Seeing Loa's shock, Shanks found it a little strange.
"I know Titans are terrifying. If left unchecked, they could wipe out the entire New World. But they aren't overwhelmingly strong on their own. You don't need to be this scared, do you?"
As Shanks saw it, the Titans he had only heard about, never seen, weren't all that strong. Loa was overreacting.
And in fact, Shanks was right. His Cosmic Descent hadn't hurt Hook just now; it had only broken some of the restraints binding him.
But judging by Hook's attacks on Momonga and Tony, he was simply enormous and immensely strong.
Apart from his thick skin, he had no special abilities. Forget Loa—even a Devil Fruit User with a strange ability could teach him a lesson. Teach him how to be a Titan, that was.
Actually killing him was another matter. Never mind the uncanny resilience they had just witnessed; even his defenses alone would be hard to break.
Shanks's words snapped Loa out of it. He blinked slowly.
Oh, right. This was the One Piece World!
These couldn't be the monsters he knew, the ones that created and destroyed worlds and toured the universe in their spare time.
Take Momonosuke, who absolutely had to die. He had eaten an Artificial Devil Fruit called the Azure Dragon Fruit, but was that thing really an azure dragon?
Loa, for one, would never acknowledge that piece of trash as his people's great totem.
In other words, the so-called legendary creatures of the One Piece World followed the same unreliable conventions as ever.
If that was true of the azure dragon, it should be true of Titans too.
"Ah, sorry. I got them mixed up." Loa scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "I once read that Titans created all things and