"Hahaha! Linlin, it's so late, why aren't you resting yet?" John looked up at Charlotte Linlin's ethereal face under the Moonlight, forcing an extremely awkward smile onto his face, the cold sweat beading on his forehead glinting slightly in the Moonlight.
"It's so late, and I didn't expect anyone to come 'visiting' my home uninvited~" Charlotte Linlin looked down from above, her purple pupils locked onto John, a cold smile curling the corners of her lips as she enunciated his name syllable by syllable, "Jo! hn!"
She had been sleeping soundly, completely unaware of the subtle disturbance in the room. However, as her companion weapon that was spiritually linked to her, when "Nothingness" was forcibly dragged by an external force, it felt as if someone were violently pulling her arm, instantly jolting her awake from her slumber.
"Speak," Charlotte Linlin's voice carried an unquestionable sense of oppression, "You went to such great lengths to sneak in here; your goal couldn't possibly be this worthless'scrap metal' in my house, could it?"
Before the words had even faded, a fierce look flashed in Charlotte Linlin's eyes, and the gorgeously styled nodachi in her hand, already enveloped in black-red Conqueror's Haki, slashed down ferociously!
"Hum—!"
The slash, wreathed in Conqueror's Haki lightning, crashed down. However, at the critical moment, John's body seemed to be pulled by an invisible force, and in a bizarre manner beyond ordinary understanding, he shot backward like a cannonball, narrowly dodging the blow.
"Boom!!"
A loud explosion shook the entire estate. The spot where John had been standing was blasted into a deep pit several meters in diameter by the violent force, sending soil and gravel flying.
"You crazy woman! You really want to kill me!"
John steadied himself over ten meters away, his expression graver than ever before, his previous sense of contempt completely gone.
He had always heard of Charlotte Linlin's strength, but deep down, he had still harbored a sliver of luck due to her gender. It wasn't until that brush with death just now that he truly realized her terror.
"Using magnetic fields to attract metal and applying the reaction force to yourself to achieve high-speed movement? Magnet-Magnet Fruit... You've actually developed it somewhat." Charlotte Linlin stood with her sword, watching John in the distance with cold eyes.
"But since you dared to reach your claws toward my things, you should be prepared to have them chopped off!"
The next instant, Charlotte Linlin's massive body erupted with terrifying speed completely inconsistent with her size, appearing behind John like a ghost. Her nodachi was raised again, carrying a shrill whistle that tore through the air, and it smashed down with even greater ferocity!
"Clang!!"
A piercing sound of metal clashing rang out! A massive metal arm, instantly assembled from countless metal parts and hardened into a jet-black color by Armament Haki, barely managed to block Charlotte Linlin's blade.
"I'm telling you, Linlin! My target is just the sword in your hand! Why must you fight to the death?!" Beneath the giant metal arm, John's face flushed red, his teeth clenched tight.
Under Charlotte Linlin's terrifying strength, the giant metal arm let out a teeth-grinding "creak," and fine cracks even began to appear on its surface.
"Damn it! How is this woman's strength like a monster's?!"
"Don't you know that for a swordsman, their sword is an indispensable other half?!"
"Bang—!"
As she spoke, Charlotte Linlin delivered a powerful side kick, slamming into John's waist and abdomen like a battering ram!
The barely supporting giant metal arm instantly disintegrated, turning into countless fragments that scattered everywhere.
John, like a kite with a broken string, flew backward while vomiting blood, crashing into the dense pirate residential area in the distance!
"Boom—!"
The huge sound of the impact was exceptionally piercing in the quiet night.
"W-what happened?!"
"Is it an enemy attack?!"
"Look! Is that Captain John?! Why did he fly over from Lady Linlin's estate?!"
"My house! Who smashed my house!"
The previously sleeping area instantly erupted into chaos. The pirates scrambled out of their respective dwellings in a panic, some disheveled, others still rubbing their sleepy eyes.
When they saw that the figure stumbling to his feet in the center of the ruined house, covered in blood and looking utterly disheveled, was actually the executive Captain John, they were terrified out of their wits and retreated one after another, fearing being dragged into a conflict between executives.
John wiped the blood off his face. The excruciating pain twisted his features, and his eyes became incomparably fierce.
He stared fixedly at the massive figure slowly approaching from the distance and roared:
"Charlotte Linlin! Since you insist on tearing off the mask, don't blame me for being ruthless! Let me show you my true ability that has let me dominate the New World!"
"Gluttony · Magnetic Frenzy!!"
He threw his arms open, and a powerful magnetic force swept out from him like a storm!
In an instant, the entire Hachinosu Island seemed to tremble. Countless metal objects—whether swords, cannons, gold and silver treasures, or even metal structural components of houses—were grabbed by an invisible giant hand, frantically stripping away from their owners and gathering toward John's location!
"My treasure chest! Bastard! That's the treasure I just looted!"
"Ahhh! My sword! Catch my sword!"
"The, the house is collapsing! Run!"
The pirates immediately fell into chaos, their cries and curses ringing out everywhere.
Watching helplessly as their precious weapons and hard-earned wealth flew away, many pirates beat their chests and stamped their feet in anger, but they were powerless to stop it.
"To deal with a strength monster like you, one must use an even bigger monster to crush you!" John laughed wildly, controlling the massive amount of metal gathering together.
"Take this! Magnetic Colossus!!"
Under the gaze of countless angry pirates, the countless metal objects were frantically combined and shaped under the control of the magnetic force. In an instant, a massive mechanical giant, twelve meters tall and similar in height to Charlotte Linlin, rose from the ground! Dangerous red light flickered in the giant's hollow eye sockets, and its massive body cast a suffocating shadow.
John jumped into the position specifically left in the giant's chest, operated the giant, and pointed at Charlotte Linlin with a sinister grin:
"Come on! Charlotte Linlin! Let's begin our second round!"
"If size could determine everything, wouldn't giants be the best in the world!"
The next instant, Charlotte Linlin appeared in front of John, and her nodachi smashed down onto the colossus with a whistling sound.
Bang!
The sound of metal clashing and giant objects colliding generated a transparent shockwave, causing a ringing in the minds of the pirates within hundreds of meters, with trickles of blood flowing from their eyes and ears.
Following immediately was a raging gale. The pirates who hadn't evacuated yet were swept up by the gale, letting out wails.
"While size might not determine everything, isn't it quite useful for dealing with you?" Inside the mechanical colossus wrestling with Charlotte Linlin, John grinned and said.
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