As his body expanded, Luffy, who had imagined himself as a dragon, was knocked away and fell from the sky.
Xia Le looked down, quickly bent over, and reached out with his right hand.
Then he caught Luffy in one grab and held him tightly.
"S-so big!"
Luffy cried out in shock.
Even as the wielder of the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika, making his body this big was no easy feat.
A creature this enormous simply defied imagination.
Then he abruptly shrank, sprinted across Xia Le's palm, and escaped.
Immediately afterward, he leaped high from a finger joint like an ant.
"Hahahahaha!"
His laughter rang out.
"You really are huge!"
Luffy marveled, extending his arms again, stretching them out and making them enormous.
In an instant, they had grown to match Xia Le's arms in size, swinging toward him through the air, wreathed in black-red lightning.
"What a troublesome fellow."
Xia Le spoke softly.
They were at the same level, and there was no way to settle the fight in such a short time.
Then he suddenly threw a punch.
His enormous fist swept aside the clouds and slammed forward.
Boom!
Electricity surged, and rings of ripples spread outward.
Explosive thunder rang out across the skies above the Sabaody Archipelago, accompanied by fierce winds. Even the surrounding sea churned, its waters rolling in wave after wave.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!
An unbroken series of collisions resounded among the clouds.
The two clashed head-on once again.
This time, Luffy's expression was grave, his gaze sharp.
He used all his strength, but his opponent's power was no weaker. Their battle was almost perfectly even.
"Hurricane!"
Xia Le opened his mouth and spat out endless wind blades, sending them slicing forward.
Luffy withdrew his fists, stretched his arms, and pulled down the