Hearing Kaido's request for her to use "that move," Charlotte Linlin froze for a moment.
She instinctively asked, "Are you really sure? Can your body even handle it?"
Kaido didn't answer with words—but instead grew even more potent with Conqueror's Haki.
Black lightning began crackling across his body. With each bolt, a chunk of flesh instantly vaporized.
But Kaido didn't feel the pain—or even care. His life force didn't flinch at the flesh regeneration. All he forced was raw energy, converting every ounce into powered-up Conqueror's Haki.
His eyes split open and twice over shot terrifying black lightning—looking like they wanted to devour Roya alive.
Linlin silently sighed. She knew Kaido had suffered a great blow: unless Roya died, Kaido's rage couldn't be released.
"So… I might as well go mad with you one more time," she murmured with a twisted laugh.
She soared her own Conqueror's Haki to its limit—letting it burst from her body just as Kaido's did.
If Kaido's defense couldn't withstand its own Haki, Linlin would fare even worse.
Instantly, half of Linlin's excess fat was burned away by her own unleashed Conqueror's Haki.
But she had no choice. To match Kaido's Haki output and use their fusion technique—still imperfect—she had to commit fully.
Though decades of them beating each other at every meeting had become social ritual, the bond between them was deeper than anyone realized.
Linlin truly believed that Kaido would burn his life fighting for her, if their roles were reversed in this agony.
When two apex predator's Conqueror's Haki collide—it inevitably erupts in fierce, destructive chaos.
The two met in full fury. Their Conqueror's auras clashed and self-annihilated, but produced a wild energy burst far greater than their combined force.
That energy pushed inward, compressed by newly generated aura, held without release across both bodies.
A terrifying energy backlash built quickly—vaulting into the air with unimaginable speed and intensity.
That savage wave of pressure, mixed with overwhelming Conqueror's aura, swept across Onigashima.
Every pirate, warrior, and Red Scabbard in the midst of battle went into instant shock—passing out en masse.
Even the All-Stars and Red Scabbards—top-tier fighters—were staggered and disoriented.
Among Big Mom's dessert squad, only the Sweet Commanders could stand. The rest collapsed in worship, acknowledging the combined supremacy of the Yonko pair.
Hiyori looked around at this strange unfolding, bewildered.
Invisible to her, Roya's Observation‑Haki field shielded her from the chaotic aura. From inside it, the outside world felt like a silent pantomime—utterly surreal.
But a split-second later, the stage shifted with terrifying clarity.
The pink baby dragon (Momonosuke's transformed form) reentered the fray.
A cloud of Sakura Poison erupted—blanketing the banquet platform in pink mist.
It was so dense that even the bonfire—inferior in scale to Kaido's dragon form—was snuffed out instantly.
That haze of toxin split into four tendrils, like autonomous nanobots, rushing toward Kin'emon, Inuarashi, Nekomamushi, and Denjiro—
All of whom had previously been stunned by Kaido and Linlin's collision, then rescued by Roya.
They were instantly reoccupied by the Sakura Poison—losing all rationality and control.
This time, their bodies did not expand.
Instead, tiny pink arcs of electric energy crackled across each of them.
Simultaneously, each drew their sword with their left hand, infusing it with Armament Haki.
Then, with a sudden downward thrust of their right arm, the pink lightning congealed into blade-shaped swords.
They unleashed Dual‑sword Pirouette and Ten‑Punch Sakura Strike.
Their blades crossed before them—a dark-red glowing cross slash.
They leapt up in perfect synchronicity from four directions—as deadly crosses—rushing toward Roya in unison.
Hiyori standing beside Roya was not spared—all four cross-slashes converged on her too.
"Linlin, do it now!"
Kaido and Linlin had been charging their energy for a long time—though not at full peak yet.
But drawn by the Sakura Poison-charged strike from the four, the stored-up, raging energy within them had to be released now.
Delaying any further would let the energy spiral out of control.
Kaido's Hassaikai and Linlin's great sword rose together—each a conduit for their long-piled energy.
As they swung downward,
A blinding flash lit all of Onigashima like daylight!
It was as if the darkness of the night was torn apart, invaded by a column of searing white light—the raw power of destruction.
In an instant, the white-hot energy wave expanded from the strike zone—at just ten meters from launch it already swelled to cover more than ten meters in diameter.
Roya, Hiyori, Kin'emon and the other four, were all completely engulfed.
"It's over…"
Kaido collapsed with a thunderous sound.
Due to the sugar-compound infusion, he had become a massive, motionless mound of fat—any trace of the former sea lord erased.
Within that heap, a black-and-white crystal eye barely pushed through towards Linlin.
She blinked in shock.
It was Kaido's eye, desperately peering out.
A crushed voice came from inside the flesh-mountain:
"Linlin… kill me."
Linlin's feelings twisted in agony.
As she opened her mouth to respond—
A chilling voice from the pink baby dragon laughed mockingly:
"Kaido's all grandeur and gravitas, huh? You still haven't seen my final form yet—and now you're begging for death?"
"What's so bad about being a little thicker? Maybe I'm even tougher than before!"
"I was planning to test you once I got full power back!"
"Just wait, won't you? See me kill you first—rather than the other way around?"
Kaido's crystal eye snapped wide open in outrage, aimed at Momonosuke-lizard:
"You… brat! You're signing your own death warrant!"