PIRATES: I WORK IN NAVY FROM NINE TO FIVE

You arrogant bastard, you're not going anywhere!"

Doflamingo's voice was hoarse with rage as he screamed like a madman.

The Devil Fruit power surging in his body was pushed beyond its limits, flooding out like a tidal wave.

In an instant, the battlefield within hundreds of meters was engulfed—transformed into a vast ocean of white threads.

"Silken Tsunami: Grand Spider Nest!"

BOOOOM!!

Countless threads lashed out, like a white sea devouring all.

Doflamingo extended his hand through the air, and those threads went wildly hurtling toward the colossal form of Susanoo the Martial God.

Seeing his attack hit, bloodshot eyes wide with frenzied joy, Doflamingo roared again:

"Kaido! If you don't act now, then when?!"

"ROAR!!!"

Kaido snapped back into focus, his fury erupting.He tightened his grip on his Kanabo, eyes blazing.

What was supposed to be a simple victory… had unraveled again and again.

Now, that calm bastard was still just standing there, drinking his damn wine, with not a care in the world.

"Thunderclap Eight Trigrams!!"

BOOM!

Kaido erupted in lightning, Conqueror's Haki and thunder fused as one, transforming him into a bolt of human-shaped lightning.

He ripped through the air—charging straight at the towering Susanoo.

But just as he closed within a hundred meters—

Susanoo's three heads lifted simultaneously.

Six blood-red eyes snapped open.

SHIIING!!

A chorus of blade-drawing echoed like divine judgment.

The white threads binding Susanoo were shredded in an instant.

The pale-blue Susanoo blade was drawn.

And then—it slashed down.

BOOOOM!!!

Blade met Kanabo—like comet and meteor colliding.

A thousand-meter radius of sea erupted into sky.

Kaido's lightning-infused charge—was stopped dead.

But Kaido wasn't one to back down.

Muscles like stone pillars bulged beneath his skin, and he roared with pure fury:

"You damn brat! You don't even know Advanced Haki—break for me!!!"

For a moment, the balance of power seemed to waver—

Doflamingo's face lit up—

But then—

SHIING! SHIING! SHIING!

One.Two.Three—then more.

Multiple Susanoo blades burst forth, each one unleashing a storm of force.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!

Strike after strike came, power stacking with every swing.

Then—a ten-thousand-ton detonation.

CRAAAAASH!!!

Kaido, the so-called strongest creature alive, was blown away like a cannonball.

He tore through the air at insane speed—crashing headfirst into one of the Beast Pirates' colossal warships.

"!!!"

The Tobi Roppo, who had been bracing against falling meteorites, froze in stunned horror.

Without hesitation, they fled to the nearby ships, too terrified to even process what had just happened.

Even a Yonko… had been blasted away head-on.

Who would dare stand in the way now?

CRACK—BOOOM!!!

The massive warship cracked like cheap paper—Kaido's impact pulverizing its frame.

The energy exploded outward, waves as tall as towers surging across the sea.

Shrapnel and seawater rained from the sky like a typhoon.

As fire clouds ignited across the ruined deck—

ROOOOAR!!!

Kaido roared and burst forth, transforming into his Azure Dragon form.

Had he not unleashed his Flame Clouds to cushion the impact...

He would've been driven straight into the deep sea.

And Kaido—couldn't swim.

That would've been true despair.

And now…

He had just been publicly humiliated before the entire world.

"Brat! I told you—you can't kill me!If this is all you've got, then I want to see how you plan to defeat me!"

Kaido's bellow split the skies.

From contempt, to confrontation—

Now his words were no longer about surviving…

But about who would win.

Before Kaido could unleash another attack—

Luo Yu gently raised his wine gourd and smiled.

"Is that so?I've been wondering too...How did the Foolish Old Man move mountains?"

SHIIING! SHIING! SHIING!

As his words faded, Susanoo sheathed its blades.

Its three heads, six arms, pressed together in a ritual gesture.

Then—

A towering wave of power surged straight to the heavens.

Hand seals began to form.

Faster and faster.

Every heart skipped a beat.

Even Kaido instinctively paused.

The moment the final seal landed—the battlefield went silent.

Susanoo remained motionless, like a stone statue…

But everyone felt it—

Something was coming.

"Look!The sky... the sky is going dark!!"

Gasps echoed across the sea.

Heads turned upward.

Eyes widened.

A massive shadow was growing above the clouds.

Hundreds of meters… thousands…

TEN. THOUSAND. METERS.

As the clouds were pierced and torn apart—

A titanic meteor, ten kilometers wide, began its descent.

"I-Is that real?!Is this something a human can even do?!Are we sure this isn't a god's wrath?!"

They had seen Fujitora's meteors before—mere hundreds of meters in size.

That alone had brought despair.

That was Admiral power.

But now—

This was an entirely different level.

Theirs was a drizzle.

This was the collapse of heaven itself.

"Hahaha… this power… it's terrifying.Compared to this, my little show earlier was a joke."

Fujitora chuckled bitterly, leaning on his cane.

"Maybe… I went blind too early.If I had known such wonders existed, I'd have kept my eyes just to see this."

He lifted his face to the heavens.

"The old era's gears…They're finally turning."

"Kaido…Kaido, you can take it, right?!You're the strongest there is—land, sea, or sky!!"

Doflamingo's voice broke into a panicked scream.

He—the schemer, the tactician, the cold-blooded king—

Was finally showing fear.

For the first time…

He realized—

They might not win this.