Vic was not surprised. He casually twirled his sword a few times, and several more Sword Gang flew towards various parts of the giant.
Although Bullet knocked several more of his attacks away, a few still managed to slip through and strike his body. Vic's attacks, which weren't imbued with Haki, didn't leave any damage on the giant, demonstrating the strength of that Haki defense.
Bullet wasn't one to be passive. After all of Vic's slashes landed on him, he took a lunge forward, causing the entire island to tremble. His enormous fist, carrying a powerful gust of wind, propelled the air towards Vic. Although he was a giant, his speed was not slow; Vic could even hear the whistling sound of the fist.
Vic immediately drew Allen's swords, wrapped them with Haki, and crossed them in front of him, but at that moment, the fist was already inches away.
Vic was sent flying off the island by the mountain-sized fist. This force was no longer the physical strength of Bullet's body; it was fighting with the potential energy of a mountain, equivalent to being hit by a huge mountain.
Fortunately, Vic was only knocked away and could gradually dissipate the force, so he wasn't seriously injured. He stomped around in the air a few times and returned to the island.
This time, Vic didn't land on the ground, but floated at the height of the giant's head. His Geppo was already mastered, and he could float in the air with just a slight movement of his toes.
Vic paused briefly in front of Bullet, then rapidly tapped his toes dozens of times in the air, instantly disappearing from his original spot. When he reappeared, he was already behind the giant, with two huge wounds on the giant's neck. Even with Haki defense, it had been cleaved open by Vic.
Although the wound looks large, it's just a cut on an artery compared to a giant's.
However, the Titan has no arteries, and the wound was still far from the main body of Barrett inside. The Titan seemed to be stunned for a moment, and purple energy flickered within the wound.
Bullet's neck wound was completely healed by the power of the Combine-Combine Fruit, and his Haki returned. He then turned around and slapped Vic, who was still in the air, into the ground as easily as swatting a fly.
If it were the previous Bullet, Vic could use his elemental form to avoid the damage during flight. However, with the giant, it's a completely different story. Vic doesn't have time to use his elemental form at all, and he can't passively use it after being hit by the Haki hand.
Vic seemed to teleport to the ground, creating a crater larger than ever before. This time, the giant didn't stop; he took a step forward, bent down, and threw a punch at Vic in the crater.
Bullet's slap just now almost shattered the Haki covering Vic's body. If it had been shattered, he would have been injured. Seeing the fist falling from the sky, Vic simply vanished into the pit as if he had turned into an element.
"Boom"
A sound comparable to an exploding cannonball rang out, shaking the entire island. The cone-shaped crater was flattened, and the giant stood up and looked back into the distance.
Vic's figure reappeared there. The giant opened his arms and slapped Vic with his palms, using the same move as swatting a fly, but this time it was much more vicious than before.
Just now he only had a close encounter with the ground, but if he gets hit this time, his abdomen and back will be covered by a Haki wall-like palm. With that powerful potential energy, there's a high chance that Vic will be flattened.
Vic continued his aerial strides, escaping from the two shadows the instant the two hands clasped together, but the enormous sound left his ears ringing.
He hadn't gotten very far when a hand grabbed him from below. But just before being grabbed, Vic assumed a defensive stance, using the two swords crossed on his back and in his hands to block the giant hand's pressure. Bullet, on the other hand, wanted to crush Vic in his hand.
Seeing that the little insect in his hand was still resisting, Bullet began to exert more force on the arm and palm.
Vic could hear the friction and squeezing between his bones. He knew that this stalemate couldn't continue. He was just a mortal, and it wasn't wise to try to outmuscle this monster with his body.
The giant hand, covered in Haki, trapped inside, prevented Vic from escaping by transforming into his elemental form. After much deliberation, Vic activated all the Armament Haki around him, and Haki began to flow throughout his body.
"Bang"
The hand that was wrapped around Vic was completely shattered by his Ryuo, and Vic was finally freed. But he had only moved a little distance away from Bullet when Bullet's other intact hand clenched into a fist and punched him.
When the enormous fist was still five or six meters away from him, Vic turned around and tapped his toes dozens of times, instantly rising several meters in height, allowing the enormous fist to pass right under him.
Vic wasn't idle either. It wasn't in his nature to be attacked continuously without retaliating. He simply curled up his body, making it like a ball.
However, there were two top-tier Great Grade Sword wrapped around this ball of flesh, exuding an aura of Haki. The barbed flesh rolled down the fist and arm toward the giant's shoulder, leaving two deep grooves on the entire arm. The enormous arm was instantly cut into three parts.
Bullet became alert when he saw the fleshy ball that Vic had transformed into heading towards his real body. He forcefully raised his arm and threw the fleshy ball into the air.
However, such intense exercise caused his arm, which was already three-tenths intact, to break in half. In an instant, Vic crippled both of the giant's arms; one was missing its hand, and the other was only half a piece. Without its arms, the giant's power was less than half.
Vic was preparing to seize this opportunity to defeat the giant in one fell swoop, and used a sword technique that descended from the sky to attack the giant's head.
However, Vic underestimated Bullet, or perhaps he had a fixed impression of Bullet. Just as Vic was about to approach the giant's head, two huge arms suddenly extended from the two shoulder blades on the back of the giant Bullet. Although they were not as thick as the two arms that had been destroyed, these two arms were more agile. The two arms clenched into fists and punched at Vic who was diving down.
Vic's charge was too powerful, and he could no longer dodge the incoming punches at full speed. Although he dodged the first two punches, he was still hit by a series of punches, and Vic flew out again.
When Vic flew back through the air, Bullet had already repaired his previously damaged arm, and now had an extra pair of arms on his back. Vic couldn't help but think to himself, "Hey kid, have you watched Dragon Ball? Trying to be like Tien Shinhan? Why didn't you just have three eyes and a shaved head?"
Vic was surprised that Bullet could transform into this form, since he hadn't used this form even when he was defeated in Stampede, which is another difference from the original work.