arrival matter?
He was Kaido.
Even if he was captured by the Marines after fighting with the kid in front of him, what could the Marines do to him?
Besides, his pirate crew was not to be trifled with. They would come to pick him up soon.
Therefore, if the kid in front of him wanted to court death, he would oblige him.
Staring at Kaido, Kong Tai's brows furrowed. He reached for the hilt of Zankou.
"Boro Breath!"
"One-Sword Style: Iai Giri - Zantoku!"
As if telepathically connected, both of them moved at the same time.
A massive, volcanic eruption-like beam of flame, incredibly powerful, shot from Kaido's mouth towards Kong Tai.
The enormous flames illuminated the clouds above a fiery orange.
Compared to the colossal pillar of flame, Kong Tai was like a true ant before it.
However...
Zing—!
A crisp metallic friction sound accompanied a cold, sharp sword light.
A crescent-shaped slash, silver with a pinkish-black sheen, like a galaxy, grew as it met the flames.
When the slash collided with the flame's impact, it was already the same size as the flame's impact.
Pfft—!
The attacks collided.
Kong Tai's slash was, after all, a sharp cut. Even though Kaido's Boro Breath was not weak, it was still split in half by the slash.
The flames divided into two, streaking across the sky, falling towards Dressrosa on either side of Kong Tai.
Slightly tilting his head, Kaido dodged the incoming slash.
As for his Boro Breath...
Boom, boom—!
Like meteors, they fiercely impacted the island below, leaving two bottomless pits in the ground.
Without a word.
Kong Tai, holding Zankou in his right hand, flipped the blade and swung it to his right, then stomped on the void behind him.
Bang—!
An air-explosion sound echoed, and his body rapidly lunged towards Kaido.
He knew that ranged slashes were useless against this guy. Only a direct blade infused with Ryuo Haki could truly break his defense.
"Worororo!!"
Kaido's massive dragon eyes fixed on the rapidly approaching Kong Tai, and he opened his mouth to laugh, "Kid, you're not bad!"
"You remind me of an old friend. That guy was also a swordsman like you. Alas, alas, he died miserably in the end."
Through the slash just now, he realized that the kid in front of him was still a little inferior to Oden Kozuki, so he didn't take him too seriously.
"Boro Breath!"
Despite his thoughts, he still exhaled another blast of Boro Breath towards Kong Tai.
Boom—!
The immense flame impact, like a laser cannon, rapidly surged towards Kong Tai.
"Courting death."
Kong Tai looked at the oncoming Boro Breath, his face reddened by the heatwave, but his eyes remained unchanged, still icy.
The next instant, the Boro Breath passed directly through his body, engulfing him within it.
"Hmm! Not right."
Kaido, who had opened his mouth, felt an extreme danger approaching at this moment. He quickly adjusted, retracting his body. His massive dragon tail, like a divine whip, rapidly lashed out at the void in front of him.
Bang—!
The immense force exploded the air, leaving a series of ear-piercing sonic booms in the sky.
"Too late!"
Both of them muttered inwardly.
At this moment, time seemed to stop. Kong Tai's figure, like an afterimage, instantly appeared in front of Kaido.
At this moment, he transformed into a giant, glowing longsword infused with pink light.
Then, as Kaido's pupils contracted, he fiercely slashed at Kaido's chest.
He struck one of the two monstrous, crisscrossing scars on Kaido's chest.
Pfft—!
This was arguably the weakest point on Kaido's body. The wound that Oden Kozuki had cut open still ached faintly even today.
So, even though Kong Tai's slash at this moment had not reached the level of Oden Kozuki, by striking this scar, he managed to slash into it with little effort.
Blood spurted out like a fountain from the reopened wound.
And Kong Tai...
Like a bubble, as Kaido's tail lashed out and the blood fell, he dissipated into the air with the wind as if he had never appeared.
If not for the splashing blood and the afterimage of the giant tail's strike, it would have been as if he had never existed.