Chapter 214: Islet
“Dummy~”
Looking at Kaido’s utterly bewildered expression in his eyes, Aoxi finally regained some sense of intellectual superiority.
“Still don’t get it, Boss Kaido?”
“You’re just that big dummy who only knows how to clench his hand into a fist~”
“Humans evolved five fingers not just so you could ball them into a fist for fighting; otherwise, why not just evolve into a whole hammer from the start…”
Aoxi said, her “fox” ears on her hand twitching along in coordination.
“Fists can certainly solve most things, but they’re ultimately just one of the countless poses a hand can make.”
“When we first used our hands to make poses other than fists, so-called violence was no longer the only law humans had to follow, nor the only answer to all problems.”
When people began consciously using their hands to make more intricate, more complex actions, it also meant that people’s desires began to become more intricate and more complex.
Just like eating to satisfy the desire for survival—beasts directly bite prey apart, skin and all, and swallow it, while humans use their hands to carefully cook…
This is essentially the evolution of desire, evolving the desire for production into the desire for food.
“And your way of trying to solve all problems with just violence is no different from a little infant who, when thirsty, hungry, or wetting his pants, can only wail and cry for his mother?”
“So-called…”
Aoxi wanted to say more, but Kaido across from her was clearly already fed up with listening.
“Enough!”
“Is this what you learned on your trip out this time?”
“Looks like your mouth skills have improved faster than your strength!”
“Oh? Don’t want to hear me talk? Then, Boss Kaido, what brilliant insights do you have?”
Looking at Kaido, who was clearly getting impatient from her words, Aoxi crossed her arms, her tail swishing left and right behind her, a victor’s smile appearing at the corner of her mouth.
But Kaido had no intention of refuting her verbally anymore; he tensed his wrist and lifted the Wolf Fang Club that had been planted in the ground.
“Aoxi, I’ve never been one for preaching.”
“But since you said you don’t completely oppose violence, I’ll use what I’m best at to tell you my thoughts!”
With that, Kaido stomped the ground hard, and in the next moment, he ‘boomed’ forward like a heavy train charging at Aoxi.
“Thunder Bagua!”
Bang!
The piercing thunderclap exploded, shaking the air, a series of sonic booms directly blasting and shredding everything along the way.
“Sigh~”
“Talked a whole bunch, and in the end, it still comes down to fists~”
Aoxi helplessly shook her hand and clenched her fist again.
“Well~ As the old saying goes—’Speak human to humans, speak ghost to ghosts.'”
“With someone like you, Boss Kaido, you still gotta let your fists do the talking.”
Bang!
Zap—
Aoxi’s body instantly re-entered a state of full combat readiness.
“Perfect timing—our unfinished business of you scheming against me! I’m gonna beat you good today!”
“Thunder Bagua!”
An attack identical to Kaido’s signature move launched from Aoxi’s arm… After so much prolonged sparring before, she had mastered this move inside and out.
Clang!
Metal clashed, Haki tore at each other!
The pitch-black massive Wolf Fang Club and the slender frail fist held in mid-air deadlock, the surging Conqueror’s Haki coiled around them confronting each other like twin kings meeting after eons apart.
Red-black lightning ravaged the sky, an unprecedented impact swept the earth.
On this not-so-large island, those bizarrely shaped stones and dirt mounds were directly obliterated from the island by this impact.
……
“Opening!”
Kaido roared.
Due to the difference in size, Kaido’s attack was almost vertically pressing down from above onto Aoxi’s head, causing all the pressure she bore to conduct straight to the ground beneath her feet.
Crack!
And so, at a certain instant, the ground under Aoxi’s feet finally buckled under the strain and began to crumble.
Thud!
In just a split-second shift of balance, Kaido’s terrifying battle intuition seized the opportunity, spinning upward with a direct uppercut!
Smack!
Wrapped in Haki of astonishing density, that black Wolf Fang Club passed through as if through nothing, carving away everything in its path and directly sending Aoxi flying into the high altitude.
“Heat Breath!”
Boom—!
Without the slightest gap, a burst of flame breath erupted from Dragon Form Kaido’s mouth, hitting the target in the next second.
……
Beep~
Beep beep~
Beep beep beep~
It was as if some sound rang out from above, but it was isolated by the distorted atmosphere.
Kaido stared unblinkingly at that mass of glowing red air, gripping his Wolf Fang Club tightly, ready to attack based on what happened next.
In his Observation Haki, no, he didn’t even need Observation Haki.
An attack of this level couldn’t possibly strip Aoxi of her combat power.
『So, what response will you make?』
『Let me see it, Aoxi.』
In the next second, a crimson arm smoothed the air distorted by the heat wave, revealing the posture of Aoxi after being struck, right before Kaido’s eyes.
No injuries.
Not even much dishevelment.
Just the fully charged Thunder Breath.
Beep beep beep beep beep!
Boom!
……
To the west of Fenrir Island, there is a small island.
Calling it a small island isn’t quite accurate; in fact, it’s just a massive reef, so let’s call it an islet for now.
Since it’s essentially a reef, even with a thin layer of dirt brought by the sea breeze covering the island, it couldn’t truly sustain creatures larger than lizards.
Those tenaciously vital weeds were the only “permanent population” of this desolate islet.
Over the years, countless ships passed by the islet, and countless survey personnel came through here, but no sea chart ever recorded it.
This was a worthless rock not even worth ships stopping to rest at.
This small islet just existed quietly like this, day after day, year after year…
This situation continued until about half a year ago, when a pair of large and small intelligent beings intruded onto this lifeless islet.
The island finally welcomed a visit from intelligent beings; for a moment, the waves crashed joyfully on the shore, and even those weeds swayed more vigorously in the sea breeze.
Then, as the island’s only greenery, those weeds were blasted into the sky and fell into the sea.
The islet became even more barren.
And in the time after, after experiencing man-made earthquakes, man-made tsunamis, man-made lightning strikes, man-made fires one after another… the small islet—still stood firm!
Like a super Earth awakened with magnetic field power, through countless cycles of cracking and re-cracking, the islet grew harder and harder!
The earth that was once easily torn open now required those two beings in transformed state to shake it!
Yes! Keep growing like this, grow forever!
Grow to the point where those two beings can’t destroy even a speck, grow to the point of sheltering those weeds and lizards again, grow to the point of being worth recording on human sea charts!
Grow! Grow! Damn it, grow!
This islet will today—
Boom!!!
……
To the west of Fenrir Island, there once was an islet not recorded on any sea chart.
But that’s no big deal; though your sea charts had some issues, someone used【 Superconducting Wave】 to fix them for you.
