Kaido: "..."
Damn it! This guy… he's unbelievably arrogant!
He'd never met anyone this bold—not in front of Kaido.
But Kairos Flint?
He took arrogance to a whole new level.
No matter how cocky others had been in the past, none had dared speak to Kaido the way this man just did.
And Kaido had even offered a genuine invitation—not threats, not coercion.
But this was the answer he got?
A red-hot fury surged through his mind.
Without another word...
BOOM!
Kaido snapped.
He raised his massive spiked club and hurled a shockwave of raw force straight toward Kairos.
God Skill: God's Fire!!!
Kairos didn't dodge.
He didn't even move.
He simply tapped into the power of the Fire Stone.
Flames burst to life around him—hot, wild, almost alive.
The temperature around him spiked instantly.
Every flame he summoned was laced with unrelenting power.
"Go."
With a single command, the fire danced as if bound to his will, streaking forward to intercept Kaido's shockwave.
BOOM!!!
The explosion cracked through the air like thunder.
The island trembled.
If it weren't for the sheer force of both attacks canceling each other out, that one exchange alone might have been enough to sink the entire island.
"Kaido," Kairos said coolly, "that kind of attack won't work on me."
He stood unbothered—untouched by the explosion.
His body had reached the true god-level—his strength, durability, and regeneration were now on an entirely different scale.
Without even considering his devil fruit or Haki abilities…
He could still wipe the floor with Kaido in pure hand-to-hand combat.
But Kaido had something else.
A Mythical Zoan fruit, and top-tier Haki in all three forms—Observation, Armament, and Conqueror's.
That's what elevated Kaido to the upper echelon of pirate emperors.
The only reason Kairos hadn't already finished him…
Was because he hadn't yet mastered all of his own powers.
Once he did?
Kaido wouldn't last more than ten moves.
At most.
Still, one of the greatest advantages of Kairos's true god-level body was his physical stamina.
Even when he activated the Alpaca Fruit's slab abilities, the only energy being consumed was pure stamina.
This wasn't a world of chakra, reiatsu, or natural energy.
Here, everything ran on brute physical strength.
And Kairos had it in limitless supply.
That's why, in this pirate world, he could fight for days—weeks—even months if needed.
Some top-tier powerhouses could probably battle for a month straight.
But Kairos?
With his body?
He could duel someone like Kaido non-stop for two or three months and still keep going.
Roaring Thunder—Raimei Hakke!!!
Kaido emerged from the explosion like a freight train.
His massive club radiated with a blinding aura of Haki as he charged directly at Kairos.
God Skill: Gaia's Kindness!!!
Kairos jumped back, barely moving his body, and activated the Earth Stone.
From the ground itself, massive arms of stone erupted to block Kaido's path.
They rose like titans, defending Kairos like guardians of the land.
The entire move was powered by his earth slab—manifesting colossal stone hands that intercepted the attack.
BOOM!!!
Kaido's blows slammed into the stone palms.
They cracked, but they didn't crumble—not completely.
Though even these defenses, strengthened by Kairos's divine abilities, were barely enough to hold back a monster like Kaido.
"Boy," Kaido sneered, "you can dodge all you want—but you can't block this next one."
If Kairos wasn't going to join the Beasts Pirates, Kaido had only one solution left—
Destruction.
Damn Thunder—Raimei Hakke Supreme!!!
In an instant, Kaido closed the distance, swinging his full-powered club at Kairos's skull.
"Oh?" Kairos chuckled, unshaken.
"Is that all?"
CLANG!
In a flash, he unsheathed his Third-Generation Oni Blade.
This wasn't just any slash.
This wasn't even just Haki.
This was something beyond.
One-Dimensional Slash—World Severance!!!
A devastating sword technique.
A convergence of Conqueror's Haki, Armament Haki, and—most importantly—
The Space Slate.
The blade glowed with condensed spatial energy.
Kairos swung.
SHWOOOM!!!
The air itself split.
Silence.
Reality paused.
Kaido froze in place, as if time had stopped.
And then—
CLANG!!
His spiked club hit the ground.
Cleanly sliced in half.
A moment later—
SPLURT!!!
Kaido's right arm fell, cleanly severed at the shoulder.
Kaido stared at the stump in disbelief.
His breath shallow.
He couldn't even process what had just happened.