"Denial is meaningless."
The girl with Sakura's face coldly lowered her gaze. "According to the knowledge input by Vegapunk, you are undoubtedly the mother of this body, both ethically and genetically."
"Alright, stop talking."
Sakura, covering her heart with one hand, raised the other to stop the other from using her face and voice to relate cruel facts so coldly, indifferently, and flatly.
Judging by the life span ratio of giants, she hadn't even reached adulthood yet.
But now, at the tender age of eighteen years and one hundred twenty months, she was about to become the mother of a twenty-meter-tall child.
Something like this… No way she would accept it!!!
"Mother and daughter locked in mortal combat! Such moving art!"
Sommers, having climbed out of the pit, laughed heartily, spreading his arms. "Well then, begin! God's Attendant Blade member, S-Sato Sakura!"
Under Sommers' command, Sato Sakura spread her wings. A ball of fire ignited behind her. She reached into the research facility's metal wall, pulling out a giant spiked club and smashing it down towards Sakura.
A rainbow gleam flashed in Sakura's pupils. Her future-sight Observation Haki had already perceived the direction of the attack. The giant sword in her hand rotated, meeting the spiked club.
Clang-!
A metallic clash erupted from the point where the two weapons collided. Two equally enormous forces conflicted, tearing the entire research facility in half along the axis of their clash.
The mere reverberations of the clash caused the vast island of Punk Hazard to tremble violently.
All around, giants and nightmare monsters locked in combat involuntarily paused their struggle for victory, turning their gazes toward the distant research facility.
"Monsters, truly monsters!" The disheveled Sommers used thorns to push aside the collapsing ruins of the research facility, cursing loudly.
S-Sato Sakura was one thing… he and Killingham had witnessed her entire process from embryo to person, knowing the terrifying power combining giant genes and Lunarian genes could bring.
But how? How could that woman opposite? With that utterly ordinary body, how could she contend in strength with an artificial weapon that incorporated her own genes spliced with two major races?
"It's coming again. Hurry and run. Otherwise, getting caught between these two monsters, even if we don't die, we'll be tortured."
Killingham, his body already fully restored, had long been fleeing with his trident, covering hundreds of meters in just a few seconds.
No need to outrun the enemy's attack… just outrun your own companions.
"Hey, why didn't you warn me earlier?"
Sommers, suddenly realizing, fled as well, but a sudden surge of blazing light sliced him cleanly in half, the cut smooth, blood spraying.
Behind him, the giant iron club and Kumotsuna clashed fiercely. Amidst the sharp, shattering sounds, searing Armament Haki erupted violently.
"Get… down!"
Sakura raised her iron fist. Muscles beneath her slender frame bulged.
Boiling Chakra turned to steam, jetting from her elbow, propelling, accelerating… Boom!
[Boil Release: Unrivalled Strength]
Since coming to this world, after obtaining the Giant Royalty constitution and the Boil Release specialized for explosive strength, this was the first time someone could match Sakura's power, forcing her to use double burst.
The massive Sato Sakura was smashed into the ground. In pain, her eyes began turning crimson.
Amidst the tearing sounds, horns sprouted from her forehead, and her body gradually became covered in jet-black scales.
"What is this?" Sakura frowned.
The ground flowed like soft mud. Pressing down on her opponent, Sakura's feet sank into the mire.
In a moment of silence, Sakura suddenly looked up. Her Observation Haki saw the claw breaking through the earth, already close at hand.
Without hesitation, she threw a Flying Thunder God kunai. The phantom light of space-time carried Sakura flashing hundreds of meters away.
"Roar-!"
The ground where she had stood was now pierced by a claw, as if it had swum up from the earth.
A hundreds-of-meters-tall beast propped itself up on the mountains, standing tall against the gloomy sky, casting a hungry gaze upon the beings below.
"On the sixth day, God created it from clay. Among all God's creations, it shall be chief!"
Sommers, having fled several kilometers with half his body, pieced himself back together. He and Killingham sat at a pristine tea table taken from a dream, singing ancient verses in an admiring tone.
That beast roaring on the distant land… this was the final trial the World Government and Celestial Dragons had left for Sakura.
No need to restrict her abilities, no need to deploy massive forces to defend the island. Just plucking a fragment from the long river of time could easily create such a terrifying guard dog.
You want to seize this island? Then go ahead!
If you have the ability to devour the power woven from the weight of eight hundred years of order!
"Truly worthy of you!"
Sakura sighed softly, looking at the scaled beast charging from amidst the dark mountains.
Its claws swept through the air. Suddenly, the sky and earth overturned… literally. The entire island flipped. The earth shook as if trembling, the raging winds wailing.
Seawater surged, flooding the island. The land, already ravaged by battle, sank into destruction.
"What is that?!"
On the Leviathan, the petite ship spirit and Kuina clung to each other, mouths agape, watching the island flip.
Similarly in the sky, Dragon and Garp gradually ceased fighting, also watching the abnormality below with grim expressions.
"Stop fighting. Let's go save people!" Dragon let out a sigh.
The impact of an attack of this scale wouldn't just affect the Marines frozen by Aokiji, but also the Revolutionaries still fleeing on the ice.
Garp didn't respond, but his body was already using Shave to charge toward the ice below. "Kuzan! Rescue!"
The old man's hoarse roar made the battling lightning and ice separate. Both looked back, seeing the ice field disintegrating due to the island's inversion.
"Wow, the surface-dwellers are hiding such a terrifying weapon?!" Enel's eyes widened. "But isn't this too wasteful?"
"Hey, pirate!" Aokiji gritted his teeth. "Truce for now. You need to save people too, right?"
"Hah, as if I'd..." Enel raised his head, the muscle on his right cheek twitching.
About to mock Aokiji, a sudden chill shot up his spine. The ferocious grin of a pink-haired girl flashed in his memory.
Driven by survival instinct, he didn't hesitate, transforming into lightning to appear beside Dragon and join their rescue efforts.
With Enel's radar-like precise Observation Haki scans, the frozen personnel from both sides were rescued. The giants on the island actively withdrew. Pirates and Marines fled together toward the outer edges of the ice field.
On the island, standing amidst the churning seawater using chakra, Sakura looked up at the beast.
"Can't let you keep causing trouble like this. Otherwise, my territory will be ruined!"
Rarely, she traced a line in the air with her hand. Golden script blossomed in Sakura's grasp.
'System, how many achievement points do I have left!'
[Informing, achievements obtained...]
'Skip the useless stuff, just tell me how many!'
[Hmph, five hundred points!]
Putting away her Kumotsuna cord, Sakura took a deep breath, her smile gradually turning bloodthirsty.
"Five minutes? Enough! Activate Celestial Manifestation!"
[Yes! Achievement point deduction beginning. Celestial Manifestation released!]
Rampant dark lightning shattered the ground and shot skyward. Frost began to cover the girl's cold face.
From the dead silence, a high-pitched, sharp sound rang out.
Her body expanded rapidly, transforming in an instant from two meters tall into a terrifying form rivaling the beast before her.
Pure white horns rubbed, multiplied, grew. The heavens were dominated by grand, majestic power. Surging wild thunder and raging storms were grasped by the raised giant hand, forged into a mythic sword that cleaved the world.
Blazing heat and freezing air spewed and intertwined, encircling the giant, forming a majestic crown.
The special giant race that shook the world once again appeared upon the seas. Scholars once called them...
[Majin].