Chapter 249: Thunder And Wind
“Sky Feather Dragon Slayer Dance!”
“？！”
Several sea miles away, on the deck of the Beasts Pirates flagship, Kaido, whose injuries had basically recovered but who was still in a semi-comatose state, suddenly shivered inexplicably.
This action was instantly noticed by Burufaruto, who had been guarding by his side, and the latter hurriedly stepped forward with concern.
“Boss Kaido!”
“Boss Kaido just moved a bit—is he about to wake up?!”
“Mm… Captain Kaido’s physical condition has basically recovered to the healthy level before the battle started. As for when he will wake up, that depends on his own will.”
The pale golden flames gradually extinguished as the hand that had been pressed against Kaido’s chest was withdrawn, and she stood up and said indifferently.
“His own will?”
Burufaruto was somewhat confused by the meaning in her words.
“Simply put, if Captain Kaido is willing, he can open his eyes and wake up right now.”
“As for why he hasn’t woken up, it’s purely because he doesn’t want to… You can understand it as—”
“Playing possum?”
Burufaruto asked softly in an uncertain tone.
“No, lazing in bed.”
“Laz…”
Burufaruto looked at the serene-faced Kaido, then at her, and finally chose—just let it be~ What, go up and slap him twice?
Meanwhile, in Kaido’s subconscious, he was indeed in a state where he could wake up at any moment, and he could even clearly hear the conversation between Burufaruto and her from the outside world.
However, he deliberately wanted to stay in this state a little longer—he was savoring the aftertaste of Wald’s punch from before.
The great terror between life and death is the state most capable of stimulating a creature’s intrinsic potential.
When an individual, driven by the most primal instinct in their genes, wants to fight against death at all costs using every method, the various shackles previously set in the body that were not allowed or impossible to break are often directly and cleanly shattered.
To use a wuxia novel analogy, after ‘dying and coming back to life,’ Kaido had miraculously opened the Ren and Du Meridians, entering a state of enlightenment.
If Aoxi saw this, she would probably shout, ‘This child bears great fortune and must not be left alive!’
But Aoxi right now had no time to worry about this side…
……
Clang clang clang clang clang!
The extremely high-frequency sound of metal clashing continuously echoed on the sea.
The high-speed spinning Spear of Calamity was tightly clamped between the clasped hands of Golden Body Sengoku, emitting a series of clanging sounds like two gears that couldn’t mesh colliding with each other.
“Woo~”
“As expected… still so hard!”
Even though all the divine power in her body had been converted into spiral force, their combined ultimate technique still showed no sign of breaking through Sengoku’s Buddha Golden Body.
In fact, as the Buddha Light on Sengoku grew stronger, the two of them even showed signs of being repelled.
“Hah!”
Sure enough, with Sengoku’s loud shout, the golden light around him suddenly converged, then erupted from between his palms.
Buzz~~~
“Gah—”
“Can’t… hold it, darn it!”
The golden light instantly enveloped the two little ones. In this straightforward contest of strength without any tricks, Aoxi and Obei finally gained a clear cognition of the so-called Admiral’s strength.
In Aoxi’s estimation, this Sky Feather Dragon Slayer Dance would probably force even Kaido himself to hold on for a while, yet now it was actually pushed back by the opponent!
Is the strength gap really this big?!
She often heard Kaido bragging about how useless the so-called Navy was, that there weren’t many he thought highly of, and that he would eventually shatter them all. Right now, Aoxi wished she could drag him over and punch him twice.
You bragged so happily yourself, and now you’ve screwed this young master over big time!
……
Finally, under the intense golden light impact, the wind-thunder power that had merged into one actually began to tremble continuously, faintly showing signs of splitting and dispersing…
“Damn, no choice!”
“Obei, it’s time for you to make a sacrifice!”
“For victory, use the backup hidden energy on him!”
“Ha?!”
“Why me? Why don’t you go sacrifice yourself?”
“Because I don’t have any~”
Aoxi showed no embarrassment at all, instead saying in a perfectly natural tone:
“All the divine power in my body right now is being used to maintain the rotation and the lightning discharge. I can’t squeeze out even a single drop more.”
“Tch!”
“You’re scheming against me?!”
“Hehe~”
Obei gritted her silver teeth.
The ‘backup hidden energy’ Aoxi mentioned was of course not some skill where you dig out some weird switch from the body and self-destruct… but essentially it was similar.
This was a method of compressing all remaining divine power in the body in an extremely short time and then explosively releasing it outward, gaining an instantaneous all-around panel boost.
It was somewhat similar to Aoxi’s ‘Super Meteoric Burst’ or more like the Fire-type Pokémon’s ‘Burn Out’.
The advantages were that it had no thresholds, didn’t require any ‘clear mirror still water heart,’ and the boost gained was quite terrifying…
But the downsides were enormous consumption, a period of weakness after the burst, and it was very… painful.
But as Aoxi said, they couldn’t worry about that much now!
The combined ultimate technique could be broken at any moment, and the backlash damage at that time would very likely temporarily disable both of them from fighting, leading to defeat.
With this in mind, Obei began to mobilize all the remaining divine power in her body, compressing it into her core.
Sengoku outside sensed that the wind pressure of the wind-thunder tornado seemed to drop significantly in an instant, and his body began to move somewhat.
But before he could adjust his posture, Aoxi very tacitly increased the lightning output to a level disregarding future endurance, and Sengoku immediately felt that soul-piercing numbness intensify several times.
However, since the balance of wind and thunder was broken, Sengoku had no intention of wasting this opportunity… He exerted force again, once more condensing an impact between his palms.
“Golden Body Impact!”
“Thunder Extreme—”
“—Wind Shift!”
Two different voices rang out one after another like a relay… After an extreme thunderclap, the original wind-thunder combined attack instantly transformed into pure Pitch Black Gang Wind!
Its power was immense, its eruption intense, and its transformation so sudden that it caught Sengoku off guard, with the impact in his Buddha palms being forcibly pushed back.
“What?!”
The backlash from the impact caused a slight tremor in Sengoku’s Golden Body… but the gang wind around him, completely different from the earlier soul-penetrating thunder, filled with pure destructive power, made his eyes widen even more.
The two little ones’ seamless and ever-changing attack style was hard for even a battle-hardened veteran like him to handle freely.
But Obei clearly gave Sengoku no time to adapt slowly. The ultimate destructive power instantly erupted from within her body, and the pitch-black spiral capable of shredding everything recklessly impacted the great Buddha before her.
