A deep, somber voice also tightened everyone's nerves.
Like Whitebeard, they were all filled with suspicion—why had Fire Fist Ace, with his natural-type Devil Fruit, suddenly become so battered and disheveled?
However, upon hearing Whitebeard's urgent question, Ace's facial muscles twitched uncontrollably. He instinctively begged Kai not to reveal everything that had happened over these past days.
"Are you talking about the injuries on this idiot?" Kai, with his dead-fish eyes, casually glanced over Ace and said nonchalantly.
"This guy, over the past three days, has challenged me more than ten times. Every time, I punched him, and then he ended up like this."
Punch him once, and he's like this?
Everyone present—Marco and the other division captains, as well as Whitebeard and Shanks—were all stunned.
To them, the meaning behind that punch was enormous.
Less than ten fights, and each one ended with a single blow?
And it had even prevented Ace, who wielded the natural-type Devil Fruit, from elementalizing.
Could this be enough to prove that the big bald head in front of them possessed the strength to crush Ace?
"You bastard little brat, how dare you speak so arrogantly in front of my father!" A cold shout suddenly sounded without warning.
Almost immediately, a burly shadow flashed swiftly among the crowd.
With a fierce breaking sound, it lunged toward Kai in midair.
During its charge, a low, bovine mooing roar also echoed.
Originally standing about four or five meters tall, in the next moment, it transformed into a massive minotaur with a bull head and human body.
Without any fancy moves, its five fingers suddenly clenched into a fist, carrying a mountain of force, and crashed down directly toward Kai.
"Captain Atmos, don't be impulsive!"
Seeing this scene, Ace's expression changed drastically. Without time to think, he roared urgently.
But just as his words left his mouth—
Atmos's fist had already slammed down with thunderous force.
Bang!
A muffled impact suddenly resounded.
Under this tremendous force, a powerful gust of wind was raised, swirling outward.
However, everyone's faces changed dramatically when they saw Kai standing firm like a rock, unmoving.
Unfortunately, before they could react, Kai moved.
With a sudden grip of his five fingers, he casually swung out a normal punch.
This sudden, violent scene caused Ace's expression to change even more. Without thinking, he roared again,
"Atmos, dodge now, or you'll die!"
Dodge?
Atmos's face froze, but before he could react, Kai's plain, unadorned fist swung out fiercely.
One punch!
It felt as if the entire space was being crushed from all sides, overwhelming him with an inexplicable sense of suffocation.
That plain fist was rapidly magnified in his pupils.
The crushing force, accompanied by the fist's aura, instantly made his mind roar, plunging him into a blank state.
In that moment, Atmos felt himself adrift on a vast, raging ocean, like a small boat battered by the storm.
It seemed he could be wiped out by a giant wave at any moment.
When everything calmed down, Atmos didn't know how much time had passed.
He only knew that his clothes were soaked, as if he'd fallen into the sea and was drowning, panting desperately.
Staring at the simple, unadorned fist only a finger's breadth from his face,
What had just happened felt like a fleeting dream, leaving a deep imprint in his mind that he couldn't shake.
Is this a dream?
Chaotic thoughts flashed through Atmos's mind.
But as soon as this thought appeared, he forcibly suppressed it.
At this moment, he noticed the vast ship deck had fallen into an inexplicable silence.
Occasionally, there was a gulping sound of swallowing saliva.
This strange scene stirred Atmos's nerves. Without hesitation, he quickly turned around to look behind him.
The first thing that caught his eye made his pupils contract sharply.
He saw that a huge reef just hundreds of meters away from the Moby Dick had vanished into thin air.
A massive vacuum zone, dozens of meters in diameter, appeared over the sea surface.
The feeling upon seeing it was as if the vast sea had been forcibly blown apart by a punch.
Witnessing this scene, Atmos's mind flashed with an extremely absurd thought.
If that punch had landed on him just now, he might have been seriously injured or even worse.
The power of that punch was terrifying!
He finally understood why Ace, the Second Division Commander, had such a swollen and bruised face.
This guy before them was a real monster!
If he had to judge, among the Four Emperors' crews, he could definitely reach the level of a Vice Admiral.
He was an opponent they couldn't hope to catch up to!
For a moment, everyone's gaze on Kai deepened with a formidable sense of dread.
Even Shanks and Whitebeard, the Four Emperors, looked serious.
They knew very well that someone who could reach such heights at such a young age wouldn't have a low future—unless they met with a tragic end.
Bang!
Atmos collapsed onto the ground with a thud.
As the captain of the Thirteen Divisions, his performance during the Marineford War was not outstanding either.
He had been controlled by Doflamingo's puppet strings and had attacked his own comrades.
In a sense, besides a few capable fighters, most of the Whitebeard Pirates, including the division captains, were roughly equivalent to the Supernovas.
Their strength was mostly on par with each other, unlike the elite route of Shanks's men.
"Jozu, take Atmos to rest over there," Whitebeard, finally recovering, ordered in a deep voice.
Faced with this request, Jozu didn't hesitate. After a quick glance at Kai, he stepped forward and took Atmos away.
But for them, Kai's current actions—causing such chaos within Whitebeard's crew—had already made things difficult for Whitebeard himself.
It also left Whitebeard with no room to retreat in front of outsiders like Shanks.
Given all this, they were eager to see how Whitebeard would handle the situation.
Thinking of this, everyone's eyes on the deck turned sharply, locking onto Whitebeard, filled with an inexplicable urgency.
"You little brat, your strength is indeed impressive," Whitebeard said in a deep voice.
"But I really want to know—why did you take action to bring Ace back? I don't believe there are any good people in this vast sea."
"If you can't answer me, the next thing will make me very troubled."
His imposing words instantly tightened everyone's nerves, including Shanks and Ace.
If Shanks's involvement was to prevent the dawn of a new era for Roger and Luffy, then the sudden appearance of Saitama and his motives to stop Ace added a strange layer of curiosity.
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