Even among the Four Emperors, the youngest—Red-Haired Shanks—was still far older than Kaito.
And yet now, he was being called a "kid," without the power to refute it.
The impact of this scene was shockingly intense.
From a distance, Yamato waved and shouted toward Kaito,
"That was so badass!"
Kaido's eyes darkened and he glared at Yamato fiercely.
In his heart, he was fuming—Your old man just got beaten half to death, and you're not even worried? Instead, you're praising him?!
Yamato craned her neck and put on a look of utter disdain, not taking Kaido's "threat" to heart at all.
Kaido, seething, reached for his kanabo—only to grab at empty air.
He finally remembered it had been shattered moments ago by Susanoo's attack, leaving nothing but fragments on the ground.
Big Mom casually tossed the already "dead" Napoleon to the ground.
She suddenly raised one massive hand and roared.
Up in the sky, Zeus instantly transformed into a pitch-black thundercloud, his face twisting into a fearsome snarl.
Dense bolts of lightning surged out of his body, pouring down in a furious barrage on the rhombus-shaped space where Kaito stood.
Kaito simply watched the thundercloud—this so-called Zeus—with great interest.
Normally, with his Rumble-Rumble Fruit powers, Kaito could command all the world's lightning at will.
But he found that Zeus's lightning carried its own will, resisting his control.
With that thought, Kaito extended his hand toward Zeus and unleashed a Universal Pull, dragging Zeus straight to him.
The rhombus-shaped space opened like the cockpit of a machine, and Kaito yanked Zeus inside, pulling him close.
The moment Zeus saw Kaito's Rinnegan, primal terror washed over him.
His form reverted to pure white, trembling violently in Kaito's grasp.
From Kaito's left eye seeped a wisp of chilling Yomi frost.
Zeus's eyes instantly went dull, his body floating docilely beside Kaito like a lamb before the slaughter.
Big Mom tried to recall Zeus, only to find she'd lost all connection to him.
Her expression twisted in shock and fury.
"Bastard! What did you do?!"
Looking down at the raging Big Mom, Kaito lazily sent a wave of Yomi frost her way.
Big Mom hurriedly ordered the remaining Prometheus to block it.
It spat out a stream of fire in a desperate attempt to stop the attack. But the flames failed to even slow the frost.
The icy blast struck Prometheus head-on, freezing him solid before he crashed to the ground and shattered.
With that, Big Mom's three top-tier Homies, born from her very soul, were wiped out. Zeus now belonged entirely to Kaito.
Before the Yomi Yomi no Mi, Big Mom's Soul-Soul Fruit was utterly suppressed.
Shanks had no idea about the Yomi Yomi no Mi, so he could only guess it was the power of one of the two unknown magatama in Kaito's eyes.
Having been toyed with and humiliated by Kaito, and now losing all three of her most powerful Homies, Big Mom lost all reason. She went into a complete frenzy.
Clenching her fists, she threw her head back and unleashed an ear-piercing roar.
The sound waves, infused with her Conqueror's Haki, shattered the ice around her in great sheets.It hit everyone indiscriminately—pirates and marines alike.
All clutched their ears and dropped to their knees; some collapsed into unconsciousness on the spot.
Kaito found the noise unbearable.
Controlling Susanoo, he spread its wings and shot high into the sky, then dove straight down toward Big Mom.
One crushing stomp drove her deep into the ice, cutting her roar off instantly.
Susanoo slowly withdrew its foot from the ice, and seawater surged up to fill the hole.Big Mom's figure was nowhere to be seen.
Susanoo's towering form blurred, then dissipated into the air.
Kaito descended slowly, arms crossed, completely ignoring the nearby trio of Red-Hair pirates.He walked alone to the edge of the ice pit where Big Mom had vanished.
Extending his hand, he unleashed another Universal Pull.
Big Mom's massive body, along with a surge of seawater, was dragged up into the air to float silently before him.
Her eyes were rolled back, her consciousness gone.
To Kaito, she was nothing more than a fish laid out on a cutting board, ready to be butchered.
Kaido made a move to rush forward, but Shanks stopped him with a firm grip and a slow shake of the head.
"Don't go," Shanks murmured. "Her physique is the strongest of all of us. She should be fine."
The next second proved him dead wrong.
A Susanoo blade, its black markings swirling ominously, appeared in Kaito's hand.
With a light thrust, he pierced Big Mom's chest. Blood gushed freely.
From afar, the Big Mom Pirates cried out in despair,
"Mom!"
Her children tried to rush to her aid. Only to be blocked by Kizaru.
One hand pointed lazily at them, the other stuffed in his pocket. His voice dripped with mocking sarcasm.
"How pitiful… children without their mother. Why don't you calm down first?"
As he spoke, golden lasers fired from his fingertips, sending a "warm" greeting to Big Mom's children.
The Whitebeard Pirates, watching Big Mom's plight, couldn't help feeling a pang of shared dread.Their "Pops" was still alive, but at this rate, it was only a matter of time before they too became "orphans."
They wanted to help—but the wall of magma that was Akainu in front of them left them no choice but to stand their ground in silence.
The rear battlefield was littered with corpses—most of them pirates.
Their captains were all tied up with Kaito, leaving them to face three Marine Admirals, six Shichibukai, and countless Marine officers.
It was hell-level difficulty.
Shanks' elite-style crew was holding on better,
But for Big Mom's and Whitebeard's crews, losses had already passed half their forces.
As for the Beasts Pirates, they'd been avoiding the main fight, skirting the edges the whole time—
Suffering the fewest losses of all.
Of course, this had everything to do with Kaito's earlier exchange with Kaido.
Anyone with eyes could see Kaito treated Kaido differently from the other Emperors.
Some high-ranking officers even knew that Kaido's daughter, Yamato, was Admiral Shikiryū's disciple.
With that connection, both sides had an unspoken understanding. Few would go for a killing blow.
As a result, the entire Beasts Pirates, including Kaido himself, had effectively become the war's biggest acting troupe.
...
Back to Kaito—
The Susanoo blade lodged in Big Mom's chest erupted with endless lightning.
No matter how tough her physique was, her organs couldn't endure the onslaught.
After all, the Rumble-Rumble Fruit was one of the rare Logias that could rival the Magma-Magma Fruit in pure destructive power.
Big Mom's eyes snapped open briefly in shock.
She stared in disbelief at the blade in her chest, lips parting as if to speak—
But Kaito gave her no chance.
The Susanoo blade suddenly expanded, snuffing out the last flicker of her life.
Her massive hands went limp.
The Emperor Big Mom—dead.
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