Chapter 82
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Chapter 82: Fourth Gear! Ape! King! Gun! Three Swords Profound Truth! Great World!
"This is the task Governor Kaido gave me!"
"How can someone of your level stop me?"
"Be a little self-aware, boy."
"Don't always think you're so great."
"Without your grandfather Garp, you would have died in the Summit War, right?"
Tesoro fiddled with another gold ring on his finger and babbled on and on.
Kaido, standing to the side, raised his eyebrows when he heard this.
This guy, Tesoro...
He's kind of amusing to me.
"That's it." Kaido stood in place, laughing.
Finally, someone who understands the uniqueness of Luffy.
His whole body is in the background, without any trace of moisture.
It unexpectedly gave him a sense of satisfaction,
And he wanted to reuse Tesoro, someone who was close to his heart.
"My grandfather..." Luffy frowned when he heard it,
But with his intelligence, it was difficult to understand what Tesoro was saying.
He just glanced at the Mera-mera Fruit, the desire in his heart rising high,
And he rushed out again.
This time, he used three bone balloons at once, injecting all the air into his wrist and fist.
"Rubber rubber elephant gun!"
The huge fist flew back, breaking through the wall of the venue,
Then sharply hurled towards Tesoro once more.
Tesoro bent towards Kaido, thanking him for the earlier affirmation.
At the same time, he showed his utter contempt for Luffy.
The second gold ring on his finger flew out, merging with the fluid from the first,
Turning into a gold wall just as Luffy's fist came flying in.
With a muffled sound, Luffy's attack was blocked once again.
Staring at the golden wall, Luffy saw that he still couldn't break through, even with all his strength.
He thought he might have to resort to fourth gear.
At that moment, the rest of the Straw Hat Pirates finally arrived.
"Franky rocket launcher!" Franky's shoulder opened, firing a shell from the barrel.
"Nose Fancy Sandan Slash!" Brook drew his sword and stabbed at Tesoro in an instant.
"Thunderbolt Tempo!" Nami had gathered a large dark cloud on the ceiling and controlled a sheer bolt of lightning to strike Tesoro.
The combined attacks of cannonball, sword qi, and lightning aimed at Tesoro,
But they were unable to force him to budge even slightly.
Tesoro's body was suddenly wrapped in a pitch-black armor, and the attacks dissipated upon contact.
On the other side,
"Watch out, you lovesick cook! This is the enemy!" Zoro shouted at Sanji while clumsily dodging Yamato's mace.
His arm trembled, his palm cracked,
Fighting with Yamato had left him at a disadvantage.
The strong impacts made his wrists ache, forcing him to dodge and recover.
"Don't distract me! You moronic swordsman! I'm close to succeeding!" Sanji attempted to bypass Yamato to attack Kaido or Tesoro but kept having to dodge attacks mid-air.
"So weak, so weak~~~" Yamato said, bored with blocking the two from the air and ground. Then he mentioned to the hassled Zoro, "Dad said only the three-sword swordsman was worth watching."
"But now, it's clear that's not true~ You don't even have the strength to fight back~"
"I really don't know why Dad ever thought that..."
Zoro's forehead bulged with frustration as he became increasingly infuriated, involuntarily tightening his grip on his swords and gritting his teeth.
"Who needs you to judge?"
After putting some distance between them, he posed again with his two swords crossed behind him and exploded forward,
"Three-Sword Style, Ultimate Technique, Torrent Slash!"
A powerful burst of sword qi erupted from the three swords, its might tearing the surrounding air faintly.
Yamato moved in front of three knives slashing down together.
"Oh! This is interesting!" Yamato's eyes sparkled with excitement.
He then pulled the mace from his waist, swinging it from back to front.
Bang!!!
A tremendous explosion erupted between their weapons,
Blasting the ground and seats around them as debris scattered.
The ground where they stood cracked open.
"Well~ but it's still average," Yamato teased Zoro with a playful wink, seemingly encouraging him to keep up the effort.
Zoro inhaled deeply, his arm deflected Yamato's mace, leaped into the air, and swung his three knives downward in a dance.
"Three Thousand Worlds: Eighty Pound Phoenix!!!" he exclaimed.
The power of the Slash Wave thrilled Yamato,
Instantly tearing the auction hall's zenith in half.
Against the blue sky behind the crack, Zoro turned mid-air,
His three knives released a huge blue sword energy,
Yamato was certain this attack could cut the land beneath them.
"You're finally serious!" Yamato said, smiling.
He smiled, stepped on the ground, and swung his mace at the blue sword energy,
"Thunder Bagua!"
Yamato hit the Slash Wave, over ten meters long.
Amidst the spatial attack,
Fireworks burst forth, and both Yamato and the sword energy began to shake.
At that moment,
Zoro's gaze turned icy as he dove from the sky towards Kaido,
His knife falling wrapped in Armament Haki.
The handles of his two knives touched, spinning like windmills, leaving a blur,
He called out, "Luffy! Cook!"
"Oops!" Yamato reacted, realizing he had been tricked by the shout.
Sanji responded from the side, "Nice job!"
He timed Zoro's descent, flames igniting on his feet,
Stamped the ground, leaving imprints,
Then he shot up into the sky like a comet,
Spinning rapidly, his flaming legs growing stronger.
Meanwhile,
Tesoro's golden wall also cracked at once,
Leaving him astonished, questioning if it was possible to break it.
He hadn't used his full strength, had he?
After the golden bullet was launched,
What was revealed was a steaming, powerfully built Luffy, covered with dark red Armament Haki,
"What kind of thing is this?" Tesoro was baffled.
He had no information about Straw Hat Luffy's current appearance.
Luffy bounced twice on the ground, creating a creaking noise, coiling his arms and fists,
"Bells and whistles," Tesoro muttered, confused by Luffy's actions. His remaining seven gold rings dropped to the ground,
The crushed gold melted into a fluid,
Several golden whips quickly extended, striking towards Luffy.
"Rubber rubber..."
Kaido seemed to sense something,
The image of foresight flashed in his mind,
He stood smirking,
Well, let's see how your attack fares.
Luffy, in Gear Fourth, launched suddenly, the ground forming a large crater under him, his legs like jets.
Tesoro was taken aback, feeling a different aura from Luffy than before.
Just as he thought Luffy would strike him,
Luffy turned in mid-air, heading in a new direction to Tesoro's surprise,
Cursing inwardly for not stopping him.
But then he thought...
Oh, this too will be your downfall, Straw Hat.
In an instant,
The three main forces of the Straw Hat Crew sprinted past their enemy, aligning themselves in front of Kaido,
"King Kong Gun!"
"Three Sword Style: One Thousand Three Hundred Pound Phoenix!"
"Diable Jambe: Flambage Shot!"