Chapter 165: Super Meteoric Burst
The invitation for Totoo Land’s Founding Ceremony had actually already reached Kaido’s hands when Aoxi and the others went to Sky Island.
It’s just that due to that Charlotte Queen’s willfulness, the ceremony scheduled for next February was advanced by nearly half a year, and the invitations were sent to various factions.
Kaido guessed that woman probably wanted to schedule the Founding Ceremony on the same day as her birthday, but her impatient personality made her unable to wait until then… so she relieved her anxiety a bit by distributing the invitations.
I wonder who came up with this tricky method~
“Atchoo~”
On Cake Island, Perospero, the eldest son of the Charlotte Family, was busy arranging preparations for each island when he suddenly sneezed.
“What’s wrong, Brother Perospero?”
“I’m fine, Oven.”
“Go check the security facilities on each island again, and add a set of backup equipment while you’re at it.”
“Although it’s still a long time before the ceremony starts, we can’t let our guard down. Perorin~”
Perospero held the ceremony process plan and arranged item by item.
“Yes, Brother Perospero, you’re really meticulous.”
“I’ll go right now.”
Charlotte Oven, Big Mom’s fourth son, nodded, his words full of trust and admiration.
Watching his younger brother’s hurried departing figure, Perospero gave a wry smile.
What meticulousness? It was all forced out of him.
This Founding Ceremony was the most important celebration in Whole Cake Island’s history, but Big Mom acted like a hands-off boss, leaving almost everything for him and Katakuri to handle personally.
Perospero, who had just turned eighteen, had been working overtime continuously for months, losing a full circle of weight, with quite a bit of hair falling out too.
Making him look like thirty-eight at the age of just eighteen.
“I hope nothing goes wrong at the ceremony… Perorin~”
Adjusting his hat blown by the sea breeze, Totoo Land Kingdom was peaceful as ever today.
……
“Meteoric Burst（!”
Boom!!!
Converting all divine power into propulsion, Aoxi’s entire body was enveloped in crimson light, with golden thunder patterns emerging on her surface…
At this moment, she burst forth with speed far exceeding biological limits!
Whoosh—
With the naked eye, even the afterimage of an afterimage couldn’t be captured; her movement trajectory was like the long tail flame dragged by a meteor…
Air was intensely frictioned, and everywhere Aoxi passed, all trees and rocks were instantly melted under the high temperature generated by this speed.
“Roru~ Finally showing some real effort!”
Kaido, already in half-beast mode, gripped his Wolf Fang Club with both hands, his words full of excitement.
His line of sight rapidly followed the meteor’s trajectory, constantly using Observation Haki to capture the opponent’s location.
But Kaido soon discovered that mere Observation Haki couldn’t pinpoint Aoxi’s position; even Future Sight only showed a blurry afterimage.
So he switched to defense over offense, settling for concentrating his perception within a few meters around him.
After all, no matter how fast Aoxi flew, she had to attack eventually, right?
“Behind me?”
“Uro-ro-ro!”
More like a battle roar than laughter.
Seeing a future glimpse, Kaido abruptly turned around and swung his Wolf Fang Club with full force.
Clang~
A piercing clash of metal rang through the ears, but the thunder’s roar vanished in an instant.
Aoxi’s attack stopped on point; realizing one strike wasn’t enough, she immediately resumed high-speed movement.
This was her method to break the deadlock.
Since the opponent could predict the future, let him predict away.
She would use ultimate speed to break through the opponent’s bodily reaction limits.
That’s right! A frontal breakthrough!
In this high-speed world, everything around seemed to slow down in her perception.
Insect chirps, bird calls, the sound of trees burning, rocks melting… and Kaido’s laughter.
In this stretched time, the only constant was her own heartbeat.
No, it was the sound of divine power being pumped.
Thump!
Thump!!
Thump!!!
『Damn it!』
『So tiring… this state.』
The high-intensity divine power burst made Aoxi rarely feel fatigue, but she could still hold on!
For the Castle Cake!
Clang~
Clang clang~
Clang clang clang~
Aoxi’s attacks came from all directions, growing denser, while Kaido swung his Wolf Fang Club faster and faster…
From afar, Kaido seemed entirely enveloped in a mass of crimson light.
“Uro-ro-ro! Little Brat Aoxi, is this your limit?”
“Can you go any faster?!”
“Otherwise, I’m starting to counterattack!”
Blocking another incoming strike with his weapon, Kaido stopped pure defense and began actively attacking.
“Kumatae—Dragon Spark Army!”
Zzz~
Gripping the end of his Wolf Fang Club with both hands, Kaido spun like a top at high speed.
At the same time, countless purple thunderbolts wrapped onto the club during his rotation, making it impossible to approach.
『Damn! This is aimed right at me?!』
This move was indeed quite tricky; if Aoxi tried to attack Kaido again, the high-speed spinning Wolf Fang Club would smash into her first.
『No, I have to go faster…』
『I have to be fast enough to surpass everything!』
The energy core throbbed violently, divine power delivery already boiling; Aoxi felt like she was doing anaerobic exercise.
『So uncomfortable!』
『But just a little more, just a little!』
『Watch me surpass the limit!』
Though this body no longer needed oxygen, she was still breathing heavily, instinctively drawing something from the outside world…
Divine power output had reached its peak, and the current speed had touched the boundary of rules.
But Aoxi kept charging forward heedlessly!
Slowly, surrounding sounds vanished one by one, everything falling silent.
All things seemed to await a certain moment…
……
Crack!
The sound of a crack forming.
When the power surge pushed her against a barrier, Aoxi felt her body merging into the air, becoming one with this world.
“This is the feeling!”
“The feeling of surpassing everything!”
Aoxi suddenly opened her eyes.
“Haaahhhhh!”
“Go surpass that light too!”
“Clear mind!”
“Hyper Meteoric Burst!!!”
Crack!
The crimson meteor’s surface gradually became cloaked in white light, then Aoxi seemed to break through an invisible barrier; her already immeasurably fast speed now transcended the concept of speed itself.
The meteor wrapped in silver-white stardust particles began rotating around Kaido in the opposite direction.
But this time, the commotion was surprisingly small… or rather, quiet.
It was as if she were flying in a parallel dimension.
“Disappeared?!”
The instant he sensed what Aoxi intended, Kaido was shocked to find he’d completely lost her trail.
Even the future in his foresight showed no sign of her, as if she’d suddenly vanished from this world.
Aoxi directly shattered Kaido’s foreseen future with speed beyond limits!
“What’s going on? Where did this brat go?”
Losing his target, Kaido had to pause and assess the situation.
But at that moment, a fist abruptly emerged from a rift in time and space, punching him in the face.
Bang!
The punch wasn’t heavy, but in his high-speed spin, Kaido lost balance from it, his body careening uncontrollably like an offensive top.
……
“Ha~ Hoo~”
“Hoo~ Ha~”
After knocking Kaido away, Aoxi reappeared.
She was bent over, gasping heavily.
Countless red photons generated around her body—boiling divine power cooling and dispersing as energy microcrystals, essentially her sweat now.
Though uninjured, this was absolutely her most disheveled state since arriving in this world.
Like a frail college student who had just sprinted a kilometer at full effort.
Watching Kaido finally stop after crashing into the mountain body, Aoxi couldn’t speak for the moment, silently conditioning the boiling energy in her body.
“Urgh…”
“You’ve really impressed me, Little Brat Aoxi.”
“It’s the first time I’ve seen someone crack Future Sight this way.”
“You and your sister are both worthy of being called ‘monsters’.”
Kaido staggered up to Aoxi; he was uninjured too, just a bit dizzy from the spinning.
Looking at the girl still bent over gasping before him, Kaido thought she was like a lump of uncooperative putty.
Every time he gripped her in his hand and kneaded forcefully, expecting to shape her as he wanted, she always squeezed out a lump from an unexpected spot.
