Chapter 80: [3] Using Your Sake Gourd to Hold Your Blood! Kaido Is Completely Dumbfounded!

Hidden within the lightning, Whitebeard remained unmoved by Kaido’s taunts.

However, he could clearly feel his stamina nearing its limit.

The number of lightning blades surrounding the battlefield had already decreased significantly.

His strength wouldn’t last much longer.

The next moment—

Whitebeard’s figure suddenly appeared outside the Murakumogiri Thunder Domain.

A faint smile rested on his face, as though everything remained under his control.

What Kaido failed to notice was that the sake gourd he had discarded earlier had somehow found its way into Whitebeard’s hand.

A tiny detail.

Yet one that made the situation far more delicate.

"Whitebeard."

"You finally decided to come out."

Kaido immediately noticed him.

With a swing of his kanabo, he shattered the lightning in front of him and prepared for the next clash.

But—

The expected attack never came.

Instead, he watched Whitebeard casually lift the sake gourd and give it a shake.

Slosh.

Something moved around inside.

And judging by the sound, there was quite a lot of it.

Whitebeard nodded in satisfaction.

"Gurararara!"

"Kaido, thank you."

"..."

The moment Kaido noticed the bloodstains around the mouth of the gourd, his expression turned ugly.

He already knew what Whitebeard was about to say.

Sure enough—

Whitebeard grinned.

"Using your sake gourd to store your blood."

"Couldn’t be more fitting."

"...WHITEBEARD!"

"You call yourself one of the Four Emperors?!"

"Why do you fight like a shameless street thug?!"

Kaido nearly exploded from rage.

His entire body trembled.

He was completely numb from anger.

Whitebeard had taken his own sake gourd and filled it with his own blood.

It was the ultimate insult.

The worst part was that Kaido couldn’t do a thing about it.

Whitebeard’s Lightning-Lightning Fruit powers made him absurdly fast.

Kaido simply couldn’t catch him.

The only option was to endure and compete through sheer stamina.

Unfortunately for him, Whitebeard had no intention of giving him a chance to recover.

After storing away the gourd, Whitebeard suddenly launched himself forward.

Kaido immediately raised his guard.

The two clashed in midair.

Fists collided.

Shockwaves exploded.

Sparks scattered in every direction.

Every one of Whitebeard’s attacks carried lightning with it.

The constant electrical shocks left Kaido’s body numb.

Whenever Kaido tried to retaliate, he discovered a frustrating reality.

He couldn’t keep up.

Not with Whitebeard’s speed.

More importantly—

Whitebeard had no intention of engaging in a direct slugfest.

He dodged Kaido’s attacks with remarkable precision.

Then, whenever Kaido’s emotions flared and his guard slipped, Whitebeard would suddenly appear and drive a punch directly into his head.

The repeated blows left Kaido dizzy.

Furious.

Every time he thought his kanabo was about to land, Whitebeard would dissolve into lightning and vanish.

The attack would miss completely.

Again.

And again.

And again.

The fighting style infuriated Kaido.

In terms of raw power, he knew he wasn’t weaker than Whitebeard.

Yet he was being toyed with.

"Whitebeard!"

Kaido roared angrily.

"You’ve launched attack after attack! Your stamina is almost gone!"

"Can’t you fight properly for once?!"

"Instead, you’re running around like a rat!"

"Gurararara!"

Whitebeard laughed.

"So what?"

"Even with what little stamina I have left, you’re still too slow to catch me."

His answer was blunt and merciless.

Kaido’s body was covered in wounds.

Blood flowed continuously.

Although his recovery abilities were astonishing, the sheer amount of blood he had lost left his face noticeably paler.

His breathing had become much weaker.

He understood very well.

In his current condition, keeping Whitebeard here was impossible.

At the same time—

Whitebeard himself had also reached his limit.

The stamina he had left was barely enough to return to Skypiea.

Even swinging his blade one more time would be difficult.

Still—

What he had gained today far exceeded his expectations.

The amount of blood he had collected would be enough for his research for quite some time.

Just as Whitebeard was about to say something—

A golden signal arrow suddenly shot into the sky.

Like a meteor piercing the heavens, it streaked upward before exploding with a brilliant flash.

Everyone present froze.

The signal.

They had succeeded?

Seeing the agreed-upon signal from his sons, Whitebeard wasted no time.

This was not the moment to continue fighting.

His gaze shifted toward Kaido.

A teasing smile appeared on his face.

"Alright, Kaido."

"Take good care of yourself."

"After some time passes, I’ll come collect more blood."

The next instant—

His body transformed into a streak of lightning.

He shot into the distance.

In an instant, he vanished completely.

"..."

He actually left.

Just like that.

Kaido’s face turned dark.

Dark as iron covered in frost.

His heart boiled with rage and humiliation.

Whitebeard simply refused to fight according to normal logic.

The man had no dignity whatsoever.

What infuriated him even more was Whitebeard’s speed.

It left him utterly helpless.

There was no opportunity to strike back.

No opportunity to stop him.

This battle was a complete defeat.

A humiliation.

A disgrace.

The words echoed endlessly in Kaido’s mind.

His eyes burned as he stared in the direction Whitebeard had disappeared.

"Whitebeard..."

he growled through clenched teeth.

"The next time we meet..."

"You will die!"

After Whitebeard’s Departure

Once Whitebeard left, the annoying "Kizaru Users" also began withdrawing one after another.

However—

Their departure did nothing to calm the chaos engulfing Onigashima, the Flower Capital, and even the entirety of Wano Country.

If anything, the situation became worse.

The prisoners in Udon Prison seized the opportunity to escape.

Like wild beasts freed from their cages, they rampaged across the region.

Among them was one particularly shocking escapee.

A prisoner who had been locked away for thirteen years—

Kawamatsu the Kappa.

As one of the former Nine Red Scabbards, his strength was anything but ordinary.

The moment he regained his freedom, he caused an enormous stir.

Yet strangely enough—

Just as everyone expected him to lead the escaped prisoners in further chaos, he vanished without a trace.

Nobody knew where he had gone.

Queen and his subordinates searched everywhere.

They found nothing.

Naturally, Queen was furious.

To restore order as quickly as possible and prevent another prison break, he resorted to extreme measures.

He released large quantities of one of his "masterpieces" into the prison.

The result was devastating.

Nearly half of the remaining prisoners died.

Only then did the surviving inmates become truly terrified.

The riots were finally suppressed.

As for the Tobi Roppo who had been dispatched to hunt down the so-called "Kizaru Users"—

They achieved absolutely nothing.

Not a single capture.

Those Whitebeard Pirates seemed to have eyes in the backs of their heads.

No matter where the Tobi Roppo went, the targets somehow discovered them in advance and escaped before they could arrive.

By the time they reached one location, the intruders had already moved on to another.

The Tobi Roppo were left completely helpless.

All they could do was continue the chase.

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