Chapter 696 Sauron: The road is uneven(1/2)
"Boom! Rumble, rumble"
In an instant, Tengshan, no, the entire Flower City, began to turmoil. Countless people looked at the Tengshan lightning in horror, and the scene of the black lightning intertwining and colliding.
But facing the father and daughter in the struggle, they paid no attention to the surrounding situation. Yamato, who was bucking down, clenched his teeth and vented his strength and dominance.
Kaido also had an angry look on his face, glaring at his "son" with one eye, glaring at this "son" who had left him for eleven years and had taken action against him when they met again.
Especially when he saw Yamato wearing the navy's cloak of justice, Kaido became even more angry. Kaido gritted his teeth and said: "It's not that strong, but it's not easy to rebel!"
Yamato's arm muscles were beating continuously, and it was obvious that he had reached the ultimate level of his own strength. However, Kaido, who was injured and had not yet fully recovered, was still able to suppress her steadily, which made Yamato extremely unwilling.
I haven’t slacked off for a day in ten years, not just to be suppressed by Kaido!
"Hehe!"
Yamato's power output, which should have reached its limit, suddenly gained another strength. Kaido's eyes showed a hint of surprise, but... this was not enough!
"Kakaka"
The top of the mountain began to crack, but both of them ignored it and vented their power without any scruples.
"boom!"
Finally, even the top of the mountain where the two of them were standing could no longer bear the power of the father and daughter, and instantly collapsed. Yamato below lost his point of strength and fell rapidly.
Yamato waved his limbs and instinctively found his balance.
"Do not worry."
A familiar voice sounded, and Yamato fell into Ace's arms. Ace put Yamato down, then looked at the people running away on the streets of the Flower City, and said:
"Luo said we need to evacuate the crowd first, and we can just hold on to Kaido for the time being."
Yamato heard this and nodded. Although he wanted to defeat Kaido immediately, the wrestling just now made him understand that this was unrealistic.
A battle of that magnitude just now would definitely affect the civilians of Wano, so she knew that it was right to evacuate the people first and then fight as Xiang Luo said.
At this time, Kaido, who had also just fallen, looked at Ace with a complicated expression and said, "Ace, Roger's son."
Hearing Kaido mention Roger, Yamato looked at Ace with some worry. After all, Yamato knew that just as she didn't identify with Kaido, Ace also didn't identify with Roger as his father.
But Yamato's worries were unnecessary. After all, Ace's memories of Roger came from records and other people's narrations. He himself had never met Roger.
His disapproval of Roger was due to his disapproval of ideas. As for his identity... could he erase the blood relationship by denying it like this?
Ace had already understood this when he was still a child more than ten years ago. Therefore, when Ace heard Kaido say that he was Roger's son, although Ace was dissatisfied, he did not get angry.
Seeing that there was no way to anger Ace, Kaido continued: "Roger is one of the few strong men I recognize. I wonder if you, as his son, can inherit his talents."
Ace's eyes became increasingly displeased, and he looked at Kaido and said, "I don't recognize your approval. You are just my grandfather, my aunt, and even my father's defeated general."
During Kaido's growth period, he was not actually targeted or beaten violently by Roger, but this did not affect Ace's ability to fight back. Having known Luo for so many years, he had learned a lot about irritating people.
After Kaido heard Ace's words, his face instantly turned red, but he had no way to refute. After all... the grandfather Ace mentioned was Iron Fist Garp, who had beaten Kaido.
The aunt Ace mentioned was Skylar, the Gray Lady, who had killed Kaido more than once. As for his final father...Roger never defeated him because he was simply not level enough to fight Roger at that time.
Kaido became angry and swung his mace, intending to attack Ace. Ace looked sideways at the situation in the Flower Capital, then raised his left hand slightly to block Yamato's attack, and made a fist with his right hand to strike out.
"Boom! Rumble, rumble"
The collision of overlord-colored domineering winds caused the entire Flower City to shake again, and there was a hint of consternation in Kaido's eyes, because Ace seemed to know his own power better than Yamato, instead of letting it out uncontrollably.
Ace had no intention of wrestling with Kaido. After punching out, he retracted, then shook his head and said: "Compared to your size, your strength is surprisingly weak."
Kaido's left eyelid twitched. He didn't know why. He always felt that Ace was responding to him with his sarcastic words about Yamato. This feeling... Kaido was very annoying.
At the same time, the strength Ace showed just now also made Kaido show a solemn expression for the first time since he landed in Wano Country.
Whether it was Kuina just now or his "son", although Kaido was a little surprised, it was not to the point of making him solemn.
After all, these two people can only be said to be talented and spiritual, but in terms of combat power, they have not yet reached the level that he takes seriously. But Ace is different. Ace's domineering and powerful strength just now is enough for Kaido to take seriously.
In addition, as a user with fruit abilities, there is no reason for Ace to only focus on training his physique and domineering power. His application of fruit abilities is what makes Kaido afraid.
Ace is a user with the ability to use the Burning Fruit, the fruit of fire, and his teacher is the current Admiral of the Navy, the rock fruit user Sakaski.
Although Kaido didn't pay much attention to Ace when facing him in the past, just like other people. He didn't even bother to investigate Mihawk, so he didn't know very well how Ace's abilities were used.
But he has also heard of Ace's Fire Fist name. Unlike a name, a nickname can actually more accurately reflect a person's characteristics.
For example, he himself, Kaido of the Beasts, is actually nicknamed the Governor of the Beasts, because he is in charge of the Beasts Pirates, and before the Beasts Pirates were broken up and reorganized by Skylar, almost all the ability users
They are all animal-based.
Kaido, who rules over so many people with animal fruit abilities, was naturally given the nickname Governor of Beasts.
The nicknames of other people are also similar, such as Iron Fist Garp, Black-armed Zefa, The World's Strongest Man Whitebeard Edward Newgate, etc., which all reflect their characteristics.
The Ace in front of him, who had a very good relationship with his "son", had been out at sea for so many years, but he did not bear the title of Roger's son or the descendant of the devil. Instead, he earned the nickname Fire Fist.
It can be seen that in most people's minds, the glory of Ace's use of his own fruit power has long overshadowed his origin, which is not simple, especially his father is also named Gol D. Roger.
An esper who was obviously known for his fruit abilities was able to use his domineering and physical strength to take on his own attacks so easily. This level of difficulty made Kaido regard Ace as an enemy equal to himself.
But what made Kaido most solemn was Yamato's attitude. In a short period of time, he watched with his own eyes as Yamato relaxed because of Ace's appearance and compromised because of Ace's opinions.
Later, during the round of confrontation, Yamato would be worried about Ace. After seeing Ace steadily increase his attacks, Yamato showed a look of pride and pride at this moment.
Yamato...is his "son"! At this moment, he is causing such a stir for an outsider!
Not to mention the eleven years since Yamato left him, in the ten years before Yamato left him, Yamato had never shown such a look to his father.
Ever since Yamato got Oden's logbook from somewhere, what he said the most was that he wanted to kill his father! Especially...after he imprisoned Yamato with the group of failed samurai from Wano.
I thought I could make Yamato see clearly that those samurai were a group of weak losers, but I don’t know how Yamato understood it, and he actually became more and more disgusted with his father!
Kaido's hands tightly grasped the mace, and his right hand made bursts of noises like fried beans. The mechanical arm of his left hand made a sharp and piercing sound due to subtle but huge pressure friction.
He wished he could eat Ace alive and show Yamato who the man she should admire was, but...
Kaido also heard the conversation between Ace and Yamato just now, and the purpose of evacuating the people in Flower City must be to capture him with minimal impact on civilians.
But this is not a bad thing for Kaido, although he doesn't care about the life and death of those civilians, and even... He is ready to fight to the death, and he can't wait to drag the entire country of Wano to be buried with him.
It's just that he also needs time. After all, he was injured repeatedly, and after settling in Fujiyama, Wano Country, he didn't get any chance to breathe.
Kuina, Yamato and Ace's successive visits left him no time or window to recuperate his body.
Of course, if time continues to drag on, it will not be a good thing for him. Kuina's real accumulation of sword power and the figures of the naval operations around him will greatly hinder Kaido's next actions.
The most important thing is... Kaido doesn't know when Skyler and Mihawk plan to "visit" Wano Country.
He had already set off, or he was taking his time, wanting to wait until Ghost Island was cleared before capturing him as the leader.
To be honest, Kaido hopes it is the latter, even though the Beasts Pirates are his biggest, and it can be said to be his only, brainchild since leaving the Rocks Pirates.
But compared to his own life, the Beast Pirates...are gone if they are gone. As long as it can slow down Skyler's pace, Kaido can accept it.
Although he has already imagined the fateful scene, but... what if Skyler gives him a chance?
Thinking of this, Kaido suddenly felt a glimmer of hope in his heart, hoping that his good brothers would spare no effort to fight, even if it was just to keep Skyler and Zhan Ye's detachment for a moment.
This may cost his good brother his life, but... this is an opportunity to save his boss!
Ace, who was always wary of Kaido's attacks and tried to minimize the impact of Kaido's attacks, looked at Kaido strangely.
Kaido could only think while breathing, but the changes in his expressions in this short period of time were so exciting. It was so exciting that Ace, who had learned some micro-expression psychology from Luo, didn't even know that Kaido was like this.
What do you want to do?
However, for Ace, it would be the best situation if Kaido didn't take action. After all, he didn't want to be blamed by Luo that he couldn't even do that little thing.
I don’t even want to see those who are powerless get injured due to the fighting here.
Although he briefly understood the situation along the way, compared to other places, most of Kaido and Orochi's minions were gathered in the Flower Capital. In other words, not all the people below were civilians, but there were also enemies.
But after a very short period of thinking, he chose to agree with Luo's idea of evacuating the people. After all... he still couldn't be as cruel as his teacher.
If Sakaski were here, let alone the Flower City, even the rabbit donburi and Bai Wu, who were deeply involved with the beasts, would be turned into scorched earth under Sakaski's magma.
Not to mention his teacher, even his aunt... Ace is very familiar with his aunt. I'm afraid that if she were to handle it, the innocent people might not be hurt that much, but the number of people affected would definitely be high.
For example, if Schuyler were to handle the current General's Mansion, the entire government, as well as the various departments and teams involved, would not be spared, no matter whether there are good people or not.
Ace also understands why this is, because for Sakaski or Skyler, efficiency is definitely more important than accuracy. The Navy can accept missed kills, but they will not accept missed kills.
The screening time was enough for them to do more things. The veterans in the detachment who had been with the Akainu detachment also told Ace about this choice.
But... who made him and Luo both young people?
Both Ace and Law are aware of their shortcomings, which is a common problem among many young people. They think that they can always do everything, not only killing well, but also not missing kills.
It's not that Ace didn't know this trait that was said by the veterans to be naive and a bit stupid. It was just that he and Luo both had their own persistence. If others couldn't have both, it didn't mean that he and Luo couldn't do it.
Many young people are like this. They don't believe in the rules told by "old people" and would rather try, make mistakes, and hit the wall on their own.
Then these bruised young people became "old people" and taught the new generation of young people the rules they summarized from what they saw, heard and did, and then watched the new young people repeat the same mistakes.
Generation after generation of young people will make the same mistake, squandering their time while they are young, but the world cannot live without such young people.
A hundred, a thousand or even larger numbers of young people make mistakes in vain, but what the world and the times are looking for is one of the young people who can break the rules and teach new rules to those who come after them.
Therefore, some "mistakes" will not be explicitly bound, because we look forward to young people who can make changes.
To be continued...