Trapped within the invisible vibrational prison of "Spatial Compression"—a crushing force capable of pulverizing steel—
Kaido's massive dragon-man body was being severely deformed.
Scales shattered. Blood spilled continuously from the corner of his mouth. Even breathing became agonizingly difficult.
He was truly on the verge of being compressed into a "Kaido cube."
But—
The terrifying vitality and indomitable will of the "Strongest Creature in the World" were no joke.
Kaido's expression hardened.
Not only did he refuse to submit—his aura exploded into something even more savage and ferocious!
"Nggh… OOOOOHHH!!!"
With a roar compressed to its absolute limit, Kaido relied on his monstrously powerful physique—
Forcing himself, under pressure capable of crushing mountains, to move.
Veins bulging, muscles screaming, he dragged his left arm through the crushing space and violently seized the kanabo Hassaikai, which was embedded deep in the ground beside him!
"Give it… to me—"His face twisted into something feral as he poured every last drop of strength and boiling Haoshoku Haki into the iron club."BREAK!!!"
Ignoring the risk of his body being torn apart even further—
Kaido swung the weapon violently toward Gern, unleashing a long-range strike!
"Vajra Arrow!!"
"VMMMM—!"
A highly condensed, pillar-shaped blast of club-force—wrapped in black-red Conqueror's lightning—
Tore through the distorted, compressed space like a city-smashing siege spike, screaming straight toward Gern at terrifying speed!
Its raw power might not rival a direct hit at close range—
But its penetration and velocity were utterly terrifying.
At the same time—
Gern clearly hadn't expected Kaido to unleash such a sharp counterattack from the brink of collapse.
Facing the oncoming Vajra Arrow, he had no choice but to interrupt the maintenance of "Frame Compression" and twist aside to evade.
But—
In the very instant Gern's technique loosened—
"BOOOOM!!!"
Kaido detonated the Conqueror's Haki he had been suppressing like a volcanic eruption!
A dark crimson torrent of energy surged skyward with him at its center!
"CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!"
The invisible box-shaped vibrational prison restraining him shattered like fragile glass under the tyrannical impact of that Haki—
Breaking apart piece by piece before vanishing completely!
The moment he broke free—
Kaido did not hesitate for even a heartbeat.
Lightning exploded beneath his feet as his massive body surged upward, exploiting the hyper-activation granted by lightning—
Launching himself straight into the sky!
High above, his form changed once more.
The dragon-man body expanded, elongated—
And in the blink of an eye, transformed into a colossal azure dragon that blotted out the heavens!
Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan — Azure Dragon Form.Complete Beast Transformation.
The dragon coiled through the sky.
Its massive head lowered, gazing down at Gern on the island below—
And its jaws opened wide enough to swallow mountains whole.
Deep within its throat, dazzling, blistering energy gathered and compressed at terrifying speed.
"Boro Breath!!!"
Kaido roared as he unleashed the signature attack of his dragon form!
A blazing beam dozens of meters thick—packed with annihilating energy—
Poured down from several thousand meters in the air toward Gern and the entire surrounding region!
"BOOOOOOM!!!!!!"
The beam struck the island directly!
There was no explosion—
Only absolute incineration and erasure.
Where the beam passed, rock, soil, forest—everything vaporized instantly.
A colossal scorched chasm ripped straight through the island, extending all the way to the coastline—
Splitting the sea itself apart, boiling the water into towering clouds of steam as the trench plunged down to the seabed, exposing the dark ocean floor!
A single Boro Breath—
Nearly split Gern's favorite vacation island in two.
For a time—
High in the sky, Kaido in his azure dragon form continued to spew destructive Boro Breath, relentlessly evaporating land and sea alike.
The massive trench stretched deeper and deeper into the ocean.
Cruel, icy light glinted in his draconic eyes.
At the same time, his Observation Haki clearly sensed—
Gern's presence had been completely suppressed and sealed deep within the sea cliff pierced by his breath.
"Wororororo! Heavenquake!""Go on—melt away completely right here!"
But—
Just as Kaido was reveling in his triumph—
Something changed.
From the depths of the sea cliff—a place that should have been a molten hell—
Countless pale azure, ice-crystal-like veins suddenly erupted without warning!
And those azure vibrational patterns began racing upward against the scorching Boro Breath beam—
Surging violently upstream!
Reflected in Kaido's shocked pupils—
Inside the golden-red beam of pure destructive energy—
It was as if the core itself had begun to bloom.
Countless gorgeous yet lethal azure "vibration flowers" blossomed outward from within!
"Th—this is…?"Kaido's mind reeled."What the hell is that?!"
But the next moment—
Something even more unbelievable happened.
Starting from the very bottom of the beam—
His extreme-temperature breath, capable of evaporating everything—
Began to freeze.
Not extinguish.
Freeze.
Azure ice crystals surged rapidly through the interior of the beam.
Where they passed, the rampaging heat was as if someone had pressed a pause button—
Instantly solidifying.
The freezing spread at an unimaginable speed.
In barely a blink, the icy blue surge raced upward—
Reaching Kaido's gaping jaws!
A soul-freezing chill surged back through the breath channel, and Kaido felt even his throat and mouth beginning to stiffen with frost!
How could he dare continue?
He snapped his massive jaws shut, forcibly cutting off the Boro Breath!
With the energy source severed—
An utterly shocking sight manifested between heaven and earth.
A colossal ice pillar, still shaped like a flame jet—
Interwoven with gold-red and pale azure—
Rose like a world-supporting column from the abyssal trench at the ocean floor,
Piercing through the island, thrusting straight into the clouds—
Connecting to the very spot where Kaido's dragon mouth had just closed.
The upper portion of the pillar still glimmered with the golden-red radiance of Boro Breath.
The lower portion was completely frozen into azure crystal—
Within it, countless lightning-like vibration patterns were sealed in place.
Extreme heat.
Extreme cold.
Two utterly opposing forces—
Had been forcibly locked together in a way that defied all logic—
Radiating eerie, overwhelming energy.
Kaido circled in the sky, staring at this impossible spectacle.
Shock and disbelief filled the massive dragon head.
He couldn't comprehend it.
How—
How could vibration possibly produce such terrifying freezing power?!
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