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On the battlefield, Gunko quickly leaped back to create distance, her gaze fixed on her severed wrist. Her heart sank.
"It won't regenerate!"
She could feel Daichi's Haki lingering at the wound, causing intense pain. Only by dispersing this Haki could her wrist regenerate.
"Sommers! Killingham! That guy can actually hurt us—be careful!"
"What?!"
Both men were shocked by her warning, but they had already charged toward Daichi. It was too late to retreat now.
They could only attack!
Sommers leaped up, brandishing his massive thorny mace and sweeping it with full force toward Daichi's head.
"Thorn Hunt!"
"This kind of attack... so sleepy..."
Daichi's eyes shifted. Just as he raised his hand to grab the mace, overwhelming drowsiness washed over him. Rings of soft light enveloped his head.
"Dream Entanglement!"
It was Killingham's ability!
Daichi's head tilted back, and under the intense drowsiness, he immediately fell into a dream. A snot bubble had just formed when the mace struck his head.
"Thud!"
The mace bounced off Daichi's head, its spikes dripping blood.
"Hahaha! He's not that strong after all!"
Sommers laughed triumphantly, summoning thorny vines to bind Daichi. He had been terrified moments ago, but defeating the enemy turned out to be surprisingly easy. This way, his opponent wouldn't be able to move.
Daichi lay motionless, head tilted back.
Sommers looked puzzled.
"Did I hit him too hard and knock him unconscious?"
"ZzZz~~"
A snot bubble grew and shrank rhythmically. Cartoon-like "Z" symbols floated from Daichi's head—he was clearly still dreaming, completely unaffected by the previous attack.
Sommers' face stiffened.
He took a full-power blow and didn't wake up?
Was this a joke?!
"Killingham! Your hypnosis was too strong this time!"
"I didn't hypnotize him that deeply—he just doesn't want to wake up!"
Killingham quickly explained.
Though difficult to believe, Daichi was indeed immersed in a beautiful dream at this moment, and he genuinely didn't wish to wake up.
"Huh?!"
Sommers was stunned.
What did that mean?
If it wasn't Killingham's power keeping him asleep, didn't that mean his full-power blow hadn't made the opponent feel any danger whatsoever?
But he was bleeding!
"Let me try something!"
Killingham extended his palm. The color of the dream halo immediately changed from white—representing a beautiful dream—to deep crimson, representing a nightmare.
"Fear Awakening!"
Everyone has something they fear deep within their hearts, and the man before him would be no exception. By turning the object of someone's fear into reality, he could plunge his opponent into the deepest level of terror, making them lose their will to fight entirely.
He didn't know what this opponent feared most!
As the dream shifted, dilapidated buildings appeared on the battlefield, gradually forming a massive ruined city.
"Crack!"
The Hoenn Government symbol on a skyscraper in the city center broke in half, and the entire building was engulfed in flames.
A ruined metropolis!
"What is this...?"
Killingham was astonished.
He had never witnessed such a bizarre fear before. Could this scene truly be Daichi's deepest terror?
"Hey, insect."
A chilling voice came from directly behind him.
Killingham's entire body stiffened as if frozen. He slowly turned his head, and a pair of eyes appeared in his vision.
Crimson eyes!
"You ruined my wonderful dream!"
Red light flickered in Daichi's eyes.
He had just been dreaming of standing in the penthouse suite of the Groudon Industrial Tower, overlooking the industrial miracle he had created with his own hands.
A modern international metropolis!
In his ears, a constant stream of notification sounds—each "ding" representing a rent payment or tax receipt being deposited into his accounts.
Everything in this modern metropolis belonged to him alone. Everyone was his employee and tenant.
And he stood above them all, like a god!
Even knowing it was only a dream, he had been so absorbed that he didn't want to wake up.
It was such a rare moment of pure enjoyment!
But this wonderful experience was quickly and mercilessly destroyed. The dream's atmosphere suddenly changed—the entire city abruptly turned a strange crimson, then ignited in roaring flames.
The moment his Groudon Tower was engulfed by fire...
"NO!!!"
The pain was unbearable!
Daichi's heart filled with agony, and flames of revenge burned fiercely within him.
The dream ended!
"You made me lose everything!"
Daichi's eyes were bloodshot, locked onto Killingham. His body leaned forward, and arcs of electricity crackled across his legs.
Losing property was the one thing he absolutely could not tolerate. But this bastard not only destroyed his property within the dream—he even materialized the ruined city in reality, stabbing at his heart once again.
Unforgivable!
"Are you prepared to die?!"
Killingham broke out in a cold sweat, feeling a genuine death threat from a mortal for the first time in his life. His legs involuntarily retreated.
"Hmm?"
Just as Daichi was about to move, transparent thorns appeared around his body, their razor-sharp points piercing into his flesh.
"Something like this!"
Pitch-black Conqueror's Haki lightning descended from the heavens!
"CRACK!"
All the thorns shattered instantly!
"How is that possible?!"
Sommers' eyes bulged in shock. His thorns were forcibly destroyed—just how powerful was this man's Haki?!
Daichi exhaled a scorching breath, leaning forward again to gather power like a demon preparing to pounce. His thigh muscles bulged to twice their normal size!
"Surprise Attack: Giant Body Crush!"
"BOOM!"
The ground behind him shattered in concentric circles!
Daichi exploded forward like a bolt of lightning crossing the battlefield!
"So fast!"
Killingham's vision went black—Daichi had already appeared before him. The explosive burst speed was too much for him to react to.
"!!!"
His head flew into the sky!!!
"What's happening?! Why is the sky spinning?!"
The scene in Killingham's eyes rotated rapidly. It took him several long moments to realize that his head and body had been separated.
On the ground below, only his arm holding the trident remained intact—the rest of his body had been completely shattered!
"Thud!"
His head was caught by a large hand!
"BOOM!"
Daichi descended from the sky, landing heavily in front of Sommers while holding Killingham's severed head.
The Kirin-man wasn't dead yet.
But under the erosion of Daichi's Haki, with only his head remaining, he could neither regenerate his body nor resist in any meaningful way.
Intense pain made him wail.
"Sommers... save me!"
"Damn you!"
Sommers' face contorted with rage. He raised both hands toward Daichi, and numerous thorns grew from behind him, stabbing toward his enemy. Countless blade-like thorny spikes also erupted from the ground!
"Thorn Hunt: Crimson Hell!"
Daichi arched his body, adopting a bowling throw stance. Just before the thorns could surround him completely, he hurled Killingham's head—now wrapped in crackling Conqueror's Haki!
"Kirin: Fatal Bowling Ball!!!"
"BOOM!"
The air exploded in a circular shockwave! Killingham's head instantly broke the sound barrier, weaving through the gaps in the thorns and striking Sommers' chest with an earth-shaking impact!
"!!!"
Another explosion, and a bloody hole burst open in Sommers' chest!
"GYAAAAHHHHH!!!"
A scream of pure agony echoed across the entire battlefield!
Daichi appeared before Sommers in an instant, stepping on the Knight's head and crushing it down into the mud!
"No matter what kind of immortality ability you possess, it falls within the scope of Devil Fruit powers."
"Therefore, I can suppress it with Conqueror's Haki."
Daichi's voice was cold and absolute.
"In this world, only Haki reigns supreme!"