Carlo's massive roar even drowned out the explosive sound of him crashing through the buildings.
Like a rolling thunderstorm, it resounded over the sky of Hachinosu, reaching the ears of every pirate on the island.
Looking at Carlo as he sped away, leaving a trail of dust, even Kaido was somewhat dumbfounded.
"I thought he was crazy enough before."
"But I never expected this guy... to be even more insane than I imagined!"
"However..."
"The first person to challenge Rocks will be me!!"
A burning competitiveness rose in his eyes. He took the spiked club from his shoulder and stared intently at the back of the rapidly receding Carlo.
He also suddenly exerted force with his feet and chased after Carlo!
But what Kaido didn't expect was...
As he set off to give chase,
Some of the pirates who were originally chasing Carlo immediately turned their weapons and surrounded him instead.
"That guy has a companion! Everyone together, take him down!"
Perhaps because some of their comrades had been killed,
The charging pirates no longer cared whether Carlo and Kaido were related to Whitebeard, who was walking behind them.
Looking at the dozen or so pirates charging at him, Kaido's eyes were fierce as he swung his club directly at them.
"You pieces of trash, get out of my way! I don't want to waste time on a bunch of nobodies!"
"Thunder Bagua!!"
The spiked club, flashing with electric arcs, swept across with a roar.
With the advantage of Kaido's three-to-four-meter arm span, a single swing blasted open a sky full of blood and gore in front of him!
A dozen New World pirates couldn't even manage to hinder his steps for a single second before they all met their untimely deaths.
Stepping over the corpses scattered across the ground, Kaido continued his pursuit.
He originally thought he might not be able to catch up to Carlo.
After all, he was carrying quite a few injuries.
As for Carlo, not only were his injuries lighter than his own, but he also had a Devil Fruit Power that allowed him to fly.
But after chasing for a dozen seconds, Kaido was pleasantly surprised to find that he had caught up to Carlo.
Carlo was just ahead at the end of the long street, standing with his back to him, his forward steps having stopped.
This gave Kaido a start, followed by great joy.
Could it be that Carlo had seen Rocks?
"Hey! Carlo! Rocks is mine!"
He hurriedly quickened his pace and ran over.
As he ran, Kaido's pace gradually slowed down.
The anticipation on his face also gradually vanished.
As he walked out of the densely packed urban area,
The view before him suddenly opened up.
Ahead was a plaza with a massive area.
At the end of the plaza was the towering Skull Mountain.
However, at this moment, in front of him and Carlo, on this huge plaza, a dense crowd had gathered at some point, blocking their path forward.
Leading them were two burly men, four or five meters tall.
One was in a full black suit, wearing a leather hat, holding a huge revolver in his hand, and biting down on a thick cigar.
The other had knotted muscles and was encased in golden full-body armor, tearing into a large piece of meat on a bone with big mouthfuls.
The two stood to the left and right in front of the crowd, like two guardian deities, blocking Carlo's path.
Carlo glanced at the two of them, slowly reached out, pulled out a somewhat deformed cigar, and stuffed it into his mouth.
He wanted to light it, but found that the lighter on him was gone.
He frowned and looked at the suited giant standing on the left.
"Hey, lend me a lighter."
The giant smoking a cigar was stunned for a moment, glancing at the cigar Carlo was biting.
"Douglas Cigars? You have taste."
Then he nodded.
But he didn't reach for a lighter.
Instead, he suddenly raised his hand, lifted the oversized revolver, and fired a shot at Carlo.
Bang!
The trigger was pulled, and the bright silver revolver in his hand recoiled violently as a tongue of fire spat from the muzzle.
A bullet at least ten times larger than a normal flintlock bullet whistled out of the barrel, shooting straight for Carlo's face.
Carlo's expression was calm as he slightly tilted his body.
The flying bullet just happened to brush past the tip of the cigar in his mouth, lighting it.
Then it hit the building on the right.
Boom!
The wall of the building was as if struck by a cannon, with a hole one meter in diameter blasted into it.
Carlo took a puff of the cigar, ethereal smoke escaping from his mouth and nose, as he looked expressionlessly at the two big guys opposite him.
The Senior Combatants of the Rocks Pirates.
Maron of the West Blue Mafia.
Gan Sui the Smuggler.
"Are you... going to block my way?"
The suited giant Maron rubbed the revolver in his hand, his voice deep:
"To be precise, it's the Mafia Godfather Maron with a bounty of 480 million Berries, and the Smuggling Tycoon Gan Sui with a bounty of 520 million Berries."
Gan Sui, who was completely covered in armor, had also finished his last piece of meat by now.
He opened his mouth wide, revealing two rows of snow-white teeth, and stuffed the large bone in his hand into his mouth, crunching it down in two or three bites like chewing sugarcane until it was all gone.
Then he stuck a greasy finger, thicker than a radish, into his nostril, digging vigorously while narrowing his small eyes behind toad-like sunglasses, looking down at Carlo.
"Normally, we wouldn't bother with bratty kids like you who don't know their own strength and talk big about challenging Rocks."
"But you guys are being a bit too senseless, you know?"
"Although Hachinosu doesn't forbid fighting and killing between pirates, this island is the private property of the Rocks Pirates. For you to cause such a massive amount of destruction here..."
"It's like you don't respect us at all."
Right in front of Carlo, Gan Sui dug a large, disgusting booger out of his huge nostril and flicked it toward him.
Carlo tilted his head, letting the disgusting thing fly past him.
The booger flew toward the building that Maron had just shot.
Then... BOOM!!!
A deafening, massive explosion abruptly erupted there.
The entire building was instantly swallowed by a rising ball of fire.
The high-temperature fireball and thick smoke turned into a giant mushroom cloud that soared into the sky.
Rolling heat waves swept in all directions along with the shockwave from the explosion.
When the flames slightly dissipated,
The original building had completely disappeared, leaving a crater over ten meters deep in its place.
Even the adjacent houses were affected, with over a dozen of them being blasted into collapse!
Kaido was startled by this sudden explosion.
"The... the booger exploded!"
"What kind of disgusting technique is this? The power is actually this great."
He grimaced, looking with disgust at Gan Sui, who continued to pick his nose.
"So you're also one of those Devil Fruit Power users, right? What's your ability? Booger Man?"
Gan Sui glanced at Kaido and ignored him.
Instead, the nearby Maron said in a deep voice: "To be precise, he is the Bomb Man of the Paramecia-type Bomb-Bomb Fruit. He can turn any part of his body into a high-powered bomb and is immune to the attacks of all explosive shells."
"Hey, hey, hey! Maron! Who told you to reveal the characteristics of my fruit!"
Gan Sui shouted in annoyance, and at the same time, he suddenly raised his right hand and gave it a heavy wave.
"Capture them! Bring them before Rocks to answer for their crimes!"
"Yes!!"