One Piece: Kaido's adopted son, starts with the Eight Gates Formation.

Szayelaporro's body froze instantly.

For the first time, pure, extreme terror appeared on his face, which was usually full of confidence and composure befitting a mad scientist!

He could tell that the obese giantess in front of him was not joking.

She really wanted to "eat" her own soul!

"No...don't come any closer!"

For the first time, Szayelaporro experienced what it meant to be "a scholar who can't reason with a soldier."

His prized scientific and technological abilities, which could analyze and control everything, were utterly useless in the face of this monster who only followed the two principles of "wanting to eat" and "tasting good food"!

He retreated frantically, trying to distance himself from BIGMOM.

However, Bigom simply grinned, extended his large, fleshy hand towards him, and then, in a voice that was both alluring and authoritative, utterly unquestionable, softly asked:

"Life or Treat?"

"Life, or... dessert?"

The moment the words fell, an indescribable, terrifying suction force, originating from the very source of the soul, emanated from BIGMOM's palm!

Szayelaporro felt as if his soul had become a piece of iron filings attracted by a magnet, being uncontrollably and forcibly pulled out of his body!

"No! No—!!!"

He let out a scream a hundred times more agonizing than Neutra's before!

He, Szayelaporro Granz! Is the greatest scientist in Hueco Mundo! The ultimate being who seeks "perfect life"!

How could he... how could he end his perfect and great life in such a lowly and humiliating way as "food"?!

He frantically channeled his spiritual pressure, using all his knowledge and means to try and resist the pull from the soul level.

However, it was all in vain.

Faced with the "Soul-Soul Fruit," a tyrannical ability that also belongs to the realm of rules, his pitiful spiritual pressure was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

His soul was gradually extracted from his "perfect" body, forming a pink glowing orb that did indeed resemble a "strawberry mille-feuille cake".

"Oh my gosh! I got it!"

BIGMOM laughed excitedly, grabbed the struggling and twisting ball of soul light, and without thinking, stuffed it directly into his mouth.

"Ugh~~!!!!!"

She squinted her eyes happily, her face showing an expression of blissful ecstasy, as if she were savoring an unparalleled delicacy.

"As expected... it's strawberry cream flavored! The texture is rich and layered! Perfect!"

Meanwhile, Szayelaporro, having lost his soul, had his "perfect" body plummet from mid-air like a robot that had lost its power, his eyes lifeless.

Quiet.

The entire battlefield fell into an eerie silence once again.

The only remaining Third Blade, Halibel, stared blankly at Big Mom, who was savoring the "delicious food," and then at the white-bearded man who had shattered space with a single punch not far away. At this moment, her proud heart, belonging to the queen, sank completely to the bottom.

It’s over.

It's all over.

Their pride in their power, their dignity as Espada, seemed so laughable, and yet... pathetic, in the face of these real monsters from another world.

However, just when everyone thought that this absurd and bloody "game" was about to end with Hueco Mundo's complete defeat.

A terrifying aura of decay, death, and dominance, seemingly capable of halting time itself, slowly emanated from the ever-open, pitch-black crack—the "Black Cavity."

Hueco Mundo, the true master.

The skeletal emperor who symbolizes "aging" and "death".

Finally, it arrived.

Quiet.

When Szayelaporro Granz's "perfect" body fell silently from the sky like a puppet without its strings, the battlefield seemed to be devoid of even the wind.