I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

The Titans didn't come up with any decent tactics, since Elbaf's main tactic was simply to charge in.

After all, given their enormous size, exceeding twenty meters, tactics such as stealth ambush and flanking maneuvers are practically nonexistent.

"rush!"

The giant Hajrudin clenched his fist, while Gels pulled out a giant axe with a handle nearly twenty meters long from behind his back. The giants leaped one after the other from the giant pirate ship.

It was just a simple jump, but it caused the pirate ship beneath his feet to suddenly sink, creating a wave two or three meters high centered on the ship, a terrifying sight.

Thump. Thump...

The enormous figure, exceeding seven stories in height, hurtled into the mist and landed heavily on the island of the Dushan.

Upon landing on the island, it was discovered that the fog was more like a barrier; the fog on the sea was only drifting around Dushan Island, while visibility on the island was much higher.

“I’ll take care of that dragon…” Halding was about to speak when his expression suddenly changed, and he looked down.

He saw a dense crowd standing on the ground, completely surrounding them, the few giants who had rashly landed.

"So it's like this again? There's no way to try any other tactics." The female giant, Geers, sighed softly.

Clearly, their attack was detected by the enemy beforehand.

"What tactics? Those are all empty words. As long as you have the biggest fist, just brute force it."

Beside Haldin, a giant in armor wearing a horned helmet roared in a deep voice.

The other giants nodded in agreement.

The giants of Elbaf have always fought by relying on their monstrous strength and combat skills, which they are proud of; might makes right.

"Reckless!"

"rush!"

Just as the giants were about to attack, Hajrudin's pupils contracted slightly. He vaguely heard a voice from within the crowd:

"Let them live; living giants are more valuable."

Instead, do they see us giants as prey as well?

Haildin suddenly felt a chill in his heart.

suddenly.

A dazzling blue light flashed on the armored giant's longsword, and the scorching heat emanated from the greatsword in his hand, causing him pain.

Upon closer inspection, a small figure in a black suit was seen running madly atop the longsword, with blue flames swirling and coalescing into claw-like shapes on his palms.

"Green Flame Claw!"

Kro's legs blurred as if he had vanished into thin air. He leaned forward and raced at incredible speed along the giant's greatsword and arms toward the head. The blue flames on his claws stretched into long, flowing blue streams of fire as he ran, like living fire serpents, rapidly coiling around the giant warrior's entire body and setting him ablaze.

"Hold on, brother!" another long-haired giant shouted, preparing to extinguish the flames on his companion's body, but suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck.

Suddenly, a blond giant wielding a large axe appeared silently at the back of the giant's neck. Grabbing the giant's long hair with one hand, he swung the axe down with all his might with the other. Blood gushed out like a fountain, causing the giant's legs to buckle and he to stagger to the ground.

What's going on with these humans?

Halding's pupils contracted; he suddenly sensed immense danger.

"Gels, quickly call for the captain's help!" Halding shouted.

Their tactics were simply to charge head-on, and the humans in front of them hadn't adopted any decent tactics either, which led to the annihilation of these giants.

“Gels?” Standing next to Vegapunk, Alyn suddenly looked slightly dazed and glanced at the blonde giantess with a strange expression.

Halding stepped forward, his massive figure blocking the giantess Geers's path. He clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and gathered all his strength.

The humans posed too great a threat to him, so when Hajrudin made his move, he used his strongest attack.

"Hero's Spear!"

With all his strength concentrated in his right fist, the giant gritted his teeth, twisted his waist, and swung the fist, which was larger than a house, with tremendous force. A shockwave swept through the air with the fist.

"Giants? I like big guys, they're more fun to beat up." A slightly excited voice suddenly came from below.

Haildin, who was throwing a punch with all his might, suddenly froze. Goosebumps rose all over his body, and the immense sense of danger seemed to completely overwhelm him.

Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced down and saw Barrett standing on the ground. He looked up and grinned kindly at Halding.

This is simply not an opponent he can handle!

A voice seemed to be roaring wildly within him, and Haildin's heart trembled violently.

He watched helplessly as Barrett's arrogant smile grew wider and wider.

"Air combination".

Barrett raised one arm high, and the power of the Fusion Fruit suddenly enveloped the surrounding air through her fist.

Any inorganic matter falls within Barrett's fusion range.

After his Devil Fruit power awakened, his fusion range became extremely large. In an instant, Hajrudin felt as if his fist had crashed into a steel mountain. The powerful recoil caused his arm bones to creak under the strain.

The next moment, Barrett swung her right fist at Hajrudin from afar. In an instant, Hajrudin felt as if an invisible mountain was rushing towards him, and with a thud, Hajrudin and the other three giants were all knocked to the ground.

In less than a minute, the four giants who had broken into the Dushan were all taken down by Barrett and the others before they could even touch the dragon.

"Hayding! Hold on!"

At that moment, the shouts of Brogy and his companion finally came from afar.

They were just waiting in the rear, and of course they wouldn't let all the newcomers on the ship die in battle. However, they didn't expect that the giants, including Haldin, would lose so quickly.

Two enormous figures, each over twenty meters tall, landed heavily once more. Dorry and Brogy looked down at the pirates below, their expressions extremely solemn.

"This is definitely not some nameless pirate..."

They gripped the giant axes and swords tightly with their fingers, their joints turning slightly white from the force.

Unlike decades ago when they wielded broken weapons with durability reduced to 0 in the small garden, they now naturally possessed brand-new, handy weapons, and a powerful aura rose from the two giants.

"Interesting. This is more like what they call the world's number one superpower." Barrett's fighting spirit also rose. He clenched his fists, opened his hands, and squeezed a large amount of air into his hands.

Just as the atmosphere was becoming increasingly tense, a voice suddenly rang out from the great fire dragon in the sky.

"Wait a minute."

"You're Dorry and Brogy, right?"

Sig stood up on the back of the fire dragon.

"Sig?"

"The bandit king? No wonder..."

Halding and the others, who were struggling to breathe under the weight of the air, barely managed to look up and see the man standing on the dragon's back. Their pupils dilated in shock, and then a sense of lingering fear welled up in their hearts.

Only then did they realize whose ship they were robbing...

"Do you all recognize me?" Sig asked, slightly surprised.

Decades ago, when he was still King Higash, he had a decent relationship with the giant pirates of the generation like Dorry and Brogy, and his shadow clone Dracula had even sailed with these giants.

But as for these newcomers like Halding...

"Of course, what misunderstanding do you have about your fame?"

The giant Broglie glanced at Sieg with a complicated expression, then tucked the axe back into his belt. His fighting spirit had faded.

"Ever since you pierced the blood-stained serpent in the Marineford War, your name has spread throughout Elbaf."

............

The brief battle came to an end.

The four, including Haldin, who had been knocked down, were being treated with the help of Law and Crocus, while Dorry and Brogy were talking with Sig deep inside the island.

"You're going to Elbaf too? And of all times like this?"

The giant Dorry gave Sieg a complicated look, then hesitated to speak.

"Is there a problem? Do you think I won't be able to endure your 12-day fast?"

Putting everything else aside, Sig is still quite confident in his ability to not eat, after all, he developed the Low Energy Life Return: Sickly Demon form when he was imprisoned in Impel Down a year ago.

“Sigurd, may I ask you something…” the giant Dorry hesitated for a moment before asking:

"You're sailing this huge ship to Elbaf, you don't mean you want to start a war with Elbaf, do you?"

Before Sieg could respond, Brogy burst into loud laughter:

"Are you kidding me? He's not some ambitious and dangerous figure like Rocks back in the day..."

"...That's right, why do I have to attack Elbaf?" Sig shrugged.

Dongli's expression relaxed slightly, and he nodded slightly:

"That's good."

"However, since that's not the case, it's not appropriate for you to enter Elbaf at this time. It will definitely arouse the suspicion of the royal family, and they might even issue an arrest warrant. After all, although your reputation is great, you're not exactly a positive figure."

Sig glanced thoughtfully at the young giants, including Halding, in the distance.

From the moment his identity was revealed, he sensed an undeniable hostility in the eyes of Halding and the others. Even though his captain and Sig were clearly acquaintances, this hostility did not completely subside.

"Because of my identity as a bandit?" Sig was a little puzzled. He had never provoked Elbaf before, so he found this inexplicable hostility strange.

“No, because you…you are the jinchūriki of the Black Flame Dragon.” Brogy’s gaze toward Sig was inexplicably complex.

Sig: ?

He coughed, unable to catch his breath, and looked at the giant in front of him with a puzzled expression.

Hearing those two words from these giants made him feel that the scene was a bit eerie.

"This happened about ten years ago. It's said that the monster emerged from the holy land... As a Jinchūriki, you should know more about this than I do."

"And seven years ago, that monster appeared in the skies above Elbaf..."

Brogy blushed slightly at this point, looking somewhat embarrassed:

"Our giant race is too large and not agile enough to drive away that flying monster... It has been seven years now."

"If I'm not mistaken, is your trip to Elbaf related to it?" Broki asked in a deep voice.

"......"