Donquixote Family Showdown

"Damn it... Young people these days have less and less respect for the elderly." Snow Hag struggled to straighten up and rubbed her neck, which had just been twisted.

Due to the atrophy caused by aging, Snow Hag's head appeared very large, her eyes were sunken in their sockets and almost invisible, and her lips and cheeks were also somewhat shrunken, but her cheekbones were still very high.

Sig also somewhat surprised, having initially thought it was Monet —but in fact, both Monet and Sugar joined Donquixote Family after Corazon's death.

"I initially thought he was a newcomer who hadn't been training long enough to acquire his abilities, but it turns out he's just an old man whose stamina is declining." Sig said this, but his body remained alert as he raised his fists in a defensive stance once more.

"These young people nowadays, they really know how to talk," Snow Hag said sarcastically again.

Sig didn't launch another attack, but instead sighed and said, "One Logia Devil Fruit user, two young people with Paramecia Devil Fruits... children. It seems the Donquixote Family is also planning to train their juniors..."

"I'm not a child!" Baby-5 shouted at Sig in dissatisfaction after hearing this.

"Only children say things like that..." Reiju said, leaving a trail of venomous claw marks. Baby-5 quickly dodged away.

"To hone the younger generation? You could say that, so there's really no need for us to use the power of the New Generation to fight over a small country..." Snow Hag continued, following up on Sig's words.

The tense atmosphere between the two sides seemed to have eased somewhat.

If both sides are indeed looking to hone their newcomers, it would be a waste for them to fight to the death here.

At this moment, Snow Hag extended her hand, making a gesture as if to shake hands—it seems that the older generation of pirates had this custom of using "shaking hands" as a symbol of "making peace."

Seeing Sig stopped maintaining his boxing stance and stepped forward to take Snow Hag's hand.

But at that moment, a ferocious look appeared on Snow Hag's face. "It seems Gage didn't teach you 'don't trust the enemy'!"

"Watch out!" Reiju exclaimed in surprise.

Sig felt a bone-chilling coldness coming from his palm. Then, the Snow Hag who was holding his hand turned into ice and snow and continued to expand, transforming from a height of about 1.5 meters into a snow monster that was half again as tall as Sig.

At this moment, Sig's entire arm was swallowed up by the Yeti's arm, and then the Yeti's other arm reached out and hugged Sig.

"Hmph! He actually fell for Snow Hag's 'Snowman's Embrace,' he's doomed!" Baby-5 said proudly.

Sig seemed not to have reacted before being directly embraced by the ice Monster.

"You bastards... Release Sig now, or else..." Reiju roared, her wings glowing with phosphorescence.

That's highly toxic fluorescent phosphorus powder!

"Are you... are you begging me? Well... it's not like I can't ask Snow Hag for you..." Baby-5 suddenly became embarrassed.

"Huh?" Reiju felt that this little girl seemed to have something wrong with her brain.

Before she could say anything more, a scream from an old woman rang out...

The "Yeti" then rapidly shrank, and the ice and snow that made up its body gradually melted away!

The Yeti quickly retreated, but as it took those few steps, ice and snow on its body continued to melt, shrink, and fall off.

The exposed Sig was now Battle Suit that was black with a hint of red...

Siegger immediately sensed the Snow Hag's intention to launch a Sig attack, but deliberately created an opening. After the Yeti trapped him, he immediately began to radiate heat from his entire body!

Sig's fire ability comes from the "Flame-Frog Fruit." Even if he ate it directly, it wouldn't be able to turn into a raging inferno like Logia Flame Fruit. Moreover, Sig didn't eat it directly, nor was it his primary training method.

After all, in Sig's view, "water + fire" is silly; at most, it only changes the temperature of the water and doesn't contribute much to its lethality.

However, when faced with the Snow-Snow Fruit, it completely overwhelmed its opponent!

If it were Aokiji, this amount of heat wouldn't even be a fraction of his cooling ability. However, not only is the Snow-Snow Fruit more susceptible to melting than the Ice-Ice Fruit, but Snow Hag is also old and frail, and her development and mastery of the Devil Fruit ability are far inferior to Aokiji's.

"Need Gage to teach me? I've never even trusted Gage..." Sig said dismissively.

At the Germa Kingdom headquarters, Gage, listening to the voice transmitted through the eavesdropping Den Den Mushi, smashed the Robot in front of him in a fit of impotent rage!

His suspicions had been growing stronger over the past few days, and now Sig had openly turned against him.

"Gage, should we remotely interfere with Sig's Battle Suit?" a researcher nearby asked in a low voice.

"Damn it!" Gage slapped him across the face, sending him spinning in mid-air, and yelled, "If you interfere with his Battle Suit now, what will happen to my children?"

Gage stared at the unconscious researcher, his eyes red.

Meanwhile, Sig, watching the surveillance footage, whispered, "That's right, you can't do anything to me!"

Gage:!!!

"Go get the anti-surveillance Den Den Mushi and search the place!" Gage immediately ordered a search, suspecting that Sig had left a surveillance Den Den Mushi there.

"Are you looking for a surveillance Den Den Mushi?"

No.

"I was just guessing."

Sig's three consecutive words further fueled Gage's anger, and Sig then imagined Gage swearing in the North Sea.

Meanwhile, Sig didn't stop there; he immediately chased after the Snow Hag who had dodged...

The Yeti's armor was utterly vulnerable in the hands of the heated Sig. After melting away and revealing its true form, the Snow Hag, in desperation, transformed its right arm, which was holding the staff, into a "Snow Snake" and stretched out. Armament Haki wrapped around the staff, and it struck Sig's head.

However, Sig dodged to the side, his right hand Armament Haki Infusion, turning the right glove of his Battle Suit black, and then he grabbed Snow Hag's Elementalization wrist.

Sig's Armament Haki is better at hardening; he can only barely manage to entangle it. Right now, Sig only wants to use Armament Haki to attack the Logia user's physical body, without needing to add much destructive power.

Snow Hag's wrist, which was being held, could no longer transform back into her original form from her Elementalization form. Although Sig's entanglement could not spread outwards, it could still emit flames—instantly, Snow Hag felt as if her wrist was being branded with a hot iron.

Even when Elementalization, the Snow-Snow Fruit is vulnerable to high temperatures. Snow Hag's arm couldn't maintain its Elementalization, and she was pulled towards Sig, only to be met directly by Sig's left straight punch...

Sig couldn't use Armament Haki binding techniques with both hands simultaneously, but his left fist was heating up, smashing several holes in Snow Hag's body with a "bang bang bang" sound. Although it didn't cause physical damage, Snow Hag completely withstood the elemental advantage attack caused by the high temperature melting snow.