Fizz!
After Marika spoke, the lightning quickly shot out from the wolf fang club in Yamato's hand as her footsteps moved, rapidly charging toward Marika.
The entwining lightning made Marika pause for a moment.
"I'm sorry, but if you're going to harm Wano Country, then we'll have to fight! Thundering Hakke!"
Marika's expression of surprise intensified, and in an instant, the wolf fang club exploded almost like an instant teleportation, making a dull sound in the air, directly aiming for her forehead.
Bam!!
The crossed arms blocked it above, preventing contact with the external Haki and wolf fang club.
"Thundering Hakke?
Marika opened her always squinted eyes, revealing a cold gleam, "Supreme King's Entanglement?"
Whoosh!
Her waterfall-like hair floated up and twisted into bundles of long spears, piercing straight toward Yamato in front.
"Hair Binding·Spear Ksitigarbha!"
Like spears, the hair bundles thrust into the void, and after missing the target, Yamato bounced back, swinging the wolf fang club and, after releasing lightning, struck out a slash-shaped shock.
"Narikabura!"
Marika didn't move, forcefully pushing her palm, also bringing out a powerful shock to collide with that club-shaped slash, and with a bang, the shock just held for a while before being broken, rushing forward.
Boom!
Marika dodged that attack with a side step, letting it hit the giant green figure behind, creating a deep indentation on its waist with just one strike, pushing the massive body backward, crashing through the door.
"Interesting."
Marika glanced over, asking, "What's your relation to Kaido?"
The use of Thundering Hakke, a signature move of Kaido, along with Supreme King's Entanglement...
This person seems even stronger than she imagined.
"I'm Kaido's son! But, I want Wano Country to open up! I'm also an enemy of Kaido!" Yamato shouted.
Marika froze again, thought for a moment, and laughed, "Ah, a rebellious girl, huh? Doing this will make your father upset. It's the first time I've heard Kaido actually has a daughter..."
"I'm a son!"
Yamato swung out another slash-shaped strike, exclaiming, "Rather than that, I prefer to live as Kozuki Oden!"
"Still an enemy who lives only in their own world..."
Marika took a deep breath, her hair rapidly interwoven in front, originally black hair covered with layers of Haki, overlapping like a spider web, forming an obstacle, and caught that slash-shaped strike.
Sting!
In a short stalemate, the strike broke through the web, causing strands of hair to break and scatter in the air. Marika then crossed her arms, covering them with Haki, forcefully resisting this attack weakened by the previous blockage.
Bam!
Even so, this blow hit, still forcing her back several steps.
"The impact on consciousness is even greater..."
Marika shook her hand, saying, "The power of Supreme King's Entanglement, truly remarkable."
"Then step aside!"
Yamato pointed the iron club at Marika, "Don't stop me from saving Wano Country!"
"Hmm..."
Marika glanced at Yamato, chuckling, "Defeating Kaido doesn't count as saving, you know. As I came here, I saw many starving people. Simply returning power to the so-called Samurai and Kozuki, even if at the top there's a will, relying on methods alone won't do."
"All are producing weapons, with no new supplies coming in, what can you do? Shouting slogans won't solve the famine; substantial must be there, even if suddenly opening the country, the eventual outcome will just become trading Seastone and weapons... The outcome is no different from Kaido, just with a different person."
Marika lowered her hand, took a long breath, and suddenly a tattoo-like mark bloomed from her forehead, extending out across her forehead, arms, and finally embedding into her body.
"Celestial Essence·Lotus."
She raised her fist, posed to strike, "If it's about changing persons, then swapping with Sage might work too. Plainly saving Wano Country, it doesn't matter who, does it?"
"Wano Country belongs to Kozuki!"
Yamato leaped sharply, slicing downward with a club, "The samurai only recognize Kozuki! Thundering Hakke!!"
Bam!
The forceful club was steadily caught by a hand wearing a black glove, and the impact created a large concave, cracking into pieces on the ground.
"Just kill the samurai then."
Marika looked up, smiling at the astonished Yamato, that hand seemed to hide mighty force, no matter how much Yamato exerted, it couldn't continue to break through.
Whoosh!
Yamato holding the club sensed sheer power, seeing Marika pulling her arm, naturally drawing closer to Marika in mid-air.
"Celestial..."
At the moment of drawing close, Marika's other hand clenched into a fist, directly aimed at the heart.
"Starquake!"
Bam!!
One punch, firmly embedded into Yamato's chest, and the triggered shock seemed to incite a fierce earthquake, cracking the ground from beneath Yamato's feet, rapidly spreading around, cracking left and right walls, to the ceiling.
With just one punch, half of the vast space shattered open.
Under this punch, Yamato shot back like an arrow leaving the string, colliding with the centaur giant behind, taking the giant along, crashing into the front entrance, smashing the door's edge into a massive hole.
"Haki is indeed important, Supreme King's Entanglement is good too, but my strength shouldn't be underestimated either."
Marika's swung fist emitted plumes of smoke, her open eyes once again smiling, "Strength can also be a counter advantage against Haki."
The truth of the sea isn't more than a few things.
Vision is firm, the fist is fierce, the cannon is big.
Marika doesn't possess Supreme King nor specializes in weapons.
But her strength is outstanding!
Outstanding enough to easily press down a giant!
In terms of strength, she's the second choice in the Disaster Pirates, only behind Sage.
Simply relying on Supreme King's Entanglement isn't enough to defeat her.
Bam!
The debris at the door suddenly flew open, and Yamato holding the wolf fang club quickly approached, with every step causing the surrounding area to freeze up.
The cracks in the ground covered with a layer of frost, frozen into blade-like ice crystal shards.
Yamato facing Marika, transformed from her human form, grew white fur, two red horns extending skyward, ears transformed into furry long ears, her cute face entirely covered with fur, transformed into a white wolf appearance.
Unlike ordinary Zoan-type, her whole face is covered with fur, unlike usual Zoan-type which often has half a human face.
And entwined around her arms, reaching the upper white flame cloud, further distinguishing her.
Marika glanced at her surrounding frost, saying, "Mythical type, huh?"
"Dog-Dog Fruit: Okuchi-no-Makami Form!"
Yamato exhaled a frosty breath, "I disagree with what you said, Wano Country's opening is solely for Kozuki, everyone recognizes Kozuki, we'll definitely save Wano Country!"
"As expected, it's a logically closed guy..."
Marika's expression became indifferent, "For someone like this, reasoning won't suffice, only heavy blows will do."
Reasoning with a closed-loop logic person... isn't as effective as physical matter.