Raging fire and thunder erupted instantly on his body.
Under the double heavy strike, Zeus and Prometheus even cheered.
"Haha! Hit him!"
"Kaido is so stupid! He didn't even know to dodge!"
Fire and thunder intermingled, causing bursts of explosions on Kaido's body.
While they were still cheering, Big Mom's face changed. She beckoned with both hands to call them back.
"Come back! Prometheus! Zeus!"
"Eh? Why? Mama?"
"Just a little longer and I can definitely roast him!"
However, the Homies with human nature had a certain amount of autonomy and didn't obey immediately.
"Is that so?"
Kaido's voice made the two feel something was wrong, but with their IQ, it was hard to understand quickly.
Kaido grabbed at his body with both hands. It felt like a layer of soft, bouncy jelly.
With a forceful yank, he pulled off the fireball and thunderball that seemed stuck to his body.
"Eh!!!"
The two Homies' eyes nearly popped out.
Their non-existent brains couldn't understand at all.
Someone could touch their true forms!
Kaido brought his left and right hands together, squeezing them forcefully into a pile.
Dragon scales appeared on his chest and began to extend upwards.
They covered Kaido's mouth, and sharp dragon fangs grew out.
A mouthful of scorching breath rose from his chest and abdomen.
Big Mom had already rushed over carrying Napoleon.
Seeing Kaido's action, she felt something was very wrong.
"Stop it! Kaido!"
Kaido ignored her.
You tell me to stop, so I should stop?
The hot air continued to rise, reaching his throat in a breath.
"Blast Breath."
Crimson flames, with a temperature far higher than Prometheus, turned into a pillar of fire.
Carrying an aura of destruction and explosion, it shot towards the two Homies squeezed flat in his hands.
With laser-like penetrating power, it shot right through them.
And the pillar of fire penetrated deep into the earth, leaving a long, scorched, pitch-black hole.
"Ma~~~!"
They couldn't even call out that last "Mama" before dying.
Charlotte Linlin watched the Homies who had accompanied her for decades perish. Her eyes instantly turned scarlet.
Seizing the opportunity, she stabbed at Kaido's throat with her sword.
She vowed to take this chance to behead Kaido!
But at this moment, Kaido was still in his dragon-hybrid form.
The strike, imbued with Conqueror's Coating, knocked Kaido back directly.
But it didn't satisfy Big Mom at all.
Watching Kaido lean back and retreat a few steps, she was a bit dumbfounded.
Her Conqueror's Coating actually couldn't break Kaido's defense?!
"That really—" Kaido stomped his right foot, shattering the ground beneath him. He abruptly straightened his body, lowered his head, touched the spot on his throat that had just been hit, and grinned. "It tickles a bit."
Big Mom stared fiercely, grinding her teeth until her face turned green.
At this moment, she finally felt what weaklings felt when facing her.
That sense of powerlessness where no matter what, you cannot break the opponent's defense, and can't even think of a way to win!
Moreover, her strength was closely related to her fruit ability.
She lowered her head and looked at her two main Homies turned into fragments.
Zeus's aura had disappeared, Prometheus...
"Mama" Prometheus's weak voice sounded.
Big Mom hurriedly lowered her head to find a fragment as small as a fingernail and attracted it to her hand.
Kaido was somewhat surprised, but immediately felt it was reasonable.
Prometheus, being fire itself, had a natural resistance to fire.
"Prometheus!"
"Mama... I'm dying... Save me!"
Big Mom suddenly felt the difficulty of this battle.
She needed time to restore Prometheus to his original state!
But Kaido wouldn't necessarily wait for her!
Missing a powerful core Homie, her strength would also drop significantly!
Suddenly, she looked at the magnificent rift in the sky.
There were powerful thunderclouds on both sides! She could use them!
Time!
She needed time!
"Katakuri! Perospero! Where the hell did you go!!!"
Big Mom shouted towards the ruins.
Coincidentally, a huge rock outside the ruins was kicked away. A scarred Katakuri walked out with a group of people.
He was panting heavily, his upper garment missing, showing some fatigue on his face.
Behind him, Perospero, Smoothie, and Cracker were even more wretched, all of them injured.
He responded: "I am here! Mama!"
The weaklings behind them had red palm prints on their faces, seemingly having been forcibly woken up. After coming out, they hurriedly fled towards other islands.
"Stall him for me!" Big Mom ordered directly, disregarding her children's injuries.
"Huh? You are asking us to go to our deaths, Mama!!" Perospero screamed in a shrill voice.
They had crawled out of those ruins with great difficulty!
If they knew it would be like this, they wouldn't have come out so quickly!!
That's Kaido!
Without Mama, we'd be risking our lives to stall him!
"Don't disobey me!" Big Mom's anger hadn't subsided, and he had run right into the muzzle of the gun.
Big Mom's eyes turned into spirals, and an aura of death infected the entire venue.
"Life!
Or..."
Their scalps went numb instantly. They all knew they must not let her finish reciting this incantation, but some were controlled by the fear born in their hearts.
Only Katakuri stopped her in time. "Mama, stop! We will stall him!"
"Death" was ultimately not spoken by Big Mom.
After taking a deep look at Kaido...
She began to evacuate the scene.
Big Mom rolled away like a ball. Kaido didn't think there was a need to forcibly stop her.
If she sincerely requested it, Kaido could totally wait on the spot for her to finish.
After all, he hadn't gotten serious yet.
If it ended hastily like this...
Then this trip would be too boring.
However...
"You know what will happen if you interfere in a battle of this level, right?" Kaido asked, looking at the people in front of him.
Several Sweet Commanders took deep breaths to calm their emotions.
They blocked the path between him and Big Mom as if regarding death as home.
The four stood in a row, gripping their weapons tightly.
In reality, their faces were pale with fear.
It was no different from facing death directly.
"We know, but we have no choice." Katakuri was still the most courageous one.
"Then you should be clear..." Kaido raised his Kanabo and disappeared in an instant.
Katakuri maximized his Observation Haki, trying to obtain information about the future through his top-tier Observation Haki.
But his pupils dilated. The future he saw was a blur.
Among the blurred images, there was only the scene of the four of them falling to the ground. There wasn't even a shadow of Kaido.
Doubt arose in his heart.
Why...
Can't I see Kaido?
Unbeknownst to him, Kaido had already flashed behind them.
"This isn't a battle you can interfere in! Katakuri!"
Chills ran down the spines of the four as they tried hard to turn around. Only out of the corner of their eyes did they catch a glimpse of Kaido's figure.
But they only heard the last sentence.
"Thunder Bagua—"
"Quadruple Strike!"