While Meow Jūshirō was beating Cracker down, Charlotte Daifuku and Charlotte Oven had also found themselves in a tough fight.
In terms of Devil Fruit abilities, both the Lamp Genie Daifuku summoned and Oven's ability to heat objects to extreme temperatures ranked among the stronger Paramecia abilities, but neither was of any use against the Dudu Bear Klee Meow summoned.
Daifuku's Lamp Genie was made of smoke. Apart from the drawback that he could not stray too far from his summoner, he could basically be considered a weaker version of Smoker...
Well, at this point in time, he should have been a stronger version of Smoker.
Unfortunately, just as Smoker's Smoke-Smoke Fruit was completely suppressed by Ace's Flame-Flame Fruit, Daifuku's Lamp Genie was equally helpless against the Dudu Bear made of flames.
Although the Lamp Genie's slashes were powerful, the huge blade in his hands inflicted no damage when it struck Dudu Bear, while Dudu Bear's flames could burn the smoky Lamp Genie.
Most importantly, Daifuku could not get too far away from the Lamp Genie either. Dudu Bear could completely ignore the Lamp Genie's attacks and go straight after him, the summoner...
So, no matter how one looked at it, Dudu Bear was much stronger than the Lamp Genie.
As for Charlotte Oven's Devil Fruit ability, it was even more useless...
When had anyone ever seen flames go out because the temperature was too high?
Still, he was slightly better off than Daifuku in that the Heat-Heat Fruit granted him immunity to high temperatures, so the flames on Dudu Bear posed no threat to Oven either.
Thus, at first, the Charlotte brothers actually held a slight advantage.
Oven, who did not fear flames, kept Dudu Bear occupied, while Daifuku tried several times to take the opportunity to break through