"Giant Pistol!!"
Boom!! The two enormous arms clenched into fists and collided again.
Under the tremendous impact, the gigantic mechanical arm Kid had built from countless swords, spears, and other weapons finally shattered into pieces.
"Crap!"
Countless twisted, broken weapons rained down. In his widening eyes, a giant fist spun through the air and came crashing toward him!
Bang!!
Kid flew backward as if he'd been hit head-on by a semi-truck, slamming into a tree trunk and getting embedded in it.
"Looks like mine's stronger!" Luffy grinned, raising his Gear Third giant arm.
Just as he charged forward again to finish the fight with his opponent, who was stuck in the tree trunk and unable to break free—
Whoosh!
"Crap, am I starting to deflate?"
Looking at his enormous hand, now covered in deep cuts, Luffy frowned. Then his entire body began to shrink.
He was nearly in front of his opponent, but hurriedly slammed on the brakes, dragging his feet across the ground.
"What the hell is this? Did you shrink, idiot?"
Watching Luffy shrink down to the size of a child, Kid gave a vicious grin and struggled to pull one arm free before activating his power.
The weapons scattered across the ground immediately flew toward him, then shot at the little figure in front of him.
"Run, run!"
Luffy jumped in fright and sprinted away, darting through the rain of swords and spears flying toward Kid.
Even as he ran, he didn't forget to explain himself and answer his opponent's question.
"This is the price of getting bigger! Now I can only wait for my body to recover!"
"What a stupid ability."
Kid muttered a curse, grabbed a sword, and stuck it into the tree trunk to lever himself out.
"Straw Sword!"
Hawkins, in his Falling