[Step. Step. Step. Step.]
Uchiha Madara finally stepped onto the sandy beach of the island.
He continued walking inland, yet curiously found that his opponent hadn't arrived.
With his arms crossed over his chest, his presence was imposing.
His sharp black eyes swept over the surroundings, but he didn't utter a single word.
Since the World Government had agreed, then his opponent would surely appear on time.
The next second—
The bright, sunny skies suddenly darkened beneath an overwhelming shadow.
Madara looked up without the slightest surprise.
As expected—
Dark clouds gathered. Fierce winds surged.
A massive azure dragon silhouette loomed within the clouds, shrouded in mist, flying through the storm.
"Hmph. Are you planning to fight me from up there?"
Madara let out a cold chuckle.
At the same time, rings of ripples and a deep violet hue began to bloom within his black pupils—
"Hm?"
Kaido, flying amidst the clouds in his Azure Dragon form—
Suddenly sensed a shadow descending from above, this time upon himself.
He instinctively lifted his draconic gaze upward—only to find, to his astonishment, that a massive object had appeared above him at some unknown moment. It looked to be a giant meteorite over 100 meters in diameter?
No... it didn't quite resemble a meteorite.
Kaido had seen a meteor once before—summoned by that "Admiral Candidate" from the Navy.
But this object above his head wasn't engulfed in flames, and its descent wasn't all that fast either.
"Don't throw that kind of toy at me!!!"
The Azure Dragon let out a thunderous roar and violently swung his thick tail, which swiftly darkened with an inky hue.
[BOOM!]
With a deafening explosion, he shattered the massive Meteor mid-air in a single strike.
The giant boulder broke apart into countless fragments that rained down across the island and even splashed into the surrounding sea, stirring up clouds of dust and towering columns of water.
"I've never cut down a dragon before... Seems I've finally got the chance."
A cold voice echoed.
At the same time—under the watchful gaze of all who were observing—
A towering armored giant, over 100 meters completely shrouded in azure light, had manifested in the center of the island.
And it had already begun swinging a colossal energy blade at the Azure Dragon hovering above!
The blue energy blade tore through the air, unleashing a whirlwind of terrifying gales and sea surges.
"Hmph, now this is getting interesting. Worororo~~~"
Kaido relied on his Kenbunshoku Haki foresight and the agility of his draconic form to narrowly evade the Susanoo's blade, darting off to its left side with a smooth, precise maneuver.
The Azure Dragon opened his massive maw—lined with razor-sharp fangs—and rapidly gathered a blinding ball of fire inside.
[BOOOOM—]
A column of searing flame, almost blindingly white from the extreme temperature, erupted from Kaido's mouth—at a range of less than 20 meters.
It blasted straight toward the head of the Susanoo, nearly point-blank.
In the blink of an eye—
To the horror of countless onlookers, the entire upper half of the Complete Body: Susanoo was swallowed by the raging inferno.
"Madara..."
Senju Hashirama instinctively murmured his friend's name.
Very soon—
The Heat Breath ceased. The flames faded.
But the complete Susanoo reemerged—
Unscathed.
But Kaido, in his Azure Dragon form and just meters away, noticed something clearly—
Inside that "crystal-polygonal armor," Uchiha Madara was now holding a fan-shaped weapon resembling a gourd.
He had just witnessed flames, like flowing water, being drawn into the fan's surface—
A surface marked with six red tomoe.
"Heh... As expected, this thing still works."
Uchiha Madara looked at the "Gunbai" in his hand and chuckled softly.
Facing Kaido in his Azure Dragon form, Uchiha Madara offered a faint, knowing smile.
In the next instant—
He swung the Gunbai with force.
[BOOM!!!]
A violent gust of wind, visible to the naked eye, erupted from the surface of the fan.
In the blink of an eye, the rapidly spinning white tornado swelled from the size of a person to a whirlwind large enough to engulf half of the Azure Dragon's massive body—
Blasting both him and the ground beneath him far into the distance.
Meanwhile—
This seemingly apocalyptic windstorm hadn't damaged even a single dragon scale.
But Kaido, in his Azure Dragon form, followed the momentum of the storm and began spinning his majestic, serpentine body with increasing speed.
And just like that—
The wild gusts that had been launched to attack him gradually came under his control through his movements.
Four massive cyclones formed around him, each towering between 300 to 400 meters high, like pillars reaching into the heavens.
Each of these tornadoes stood even taller than the complete Susanoo.
Each one carrying a terrifying, destructive force as they advanced in unison toward Uchiha Madara.
At the same time, a flash of brilliant azure light streaked across the high-definition virtual feed.
In the very next instant, the four mighty tornadoes that had just been raging with unstoppable force were cleaved cleanly in half by the katana held in the complete Susanoo's hands.
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Sea Circle Calendar, Year 1503.
September 22nd, early morning, around 05:12.
A round morning sun slowly rose from the horizon.
On the airship's deck, the assembled officers of the Propaganda Department and the Air Force soldiers assigned as escorts stared wide-eyed at the two figures in the distance.
At the same time—
Through the live broadcast, audiences from all walks of life wore the same stunned expression.
The battle seemed to be over.
On the crystal-clear projection screen—
Because his human-beast form had greatly increased his size, Kaido's height had grown from over 7 m to well beyond 10 m, towering like a giant.
And that made the Uchiha Madara in his grasp seem almost small and delicate.
Only now, Madara was in a rather sorry state.
Blood streamed from the corner of his mouth, and the exposed parts of his crimson battle armor were shattered and broken.
A mane of disheveled black hair spilled over Kaido's thick, dragon-scaled fingers.
Uchiha Madara had lost!
...
High above a mass of purple flame-cloud, the massive Kaido stood with his back to the slowly rising morning sun, letting the enormous shadow he cast engulf the "little man" in his grasp.
"I thought you were something special!"
"At best, you're just another Byrnndi World with some flashy tricks!"
Kaido's gaze toward Uchiha Madara brimmed with open disdain.
And Kaido's evaluation of Uchiha Madara—
Even Sengoku, Zephyr, Kong, and other high-ranking military officers watching the fight silently nodded in agreement.
Because, like Byrnndi World, Uchiha Madara could only last a little over a day—certainly less than two—in a battle against General-level power.
In other words, Madara did indeed possess General-level combat strength—there was no doubt about that.
But his stamina and chakra reserves simply weren't enough to sustain such an intense, near-breathless fight against an equal for long.
And this was after he had already been injected with the "Perfect Type-II Cellular Enhancement Serum."
One injection wouldn't instantly grant overwhelming stamina.
Its main function was to unlock and raise a person's physical potential.
But the time given to Madara had been far too short.
He hadn't had the chance to develop that potential through training and proper nourishment.
On top of that—
While Madara's arsenal of techniques was dazzling in variety—
But there was no attack capable of inflicting serious damage on someone like Kaido.
The entire fight, he had remained in his human-beast form, battling Uchiha Madara and five "Limbo Clones" in a fierce melee.
He simply wanted to see what else Madara could bring out.
But Kaido hadn't expected that after not even two full days of battle, Madara could no longer hold on.
Strictly speaking, Kaido hadn't dealt any truly serious damage to Madara.
Madara's array of abilities was more than enough to keep up the fight with him.
In other words—
He was purely unable to continue because of chakra depletion.
But Kaido wasn't happy about that.
They'd barely even gotten through the warm-up—how could he already be finished?
Come on, don't pass out—get back up and fight!
That left Kaido in a very foul mood.
Still, he flew toward an airship and tossed the unconscious Madara into the arms of an Air Force colonel.
"When this guy wakes up, tell him—I, Kaido, am very disappointed in him!"
"If he's not convinced, tell him to come find me again when he can last at least five days!"
With that, he transformed once more into the awe-inspiring Azure Dragon, spiraling upward toward the higher skies.
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