February 2, Sea Circle Calendar 1521, eight in the morning.
Alubarna, Alabasta's Royal Capital, basked in brilliant morning light.
Palm trees swayed gently in the breeze along both sides of the streets, while the distant palace domes gleamed pale gold in the sunlight.
In the Royal Palace's garden, a female Giant with long golden hair sat on the ground near the edge, hugging her knees and leaning sideways against the palace wall.
The palace guards of Alabasta couldn't help having their eyes drawn to that enormous, beautiful figure... after all, at seventeen meters tall, she was hard to miss.
Still, they were used to the sight. This female Giant was named Gerd, and she was a good friend of Princess Vivi.
She was also the main reason King Sephiroth was called the "World's Strongest Man"-the Great Angel's Giant girlfriend.
That alone was enough to shatter an ordinary human's worldview.
At the moment, Gerd leaned against the palace wall with one arm resting on the large outdoor platform extending from the building, watching the girls chatting in the gazebo at its edge with a contented expression.
Gerd had exceptionally long legs. Of her seventeen-meter height, more than ten meters were legs. Sitting on the ground, her shoulders rose just above the Open-Air Terrace atop the palace's second floor, putting her face level with the gazebo.
Inside the gazebo, Princess Vivi was treating her friends to morning tea. Just watching the girls chat and laugh was thoroughly enjoyable for Gerd.
"That Weevil guy calls himself Whitebeard II. He's even taller than Whitebeard himself!"
Dressed in a short blue dress, Nami stood at the table, animatedly recounting the Whitebeard Pirates Civil War.
"...Yamato leaped up and brought her weapon down, but that fat guy blocked her dead steady. He didn't take a single