Kaido knew perfectly well that the two old men standing before him were anything but ordinary opponents. If Garp and Sengoku truly intended to keep them here, getting away would not be easy.
"Tch… two damn fossils…"
Bullet licked his lips.
The battle lust in his eyes had not diminished in the slightest, but even he could no longer ignore the crushing pressure radiating from the two Marine legends.
This had become a genuinely dangerous fight.
One mistake could cost them everything.
And so, high above Marine Headquarters, the final confrontation erupted.
Violent winds tore through the sky as the clouds churned overhead. The atmosphere itself seemed charged by the four monsters facing one another.
Garp and Sengoku had only one objective.
No matter what it cost—
Kaido and Bullet were not leaving Marineford.
"WORORORORORO!!!"
Kaido's furious laughter shook the heavens.
Garp had already injured him with that brutal punch, and now both legends of the Marines were joining forces to cut off his retreat.
Instead of frightening him, it only pushed his anger past the breaking point.
The dragon blood surging through his veins burned hotter.
His enormous Azure Dragon body twisted violently through the sky while black-and-red Conqueror's Haki lightning writhed around him like crazed serpents.
Each arc tore through the air with a sharp crack, darkening the sky around him.
"If you two are so desperate to keep your guests…"
Kaido bared his fangs.
"…then I'll tear down this dump of a headquarters as a parting gift!"
"Hahahaha! Now that's more like it, Kaido!"
Bullet's savage laughter followed immediately.
Standing on Kaido's broad back, he stared at Garp and Sengoku with barely restrained excitement.
Facing the two Marine legends at once did not make him hesitate.
If anything, the prospect of fighting beside Kaido against opponents of this caliber made his blood boil.
Bullet suddenly jumped.
His massive body dropped from Kaido's back and slammed into the ruined plaza below.
BOOM!
The instant his feet touched the ground, the Clank-Clank Fruit activated again.
Power spread outward beneath him.
"Clank-Clank—Hell Titan!"
A violent pull erupted from Bullet's position.
This time, he reached far deeper into Marineford.
Not only the wreckage scattered across the battlefield, but even the shattered foundations of destroyed buildings began tearing free from the earth.
Buried pipelines twisted upward.
Metal supports ripped loose.
Even the rusting wreckage of sunken Marine warships in the harbor was dragged from the water.
Everything surged toward Bullet.
Stone.
Steel.
Concrete.
Ship armor.
Pipes.
Ruins.
The materials slammed together in a deafening storm of destruction.
Then dark-red magma flooded through the entire mass.
BOOOOOOM!!!
A new giant rose.
It was larger and even more grotesque than Bullet's previous colossal form.
The Hell Titan towered over Marineford, its body covered in flowing dark-red magma and studded with countless jagged metal spikes.
Every spike gleamed like a weapon.
Molten rock ran down its massive frame and struck the ground below, instantly producing clouds of scorching steam.
The oppressive aura radiating from the Titan made the air around it feel almost solid.
"COME ON, OLD MEN!"
Bullet's voice thundered from within the giant.
"Let's see whether that 'Hero of the Marines' reputation of yours can survive my fists!"
The Hell Titan swung one enormous arm.
Its magma-covered metal fist, massive as a mountain, tore through the air toward Garp.
At the same time, Kaido attacked from above.
His colossal body rolled through the clouds as he opened his jaws.
But this time, instead of firing a single Bolo Breath, Kaido spat out dozens of compressed blazing spheres, each radiating heat like a miniature sun.
They descended like a meteor shower.
Some targeted Sengoku.
The rest blanketed the surviving Marine positions behind him.
Kaido above.
Bullet below.
One attacking from range.
The other from close quarters.
Their coordination was unexpectedly seamless.
In an instant, Sengoku and Garp were swallowed beneath a storm of magma, fire, and overwhelming force.
But Garp only laughed.
"HAHAHAHA!"
He stood his ground as Bullet's mountain-sized fist descended toward him.
"Perfect!"
Garp glanced toward Sengoku.
"Sengoku! You deal with that slippery dragon!"
He rolled one shoulder and raised his blackened fist.
"I'll handle this oversized hunk of scrap down here!"
Top-tier Armament Haki surged across Garp's arm.
The air screamed beneath the pressure building around his fist.
Then he punched upward.
"Fist Bone—Galaxy Impact!"
BOOOOOOM!!!
Garp's fist surged toward Bullet's descending magma fist with overwhelming force.
"Hmph!"
Sengoku turned his attention toward Kaido.
"That suits me just fine!"
...
Sengoku's eyes were as cold and still as an ancient lake.
Golden light blazed behind him as the enormous Buddha manifested countless arms, each one radiating sacred, overwhelming power.
The arms moved in unison.
Every palm gathered a powerful shock wave and struck precisely toward one of the blazing dragon meteors descending from above.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Golden shock waves collided with Kaido's barrage in midair, erupting into brilliant explosions that lit the sky like a storm of fireworks.
The resulting impacts shook Marineford from end to end.
Four monsters standing at the pinnacle of the world were now exchanging attacks above the battered Marine Headquarters, turning the battlefield into the center of an epic confrontation.
Every collision sent tremendous waves of energy surging outward.
The sea churned violently.
Towering waves rose around the island.
Clouds were torn apart overhead as if the sky itself could no longer withstand the force being unleashed beneath it.
Kaido and Bullet were both monsters who revered overwhelming strength above all else.
Now that they were fighting together, the power they displayed was astonishing.
They managed to withstand the combined assault of Garp and Sengoku head-on.
At times, they even appeared to be gaining the upper hand.
Marineford, already devastated by repeated battles, now suffered beneath the aftermath of all four fighters clashing at once.
Shock waves swept through the fortress like successive tsunamis.
Walls cracked.
Ruins collapsed further.
The entire island felt like a ship caught in the center of an impossible storm.
The battle had entered its most brutal stage.
"HAHAHAHA!"
Garp's laughter thundered across the battlefield.
"Sengoku! This big hunk of scrap is tough enough to make a decent punching bag!"
The Hero of the Marines moved through the air with astonishing speed.
His fists became black blurs.
Again and again, top-tier Armament Haki-covered punches hammered into Bullet's Hell Titan like enormous smithing hammers striking heated metal.
BOOM!
Sparks exploded from the giant's armored body.
BOOM! BOOM!
Deep fist marks appeared across the fused layers of metal and stone.
Bullet's gigantic construct trembled beneath the relentless barrage.
"Buddha Impact—Suppress!"
Sengoku's deep voice followed.
Golden light surged.
Instead of wasting time chasing Kaido through the sky, Sengoku quickly recognized the same opening Garp had.
A huge golden Buddha palm materialized overhead.
Then it came crashing down onto the Hell Titan's head and shoulder.
BOOOOOOM!!!
The giant staggered.
Fragments of stone and metal broke free from its body.
Another golden palm descended.
BOOM!
Then another.
Each strike sent violent tremors through Bullet's enormous construct, cracking the fused material apart and blasting chunks of debris across the battlefield.
Garp and Sengoku were veterans of countless wars.
They understood the situation almost immediately.
Kaido's Azure Dragon form was extraordinarily mobile.
He could fly.
He was absurdly durable.
And trying to pin him down quickly would be nearly impossible.
Bullet, however, had deliberately fused himself with Marineford.
His Hell Titan possessed terrifying destructive power, but its enormous size made it an obvious target.
More importantly, its strength depended on Bullet maintaining control over the fused materials surrounding his real body.
If they could break apart the giant and strike the core beneath it—
they might actually have a chance to badly injure or even capture Bullet himself.
Rather than spread their attacks across both enemies, the two Marines reached the same conclusion.
Crush one first.
Then deal with the other.
"YOU TWO DAMN FOSSILS!"
Bullet's furious roar exploded from inside the Hell Titan.
"IF YOU'VE GOT THE GUTS, FIGHT ME ONE-ON-ONE!"
The giant swung an enormous magma fist sideways.
Heat distorted the air around it as the blow swept toward Garp with enough force to flatten buildings.
At the same time, Bullet released a broad surge of molten magma toward Sengoku, trying to force him away and break their coordination.
But Garp was absurdly agile for a man his age.
The giant fist swept past him by inches.
Garp twisted around it, slipped along the Titan's flank, and appeared at its side almost immediately.
Then—
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Another barrage of punches hammered into the giant.
Bullet twisted his Titan around and tried to catch him.
Garp was already gone.
A moment later, he appeared behind it.
More punches followed.
"Damn old man!"
Bullet roared.
Sengoku was just as troublesome.
Golden shock waves struck from unexpected angles with almost unnerving precision.
Whenever Bullet began gathering power for a large-scale attack—
BOOM!
Sengoku interrupted it.
Whenever the Hell Titan shifted its weight to unleash its full strength—
BOOM!
Another golden impact struck the critical point supporting the movement and threw the attack off balance.
One attacked relentlessly at close range.
The other disrupted Bullet from afar.
Against two legends with decades of experience fighting side by side, Bullet's colossal strength suddenly became far more difficult to bring to bear.
And with every passing moment—
more pieces of the Hell Titan were being smashed away.