Logia is Invincible

Hancock's figure flashed as she dashed forward, dodging the shadow cast by a snow shovel, soared into the sky, and delivered a flying kick straight to Machvise's stomach. The ten-meter-tall snowman swayed all over and was actually kicked tumbling backward onto the ground.

An uproar of exclamation erupted from the spectator stands.

Machvise cried out in shock: "You could actually hit me!? Why, why aren't you frozen?"

"Haki!" Hancock did not panic in the slightest. Her master had already instructed her during training on how to handle potential Logia opponents. Even power users as formidable as Logias had weaknesses. Especially the larger the body, the larger the effective target area as well. By utilizing Haki, even a Logia user without a physical body could be struck just the same. Furthermore, Haki could be wrapped around projectiles to enhance their power.

Hancock nocked a bow and arrow, unleashing a rapid volley of shots at Machvise. The Haki-wrapped arrows struck the snowman's fur and were suddenly frozen solid. It was not that she missed, but rather that a thick layer of snow had coagulated across the surface of the opponent's body hair to serve as armor.

"Logia is invincible!" Machvise roared. "No matter how strong Haki is, it's useless if you can't hit me!"

A thick shell of ice congealed across his fur, and he swung a snow shovel, smashing it straight down at Hancock's head.

"Perfume Femur!" Hancock dodged the attack and kicked out, but only struck a layer of ice shell. Under the sunlight, the colorful ice shell shattered apart, just like a giant ice-sculpted snowman being kicked to pieces.

Yet at the moment of the fracture, Snowman Butcher Machvise's figure vanished, and an avalanche-like blizzard howled outward from within the ice shell.

"Freeze to death!" Machvise's frantic roar echoed from the wind, "I'll let you know what despair feels like!"

An astonishing burst of Haki erupted from Hancock's body. Instead of fleeing, she charged straight ahead against the blizzard, and suddenly rammed forward, meeting the gale head-on with her spiked helmet!

The howling blizzard vanished abruptly, and Snowman Butcher Machvise, blood spurting from his forehead, collapsed backward onto the ground with a panicked expression.

"Seastone?!" Machvise stared in disbelief at Hancock, who was stepping on top of him. "Why do you have Seastone?"

Hancock's stride was filled with arrogance. With her foot coated in Haki, she planted a deep footprint right onto Machvise's body.

"Mere Seastone—I, the snake princess, simply have it." Hancock's haughty voice echoed from inside the spiked helmet.

Machvise felt entirely limp all over before suddenly realizing that Hancock's helmet contained Seastone! No wonder she hadn't been frozen stiff, and why she was able to knock him over headfirst and disable his ability!

Seastone was the bane of devil fruit users. Once struck by Seastone, a Devil Fruit user would go completely limp and lose all ability to move, just like drowning. Although the traits of a Devil Fruit ability were still retained, they could not be deployed.

"How is that possible?" Machvise felt his worldview being completely upended. Prisoners wearing such helmets were all Devil Fruit users, and using a Seastone helmet was necessary precisely to seal away the opponent's abilities. Yet why could the opponent still move while wearing a Seastone helmet? And how could she still be this agile?

"Mere Seastone—I, the snake princess, couldn't care less!"

Amidst that haughty voice, Hancock delivered a midair kick that brought Machvise crashing to the ground with a resounding thud.

"If you truly were invincible, then you wouldn't have ended up appearing here, would you?" Hancock glanced at her two frozen younger sisters, her eyes filled with murderous intent.

Inhuman shrieks echoed across the arena.

Machvise's enormous soles twitched incessantly as Hancock mercilessly beat him down.

"This is a foul..." Machvise raised a hand and protested tremblingly.

He had figured it out: Hancock wasn't actually an ability user at all! But wearing a Seastone helmet as a hidden weapon was simply too insidious!

Saint Rosward and Shalria both hung their jaws open wide enough to stuff an egg inside.

Miming burst into roaring laughter. "Looks like I won the bet this time."

"Protest! Using Seastone against an ability user is a foul!" Saint Charmak wailed tearfully.

A group of Celestial Dragons cried out together: "Unfair!"

As a group of Celestial Dragons raised protests in unison, the arena supervisor had no choice but to rush over, drop to his knees, and look anxiously at Miming: "Saint Sanming, what do you think?"

Miming laughed heartily. "If you're willing to take off that helmet, I have no objections." With that, he fished out the helmet key and dangled it from his finger, swinging it back and forth.

"Now then, listen up—Gorgon must remove the Seastone helmet!" The host ordered someone to go and take off the Seastone helmet.

The helmet hit the ground, and Hancock closed her eyes, waiting for the person who removed the helmet to walk away.

"You're finished!" Without waiting for Hancock to turn around, Snowman Butcher Machvise activated his ability, whipping up a sky-full of blinding blizzard that blew toward Hancock. The surrounding temperature plummeted drastically; lacking the Seastone helmet, Hancock could be frozen solid just like anyone else!

Hancock spun around, flicked her long hair whipped up by the fierce gale, and opened her eyes.

Hancock declared: "Want to know the secret to why I, the snake princess, am this beautiful? It's because I possess triple the beauty!" Hancock formed her hands into a heart shape, aimed it at the snowman Machvise, and emitted an immensely sweet voice: "Love-Love Fruit, Mero Mero Mellow!"

A layer of pink suddenly lit up the sky-full of blizzard, and then the chilly wind abruptly turned warm.

"So beautiful--!" Ten thousand spectators across the entire arena exclaimed in unison. "Oh-hoo--!"

Miming admired the pink snowflakes. What a breathtaking sight.

As the pink receded, the snowflakes gradually turned into a withered, grayish hue, fluttering down softly just like dust.

Snowman Butcher Machvise's body also gradually turned gray, a portion of it still maintaining the shape of a scattered blizzard, before slowly transforming into solid stone.

"Truly... too beautiful!" Amidst Machvise's final words, his eyes had completely transformed into mesmerizing heart-shaped pupils that reflected Hancock's beauty, before turning entirely to stone.

Shalria was driven stark raving mad: "Why would a snowman get petrified?!"

Hancock let out a haughty huff: "I, the snake princess, am simply this beautiful! The sin of falling in love with me will turn your bodies into stone!" With that, she leaned backward into the air, striking an extremely contemptuous pose. Because Shalria was up in the high spectator stands, Hancock tilted her head back even further, thrusting her chest practically toward the blue sky while the tips of her hair nearly brushed the ground.

Shalria turned pale with fury. That accursed slave!

The Celestial Dragons were the heavens, yet this stinking wretch dared to use such a posture to look down upon the heavens! To look down upon all Celestial Dragons!

Miming raised his hand high toward Hancock, then dropped his thumb straight down.

Hancock spun around with a kick, sending Machvise's gigantic stone head flying into the air to land on the ground, shattering into several pieces.

"Let's go!" Shalria was practically fuming to death. Glancing over, she saw that Saint Rosward had also turned to stone.

A chorus of screams erupted from the stands. From the arena supervisor to the surrounding spectators and guards... half of the people had turned to stone!

Saint Charmak stood with his mouth wide open, having also turned to stone. The Celestial Dragons who had been petrified once before had now been turned to stone all over again!