"Hajrudin! Gerd! What's with those expressions? It's just another reckless pirate crew. Remember, Elbaf is the strongest nation in the world!"
A bearded giant raised a massive rusted ship anchor, its chain clanking as he wrapped it around his arm.
But Hajrudin seemed not to hear him, his eyes filled with dread as cold sweat beaded on his forehead.
Those voices... those silhouettes... Especially one of those voices—one Hajrudin could never forget in his lifetime.
Charlotte Linlin!
Sixty-three years ago, this mere five-year-old child, brought to Elbaf by Carmel, became the nightmare of the giant race!
No one could have imagined that a child born to ordinary human parents would possess such monstrous, demonic power at the age of five.
When the five-year-old Linlin's hunger pangs erupted, she punched down a fully grown giant warrior, grabbed his beard, and with a single blow, killed Jorul, one of the last two remaining elders of the giants.
The entire Elbaf fell into stunned silence.
Young Hajrudin, deeply traumatized by Linlin's terror, bore that scar in his heart, driving him to train relentlessly and push himself to the limit.
"Kaido of the Beasts, Charlotte Linlin! Why have these two calamities come to Elbaf?"
Hajrudin's mind raced through possibilities, analyzing their connections to the giants.
Charlotte Linlin had lived in Elbaf briefly as a child.
After her rampage led to the death of Elder Jorul, the giants branded her persona non grata, banning all giants from joining Totto Land.
As the ruler of Totto Land, Linlin had always dreamed of a nation where all races coexisted peacefully—and the giants were a race she coveted.
And Kaido of the Beasts?
Hajrudin frowned, racking his brain—until a thunderous realization struck him.
He remembered twenty-eight years ago, when a furious monster stormed the shores of Elbaf and single-handedly crushed the entire Giant Kingdom, leaving the giants wailing for mercy.
The then nearly four-hundred-year-old Giant Elder Jarul was so terrified he dropped dead on the spot!
At that time, Hajrudin was 53 years old, still a young giant.
He heard the earth-shaking wails of that monster, who claimed he wanted to bury a woman named Filina in the giant cemetery of Elbaf.
As Hajrudin recalled this, his mind was struck by thunderous realizations, leaving him utterly dazed.
Suddenly, a chilling piece of information occurred to him.
Twenty-eight years ago, that monster had wreaked havoc in Elbaf and buried a woman in the giant cemetery.
The enraged giants of Elbaf, the very next day, threw the woman's tombstone along with her remains into the Forbidden Land of the Dead.
That was the most despised place in Elbaf.
Any criminal scorned by the giants, any sinner who had tarnished the history of the giant race, would be carelessly tossed into that ravine after death.
As Hajrudin's thoughts ran wild, the bearded giant could no longer contain himself.
He raised the massive, rusted ship anchor in his hand, gripping the thick iron chain, and began swinging it with a whooshing sound.
"Wahahaha! Foolish pirates! Before you even set foot on this island, let me, the giant warrior Killabi, sink one of your main ships first!"
Killabi laughed maniacally, the muscles on his thick right arm bulging as he unleashed tremendous strength.
With a swift motion, he hurled the enormous, heavy anchor toward the Queen mama charter with a deafening roar!
The massive hull of the ship was now within a few dozen meters of the shore, close enough for all the giants to see the faces of the pirates standing on deck.
"Hahaha! Another bunch of weak humans! You know nothing of true power!"
"Exactly! I've heard the Fish-Men possess ten times the strength of humans. But we giants? Our strength is a thousand times that of humans! With so few pirates, a single warrior from our race could take them all down!"
On the deck, Kaido cracked his neck and reached out toward the incoming anchor.
Boom!
The anchor trembled violently, yet it failed to make Kaido's body budge even a single millimeter.
On the shore, the giants' laughter abruptly ceased, as if someone had grabbed them all by the throat.
Killabi's jaw dropped.
The massive muscles on his arm strained as he gripped the end of the chain, trying to pull the anchor back.
But even as his face turned red with exertion, his feet crushing the rocks beneath him and gouging deep trenches into the ground, the anchor remained firmly in Kaido's grasp.
Unmoving.
"Impossible… IMPOSSIBLE!!"
Killabi's expression shifted from disbelief to outright panic!
He felt as though his anchor had been lodged in Elbaf's sacred mountain, the Mountain of the Gods.
What he was trying to pull wasn't a person—it was a mountain weighing hundreds of millions of tons!
"Wororororo! Interesting, giant warrior? I've long since witnessed your so-called 'strength'! Get over here!"
Kaido threw his head back in laughter and gave the chain a slight tug.
A surge of power, vast as the ocean, traveled along the chain.
Under Killabi's horrified gaze, his over-ten-meter-tall body was yanked into the air like a cannonball, flying straight toward the ship's bow where Kaido stood.
Killabi roared in fury and humiliation.
"You insignificant human! How dare you look down on the giants of Elbaf?! I'll kill you!"
With that, he released the chain and raised his enormous fist, smashing it toward Kaido.
"Insignificant? Ororororo, you have no idea what you're talking about!"
Kaido extended his index finger and thumb, pressing them together.
His towering figure defied logic as he effortlessly dodged Kilabee's massive fist.
Then, under Kilabee's stunned gaze, he flicked his index finger against the giant's forehead!
Bam!
With just the force of that flick, Kilabee's enormous, mountain-like body spun three and a half times mid-air before crashing thunderously onto the deck of the Queen mama charter.
The giant Kilabee didn't even let out a groan—knocked unconscious with foam at his mouth from the concussion caused by Kaido's single finger.
It was unclear whether he'd end up in a vegetative state.
Nearby, Pudding stood terrified, hid in Sanji's arms, peeking cautiously at the giant before them.
Sanji's face twitched.
"Hey, hey, which side here is supposed to be the famed powerhouse of the Giant Tribe again?"
The Queen mama charter had already neared the shore, and Kaido's every move had long been clearly visible to the giants at the port.
When they saw Kaido merely deliver a playful "love tap" to their warrior Kilabee—only for the over-ten-meter-tall adult giant warrior to collapse without a sound—every giant present trembled like leaves in a storm!
Thud! Thud!
Kaido and Linlin leaped straight from the ship's bow onto the shore.
Kaido crossed his arms, coldly surveying the giants before him.
His indifferent gaze, like that of an apex predator, sent chills down their spines.
Linlin, holding a pink parasol with one hand, wore a sky-blue dress and high heels, exuding an air of effortless elegance. It almost seemed as if she were here on vacation.
"Everyone, listen! Don't act recklessly!"
Hajrudin's hoarse voice cut through the tension as he forcibly suppressed his fear, stepping forward to face Kaido and Linlin directly.
"They are Kaido of the Beasts... and Charlotte Linlin!"