"Hmm???"
With his hands in his pockets, Austin looked at the little brat before him, who had horns on his head and was clearly much bigger than the Giant race children beside him.
"I've never seen you before. You must've joined recently, right? Tell me!!!"
As a member of the Ancient Giant race, Loki could be said to have inherited his father Harald's talent.
When it came to ferocity, it was in his bones.
"Well..."
Austin rubbed his chin. Looking at the hostile-faced Loki, he vanished from where he stood.
Before Loki could react, he had appeared on the small hill beside him, at exactly the same height as Loki's head.
Though Loki found this fantastical ability surprising, he felt even more like he was being toyed with.
"What the hell are you doing...?"
Loki was extremely displeased at being toyed with by a Tontatta. He immediately reached out his hand.
But Austin casually extended a finger as though dealing with a child, a friendly smile on his lips.
"This is why..."
As black matter and Conqueror's Haki wrapped around it, he lightly flicked his finger through the air.
"What is this...?"
Loki was just about to retort when he froze in place the next second. The thunderous explosion from behind him left him stunned.
Seeing Austin's gentle smile, Loki stiffly turned around.
In that instant just now—
The sea and sky had split apart...
A rift hundreds of meters long stretched out before them, filled with pitch-black spatial cracks that prevented the seawater from closing back together.
The clouds in the sky had been completely shredded, while a long gash had been torn open above the massive chasm in the sea.
The sight made Loki's snot run.
Austin, however, merely said calmly,
"Well... I guess this is why I