CRASH!
The biscuit soldier shattered completely, fragments scattered across the ground like broken pottery.
Yamato curiously picked up a piece of the biscuit fragment and popped it into her mouth, crunching thoughtfully.
"Mmm! Delicious! Biscuit man, you really have some impressive skills." Yamato's eyes lit up with genuine appreciation.
"How... how is that even possible? You broke through my biscuit defense so easily?!"
Cracker was so shocked by the scene before him that he could barely speak coherently.
Although the Biscuit-Biscuit Fruit didn't sound particularly powerful by name alone, he had clearly trained his biscuits to be far stronger than reinforced steel.
And that technique she'd used...
That girl was clearly just some unknown nobody.
"Who exactly are you? State your name immediately!" Cracker roared with obvious frustration.
"Eh? Didn't I already say my name?"
Yamato scratched the back of her head, revealing a brilliant but slightly silly smile: "I'm called Yamato, and I'm the Shogun of Wano Country."
Yamato? That name sounds strangely familiar...
Cracker desperately searched through the Beast Pirates intelligence data stored in his mind, suddenly realizing with dawning horror: "Aren't you Kaido's daughter?"
Although Yamato hadn't been active on the seas, Cracker had vaguely heard his mother mention that troublesome daughter who gave Kaido quite the persistent headache.
That would certainly explain her overwhelming strength.
But Yamato responded with obvious dissatisfaction: "I'm not Kaido's daughter or anything like that! I'm just me, the one and only Yamato!"
"What's this delusional fool babbling about now?" Cracker couldn't understand her reasoning.
But it didn't matter in the slightest. He hadn't come here to make friends with Yamato anyway.
Cracker commanded his biscuit soldiers to charge aggressively at Yamato while he strategically hid in the back, continuously creating fresh biscuit soldiers to harass and overwhelm her.
Yamato wasn't about to back down from such a challenge, swinging her massive kanabo and fighting the biscuit soldiers in fierce, relentless melee combat.
On another section of the battlefield...
"Hahahaha! Taste my newly developed Plague Bullets!"
Queen carried a round ammunition box strapped to his back and wielded a rotating Gatling gun, firing wildly into the crowd without distinguishing friend from foe.
Bullets loaded with concentrated viruses struck human bodies with devastating accuracy.
Before long, the pirates who were hit and infected began experiencing severe difficulty breathing.
They clutched desperately at their throats and collapsed to the ground, desperately trying to obtain life-sustaining oxygen.
Watching this scene unfold, Queen felt immensely proud, laughing toward the sky with maniacal glee: "Hahahaha! This is the true power of science!"
"Big meatball, don't get too carried away with yourself." Smoothie's cold voice rang out across the battlefield.
She casually swung her massive sword, sending a flying slash directly toward Queen's position.
"You bastard, Smoothie! Who are you calling big meatball?! I'm clearly just full-figured!"
Queen was absolutely furious, grabbing his Gatling gun and opening devastating fire on Smoothie.
DING! DING! DING! DING!
The dense barrage of bullets struck Smoothie like hitting an impenetrable iron wall, bouncing off uselessly and clattering to the ground.
"Are you trying to be funny? This kind of pathetic attack is completely ineffective against me..."
Before Smoothie could finish speaking, she suddenly frowned deeply, clutching her throat with a ferocious expression.
"Hahahaha! You absolute idiot! Did you think I hadn't considered this exact situation?"
Seeing his tactics work perfectly, Queen opened his mouth and laughed triumphantly, his tongue even turning wavy as it shook with amusement.
"Even if my Plague Bullets don't hit the body directly, the moment the warhead fragments, it releases viral gas that enemies unknowingly inhale!"
Queen awarded himself a perfect hundred points.
I'm truly worthy of being MADS's second smartest person.
No wait, I should definitely be in first place.
However, Queen's maniacal laughter completely froze on his face the very next second.
The suffering Smoothie suddenly grabbed both sides of her body with her hands and twisted hard, like wringing out a completely soaked towel.
WHOOSH! Her body instantly took on a twisted pretzel shape.
Simultaneously, drops of sickly green liquid seeped out from the twisted gaps.
As the toxins were expelled from her system, Smoothie's complexion immediately improved dramatically.
"I almost fell for your clever trick there."
Smoothie breathed out with obvious lingering fear.
The Wring-Wring Fruit's powerful "wringing" ability was the natural enemy of this type of poison-based attack.
"Next time, I won't let my guard down. Big meatball!"
Smoothie's eyes turned dangerously cold with murderous intent as she charged at Queen with her sword raised.
"Damn it all! I'm full-figured!"
Queen's body suddenly swelled and transformed into his intimidating brachiosaurus hybrid form.
"Brachio Bomber!"
Queen's right mechanical arm burst into brilliant flames as it smashed toward Smoothie with devastating force.
While the two All-Stars and Yamato found their respective challenging opponents, the other Beast Pirates fell into a significant disadvantage.
Missing Kai was equivalent to having to bear the threat of one additional Sweet Commander.
They could barely manage the situation at first, but as precious time passed, the shortage of high-end combat power began to show clearly.
Who's-Who, Black Maria, and Sasaki began getting injured one by one.
The other Tobiroppo were in even worse condition.
Yamato's side was indeed unstoppable in direct combat, but there were simply too many targets to eliminate.
Yes, she could smash a biscuit soldier with one powerful club swing.
But Cracker's speed of restoring biscuit soldiers wasn't slow either. He only needed to expend stamina to create biscuit soldiers endlessly.
"Namuji Hyoga!"
Yamato, transformed into her hybrid form, aimed forward and breathed out a thick stream of freezing air.
Wherever the freezing breath passed, the biscuit soldiers were all frozen completely in place.
Perfect opportunity!
"Divine Foot White Snake Drive!"
Yamato's feet exerted tremendous force, instantly pushing her speed to the absolute limit as she became a white flash weaving between the immobilized biscuit soldiers.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Yamato swung her kanabo with precision, smashing biscuit soldier after biscuit soldier into fragments.
"Useless! Useless! Useless!"
Cracker laughed triumphantly: "I can make as many of these biscuit soldiers as I want!"
With that declaration, he clapped his hands again with practiced rhythm.
In the blink of an eye, six more biscuit soldiers materialized before Yamato.
"So incredibly annoying."
Yamato was quite troubled by this endless cycle.
Individual biscuit soldiers were easy to deal with, multiple biscuit soldiers were also manageable.
But repeatedly appearing multiple biscuit soldiers were extremely troublesome.
Moreover, that cowardly biscuit man had four six-armed shield soldiers reserved beside him, protecting him thoroughly from direct attack.
Unless she could break through all the biscuit soldiers in one devastating strike, not giving Cracker time to react and create replacements.
Otherwise, this battle would forever be just her continuously destroying biscuit soldiers while Cracker continuously created them.
Until one side collapsed completely from exhaustion.
Compared to Yamato's frustration at being unable to break through the turtle shell defense, Queen was in a much worse situation.
Smoothie's Wring-Wring Fruit ability made half of Queen's capabilities essentially useless.
Facing Smoothie, who was immune to toxins, Queen had no choice but to engage in brutal close combat.
"Where the hell is that bastard Kai? Did that bastard King even bother to notify him?!"
Queen, who had been slashed with several small wounds by Smoothie, gritted his teeth internally but could only struggle to hold on.
On the other side, Smoothie, who had absorbed moisture from teammates and enemies to make herself and her weapon absolutely gigantic, looked completely relaxed.
Having become a towering juice giant, she wasn't even afraid of Queen's proud Ancient Zoan strength.
"Big meatball, it seems like you're going to lose this war." A confident smile played at the corner of Smoothie's mouth.
Once Snack defeated Who's-Who and freed up his hands, the scales of victory would completely tip toward the Charlotte Family.