Chapter 227: Linlin... Was Taken Out!!
In the ice-and-snow-covered, dilapidated battlefield, the head chef of the Big Mom Pirates, Charlotte Linlin's first husband, and Charlotte Perospero's father, Streusen, moved quickly across the giant rocks. He gripped a short sword in one hand, his aged face covered in sweat, his expression one of utter terror.
"How could she suddenly have a hunger pang at a time like this, Linlin!!"
"Is it because the pressure of facing Garp and Aokiji at the same time was too great, and she consumed too much of her fat stores and energy?"
As the guide who had set Big Mom on the path of a pirate, and the one who had accompanied her the longest, Streusen knew very well that when Big Mom had her hunger pangs, she was terrifying, but in that state, she could only run rampant in Totto Land. If it were anywhere else, her hunger pangs were her weakness, and she could be easily targeted. Not to mention, she was now on this dangerous battlefield, simultaneously facing Garp, who had made the Pirate King Roger's life hell, and the renowned Admiral Aokiji, who had defeated countless pirates!
If he couldn't get Big Mom back to normal soon, even with her "iron balloon" defense, even in the most optimistic scenario, she wouldn't last ten minutes.
Streusen was not the only one rushing in Big Mom's direction. Charlotte Cracker and Snack were also advancing at an extremely high speed. Smoothie and the other top fighters were all tied up, and even Charlotte Katakuri was locked in a fierce battle.
Just then, Louis slowly landed near the battered Big Mom. He slowly folded his wings and silently watched the scene of the master and his disciple beating up the old woman.
"She had a fit on the battlefield and turned into a punching bag?"
"A bit of a disgrace, isn't it, Big Mom—"
Even though he himself had been dragged into this war, Louis had still been hoping that Big Mom could inflict massive damage on the Marines, preferably by taking out the one-armed Aokiji, or by taking Garp down with her.
But now, on this battlefield, it was still Louis who had dealt the most damage and taken the MVP. Kaido had been slacking off in the first half, throwing his fight with Fujitora. When he finally realized Big Mom was in mortal danger and wanted to help, he was desperately held back. And Big Mom herself had gone offline mid-battle, turning into an AI-controlled bot, and was on the verge of feeding the enemy a kill.
Then, Louis just watched as the several powerful combatants of the Big Mom Pirates rushed toward her like moths to a flame. In the end, they were either sent flying by a casual punch or frozen by the extreme cold, forced to watch helplessly as their mother was beaten black and blue. Before he knew it, the only one on this battlefield who could save Big Mom was Louis himself. And as for him, he remembered very clearly his purpose in throwing Oven and Perospero to the G-1 branch. There was naturally no possibility of him saving her from this predicament.
Compared to saving her, Louis was more inclined to wait for Garp and the other to finish her off, and then go in to clean up.
Then, Louis sat down cross-legged on the ground, summoned back his spear, and stuck it and the Seven Star Sword into the ground beside him.
"GIVE ME CAKE!!"
Big Mom, having lost her mind and her body having reverted to its youthful state, was rampaging everywhere. With every move, she caused the already teetering ground to disintegrate again and successively collapse.
Aokiji skated across the azure glacier, flipping to dodge Big Mom's one after another slaps. He extended his ice-forged hand, and from it spewed an extreme low temperature and cold air, forming a thick ice crystal that restricted her movement.
As a top-tier powerhouse, even though Big Mom had lost her mind, her combat instincts were still extremely strong. Coupled with her monstrous physique, if she were to hit him, Aokiji would still be injured. For him, who still had to face two top-tier powerhouses later, this was something he had to avoid if he could.
A burly figure like a brown bear leaped high, instantly flying several dozen meters. He appeared at Big Mom's side, twisted his body, and swung his iron fist, which was wreathed in Conqueror's Haki, down at her face.
"Fist Bone: Impact!"
CRACK!
The iron fist, wreathed in black and red arcs of electricity, sent out a fierce punch-gale from a distance. Combined with the Conqueror's Haki, it formed a destructive blow powerful enough to pierce mountain ranges and landed unreservedly on Big Mom's face.
With one blow, the atmosphere rippled, and a near-vacuum zone abruptly appeared. The terrifying punch sent Big Mom flying, an expression of extreme pain on her unconscious face. Crimson blood overflowed from her mouth, blossoming like a bloody rose. Under the massive shockwave, Big Mom bounced across the ravine-filled ground like a skipping stone, creating one huge pit after another. In the end, she was deeply embedded in the cliff wall of a several-hundred-meter-wide canyon, her blood-stained head hanging low.
"Cough, cough—"
From the human-shaped hole in the cliff, a violent cough was heard. Big Mom abruptly raised her head, her face once again twisting due to the intense pain, and she coughed up another large mouthful of blood.
"GARP!!"
"I've never been so seriously injured in my life!"
Big Mom, awakened by the mortal crisis, had flames of rage practically erupting from her eyes, igniting the world. She let out an abnormally furious roar. "YOU DAMNED BASTARDS!!"
In mid-air, Garp, who was moving at high speed with Geppo, saw this, and a subtle change came over his blood-stained face. "My punch actually woke her up? I should have held back a little—"
Big Mom, in extreme anger, pulled her four limbs from the cliff wall while panting heavily. Then, from her head, she took Napoleon, which had at some unknown point turned back into a captain's hat. After wreathing the blade in Conqueror's Haki, she swung a blow at the high-speed attacking Garp.
"Spear of Elbaf: Ikoku!"
The "Giant's Spear," wreathed in black and red arcs of electricity, streaked across the atmosphere. After piercing through the cliff wall in front, it instantly enveloped Garp.
"The opportunity I just gained... am I going to lose it?" A hint of gloom appeared on Garp's face. Immediately after, he clenched his fist again, and black and red arcs of electricity crackled around it. He shattered the "Giant's Spear" with a single punch.
In that instant, the shockwave shattered, disrupting the high-altitude airflow, and the black and red lightning flickered and disappeared. But it was this one blow that had made Garp pause for an instant, buying a moment for Big Mom.
She broke free from the deep pit in the cliff and, stepping on the now-humanized, panting Zeus, slowly rose.
"Ma~ma~mamama."
"While I was asleep just now, you two beat me up pretty badly, Ka—"
Before her words could fall, a subtle change had already come over her expression. She abruptly looked at the cliff wall in front of her. A several-meter-thick ice spear had pierced through it and, amidst the scattering debris, was reflected in her eyes.
"Prometheus!!"
The next moment, her roar echoed in the canyon-like fissure, making the miniature sun in the distance tense up in a human-like way and desperately increase its speed.
Just as Prometheus appeared in her sight, an extreme low temperature spread over, covering her body in a thick layer of hard ice. Although this hard ice was shattered by her brute force in just a moment, a tall, lanky figure had already appeared from the ice spear. He clenched his iron fist, and Haki lightning flickered and jumped.
"Just stay quiet! Charlotte Linlin!" Aokiji's cold voice sounded, reaching her ears. Then, before she could respond, the fist wreathed in Haki lightning had already fallen.
BOOM!
A giant roar suddenly erupted. A tyrannical shockwave spread, creating a visible wave of air in the atmosphere and shattering several nearby cliff walls from a distance.
BOOM!
With a huge sound, Big Mom instantly plummeted, falling straight toward the bottom of the canyon. In pain, she let out a roar. "Aokiji, you damned bastard—"
Immediately after, the rocks that had been shattered by the powerful shockwave also fell, forming a sky-blotting rockslide that buried her. Under the huge roar, her voice could not be heard.
After a moment, a burst of Conqueror's Haki erupted. Black and red lightning pierced through the falling, broken rocks, reaching to the clouds. Big Mom, looking utterly wretched, swung Napoleon, shattering the huge rocks one by one and turning them into vision-obscuring debris and dust that covered the bottom of the canyon, which had not been submerged by seawater.
Just as she was about to let out another curse, a fatal sense of crisis came from above, enveloping her and making her face change.
She saw that the thick dust had been pierced through. Garp and Aokiji's figures tore out, and two iron fists wreathed in terrifying lightning were smashing down at her from above.
"Fist Bone: Impact!!"
The intense mortal crisis made Big Mom subconsciously raise Napoleon, wreath it in Conqueror's Haki, and meet them head-on without showing any weakness.
CRACK—
A terrifying collision erupted from the bottom of the canyon, which had been opened by the aftershocks of the battle, shattering everything around from a distance.
BOOM!
Garp's gaze fell on Big Mom's face, who was gritting her teeth and holding on for dear life. "Just be buried here, Charlotte Linlin," he said coldly.
"Don't even think about it!!" Big Mom's arms were taut, her face ferocious, the veins on her forehead bulging. In her hands, her Homie Napoleon was gradually bending, letting out a series of wails. "It hurts so much, Mama!!"
Garp and Aokiji had unleashed their full power. Even a top-tier fighter like Big Mom could not block them at all.
CLANG—
With a crisp sound, Big Mom's eyes widened, her face filled with disbelief. Napoleon, who had been with her for many years, had shattered with a crack, turning into a shower of metal fragments that flew out. Before she could react, Garp's and Aokiji's iron fists came crashing down, smashing solidly into her face.
A powerful shockwave and Haki, like a tidal wave, bombarded her body and mind.
"..."
The powerful, dissipating Haki directly created a bottomless, dark abyss in the ground. Rolling heatwaves and poisonous gases rose. In an instant, Big Mom's eyes rolled back, and she once again lost consciousness, carried by the massive impact as she fell into the bottomless abyss.
On the ground, Louis, who had sensed all this with his Observation Haki, opened his eyes and, using the Seven Star Sword, slowly stood up.
"Still couldn't take one of them out in the end— What a pity, Charlotte Linlin."
In the distance, Katakuri's eyes widened. His trident, Mogura, swung through empty air, and his entire body was sent flying by the war hammer, which was wreathed in flowing Armament Haki and a gray stream of light. The tall figure cut through the air, crashing through a dilapidated pirate ship.
After a moment, Katakuri sat up from the ruins, his head lowered, half his face buried in shadow. "Mama... has been defeated." After a long while, he raised his head and said in a low voice. For some reason, in addition to sadness, his tone also contained a hint of something indescribable.
In a corner of the battlefield, Kaido, who had just sent Fujitora flying and made him crash through a large patch of rock, seemed to sense something and subconsciously stopped. The next moment, he threw back his head and let out a roar of grief and anger.
"LINLIN... WAS TAKEN OUT!!"
Kaido's roar made the executives of the Big Mom Pirates, who were on the battlefield, let out sounds of disbelief.
"Hey, hey, that's a lie, right?!"
"Mama... she was actually taken out!"
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