Chapter 163: Journey to Wano Country: Fierce Battle, Victory or Defeat

After Kaido defeated Arthur, he pursued him, wielding his mace and shouting:

"It's useless to just keep pursuing battles, Arthur!"

"Only those who hold power can change everything!"

Bang, the mace exploded in the air and arrived in front of Arthur in an instant.

"How can you talk about power without strength?" Arthur responded, blocking with his knife.

The moment the mace fell into the blade, Arthur's whole body shook and the ground beneath his feet broke.

The muscles all over his body swelled as if they would burst at any moment.

"There are many people like you who have the ability but can only fight in the history of this world."

Kaido increased his strength and suppressed Arthur who was blocking his weapon under him.

He frowned and stared at Arthur at this moment. No matter how hard he tried with his hands, the mace seemed to be blocked.

Can't go down any further...

Kaido was startled, and immediately recovered from his shock and trance, sighing:

"You are the same, you always think you can bear it and eventually fall, right?"

"You think you are great just because you have a little advantage. Aren't you too careless?" Arthur resisted Kaido's weapon.

His eyes, which looked like blooming frost petals, turned red as he looked up and stared at Kaido.

"Ugh!" Kaido looked stunned and startled.

"Don't forget, I only have my domineering power and swordsmanship to deal with you now!" Arthur shouted, holding the knife in both hands.

His body was swallowed by the head of an ice dragon, and then he turned into a giant oriental dragon, biting Kaido's mace and soaring into the sky.

Boom! A dragon roar bloomed in the air, exuding sacred majesty.

"Haha!" After releasing the power of extreme ice to offset Kaido's pursuit and the accident, he clenched his fists, spit out blood and laughed at him.

"It's just frozen!" Kaido roared in the sky, smashed the ice dragon in front of him with a stick, and said calmly:

"The ultimate ice swordsman, the ice element is indeed indispensable!"

Kaido took the opportunity to use the force of diving down from the air and swung the stick at Arthur with all his strength.

"But your limit is just this, Arthur."

Arthur endured the severe pain in his body, spitting out blood and smiling grimly:

"Who are you calling the limit?"

His eyes were sharp and his fighting spirit was high.

He changed his offensive fighting style to defensive one, and used all his strength to deflect Kaido's attack with one blow.

The domineering move counteracted the domineering move, and the blade unloaded the power. Kaido was shocked by this familiar move.

Back then, in Punk Hazard, the attack directed at Arthur was also deflected by the rookie.

"The moves have changed... the violent aura on him has disappeared..." Kaido thought to himself, steadying his body and falling into the back streets of the Flower Capital.

Keep a distance from Arthur, watching him strolling around, moving slowly with the knife.

"If I win, you have to prepare a ship for the sea. If I lose, I will agree to the original agreement and become a member of your crew of the Beast Pirates."

Arthur said to Kaido, not forgetting that he had invited him.

But she was dissatisfied with his action of hurting Cooper and refused on the spot.

"Wow~ You still remember that incident, Arthur." Kaido responded with a smile.

This is indeed the case.

"Haha." Arthur remained focused and concentrated, and smiled at him disdainfully:

"It's impossible for me to fall down."

Kaido ignored him completely, picked up the stick and swung it at Arthur.

Even though his weapons kept being bounced off, he did not stop at all.

A war of attrition of endurance and perseverance ensued with Arthur.

In the back streets of the Flower City, the afterimage of the two people's collision flashed.

The capital of Wano Country was destroyed by fierce Haki, and the people fled in all directions, making it difficult for them not to be affected.

"This is outrageous, this human." Kaido thought as he kept swinging the Eight Rings to collide with the Ice Dragon Blade in Arthur's hand.

His face was full of disbelief.

In his eyes, Arthur was clearly a dying man, but he was fighting against his human-beast form at full strength while looking seriously injured.

"A confused person should be very fragile, and his will is weakened as he loses sight of his life's purpose. But what happened to him?"

Bang-!

As Kaido was thinking, his huge human-beast body suddenly lost its balance.

The Eight Precepts in his hand were bounced away, and the pupils of his eyes instantly shrank into thin needles.

At some point, he found himself being deflected by Arthur's blade, becoming unbelievable.

"Put away the knife..." He stared at Arthur in front of him, and put away the knife in an instant, causing himself to lose balance due to a slash of the knife.

boom!

Arthur instantly gathered strength, and the ground beneath his feet cracked.

"It's over... I can't move..." Kaido found that he could not dodge and could only trust his body to withstand this attack.

"Waist Strike - Riding the Wind!" He roared, and both hands holding the knife turned into a rotating sword wind that instantly pierced through Kaido's body.

The domineering aura turned into leaves and scattered behind Kaido.

"Ugh..." A bloody wound was instantly opened on Kaido's body, which was as hard as dragon scales, and blood spurted out like rain.

thump!

Kaido endured the severe pain of the tyrant, knelt on one knee, supported Hachisai with one hand, and covered a slash scar on his abdomen with the other hand.

He looked up at Arthur who was standing behind him and found that he was holding a knife with his back facing him.

Drop, drop.

Drop by drop, blood fell at Arthur's feet.

Every time you release a sword move, it will cause physical exhaustion to your body.

His body was now in a state of extremely severe injuries, and the pain he felt was no less than that of Kaido who was knelt on his knees after being chopped down.

"Have you ever been backstabbed by a group of civilians who were nice to you and suddenly found out that you were very valuable?" Arthur asked.

Even without looking at Kaido behind him, he understood how serious the damage this move would cause to him.

The sharpness of the Black Blade Ice Dragon made it too easy to break his defense.

With the internal impact of Bachan, even in Kaido's human-beast form, it is inevitable that he will fall into a painful passive position.

"Wow, civilians? There's no way a creature of that level can hurt me." Kaido gritted his teeth and helped Hachisaijie stand up and responded: "Even if you give them swords and guns, they can't hurt me at all."

Kaido said very confidently.

Feel extremely proud of your physique and race.

"I will kill you, Kaido. Seriously. I swear."

"Stop being so self-indulgent, you monster...!" Kaido was shocked by the sharpness of the weapon in Arthur's hand.

So far, no one has ever left a scar on him.

"You have so many fatal wounds on your body, but you still can't die. Do you think you are not a favored person?!"

Kaido cursed at Arthur, very unhappy.

He stood up again and jumped into the air, once again igniting his whole body's domineering aura.

Purple lightning was all around him, striking the mace in his hand.

"The Third Generation of Naraku!" Kaido swung down at Arthur with another killing move.

Arthur stood there at this moment, motionless, as if he was forbidden to move.

Sensing the fatal move about to reach his head, he suddenly saw in his mind the scene of himself taking the blow and being completely defeated by Kaido.

In this moment of trance, Arthur's body suddenly moved, naturally avoiding Kaido's moves.

"This feeling...what's going on?" Kaido was startled, and the stick in his hand fell about one centimeter away from Arthur's body.

Bang! It fell to the ground suddenly, creating a deep hole in the ground.

"This is the picture one second into the future." Arthur dodged the fatal blow and looked at Kaido, thinking: "His observation Haki has improved again."

Before Arthur could adapt, he saw Kaido swinging the Eight Priestess to chase him the next second.

whoosh-

Arthur leaped up in an instant, and the stick just passed under his feet.

"Impossible..." After Kaido realized something was wrong, he immediately distanced himself from Arthur and stared at him in disbelief.

"Your Observation Haki can... see the future? How many seconds? Or did it suddenly awaken during the battle?" Kaido asked Arthur in shock.

"I don't know. As long as I keep fighting, my domineering aura will naturally start to improve. It seems like you can no longer defeat me."

After saying that, Arthur raised his arm with a calm expression and pointed at Kaido.

I am completely convinced that my ability to see and hear has awakened.

You can see the scene about one second into the future.

One second, given to a swordsman, is enough time to kill anyone.

Kaido's years of combat experience told him that he could no longer act rashly.

"The Flower City seems to be half destroyed." Arthur looked around and saw the ruins, as desolate as the ruins after a war.

"You've also lost, Kaido. What's with the aura of fear around you?"

He felt that Kaido was a little scared, and suddenly he lost his will to fight against Kaido.

Kaido was awakened by these words, and even after he came to his senses, he did not dare to attack Arthur again.

Otherwise, victory or defeat can be decided in just one move.

Who knows, your head might be chopped off in the next second.

"No more fighting, Arthur." Kaido took the initiative to say: "I lost, you won!"

Bang!

Just as Kaido admitted defeat, a figure broke through the air and crashed into the ground between the two of them from the Flower Capital Shogun's Mansion.

The black fire feathers burned fiercely, but Jhin was almost unharmed, and he stepped on the exhausted Cooper in the pit with one foot.

"Uh...!" The scene before him made Arthur unable to think at all. His body took action instantly and rushed towards him with a knife.

Boom! Like a violent sword wind, Arthur cut Jhin's indestructible body with one sword, and cut him off from Cooper.

Seeing this, Kaido jumped high into the air and caught Jin.

The violent frost shook the clouds, and the climate of Wano Country turned into ice and snow in an instant.

The ground quickly froze, and many of the citizens of Wano who suffered in the battle were frozen into ice sculptures in an instant.

"Jin, are you okay?" Kaido put Jin down and looked around at the blizzard.

Jin also observed Wano Country, where it had never snowed, and said, "Brother Kaido, this climate seems to be created by his ability."

When the two looked at Arthur, they saw that he was surrounded by several dragons, holding Cooper and pointing a knife at Kaido.

"No more fighting, Kaido, you've admitted defeat, and I've had enough of this." Cooper was seriously injured, so Arthur had to stop the fight and said to him, "I'll give you one day to prepare a ship for the sea at Linghou Pier, otherwise I will kill all the creatures in this country, as well as everyone on Onigashima."

He slowly disappeared into the snowstorm-covered streets, leaving no trace.

"Did you lose?! Brother Kaido!" Jin couldn't believe his ears, staring at Kaido's beastly appearance slowly returning to normal.

"Jin, if he didn't suddenly have the ability to predict the future, I would definitely win if we continued fighting like that."

"What! His Observation Haki can predict the future?"

"It was because of his sudden awakening that I didn't dare to attack him easily. You know, he is a great swordsman standing at the top, and I would die."

The extreme climate created by Arthur using the power of extreme ice had no effect on the two men's physiques.

They don't even need to be domineering, they can just rely on their blood and physique to get through it.

In this battle, Kaido admitted defeat.

Arthur was victorious, and retreated for Cooper's safety to recuperate.

In the snowstorm, Arthur brought the seriously injured Cooper to a pharmacy in the Flower City and began to treat himself and Cooper.

"We have to heal our wounds. We have accumulated too many unnecessary injuries."

"Cooper..." (Arthur, don't be confused...)

"Yes, I absolutely will."

after one day.

At Linghou Pier, Arthur brought Cooper here as agreed.

It was discovered that a ship prepared by Kaido had already docked here.

There were also several guards wearing fur coats watching over it.

"Look... that's him..."

"I'm coming."

The guards looked at Arthur and Cooper coming to the dock in the barren and desolate sandstorm, and they were a little afraid of him.

Under the black robe, all the injuries were wrapped in bandages.

They arrived at the dock, looked at everyone and asked, "Even if you set off a bomb, it won't kill me."

The guards were stunned when these words were spoken.

"Do you think Governor Kaido is that kind of despicable person?!" A guard retorted immediately after hearing Arthur's words.

"Who knows? I don't believe there are any so-called good people in this world, you know?"

"We just arranged this ship for you... Now that you are here, we have to leave."

After watching the guards leave, Arthur boarded the exquisite boat and set sail.

After leaving Wano Country, they headed back to the sea in search of new goals.

This result was beyond his expectations.

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A few weeks later—

Seihei O'Hara.

At Orlan's house, Robin returned home as usual and saw an obese woman standing outside the door waiting for him.

In his hand he held a copy of the latest Ocean Economic Daily.

He had a ferocious look on his face, as if he didn't consider her as one of his own at all.

"What knowledge have you been studying again? Robin, there are still so many houseworks to do. Do you want to go hungry today?"

"Aunt, I...I'll do it right away..." Robin responded.

She was holding the newspaper and was about to go back into the house when Roger suddenly stopped her and asked, "What's that in your hand?"

"It's the latest newspaper on the ocean..."

Roger snatched it away, opened it and looked at it.

"1. Arthur, the master of the icy sword, challenged the powerful men from many forces in the new world and won with overwhelming strength."

"2. Vice Admiral Sauro has rebelled and released the criminals from the O'Hara expedition. The Navy is paying close attention to this incident and has sent people to O'Hara to search for the criminals!"

"This...!" Roger was a little shocked for a moment, finding it hard to imagine that he was just a child who was about to turn eight years old.

Actually looking at these things.

"Where did it come from?"

"This is from a passing seagull in the sky. Aunt, can you let me go?" Robin pleaded humbly, "I'll go into the house to do the housework..."

"You'd better do it quickly, or your uncle and I will starve you for a few more days!"

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