"Karl... Karl..."
A familiar voice pulled Karl out of his dream.
When Karl opened his eyes, he found that he was no longer on the Boin Archipelago.
Because his body was lying on a soft bed, and what entered his vision was a strange yet familiar ceiling with a skylight through which he could admire the sky.
...He was back in his room on the large three-masted galleon.
Beside the bed sat the three girls he hadn't seen in half a year—Nami, who had matured even more, her childishness faded away.
"Nami, Nojiko, you've changed quite a bit!"
Karl grinned, and then, under the worried gazes of the girls, he slowly sat up and asked Nami, "How long has it been since I called you?"
"It's been three days."
Nami answered truthfully, then asked nervously, "Karl, is your body okay?"
"It took three days this time?"
Karl was slightly surprised, then he shook his head and reassured the girls, "Don't worry, I'm fine."
"It was just falling asleep during the evolution process. My body now is not only completely fine, but it's also much stronger than it was half a year ago."
Boom!
As if to prove his words, Karl simply clenched his fist.
A sound of the air being crushed instantly came from his palm.
The spontaneously generated airflow blew the long hair of Nami and the girls about.
"So... so amazing!"
Seeing this scene, Nami and the girls all widened their beautiful eyes.
"Where are Shirahoshi and Yamato?"
After proving his point, Karl looked at the three girls—Nami, Nojiko, and Robin—and changed the subject.
"Shirahoshi has grown again and is on the deck praying for you right now."
Seeing that Karl was really fine, Nami revealed a beautiful smile that, due to her long hair and the effects of the "electric current method," no longer had a trace of childishness, and said, "As for Yamato, her presence is very stable. She ran off to explore the Boin Archipelago."
"I'll go out and have a look. I've missed her too over the past six months."
Karl got out of bed and found that he was wearing a rather tight set of pajamas.
"Ara ara... Karl, you've grown taller again."
Robin teased with a smile, "When I was helping you change your clothes, I found that they didn't fit."
"Uh... my clothes... Robin, did you help me put them on?"
Karl was stunned for a moment, then a familiar mischievous smile appeared as he looked over the three girls present, "Then, who helped me take a bath?"
Hearing this, a blush immediately appeared on the faces of Robin and Nojiko.
On the other hand, Nami, who had become as bold as her original counterpart, showed not a trace of shyness and instead teased back, "You coward, why don't you just ask directly if Robin helped you bathe?"
"So, was it you? Robin..."
Karl, now taller than Robin, leaned down in front of her and said with a wicked smile.
"Hurry up and go outside. Shirahoshi has missed you for the past six months too."
Robin didn't dare to look Karl in the eye and could only gently push him out of the room.
And so...
Who helped Karl take a bath became an unsolved mystery.
"Lord Karl... I was so scared... It's so good that you're okay..."
On the deck, Karl was comforting a wailing Shirahoshi.
As the most timid person on the ship.
Although the straightforward Yamato had assured her that Karl's presence was very stable and there was no need to worry.
But whether it was Nami, the other two girls, or Shirahoshi, they were all on edge.
Especially Shirahoshi, who had been praying constantly in her heart.
Now, seeing Karl come out, she finally couldn't hold back her tears.
"Sorry, sorry... I made you worry, Shirahoshi... Rip!"
"Ehhhh—!!!"
Just as Karl reached out his hand, preparing to teleport to the top of Shirahoshi's head to give her a headpat.
The tight pajamas on his body suddenly made a crisp sound of tearing cloth.
Immediately after...
Several screams of astonishing decibels sounded from behind Karl at the same time.
Karl's line of sight suddenly shot up from where he stood.
From needing to look up to see Shirahoshi's head, in just a few seconds, Karl's line of sight was level with hers.
At the same time, his field of vision was also expanding.
In just a few seconds, in Karl's eyes, Shirahoshi's head, which had originally been bigger than his entire person, suddenly became about the same size as Nami and the other girls.
It was as if... Shirahoshi had shrunk.
Clearly, it wasn't that Shirahoshi had shrunk.
...It was Karl who had grown.
That's right, Karl had grown.
From a 1.95-meter-tall shorty, he had become a ten-meter-tall giant.
"Ah... Lord Karl..."
Shirahoshi, who had been so shocked by Karl's change that she had forgotten to cry, seemed to have seen something and quickly covered her eyes with both hands.
Whoosh—Boom!
Karl, who was in a state of bewilderment, was pulled back to his senses by Shirahoshi's scream.
After looking down at his body, he instantly transformed into a giant bolt of lightning and disappeared from the deck.
The next moment, an astonishing column of water erupted on the sea an unknown distance away.
When the column of water disappeared, a huge body was floating on the surface of the sea.
"...The hell... what is going on?!"
Karl, looking up at the sky with a numb expression of social death, rarely let out a curse from his past life.
As if in response to Karl...
A piece of unfamiliar information suddenly appeared in Karl's mind.
After digesting this information, Karl's face was filled with astonishment.
It turned out...
The change in Karl's body was because he had triggered the third trait of his Monster Physique—As Big or Small as I Please.
As the name suggests, this trait allowed Karl's body to freely grow larger or smaller.
Currently, the minimum was one meter, and the maximum was twenty meters.
This trait was different from the physical type like Body of Steel, and also different from the learning type like Absolute Comprehension. It was similar to the control type of Life Return, allowing him to infuse his consciousness into his body to control its compression and expansion, freely changing its size.
At the same time, this trait had limitations that neither Body of Steel nor Absolute Comprehension possessed.
If normal Karl was a monster with maxed-out strength and speed.
Then after growing larger, his speed would be weakened, but his strength would be astonishingly enhanced.
If he were to shrink, his strength would be weakened, but his already extreme speed would become even more terrifying.
Whether growing larger or smaller, using As Big or Small as I Please would consume a certain amount of physical energy every second.
After absorbing this information, only one thought remained in Karl's mind.
Holy crap... I can handle a big one now?!!
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