"Napoleon!"
High in the sky, Charlotte Linlin, standing on Zeus and surrounded by Prometheus, roared as she stretched out her hand.
"Yes, Mama!"
The bicorne hat on Big Mom's head opened its eyes and leaped up like a living thing. In mid-air, it suddenly grew massive, transforming into a colossal sabre that she gripped in her hand.
"The legendary Napoleon sword!"
At the sight of this, Aeridar's muscles tensed, and he put himself on high alert.
Big Mom wielding the gigantic sabre had appeared multiple times in the intelligence reports he had gathered. It was certain that she possessed extremely high-level swordsmanship, and especially when paired with her monstrous innate strength, the slashes she delivered were undoubtedly potent. It wasn't impossible that she could cleave the sky and split the sea with pure swordsmanship.
"I'm going to kill you! Die!"
Charlotte Linlin flew down rapidly aboard Zeus. The giant sabre, Napoleon, in her hand sliced straight down, carrying a fierce gale and astonishing might.
BOOM!
With a loud crash, the ground was instantly cleaved, forming a deep fissure dozens of meters long. For a moment, dust flew up, covering the earth.
"Where is it? Where is the soufflé?"
Charlotte Linlin stood on the ground, dissipating the dust-turned-smoke, and looked around with Napoleon in hand.
"Impact Fist!"
Aeridar suddenly appeared in front of Charlotte Linlin and launched a punch.
"Hmph!"
Charlotte Linlin's eyes sharpened. She immediately used the giant sabre Napoleon in her hand to block her face.
Clang!
The pitch-black fist violently struck the blade, which was as wide as a door panel. A violent clash of metal rang out, and the resulting kinetic energy erupted as a fierce shockwave. The ground instantly cracked and collapsed, forming a spectacular spiderweb of fissures that spread for over a hundred meters.
"You dared to trick me! Hand over the soufflé!"
Charlotte Linlin roared. She lifted a single arm, instantly throwing Aeridar backward.
Rumble!
Immediately after, a lightning bolt as thick as a barrel descended from the sky, aiming directly for Aeridar.
"Impact Wave!"
Aeridar hovered in mid-air, launching a punch into the open space.
Rumble… Rumble…
A colossal, visible Impact Wave spread toward the sky. A white halo erupted, instantly scattering the barrel-thick lightning strike.
Charlotte Linlin covered her left hand with the sun Prometheus and sprayed a column of searing fire forward.
BOOM!
Following that, Aeridar launched another aerial punch. The invisible air transformed into a gigantic, visible Impact Wave that instantly scattered the surging column of fire and enveloped Charlotte Linlin herself.
Charlotte Linlin was blasted backward several dozen meters by the immense Impact Wave, crushing several of the Homie trees that hadn't managed to escape in time.
"You bastard! Die! Hakoku!"
Accompanied by a furious roar that reached the heavens, Charlotte Linlin stood up quickly, completely unscathed. Without another word, she swung her sabre forward.
A colossal sword wave cleaved through the sky, shining like a dazzling, brilliant light. It instantaneously shot across the entire Seducing Woods and flew out toward the ocean.
Rumble… Rumble… Rumble…
The earth cracked open, and a giant fissure appeared instantly, bisecting the entire Seducing Woods. A massive number of Homie trees were severed by the sudden attack.
Even the sea outside Whole Cake Island was split open, forming a sea trench a kilometer long—the ocean itself had been cut!
"Mama, have mercy!"
"Run! Mama's gone mad!"
"The forest is being destroyed!"
Numerous Homies inside the Seducing Woods died. The remaining Homies were terrified, scrambling to escape. Even Kingbaum, the leader of the Seducing Woods and a massive, ancient tree, was running headlong in panic.
However, thankfully, Big Mom had aimed the attack outward. If she had changed direction, the damage to Sweet City would have been even greater.
"What a devastating slash! That looks like a Giant Tribe technique!" Aeridar stood on the edge of the fissure that ran through the entire Seducing Woods, both awed and recognizing the technique.
Aeridar then seemed to peer through the swirling dust at Big Mom not far away and muttered to himself, "No wonder there are no Giants in the place nicknamed 'Totto Land.' And Big Mom is so obsessed with the results of the 'human giantification' experiment. It seems she has a deep, complicated history with the Giant Tribe!"
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Heavy footsteps sounded. A massive black shadow charged out of the swirling dust. Charlotte Linlin, holding the giant sabre Napoleon, strode directly up to Aeridar and brought the sword down.
BOOM!
The air billowed, dust shot to the sky, and another deep fissure appeared in the ground.
Aeridar appeared eerily at Charlotte Linlin's side and delivered a fierce kick to her waist.
BANG!
A shockwave burst open. The ground beneath Charlotte Linlin cracked, forming a three-pronged rupture.
"Nani?"
Aeridar stared in astonishment at the spot he had kicked. Charlotte Linlin's waist was pitch-black; her powerful Armament Haki had utterly blocked his kick.
His kick was also coated in Armament Haki. An ordinary person, even with Haki defense, would have been injured or at the very least sent flying. Yet, this female Yonko hadn't moved an inch, enduring the blow head-on.
"That defense… is she a human Iron Balloon?" Aeridar's face was aghast. Even Whitebeard didn't have a body like this!
"Who do you think you are, you insignificant brat!"
Charlotte Linlin roared in fury and threw a punch that simultaneously contained the power of fire and lightning.
Rumble… Rumble…
Caught off guard, Aeridar was slammed straight into the ground by Big Mom's heavy punch. Fire and lightning erupted simultaneously. The earth shook, and the ground within a hundred-meter radius shattered and broke apart. Countless pieces of debris and soil were flung into the air, and a swirling gale swept in all directions.
"Hm! Not dead?"
Lifting her arm, Charlotte Linlin realized her opponent hadn't been killed.
"What a heavy punch!"
Aeridar was buried deep in the rubble and soil. If the outward-exerted Impact Force hadn't counteracted the strength of this female monster's fist, even with his body's toughness, he would have been severely wounded.
"You wretch! Die!"
Charlotte Linlin raged. She instantly swung the giant sabre Napoleon in her hand, which let out an air-tearing howl as it sliced down.
"Armament Hardening: Dual-Stage Impact Fist!"
Aeridar sprang up. The rubble and soil covering him slid away on either side. Armament Haki instantly hardened his right arm, and the pitch-black fist collided with the descending giant sabre in an instant.
CLANG!
A huge metallic clash echoed. A circle of earth-colored air-shockwaves immediately spread outward, forming a massive airflow that instantly swept across a radius of several hundred meters.
Under this staggering force, the ground beneath Aeridar instantly collapsed and sank, forming a circular crater over ten meters in diameter, filled with dense, spiderweb-like fissures.