The energy of lightning exploded inside the prison, and the spreading current caused the prisoners beside him to suffer terrible misfortune as well.
But no one screamed in fear because of it. Instead, every single one of them covered their mouths in terror, afraid of drawing Kaido’s attention and turning themselves into the next victim.
The pitch-black unidentified object inside already explained everything. Even lying on the ground, Kaido’s accuracy when throwing attacks was not affected.
On Onigashima, Kaido would still restrain himself a little and would not fly randomly above the residential areas, but this was a prison, not a place with normal order to begin with.
The people who could keep Kaido in check were not here, and even the firepower magnet was doing its utmost to lower his own presence, so of course Kaido would no longer control himself.
“It’s quiet now. Hey, brat, I didn’t hear what you said just now. Say it again.”
“I said… I’m not joining you!!!”
Only Luffy took those words seriously. He drew in a breath, then shouted those words out loudly once again.
Not joining…ot joining… joining…ing…
Udon Quarry was circular as a whole, and under Luffy’s loud voice, those words even produced an echo, ringing through the sky above Udon.
“Very good… Then I can deal with you the way I deal with intruders… Hic.”
Even though he had seen Kaido attack before, it had been from a relatively far distance. Seeing Kaido’s attack at this distance now instead made it far more intimidating. At this moment, Luffy seemed to have forgotten that he was not afraid of electricity, and he cautiously clenched his fists.
Only, Kaido’s reaction was not what Luffy had imagined. Up until now, Kaido was still sitting on the ground. When he supported himself with his kanabo and stood up, not only did he fail to steady himself, he instead swayed left and right because his center of gravity was unstable.
Step… step, step, boom!
“Did that brat Red Hair give me fake liquor? This wine’s kick isn’t quite right…”
Kaido pushed all the blame onto Shanks, completely ignoring the fact that he had downed an entire year’s worth of wine in one breath over the course of half a day. After trying once more, Kaido finally stood up, but by this time, Luffy had already made his decision.
He did not want to join, and he did not want to surrender. In that case, he could only fight first and talk later.
“Hapuh!”
Taking a deep breath, Luffy bit down on his finger, and a large amount of air was blown from there into his body.
His arm became enormous under the filling of the air, and Armament Haki wrapped around it.
“Gum-Gum… Elephant Gun!!”
A fist as large as a Giant’s smashed into Kaido’s face, and Kaido, who had already been unable to stand steadily, once again fell to the ground. Luffy did not stop because of that either, continuing to swing his fists.
“Gum-Gum Elephant Gatling!”
Huge fists smashed into Kaido one after another. During the process of swinging his fists, red steam also began to rise from Luffy’s body, and even the speed of his punches kept increasing.
No one knew how many punches he had thrown. Even Udon’s ground had a large pit smashed into it, but Luffy’s fist suddenly could no longer be pulled back. Looking closely, Kaido had somehow already grabbed his wrist.
Aside from quite a bit of dust staining his clothes and hair, his body did not look the slightest bit injured from the attacks.
“Accelerating your blood flow to increase speed and power? That’s a bit like Isuka, but brat, this won’t do…”
“Gum-Gum Giant Stamp!”
After his arm was grabbed, Luffy controlled the air gathered in his fist and transferred it to his leg, then flew over along the force Kaido used to pull him. He kicked Kaido in the chest and used the recoil to pull his arm free from Kaido’s hand.
“Gum-Gum Grizzly Magnum!”
Putting strength into both fists, Luffy slammed both his hands toward Kaido at the same time. Under the chain of fierce attacks, the ground beneath Kaido’s feet gradually collapsed as well.
This was a quarry, but not everywhere was hard Seastone. There was still a lot of ordinary soil and rock, and with the mining over the years, even with Rock-type Pokémon repairing it, cavities inevitably still appeared beneath the ground.
This slight collapse was caused by that.
“Muhahaha, wonderful, wonderful!”
“Boss Queen… You’re not thinking of rebelling, are you?”
Babanuki at the side wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and grew suspicious of Queen’s inexplicable laughter. His own boss was getting beaten, and not only was he not helping, he had even laughed out loud. No matter how one thought about it, that was abnormal.
“What stupid nonsense are you saying? Rebelling at a time like this? Am I crazy? I’m happy! This kid… has perfect sandbag potential! How could I not be happy?!”
Kaido had not instantly defeated Luffy with one move, which meant Kaido had not lost interest in him yet. Aside from the matter of the Pokémon, he was probably also somewhat interested in Luffy himself. And with Luffy fighting so hard, he would definitely be able to draw even more of Kaido’s attention.
Maybe Queen himself could be freed because of it.
At the same time, after a series of attacks, Luffy also panted for a few breaths. Only, his efforts had not achieved any results.
“Is that all you’ve got? I’m not even sober yet. If that’s all, then you’re of no use…”
A trace of anger flashed through Kaido’s eyes. Completely unharmed, he appeared before Luffy. His patience was gradually wearing away.
“Are you a monster?! How are you completely fine even after I hit you this much?!”
“A monster? Worororo, that’s actually a pretty good evaluation. I remember you were swinging your fists like this just now, right? You should do it like this!”
Kaido threw his kanabo high into the air, then struck forward with both hands at the same time.
Stealing techniques while drunk, Kaido took only a few seconds to copy everything Luffy had spent two years learning under Rayleigh, completing his live lesson.
“Pff…”
Luffy’s abdomen churned violently. Before he could even see Kaido clearly, he was directly sent flying by Kaido’s “upgraded Grizzly Magnum.” And the kanabo he had thrown happened to land at that very moment, accurately being caught by Kaido with his hand.
“Hey, Heracross, go persuade this brat. For the sake of the one who created you, I don’t want things to get too awkward. After all, he can’t even sober me up. If we keep fighting, it won’t look good.”
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