"What was that?"
The dark shape falling from the sky quickly caught the attention of a handful of people nearby.
But it was far too fast. Before they could react, an earth-shaking crash had already thundered across the entire battlefield.
Boom!
Huge, spiderweb-like cracks split the ground as dust billowed everywhere. Dozens of people failed to get out of the way and were crushed into pulp by the tremendous impact.
"Mamamama!"
Before the dust could settle, Big Mom strode out of it.
Aside from a few tears in her clothes, there was scarcely a trace of blood anywhere on her. Under countless terrified, stunned gazes, she burst into crazed laughter.
"That felt wonderful! Shame it's still so hard to judge where I'll land. I only crushed a few worthless little grunts..."
Falling from ten thousand meters in the air had clearly done not the slightest harm to the woman known as the "iron balloon."
Perospero, on the other hand, had already passed out, even with Big Mom's fat cushioning his fall.
But whether he lived or died was clearly of little importance. From the glacier to the foot of the fortress, almost everyone on both sides temporarily stopped fighting and turned their eyes toward Big Mom.
"That's..."
"Another of the Three Emperors—Big Mom!"
"Damn it! Didn't she turn down Kaido's offer of an alliance? What's she doing here?"
After a brief silence, the entire battlefield erupted into an uproar.
The Marines' morale fell into disarray. Even Sengoku, transformed into a golden Buddha, looked grim. The Beasts Pirates, who had been losing ground, reacted in exactly the opposite way, bursting into deafening cheers.
"Big Mom..."
Kaido, however, looked nowhere near as pleased as his men. He turned toward Big Mom, several hundred meters away, and asked coldly:
"What are you