"Giant Pistol!!!"
"Giant Pistol!!!"
The same battle cry rang out twice in quick succession, and then a shadow blotted out the sky.
"What is that?!"
"A giant?!!!"
"No... even for a giant, that fist is way too ridiculous!!!"
"You have got to be kidding me!!! We are dead!!!"
If the rubber giant fist inflated by Luffy was a massive punch on the level of a giant's, then the "giant fist" inflated by Sadgeo, this false Joy Boy, was on an entirely different level. It was truly the size of a small island.
The shadow cast by that raised fist swallowed the whole of Area 46 on the Sabaody Archipelago.
The pirates gathered by the fake Luffy had initially gone pale and started trembling the moment they saw the real Luffy.
Now, after seeing Sadgeo's monstrous fist, their eyes bulged out and tears and snot sprayed everywhere.
"We are going to die!!!!"
And then, in the very next second, after Luffy coated his giant rubber fist in Armament Haki, Sadgeo bared his teeth in a grin.
"Hey!!! It is not just you fake who knows Armament Haki!!!"
In the next moment, an immense tide of black Armament Haki surged outward and covered the island-sized fist completely.
The civilians and pirates below panicked even more.
"This is bad..."
Facing an attack that looked like the end of the world, the three main fighters all turned grim. Dragging his Armament-coated Giant Pistol behind him, Luffy charged straight toward that enormous fist.
"Hey!!! Luffy!!!"
Seeing that, the pupil in Zoro's one remaining eye shrank sharply. His gaze turned fierce in an instant as Haki poured from him.
All three swords came out at once. Lowering his body into a crouch, he caused the ground around him to burst apart.
"Curly Brows, looks like we have got no choice now!!!"
"Tch... why do we have to fight a monster like this?!"
Even if they did not understand why they had ended up fighting, not fighting was clearly no longer an option. Otherwise, they could prepare to be buried together with Area 46 of the Sabaody Archipelago.
"Diable Jambe!!!"
With a light tap of his toe, flames instantly wrapped around Sanji's lower leg. Using Geppo, he shot toward the sky.
And Zoro?
He bent low, then poured dense Haki into all three swords, charging them up before using the recoil to launch himself into the air.
Then he started to chant.
"Nine mountains and eight seas..."
"Make a thousand worlds, and it becomes one small chiliocosm."
"Multiply that by three... and there is nothing I cannot cut."
The three black blades spun faster and faster.
"Three Sword Style Secret Technique, Ichidai... Sanzen... Daisen Se..."
"That is enough."
Just as the clash was about to happen, with all of Area 46 in utter despair and even the surrounding districts staring in hopeless terror, a voice suddenly sounded across the battlefield.
A figure appeared beneath the giant rubber fists in an instant.
It was a man in a black coat, standing in midair with his hands behind his back.
He closed one hand in a loose grasp.
And the whole world seemed to freeze.
"W... we are saved?!!!"
"That figure... could it be the ruler of Sabaody himself?!"
"That legendary..."
With his long black hair dancing in the wind, Ozz waved his hand lightly.
The four imposing figures, still radiating killing intent a moment ago, vanished from the sky in an instant.
Then they all reappeared on the ground, tumbling across it several times before finally getting up in disheveled fashion.
"Uncle Ozz..."
"Master..."
"Father..."
The three main fighters reacted on instinct. The moment they saw Ozz, their scalps went numb and they immediately assumed combat stances.
Only Sadgeo picked up his straw hat with a helpless look and dusted it off.
Then he turned to the three much smaller figures with the gaze one would use on idiots.
"Are you fools?"
"No matter how arrogant someone is, nobody would seriously believe they could beat my old man, right?"
At that moment Ozz shifted a step and appeared right in front of them, his Black Spear serving as a cane in one hand.
The moment Sadgeo saw that Black Spear, it was like seeing something utterly terrifying. His face stiffened.
"Listen, brats. I do not care why you were trying to fight, but if you are going to brawl, do not sink the whole Sabaody Archipelago while you are at it."
"Go where you are supposed to go. Head to the New World."
Ozz waved them off like he was shooing away stray dogs.
In the next instant, Luffy and the other two vanished and reappeared aboard the Thousand Sunny.
As for Sadgeo, he held onto his straw hat and grinned.
"Hehehe... got it. I was planning to set sail today anyway. I just did not expect to run into the Marines."
"If there is nothing else, I will be going now."
"Later, old man!"
Gick, who had just arrived after hearing the commotion, happened to catch those words.
His whole body jolted.
"Old man?"
"Ozz's brat has a son?!!!"
What shook the tiny old man was not fear of giants or anything like that.
It was just...
Ozz was certainly tall, but only a little over three meters.
If his son was even bigger than an actual giant, then would that not mean the boy's mother had to be at least a giant herself?
That thought made him remember something Rayleigh had once mentioned while the two of them were training together and chatting.
"The Roger Pirates have already disbanded, Old Gick. Your resentment should have faded by now, right?"
Rayleigh had spoken helplessly, since Gick was often in a foul mood whenever he saw him.
"Hmph..."
Truth be told, Gick had long since let most of that resentment go. After all, Ozz really had been looked after quite a lot by them.
"Roger is already dead. You are always at Sabaody, so what about Gaban? I remember he was one of the three strongest men in your crew, right..."
"Gaban, huh..."
Rayleigh had looked nostalgic.
"He is in Elbaf, the Land of Giants now. Ozz mentioned him before. He married a female giant and had a giant child with her. Hahahahahaha!!!"
"What?!!!"
"A giant?!!!"
Back then, Gick had remained shocked for several days.
After all, during the Rocks Pirates era, he had known very well that the three of them had all liked Shakky. He himself had thought she was beautiful too, but he had never been obsessed with her.
And now?
Rayleigh and Shakky had ended up together, while Gaban had found himself a female giant...
In a certain sense, the Rocks Pirates had lost to the Roger Pirates once again.
But what mattered more now was Ozz's lifelong romantic prospects.
Could it be that Ozz had gone to see Gaban before and learned a few things in Elbaf?
"Hey..."
Gick swallowed.
"You little brat... did you really have a child with a giant? Is Sadgeo my great-grandson?"
"...No."
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