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Big Mom, who was working with Kaido to besiege Doffy, faltered as her Observation Haki caught that familiar, dangerous presence.
She spun around, bringing the longsword "Athena" in her hand
across her body.
Almost the instant her muscles tensed, that zigzagging silver-white trail was already before her.
A crackling blade went straight for her thick neck, barely caught by the giant sword she held across her body.
A cold sensation crept up the blade, making the skin over her massive body suddenly tighten.
"Rossi?!"
An exploding burst of light swallowed her vision, and thunder hammered her eardrums.
The current spreading along the giant sword made the weapon hum low, as though a living creature were **.
The lightning coalesced, outlining a humanoid figure far smaller than the towering silhouettes around him, which easily stood seven or eight meters tall-he only reached about chest height on an ordinary person.
"...No."
Once she saw that her attacker was merely a boy with short, upright black hair, wearing a dark red vest and faded blue trousers, that momentary panic immediately burned into humiliation and fury.
She exerted her wrist, sending the giant sword through a heavy arc.
"I'll crush you!!"
The boy's lips curved faintly.
He arched backward, letting the slash, powerful enough to split a reef, sweep just above his nose.
After all these years, this woman's movements have only grown clumsier.
The consciousness occupying this body assessed her calmly.
Although he could only draw on limited perceptive and intimidating auras, his composure in controlling the battle had not diminished at all.
"Slippery little bug-"
Her slash missed, and rage drove her to unleash a power that movement could not evade:
"Kneel, or perish?!"
The question erupted with the power of the Soul-Soul Fruit, mingling with her savage intimidating aura like