Linlin stood motionless, letting the massive shield crash onto her head.
CRACK!
Goldberg watched in horror as his shield—now split wide open—shattered into countless pieces.
The woman in the sky-blue dress remained unharmed, save for her pink parasol, which had been smashed to pieces.
Linlin blinked in surprise, caught off guard by the sudden attack.
She had been enjoying the show, never expecting to get dragged into it.
Seeing her parasol reduced to nothing but a broken frame, Linlin's fury ignited.
BOOM!
A torrent of savage, crimson Conqueror's Haki erupted from her body, sweeping across all of Elbaf!
Goldberg, standing right in front of her, took the full brunt of the blast.
His mind felt as though struck by a sledgehammer, and twin waterfalls of blood gushed from his nostrils as his massive body swayed and collapsed.
Even the giants swarming Kaido staggered, their heads spinning.
But credit where it's due—the resilience of the giant warriors was truly extraordinary.
Though nauseous and dizzy, they stubbornly refused to fall!
"I'm done playing around, Kaido—let's finish this!"
Linlin's good mood as a spectator had been utterly ruined by Goldberg's reckless attack.
Her temper flared.
A tiny flame flickered to life within her, rapidly swelling into a massive fireball dozens of meters wide—like a miniature sun.
Linlin leaped up, landing on Prometheus, her right hand outstretched as a crackling thundercloud materialized in her palm.
The fireball carried her soaring over a hundred meters into the air, giving her a commanding view of the island of Elbaf below.
"Mamamama! Once I capture all the giants and return to Totto Land, I can forge an entirely new nation of giants—bringing me one step closer to my dream of a perfect Totto Land!"
Linlin's eyes gleamed as she raised the thundercloud high.
"Hera! Stun them all for me!"
A strikingly beautiful face emerged from the thundercloud, grinning excitedly.
"As you command, Mama!"
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
In the next instant, colossal bolts of lightning—thick as ancient trees—erupted from the thundercloud, striking down the fleeing giants one after another.
"AAAHHH!" The mighty male and female giants, despite their immense strength, stood no chance.
The lightning, powerful enough to reduce an ordinary human to charred remains, sent them convulsing like chickens, their hair standing on end as they collapsed like wooden logs, thudding onto the ground.
"Wororororo! I've had enough playing around—time to go all out! No point wasting words on these brainless fools!"
Kaido tossed his kanabo aside, chugged the last of his liquor from a massive gourd, and let out a drunken belch.
His body creaked and groaned as it transformed into a colossal azure dragon, coiling into the sky.
With two massive claws, he snatched up two terrified giants and soared hundreds of meters into the air.
"Try my aerial bombardment! Haa-CHOO!"
The dragon burst into laughter before suddenly sneezing, unleashing a blazing crimson fire column that incinerated the forest below into a sea of flames.
"WAAAHHH!"
Still clutching the screaming giants, Kaido ascended higher before hurling them like cannonballs.
They flew hundreds of meters before crashing into the open village of Elbaf with a thunderous impact.
The stone-built houses crumbled instantly under the deafening shockwave.
Meanwhile, Sanji, carrying Pudding, carefully descended from the Queen Mama Chanter using Moon Walk, his expression grim as he watched Kaido and Linlin wreak havoc from above.
The giants of Elbaf—whether due to their ancestors' lack of virtue—had somehow managed to provoke not one, but two of the most notorious monsters in the world.
And now, an even greater calamity had set its sights on them.
"ROAR! DIE, PIRATES!"
The moment Sanji and Pudding touched down on the shore, the nearby sea erupted violently, revealing a furious face.
The giant Killabi, wielding a broken sword, swung it down at Sanji and Pudding with a twisted snarl.
"Be split in half, you puny humans!"
CLANG!
Sanji raised his right hand, letting the massive broken blade strike his wrist.
"Impossible?!"
Killabi's eyes bulged in disbelief as he stared at Sanji's completely unharmed arm.
What the hell was happening today? Were all humans this strong now?
What kind of "world's strongest race" were the giants supposed to be?!
Kaido was one thing, but now this scrawny man—who barely reached his ankle—had blocked his slash with a single hand.
Back on Onigashima, the Lineage Factor within Sanji had fully awakened.
Even Queen's direct slash to his neck with a massive cleaver had failed to leave a scratch—instead, the blade itself had shattered into pieces.
Although his current strength hasn't been fully revealed, his physical resilience has reached an extraordinarily formidable level.
His power has already surpassed Queen's, and the might of his kicking techniques is beyond imagination.
If Sanji's Haki could reach its peak, he would undoubtedly become a top-tier combatant in the future.
Seeing his beloved wife Pudding in his arms, her face pale with fear from the giant intimidation, Sanji's body erupted with scorching flames.
His leg, wreathed in both Haki and fire, kicked directly at the broken sword in Killabi's hand.
Clang!
The massive broken sword, weighing tens of thousands of pounds, was sent flying with a single kick, disappearing from Killabi's horrified sight.
"Collier Shot!"
Boom!
Sanji leaped into the air, sweeping his leg across Killabi's iron helmet.
The thick helmet crumpled like paper, and the giant's massive, hill-like body crashed into the sea like a meteor, sending up a storm of water droplets.
Sanji landed lightly and hurried over to Pudding, asking with concern.
"Pudding-chan, are you okay?"
A gentle smile appeared on Pudding's face, but she suddenly clutched her chest and began to retch.
Sanji was alarmed and quickly patted her back gently.
"Huff—I'm fine, Sanji. Hehe, I don't know what's wrong, but I've been feeling nauseous a lot lately."
Pudding caught her breath and forced a smile at Sanji.
"Nauseous? Maybe you've caught a cold? Let's see a doctor when we get back."
Sanji scratched his head and glanced in the direction where Kaido and Linlin had gone, murmuring,
"There's going to be a fight over there, and it might get pretty bloody. Pudding, how about we explore somewhere else on the island?"
Pudding nodded.
....
Beyond the deserted village near the port, after crossing a towering mountain range, Kaido laid eyes on an ancient, colossal city built entirely from massive stone blocks.
"Worororo, still the same as ever—the Giant King's Capital, Odin City."
His enormous Azure Dragon form was wreathed in blazing flame clouds, like an ancient divine beast descending upon the world, sending the giants within Odin City into a panic.
Linlin, holding the thundercloud Zeus under one arm and standing atop the small sun Prometheus, looked like a deity of thunder and fire, exuding boundless majesty.
"Kaido, where is Filina buried?"
A flicker of sorrow passed through Kaido's draconic eyes as his massive head turned toward the center of the city.
There stood a mountain that had been cleanly sliced in half, its surface perfectly flat and dotted with countless tombstones and burial mounds.
Suddenly, confusion and bewilderment flashed in Kaido's eyes, quickly replaced by overwhelming fury!
"Filina's tombstone—it's gone!"