One Piece: Reborn and Skypiean

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Chapter 253

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Kaido opened his jaws wide and a fireball so hot that a plasma shape began to form in his throat.

The ball enlarged as he prepared to release it, however, from the sky, from the dark clouds he had made himself a few minutes ago, lightning crackled and then a huge foot made of lightning came crashing down on his jaw.

His open jaw was tightly shut as a plasma ball exploded inside his mouth.

His body, floating in the sky, fell on the roof of the Skulldome while a figure formed from a foot made of lightning.

Amon, wearing his same white coat, formed in a giant shape while his feet were still pressing on Kaido's jaw, keeping it covered while smoke shot out from the corners of the dragon's lips.

Amon stared down as Kaido tried hard to raise his head and open his jaw, trying to defeat Amon's power.

But Amon's legs don't stand out.

Not that his basic strength was more than a dragon, but the real reason why Kaido could not defeat him was because…

 the surroundings of Kaido increased even further as the dragon growled.

"I thought you'd know from Marineford, that just because you couldn't see me doesn't mean I wasn't there." Amon said, his face cold as he began to look into the eyes of the only dragon that was gold in color.

Then both Kaido and Amon felt the presence of 7 powerful individuals leaping from behind him.

Kaido's eyes shone furiously as he looked at Yamato among the newcomers.

Amon reduces gravity enough for Kaido to say, "Yamato, you ungrateful dog."

"Yo, that's your daughter." Amon whistling. "Call him a 'dog' out of nowhere like that."

Kaido's eyes moved upwards in his sockets and locked in Amon's eyes.

" You're a bad boy ." He growls. "Are you here to kill me? Then try it. I don't have the fragile body of Whitebeard's parents. The Marines have tried various ways to kill me, nothing has worked. Show me what you can do. -"

His words stopped halfway as one of his four horns fell to the ground, cutting his roots perfectly. 

The sword of Amon clinked, drawing Kaido's wide-eyed eyes to see his silenced sword that he had never seen unsheathed.

"You know you can't 'not be killed', right?" amon said calmly. "As long as someone has a Conqueror Layer, killing you is not difficult, let alone impossible— as you are trying to say."

Amon pulled his legs back from Kaido's jaw, but the man did not directly attack as Yamato had expected from behind.

Instead, Amon spoke and he listened. "Fish Fruit, Azure Dragon Model. Zoan the 2nd strongest myth I know." The first is the Quetzalcoatl fruit. "You'll have a chance to win against almost everyone, except me."

"So, I'll give you a choice. Either I kill you in one stroke like I did Whitebeard, therefore you usually, casually, helplessly accept death. Or.." he turned back to Sins. “You fight with seven of them, one on one . If you can defeat them all, I will return from here with your little Wano untouched or fight with yourself, with your honorable—choice. However, if you lose to them, they will kill you."

He continued without stopping. "In simpler words, you die at all costs. But this time, you at least died in a decent battle, an honorable battle."

"..."

"So choose, you have 30 seconds."

Then, as if time had slowed down on the roof, 15 seconds passed that felt like forever. Kaido finally opened his mouth.

"Why?" He looked at Amon. "Why do you want me to fight them?"

Amon smile. "For you to be a training puppet. Why, you got a problem with that?"

Kaido's draconic jaws clenched. "...If I win, will you fight me normally? No high-speed movement? No high-speed attacks?"

Amon raised an amused eyebrow. He asked his opponent not to use his 100? How stupid is that?

He shrugged his shoulders. "Oh well, if you want."

Kaido's grim face formed a grin as his snake body began to shrink and before long he stood in his hybrid humanoid form.

He fired Ammon and saw Sin, instead. "So, who's coming first?"

From the crowd. Yamato stepped forward.

—★—

Kaido is currently afraid of death, but he is more afraid of dying in vain, beyond the eyes of everyone.

Amon has shown what he can do. He easily cut off his horn in milliseconds, so it wouldn't be surprising to see him cut his neck as well.

Kaido is most afraid of such a death.

So he's gonna fight. He would struggle to see how long his body could last, and he would struggle to see what his limits were.

If he could defeat 7 of them, then at least he would die at the hands of the strongest creature he had ever seen . If no...

The Kaido batter, lined with Conqueror Haki, clashed with Yamato's own haki baton.

Their clash caused the air to churn, the dark sky to almost split in two, and the entire Onigashima to tremble violently.

"Look at you, trying so hard to kill your own father."

Kaido said, chuckling even as their gazes clashed.

"Dad? What fatherly tasks have you ever done to claim that title?! To me, you are none other than Kaido !" Yamato shouted loudly, his eyes almost glazed over. "Today I'm going to use my hands, using the power you've given me, the techniques you've taught me, to fight you. Today, I, Oden, will free my country from your clutches!!"

The club retreated and then attacked again. The clubs never met, but rather the black lightning that surrounded them. The clash caused space to crackle at the point of impact.

From the sidelines, Sins watched the fight grimly.

"A really strange relationship, as I said," muttered Amon. "Also, I have to fix his Oden complex. He's fine at Skypiea, but it changes when we step into the Wano border."

He muttered half to himself and half to the people behind him to listen.

"So... Who exactly is Oden?"

Raki was the one who asked that when Amon turned to her.

He did not immediately answer her and instead took the two swords from her waist and then pushed them towards her. 

He accepted the two of them and started to check on them as Amon spoke.

"Kozuki Oden is the former Shogun of Wano. He was the commander of the 2nd division of the Whitebeard Pirates at that time, and he was also the one who removed the huge scar on Kaido's body." Amon explained. "The sword in your hand is also his. He's the greatest samurai of all time, though not necessarily the greatest swordsman."

Amon continued while turning his head to the fight where Yamato started bleeding.

"About two dozen years ago, he was killed by Kaido after injuring him. The story of his death is pretty cool, I guess. Anyway, in short, Yamato admired her too much. He was delusional enough to believe himself.became Oden right after his death, and since then he has not left that thought. Her whole purpose in life was to free Wano from the oppression of Kaido and Orochi, and now she was finally the closest to that possibility. So yeah, she's pretty excited and nervous ."

He was speechless, letting Sin digest his words before they nodded.

He then turned to the sword he gave to Raki.

"Well, it's all about Yamato's past. Let's talk about those two swords now." he said, "The white sheathed one is called Ame no Habakiri, a sword that can 'slic through the sky', as its creator said. It has its own will, but it is not a 'cursed' sword.Calling it a 'blessing' sword would be the right word, on the contrary. Basically, it has the ability to keep the user's mind clean, helps in concentration and rationality, and can also draw the power from nature itself to a certain degree. Although what kind of power he drew was unknown to me. It could be Haki, or just body strength."

Then he saw another sword. 

"The purple sheathed one is called Enma, a sword that can 'slicing in the depths of hell', as its creator said. A typical cursed sword, I guess. It pulled Haki from the user more than he should have been able to give away with the sword. With that, you can easily cut through the mountain. Normally, your Haki would soon dry up at that rate, but I'm sure Raki can set it up."

He looked at Raki. "You've used Ichimonji's Wado before, huh?" 

Raki nodded. It was the sword that Zoro got in Loguetown in the canon, and in this timeline, Amon did it when he returned from his journey on the blue sea to skypiea for the first time.

"Enma is the masterpiece of the blacksmith who made the Ichimonji Wado. Whereas Ame no Habakiri was made by the last descendant of the blacksmith who made Kitetsu blades."

After a while, Raki nodded. "You're really into his history, huh?"

Amon smile. "Well, I'm a bored God. After all, it looks like Yamato is almost done..."

Everyone turned their eyes back to the fight on his words. There they saw it. 

Kaido is injured and wounded. There were wounds on several parts of his body, and he was drawing blood from his forehead. He gasped for breath, his stamina unable to defeat his daughter whom he had trained on his own for 2 years.

His Zoan did not focus on defense, so any successful Kaido attack hit him was a devastating attack. 

Finally, Kaido's long tail breaks Yamato's weapon first before his wand hits his jaw, throwing his meter back. He struggled to get up again, but Amon clapped.

"That's defeat, Yamato." She said. "There's no need to force yourself too much, I can feel you're on the verge of collapse."

Yamato clenched his fists together with his jaw for a whole minute before sighing.

"I understand…"

It was not that he had to defeat her alone. Not when he's weak enough not to be able to do that.

Then Wyper stepped forward. No one protested as he walked past Yamato and stood in front of Kaido with his hands crossed.

Amon went ahead and carried Yamato into a sling before walking back to the Sins and putting it back where he leaned on Amon's shoulder.

"Thank you .." she said in the middle of a heavy breath. 

Amon chuckled softly as his eyes observed Wyper's leap of liquid fire into Kaido in the form of a fist and immediately swallowed his face, but his face then came out without a scratch from below which seemed to greatly shock Wyper.

'Heh…'

If that much heat could melt Kaido's draconic skin refined with haki, then he would have been killed by Sakazuki when he was captured in the past.

"You know Yamato, there's no need to be too formal" Observing the battle, Amon said. "What are we like? Mother and Son? Brother and Sister? Distant cousin? I don't know. Your blood and DNA runs through me, treating me like family."

Yamato froze as his gaze slowly turned to Amon's smiling face. After a while, his lips thinned as he nodded slowly while muttering thanks.

He needed to feel the company of someone close by now because he was going to see his father die. No matter how much he said he hated Kaido, he would only realize after his death the value of the family. Amon has just proposed to her as a substitute for her only family. 

He put his mouth close to his ear. "For example, if you feel lonely, I can always call you mother."

Yamato seemed to be considering his words for a moment before nodding seriously. "I'll think about it after this is all over."

Meanwhile, Raki gave the two of them a flat look from the side.

—★—

 " samg ... Huft... "

Blood dripped from Kaido's wand as he leaned there to keep it from falling first.

His body was badly burned, his light blue skin was now deep blue and his mouth was gaping as he took a deep breath. From here and there, like his shoulders, calves, and waist, his flesh almost melted which gave off an odor.

But…

In front of him, Wyper lay with his body twitching and his eyes closed. He was unconscious when bleeding more than Kaido. There were bruises everywhere, evidence of being hit by Kaido's wand, and his brown shirt stretched red.

"Who ..." Kaido grunting. "Continue?"

Amon buys Wyper's body flying through an electric thread and then pushes Raki forward before anyone else can step forward.

Raki looked surprised but she kept moving forward. Part of him felt as if chasing after Yamato and Wyper meant Amon saw him as the 3rd strongest here, which caused his heart to suddenly feel hollow.

If only he had his zoan…

He sighed and walked forward while unsheathing his new sword.

Kaido's single eyes slowly focused on his sword as a strange little grin formed on his face.

'How did Oden react knowing his sword would take my life?'

Even with that thought, Kaido gripped his staff even harder and lifted it over his shoulder.

"Don't hold back, little girl." She said.

Raki sneering. "I never planned it anyway."

With his sword unsheathed, he kicked the ground and rushed to the Strongest Being Still Alive. 

Raki could feel Enma try and even manage to suck on her Haki, but only a little but enough flowed through the blade. His downfall was the calming feeling of Ame no Habikiri. It cancels out most of the curse blade side effects.

'I guess this is why Oden made his set of these two blades exactly.'

Thinking so, he crossed the sword in front of him and performed a cross slash on Kaido's chest. 

Kaido also moved his staff, the tip crackling with the Conqueror Haki. 

...Then it happened.

Suddenly, Raki's eyes became extremely wide as foreign powers rattled around his own sword. 

Black lightning.

His heart jumped but he suppressed the sudden excitement and clashed with the Kaido club head-on.

crack !

The space cracked in the middle of the weapon, not even touching, as the wind suddenly started blowing faster around there.

Raki tried to push that unknown force all the way, and it worked . Kaido was pushed back for a moment, and he took the opportunity to land a kick on the man who threw him a few feet back.

Instead of continuing his barrage of attacks, Raki kicked back and turned towards Amon.

"O-oi, brother!!! It was Conqueror's Coating. Right?!"

He sounded very excited but Amon just then pointed his finger at him mockingly.

"Indeed, but it's not yours ." She said. "As I said, Enma absorbed Haki the user. So Enma had absorbed Haki Oden for decades, even her conqueror's haki. By using the sword, you can make use of a bit of the great reserve of Conqueror Haki stored within it."

"Ugh, talk about flirting." Raki groaned heavily and turned to Kaido.

Amon didn't tell her one important thing. He had yet to tell her that he had the Conqueror Haki, just a different stage. However, by utilizing the stored Oden Conqueror Layer, he would get used to welding that stage as well which would allow him to utilize his own Conqueror Layer as soon as possible.

"It was just to surprise him."

That was the main reason why Amon got those two words for him. 

Raki, unbeknownst to it, attacks Kaido next time.

"I'll get this over with as soon as possible."

Raki said as Kaido groaned. Now his movements were slow, his mind was misty, and his breathing was heavier than before. He faced Yamato, who was at the mid-Emperor level. Then he faced the Wyper, who was a low-level Fleet Admiral. And now that there was Raki, this was already too much for him.

Raki took a deep breath while posing. His wings widened behind him and curled up as if holding two invisible swords.

"Twelve styles of swords ..."

Raki's words seemed to command reality itself as two swords appeared on his wings, and then his wings doubled together with his arms. Two more heads appeared on his left and right sides as more arms appeared on his body. In the end, he held twelve swords.

"...Sky Sword Style, Seventh Form Variation: Dragon's Roar!!"

Space itself moved as the haki of Conqueror Enma began to coat his entire sword together with the power of his own . Then in an astonishing series of movements, his body whirled through the air, swirling like a tornado, as he passed through Kaido's body in the metaphysical form of the Dragon's Roar.

Kaido who tried to defend himself with his staff failed miserably as he froze in place with widened eyes.before one by one, his limbs began to fall to the ground.

First, it was his arm, and then, his knee. Finally, when his body was about to fall face first.

A long silence stretched across Onigashima's roof, while Raki's arms and wings disappeared before she too fell onto his face.

"It has to be said..." Amon whistling. "Whatever weak Kaido was at the time, almost an Admiral, cutting his defenses like that was still impressive."

His words were what made Sin and Yamato finally saw and realized it. The Beast King, the Strongest Being, was now dead.

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