"I won't lose to anyone when it comes to strength!"
Xia Le smiled faintly and swung his right fist.
Bang!
The fist, as enormous as a house, collided with his and stopped dead, unable to advance another inch.
Luffy was startled.
He hadn't expected the man's sheer strength to rival his own even after he had turned into a giant.
After all, gigantification with the awakened Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika made him a true giant, rather than simply filling his body with air.
The increase in strength was unimaginable.
Yet the man before him could still match it.
Then his right hand suddenly trembled, and surprise flashed in his eyes.
At some point, Xia Le had moved to his wrist, then launched into a Shoulder Throw.
Even more astonishingly, his enormous body actually lifted off the ground, forcibly heaved up by the man's brute strength.
How strong is he, exactly?!
In a blink, the world spun, and Luffy slammed into the ground with a thunderous crash, shattering the earth.
"Being bigger doesn't mean you're stronger!"
"Of course, if you insist on comparing size..."
"I'm bigger than you!"
Xia Le laughed loudly.
He twisted his neck and tilted his head toward the sky. At that moment, his head rapidly expanded, his black hair turning into black ropes that swayed and writhed.
His body grew rapidly as well, reaching a hundred meters in an instant.
But even then, it was far from over.
Larger, larger, larger!
Xia Le's body rapidly grew, as though an endless wind were pouring into him and inflating him, or limitless flesh were rapidly forming and filling his body.
One hundred meters, two hundred, three hundred, four hundred.
Only when he reached five hundred meters did he stop.
A massive five-hundred-meter body—he had already surpassed ordinary Giants.
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