Big Mom's roar echoed like a war drum, reverberating across Totto Land as she swung her massive halberd, Napoleon, down with all the fury of a storm. Her raw strength was legendary, the kind that could tear through steel and sink fleets, her massive physique capable of enduring strikes that would shatter lesser beings.
But now, with every clash of our weapons, with every exchange of Haki, it was becoming evident—she was being pushed back.
This insult was more than she could tolerate.
"Come, brat! Show me if the rumors about you hold any weight!" She bellowed, her voice like thunder itself.
The pink lightning of her Conqueror's Haki surged around her, crackling with fury, but the moment her Haki touched mine, it was ruthlessly overwhelmed. The dark tendrils of my own Conqueror's Haki suffused the battlefield, coiling around hers like a predator suffocating its prey.
Big Mom's eyes twitched as she felt the pressure—a suffocating weight that made even her momentarily falter. Around us, the ground cracked and trembled under the sheer force of our clash, the air humming with the tension of two titanic wills.
The weaker combatants in the distance could do nothing but stare in awe or flee for their lives; the very ground they stood on was no longer safe.
"Clang!"
Napoleon crashed against Shusui, the impact sending shockwaves that tore apart the terrain for miles. Sparks of pink and black lightning intertwined, scorching the sky as if the heavens themselves were at war. To the distant onlookers, it seemed like an equal exchange, the titanic clash of Emperor-level combatants.
But Big Mom knew better. She felt it. Her strikes, powerful enough to shatter mountains, were being met and turned aside with a precision that mocked her monstrous strength. With each blow, she was pushed back a step, her footing cracking the earth beneath her.
Her roars of rage were giving way to focused silence as she realized the truth—she was being overwhelmed.
"Zeus!" she snarled, summoning her trusted Homie.
"Raitei!"
A burst of blue lightning erupted from the sky, summoned by Zeus and directed straight toward me. The bolt was massive, capable of annihilating entire fleets, and it carved a smoldering path through the air as it descended.
I didn't move. Instead, I stood my ground, my grin widening as the lightning slammed into me, engulfing the battlefield in a blinding blue light. The earth beneath me shattered, forming a crater tens of meters wide. But as the dust cleared, my figure stood tall, unscathed, arcs of blue lightning crackling harmlessly along my body.
Big Mom's eyes narrowed. Her Zeus' power, capable of devastating armies, had been rendered meaningless.
"Is this the best you can do?" I asked, my voice low but carrying across the battlefield like a death knell. My black lightning coiled around me in defiance, its sheer presence snuffing out the remnants of her attack.
Big Mom growled, unable to bear the mocking grin on my face. With a mighty leap, she forced herself back to create distance, her gaze sharp and calculating. And then, she summoned her greatest storm.
"Tenman Daijizai Tenjin!" she roared, her voice shaking the heavens.
The skies over Totto Land twisted violently, turning into a churning maelstrom of pink and blue lightning. Tendrils of electrical fury spread across the island, lighting up the darkened sky in an apocalyptic display. It was an attack born of her rage, one capable of leveling entire islands. The sheer scale of her power left no corner of the battlefield untouched.
Her children and subordinates in the distance gasped in awe and fear. The horizon itself seemed to tremble under the weight of her might.
I stood amidst the chaos, unfazed, the corners of my mouth curling upward as I raised Shusui. My blade hummed with energy, the air around it distorting as I poured my power into it.
"You think that is lightning, Linlin?" I said, my voice calm yet laced with the promise of devastation. "Let me show you the wrath of a true thunder god."
I raised Shusui high, the black blade splitting the sky, and bellowed, "Raijin's Wrath!"
The skies responded and with it the very world. The air itself seemed to freeze for a moment as an oppressive silence fell over the battlefield. Then, with a deafening roar, the heavens split open, and a massive figure emerged—a colossal, shimmering form of the Lightning God, Raijin, his spear crackling with endless arcs of black lightning. The sky around him darkened, and his presence blotted out the light of Big Mom's storm.
The massive entity descended with unrelenting fury, the tip of its spear aimed directly at Big Mom. Her lightning tendrils surged forward to meet it, but the black lightning from Raijin's spear consumed them utterly, snuffing them out as if they were mere sparks.
Big Mom's eyes widened in shock, her usual confidence faltering as she braced herself, pouring all her Haki into her defense. Her skin darkened with an impregnable coat of Armament Haki, her Conqueror's Haki surging outward in a desperate attempt to counter the godlike force bearing down on her.
But it wasn't enough.
Raijin's spear struck with cataclysmic force, tearing through her domain like a scythe through dry grass. The impact shattered the ground beneath her, sending debris and shockwaves outward that rippled through the island, toppling buildings and splitting the earth. Her island-sinking attack was utterly obliterated, erased by the sheer might of my power.
Big Mom let out a roar of defiance as the force slammed into her, driving her massive frame into the ground with a deafening crash. The earth cratered beneath her, a massive chasm forming where she had stood.
For a moment, the battlefield was silent, the only sound the crackling of the remnants of my black lightning in the air. I stood tall, Shusui resting on my shoulder, my gaze fixed on the dust and rubble where Big Mom had fallen.
"Is that all, Linlin?" I called out mockingly. My voice echoed across the battlefield, carrying a weight that silenced even the murmurs of her children. "If you want to call yourself an Emperor, you'll need to do better than this."
A deep growl rumbled from the rubble, and the massive figure of Big Mom began to rise, her form battered but far from broken. Her eyes burned with rage, and her laughter returned, low and menacing.
"Mamamama….! This… is getting interesting," she snarled, gripping Napoleon tightly as flames and lightning began to swirl around her again. "Don't think for a second that you've won, brat. The real fight starts now!"
Big Mom rose from the rubble, her massive figure shrouded in a terrifying aura of flames and lightning. Her eyes burned with raw fury, and her laughter was guttural, each echo of it shaking the very air.
The ground beneath her melted under the sheer intensity of her heat, her Homies—Zeus, Hera, and Prometheus—hovering around her like specters of chaos, their combined presence amplifying her monstrous aura.
Her voice, now guttural and layered with raw power, tore through the silence. "You've done it now, brat. No one has dared to push me this far in decades, and you will pay for it."
The island, already battered, began to crumble further under the weight of her will and unleashed fury. Lava surged from cracks in the ground as her molten rage boiled the earth itself, a testament to her devilish might.
"Last I checked, you got the crap beaten out of you by Oden—or was that just a rumor, Linlin?!" I roared, my blade thrumming with raw energy. "Let's see if the one who brags about besting Oden can withstand my blade!"
Big Mom lunged with a speed that belied her enormous frame, her halberd, Napoleon, blazing with Prometheus' fire. She swung in a massive arc, aiming to cleave me—and the very ground beneath me—in two. I sidestepped, but the sheer force of her swing sent out a shockwave that carved a massive canyon into the battlefield.
"You think you can dodge forever, brat?!" she bellowed, her voice shaking the heavens.
With a flick of her wrist, Hera surged forward, firing concentrated bolts of her pink lightning. I dodged with calculated precision, my Observation Haki weaving me between her deadly strikes like a leaf in a tempest. My counter came swift and deadly—a slash of Shusui that carved through the air, releasing a tidal wave of black lightning.
The lightning tore through Hera's assault, striking her form and forcing the Homie to scream in agony. She reeled back, her normally arrogant voice quivering as my will overpowered hers. Big Mom roared in frustration, swinging Napoleon again, but this time I met her blow head-on.
"CLANG!"
Our weapons collided, creating a deafening explosion of force. The sheer impact shattered the terrain beneath us, sending molten rocks and debris into the sky. The shockwave rippled outward, its destructive force toppling mountains on the horizon and creating tsunamis in the surrounding seas.
I pushed against her, my muscles straining as my Conqueror's Haki surged through Shusui. The clash of wills created a storm of its own, black and pink lightning intertwining violently as if the heavens themselves were waging war.
"You think brute strength will save you, Linlin?" I taunted through gritted teeth, my smirk never faltering.
She grinned, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth. "I'll crush you like the insect you are!"
Her grip tightened, and suddenly, Napoleon erupted in size, transforming into a flaming juggernaut of destruction. The sheer heat singed the air, turning it thick and suffocating. She brought the halberd down with the force of an earthquake, but I spun Shusui in a defensive arc, redirecting her blow at the last second.
"Ikkoku…" she bellowed.
The redirected strike crashed into the ground, carving a trench so deep it reached the molten core of the earth. Lava erupted like a volcanic geyser, adding to the chaotic destruction of the battlefield. I didn't waste a moment, using the momentum to slash upward with Shusui.
"Heavenly Severance!" I roared, my voice booming like thunder.
The blade unleashed a devastating wave of energy, black lightning swirling with destructive force as it surged toward Big Mom. She raised Napoleon to block it, but the force was so overwhelming that it drove her back several meters, her feet carving trenches in the ground.
"You think that's enough to stop me?!" she roared, her pride as an Emperor refusing to let her falter. "I AM CHARLOTTE LINLIN!"
With a deafening scream, her Conqueror's Haki erupted, a wave so powerful it knocked weaker spectators unconscious and split the sky itself. The heavens seemed to respond to her fury as storm clouds swirled violently overhead, thunder and lightning crashing in chaotic symphony.
"Zeus! Prometheus! Hera! Combine!" she commanded.
Her three Homies fused together, creating a monstrous entity of pure elemental chaos. A swirling mass of fire, lightning, and wind, the creature loomed over the battlefield, its form towering like a titan. Big Mom leaped onto its back, her halberd now glowing with an unholy amalgamation of all three elements.
"I'll show you the true power of a soul infused with fear!" she bellowed, diving toward me with terrifying speed, her Homie-weapon slashing downward with enough force to level an island.
I raised Shusui, channeling my power into it until the blade shimmered with an aura of black and gold lightning. As her strike neared, I unleashed everything.
"Fury of the Storm God!"
Shusui screamed as it released a colossal burst of energy. The golden lightning clashed with her elemental attack, the two forces colliding in an explosion so massive that it obliterated what was left of the island. The shockwave tore through the ocean, parting the seas for miles and shaking islands on distant horizons.
Just as Big Mom prepared to unleash the full force of her Haki, a sharp, searing pain suddenly shot through her thigh. She jolted, instinctively retreating—her eyes widening in disbelief as she looked down to see a crimson blade lodged deep into her leg.
Her mind raced. How could this be? Her Observation Haki had been meticulous, her defenses flawless. She was clad in the strongest Armament Haki, reinforced by her legendary physique. No weapon should have been able to pierce through that… and yet, here she was, a weapon embedded in her flesh, causing an agonizing, soul-ripping pain.
It was then that she realized—it was the same blade. The one she'd eyed earlier. Akatsuki.
In that fleeting moment of panic, she understood what had happened. She had been so focused on overpowering me that she failed to sense the shift in my strategy. Akatsuki, which had remained by my side in defense until now, had been positioned with deadly precision.
The strike had been aimed directly for her heart, but her reflexes, driven by survival instincts, had saved her. She had unconsciously shifted just enough for the blade to miss its true target, instead embedding itself into her leg.
A soul-rending scream of agony coursed through her, not just from the physical wound, but from something far deeper. Akatsuki wasn't simply a blade—it was a weapon that devoured more than flesh. It consumed essence. Her blood, her very life force, seemed to be drawn into the blade, as if it mocked her, savoring every drop, as though it hungered for more.
The pain was unlike anything she had felt before, not because of the wound itself, but because Akatsuki seemed to reach into her very soul, sending a wave of excruciating agony through her consciousness. It was as if the blade knew her weakness, as if it understood the core of her being—and it reveled in that understanding.
She tried to focus, to push through the pain, but the blade seemed to have a mind of its own, draining her, almost toying with her as it burrowed deeper. The agony was unbearable, yet her resolve did not falter. With a guttural growl, Big Mom called upon her willpower, forcing herself to retreat, her massive form staggering back as she ripped the blade out of her leg.
Her eyes burned with fury, her teeth gritted against the agony. She could feel the blood running down her leg, but it wasn't just her blood—Akatsuki had taken a piece of her spirit with it.
The blade had not just wounded her body—it had tainted her soul.
"You're playing with fire, brat," Big Mom growled through clenched teeth, her eyes narrowed in cold, murderous intent. "But you've made the mistake of drawing blood. I'll make sure you regret it."
Big Mom's eyes widened as an uncharacteristic weakness washed over her, something she hadn't felt in decades. Her body staggered, and for a brief moment, her legendary resolve faltered. Kairoseki—no, it was something worse. The feeling of her very soul being drained from within.
Her breath hitched as she yanked the blade from her leg, the crimson blade still pulsing with a malevolent energy. The sensation gnawed at her from the inside.
She tossed Akatsuki aside, no longer willing to wield something that could harm her so, but to her disbelief, the weapon refused to fall. It hovered in mid-air, drawn towards me as though by some unseen force, under the control of my will. Magnetism—another element I had mastered.
Big Mom growled, narrowing her eyes as she struggled to regain control of her senses.
"Brat... where did you get that weapon?" Her voice was thick with a mixture of confusion and anger. I could see it—the shift in her posture, the way she was trying to hide her growing unease behind a facade of fury.
But I knew what she was doing. She was stalling, buying herself time to regain her composure, to push the energy that was harming her out of her system.
Before I could respond, she gripped her mighty halberd again, her hands now trembling with frustration. The flames of her Homies flickered, but this time, there was an edge to them—fury and desperation.
She charged, summoning the full weight of her legendary physique and mastery of Haki. She was a force of nature, a woman who could easily shatter islands, but in the face of Akatsuki and Shusui, she found herself lacking.
The clash was immediate, her halberd colliding with my twin blades in an explosion of raw power. The ground beneath us cracked, shattered, and sent chunks of debris flying as though they were mere pebbles. Big Mom's immense strength met the precision of my blades, the force of her strike reverberating through the island. But instead of the crushing blow she expected, she found herself met with a calculated deflection.
I spun, using the momentum to avoid her powerful swing, and in the blink of an eye, I was behind her. My twin blades—Akatsuki and Shusui—cut through the air with devastating speed. The first strike from Shusui landed against her halberd's shaft, sending a shockwave that shattered the surrounding air. The impact reverberated, ringing out like the toll of a death bell, but her weapon was still intact.
Big Mom's muscles bulged as she swiped with brutal intent, her Conqueror's Haki crackling like thunder. The island trembled with the weight of her attack, but I wasn't just relying on strength—I was outclassing her in technique, in mastery.
Akatsuki flared with dark energy, and with a sudden, vicious slash, I carved through the air like a bolt of lightning. Big Mom's defense, built on raw strength and her Haki, failed to keep up. I could feel the crackle of her Haki resisting mine, but Akatsuki's blade was relentless.
I moved like a storm, my twin blades dancing in a chaotic, yet calculated rhythm, each strike finding its mark. She tried to block, her halberd meeting my blades, but it was clear—her weapon, despite its monstrous size and power, couldn't keep up with the precision and fluidity of my strikes. Her defense crumbled under the weight of Akatsuki's will and Shusui's ancient edge.
With each clash, my blades pushed her back, her defenses crumbling as she struggled to keep pace. The force of the impacts sent shockwaves through the air, rattling the very earth beneath our feet.
Boom! The force of one strike shattered the ground beneath us, sending debris flying in all directions. A giant piece of rock erupted into the air, and I sliced through it effortlessly with Akatsuki, splitting it into a thousand pieces.
Big Mom, her face twisted in rage, swung her halberd down with everything she had, aiming to crush me. But I was already gone—vanishing like a phantom, only to reappear in an instant, slashing once more with both blades in a double-arc, aiming for her exposed side.
This time, the strike was true.
Akatsuki cut clean through the air, biting into her arm with a sickening crunch as it tore through her defense. Big Mom's body twitched, her massive frame staggering under the force of the blow. Her Haki flared in desperation, but it wasn't enough.
She roared, summoning all her strength to block with the halberd, but I was already in motion again. The next strike came from Shusui, the blade glowing with the intensity of my will. A single slash cleaved through the halberd's shaft, breaking it into two, rendering her weapon useless.
Big Mom's breath hitched, and in that moment of hesitation, I pressed the advantage. With a primal roar, I unleashed a whirlwind of slashes—each one faster and more devastating than the last. Her legendary physique, her immense power, and her mastery of Haki were still formidable, but they were no match for my overwhelming control of the battlefield.
The island trembled, cracking beneath the sheer force of our battle. In an overwhelming, explosive move, I drove both blades into the air, calling upon the full fury of my Haki, and I slammed them down together—Akatsuki and Shusui—in a devastating, world-shattering strike.
"Twin sword style: Thunder Annihilation….!"
The ground beneath us shattered like glass, the sky itself seemed to crack open, and the echoes of our clash rang out, signaling that this fight was far from over—but the balance had already shifted