The instant those words left his mouth, Kaido did not hesitate. He swung his kanabo and charged straight toward the blond woman.
He already had no advantage in his fight with Sengoku. If an immortal, bizarre woman like this was added to the equation, his odds of winning were basically zero.
So his plan was simple. Deal with this blond woman first, remove the future problem, then focus on Sengoku and wait for the right chance to run.
"He's charging at you!" Sengoku shouted a warning, his voice coming from the mouth of the golden Buddha.
But the moment his words fell, Kaido had already reached the blond woman.
The blond woman's pupils contracted sharply. A trace of genuine panic appeared on that face, which had yet to fully recover.
"Insect! Stop!" the blond woman screamed, crossing her arms in front of herself on instinct.
Bang!
Kaido opened with a club strike, smashing it heavily onto her head.
The club carried the remaining power of the Eight Gates. The instant it landed, the ground beneath them shattered from the shock wave, and dust erupted along the cracks.
The blond woman's body sank downward, both legs buried in the broken ground.
Afraid that she might not be dead enough, Kaido followed up with several more blows.
Boom, boom, boom!
Every strike made the ground tremble. Shock wave ripples stacked outward layer after layer, sending nearby stones bouncing into the air.
Seeing that her head had already been smashed beyond recognition, Kaido aimed at her body and continued hammering.
Boom, boom, boom!
"Bastard!" Kaido gasped, each strike brutal and heavy. "If! You! Still! Don't! Die! Then I, Kaido! Will give you my life!"
Bang!
Before his words even finished, a golden shock wave slammed into his side like a wall.
Kaido was blasted away by the force, tumbling across the ground like a kicked stone.
Rumble!
Smoke and rubble left a long trail along the path where he rolled.
Kaido quickly got up, braced his kanabo against the ground, and used his own strength to cancel out the last of the momentum.
Sengoku, transformed into the golden Buddha, strode to the blond woman's side.
He slowly reached out. Like pulling a trampled blade of grass from the mud, he pried the blond woman's horribly deformed body out of the crater and carefully placed her in his palm.
Whoosh, whoosh.
Black smoke surged around the blond woman's body like dark flames frantically repairing her wounds.
Her collapsed skull rose again, her shattered skin healed rapidly, and her twisted neck clicked as it slowly turned back into place.
Kaido looked up and happened to see the scene.
He blinked.
Then he laughed.
Six-six-six.
She had cheats. How was he supposed to fight that?
Immediately, Kaido turned and ran.
In Sengoku's palm, a blurry voice slowly sounded, "Cha... ase... him..."
The sound was broken, as if her mouth had not fully grown back, but it quickly became clear. "Chase him! What are you standing around for?! I will make that insect pay a terrible price!"
Sengoku looked down at the figure still desperately regenerating in his palm and silently clicked his tongue. The complaint he did not say aloud circled in his heart.
'You were the one who got careless. If I hadn't been here, Kaido might have beaten you into a beef ball already.'
Complaints were complaints, but Sengoku still acted.
Only, after taking just two steps, he suddenly stopped.
"Bastard!" the blond woman roared from his palm. "What are you doing?!"
But the next second, her voice also cut off.
Because Kaido had stopped running too.
He had even turned around to face them.
Boom!
At that moment, something glittering gold fell from the sky and landed between them. The entire ground shook violently. The air around it was forced outward, raising a fierce wave of dust and rubble that howled in every direction like a tide.
The blond woman instinctively wanted to raise her arm to block it, but the instant she lifted her arm, she suddenly remembered something.
The last time she had lowered her arm, that damned insect had smashed her face with a club.
That thought made her shiver. She forcibly lowered her arm and stared straight ahead through the blast.
After the dust scattered, a gigantic golden nine-tailed fox demon stood in the open space between Kaido and Sengoku. Its nine huge tails swayed slowly behind it.
Its body glowed beneath the sun, and the golden chakra cloak flowed like living flames.
The blond woman frowned slightly, fine beads of sweat appearing on her forehead.
"This is..."
"Ron," Sengoku said in a low voice.
"Never heard of him," the blond woman replied.
Sengoku ignored her. That sentence had only slipped out of him subconsciously.
At that moment, Kaido lifted his head and stared blankly at the enormous golden figure. His mouth opened slightly, and he slowly said, "Ro... Ron? Is that really you?"
The golden nine-tailed fox demon turned its head slightly and looked at him for two seconds. Then, without answering, it turned its gaze back to Sengoku.
"We meet again, Sengoku," Ron's voice came from the mouth of the fox demon.
Whoosh!
The moment he finished speaking, that little bastard Kaido had already leapt onto the nine-tailed fox demon's shoulder. Raising his kanabo, he shouted, "Go, Ron! Kill him!"