"Are you ready for me to turn you into pulp with one punch?!"
Thunderous laughter echoed through the hall, making the entire Royal Palace hum.
Giant Man Buck stood like a mountain. On his iron-masked face, his bell-sized eyes brimmed with contempt and mockery for the tiny figure below.
He was strength incarnate! The power of the Ancient Zoan Giant Human Fruit had granted him destructive power and vitality among the greatest in the world. To him, everything this Marine brat had just done was nothing more than flashy, hollow tricks.
Silent annihilation? Some strange, unfathomable domain? Before absolute strength, they were all jokes!
"Lord Buck! Lord Buck! It's him! Kill him! Kill him for your king, now!"
King Bach, who had been so frightened he had collapsed into a limp heap, seemed to have found his last lifeline when his strongest backer appeared. He scrambled behind Buck's pillar-like calf, pointed at Yas, and let out a shrill, venomous roar.
The savagery and madness of a ruler returned to his face.
With Lord Buck here, his victory was certain! This Marine scum who had barged in would soon become a puddle of pulp, his bones shattered beyond recovery!
Yet faced with the terrifying pressure of this mountainous giant and King Bach's crazed shouting, Yas's expression did not change in the slightest.
He could not even be bothered with the fat pig hiding at the giant's feet.
His gaze slowly shifted from the throne, and for the first time, he looked directly at this so-called "Giant Man."
His ice-blue eyes were calm and still, as though he were appraising a slightly larger "toy."
"Oh?"
Yas finally spoke, his voice as casual as if he were asking for directions.
"So you're the one he relies on?"
"Hahahaha! That's right, brat!" Buck let