Zoro jumped toward Faust's position.
And by the time he made it out to there, the dust had already cleared, showing that Faust had gone straight through the skull dome penetrating it as if it was paper-thin.
But after a few seconds, Faust climbed up again and stood there completely angered.
Beyond some scratches, the only visible injury he sustained from this attack was a deep gash that went from his neck to his waist.
Even after taking this attack and suffering an injury, he still didn't think that taking down Ian was completely impossible.
As such he ignored Zoro and put his hand on his chest where the scar was in an effort to heal it. The scar notably started to heal, but it didn't completely seal through…
"That damn annoying bastard…" Faust muttered as he glared at Ian.
He couldn't completely heal his scar as Ian had infused his strike with so much Haki it became impossible for him…
Zoro seeing him ignoring him grinned as he put his hand on two of his swords…
"You're underestimating me too much…" Zoro muttered before he charged at him.
"Nanajuni Pound Ho" (72 Pound Phoenix/Cannon)
Zoro used his two swords to perform a circular swing that launches two air-compressed projectiles spiraling towards Faust instead of one, making it twice as powerful.
Faust turned to glare right at Zoro.
"Annoying pest!" He clicked his tongue as he used his barrier to stop the attack and shoot it back stronger than it came.
****
Back with Ian.
Standing against him were Kaido and Shiki.
Shiki right now had lost a limb, but he didn't flinch from the pain at all. Kaido even helped him to cauterize it using fire.
"That brat!" Shiki spoke up as he glared at Zoro.
Following this, he manipulated several giant lion heads to attack Zoro and Ian at the same time.
Ian frowned as he looked at him.
"You think you can afford to divide your attention while fighting me? Why is that so? Is it because so far I have not chopped an arm or leg yet?" Ian questioned him.
Was he being underestimated?
He had his hand on his chin as if he was genuinely perplexed. His tone was not dangerous or cold, it was as if Ian was asking normally.
But it brought shivers down Shiki's spine nonetheless.
And just like Shiki thought, all of a sudden all the lion heads that were flying towards the both of them, stopped in place and started to compress and change their forms, until they became much sleeker dragon heads instead of the previous lion ones.
Shiki was shocked out of his mind.
"How?" He muttered weakly as he saw his own attacks change direction and come back to attack him.
"Hmph! When fighting against me, you should give it your all! Just like your fellow over there! If you underestimate me it will only lead to your loss!" Ian spoke up as he pointed at Kaido.
Then following this the both of them started to dodge out of Ian's attacks.
Kaido was directly destroying them as he flew over his clouds.
He maneuvered in the sky dodging one barely as he then hit it with his kanabo being imbued with his Haki leaving a trail of black lightning.
But after it crumbles, all of a sudden it starts to change form and construct into various smaller dragon heads, which have more range. They were like serpents as they chased his form.
Kaido seeing the thousands of dragon heads coming towards him yelled at the top of his head.
"AHHHHHHHHH"
This lead to various wind scythes resulting out of the powerful Haki-infused yell.
Then Kaido continued on by taking a very deep breath, he gathered his energy and Roared as he released a huge fire breath at Ian.
"BOLO BREATH"
Meanwhile, Shiki who now had one arm less started to sweat as he saw all the dragon heads following him.
But then he got his bearing back and started to try to control them back. When that didn't work he cursed.
"Shit!" He spoke up.
"If that won't work, then I'll just destroy them the old way!" He then yelled stubbornly.
He coated his sword legs in Haki before he started his attack.
Following after he started to spin like a spinning top in all directions while releasing flying air blades of massive sizes consecutively.
The dragon heads started to get destroyed in huge numbers while Shiki continued to spin around sending the air blades without any sign of stopping.
But seeing the dragon heads not stopping at all and even increasing in numbers, Shiki stopped and he then flew around dodging any attack that came at him.
He would flip around and shoot air blades at them, while his main direction was Ian.
Coincidently He came at the exact moment Ian was attacked by Kaido's flame breath.
He took advantage of that and what he did this time was not manipulate earth but seawater.
He wanted to kill Ian.
He knew that he had also eaten a devil fruit like the two of them. And any devil fruit eater would drown in seawater.
As such Ian was attacked by a massive water body shaped into a lion head that lunged at him with its mouth open.
"Let's see how you'll escape this brat!!!" Shiki yelled at him as he continued to dodge the dragon heads following him.
It was clear to him that if Ian didn't want to or didn't suffer an injury, these attacks were not going to stop.
Ian seeing both attacks merely grinned.
For the breath attack, he casually slapped it away using his Haki-coated hand.
And for the lion's water head, he let it hit him and take him away.
Shiki yelled in joy.
"Kaido did you see that?! The brat is done for! Jihahahaha" Shiki started to laugh.
As if to prove it to him the dragon earth attacks stopped and crumbled back to debris.
Kaido though merely frowned as he looked at the still flying lion water attack.
The attack all of a sudden stopped in it the sky before its shape changed and turned to a ball.
By now even Shiki knew something was wrong.
Then when they looked closer they could see Ian inside there playing as he swam around.
Ian then turned to look at them from inside the water before all of a sudden the water turned into a dragon shape and headed towards them leaving Ian in his place floating there.
Kaido clicked his tongue.
"He's playing with us…" He muttered.
He flew around dodging the attack along with Shiki before the attack continued on after missing them towards the sea…
Kaido knew that if the water hit them, they were done for, and that was exactly why Ian had not continued attacking them with it…
Even Shiki grasped this point. He and Kaido understood that Ian was not trying to kill them… they didn't even want to think about what if he was trying his all to kill them?
But Kaido being the man he was became furious at Ian.
"Fight like a man Ian D. Louis! Stop playing with us! Use your all." Kaido growled at him.
His yell was filled with Haki and it was heard all around the battlefield.
For a second everyone turned their attention to them.
Everyone on the beast pirates' side and Shiki thought in shock…
'He's playing with them?'
Meanwhile, on the samurai's side, everyone was filled with joy and happiness at this news.
Ian spread his observation Haki all around and started to 'see'.
He then sighed…
"I guess it is time to wrap this up then!" He then gave a nod to Kaido.
"You want my all? Then don't complain later when I kick your ass all over the land of Wano!! Hahaha," Ian laughed as the sound of electricity started to surround him.
(1350 words)
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