Chapter 199: The Child’s Venting
“Beasts Pirates’ brat! You’ve gone too far!”
“You actually dare to cause trouble on old lady’s territory, who do you think old lady is?!”
Boom!!!
A fist wrapped in Haki smashed ruthlessly at the spot where Aoxi and the others were standing. Fortunately, the speed wasn’t fast, and the few of them easily dodged it.
“Whoa whoa whoa~”
The island trembled nonstop from this punch. Aoxi, who had fallen to the ground, shook her body, somewhat unsteady on her feet.
“Such strong power. This pink-haired old woman’s strength is even greater than Boss Kaido’s muscle-headed brute~”
“Obei, do you want to go compare with her?”
“No.”
“This is your business, it has nothing to do with me.”
Obei didn’t have the spare time to mess around with Aoxi. She directly picked up the two little ones and left, leaving Aoxi alone to face the angry Big Mom.
It was just right that these two had never seen eye to eye. Letting them vent it out was fine too.
“Hey hey hey!”
“What are you doing?!”
“I want to take on that old woman with Sister Aoxi!”
Suddenly grabbed by the collar and dragged away, Shanks was momentarily stunned. Once he realized what was happening, he began struggling fiercely.
“Let, let go of me…”
In comparison, Buggy’s reaction was much milder. Though he was resisting verbally, his body was very honest, without even a hint of struggling.
“You two brats, don’t go adding to the chaos. Stay put obediently.”
After giving each of these two troublemaking brats a chestnut, Obei tossed the two little ones into the sky, throwing them in front of Rayleigh.
“Thanks, Beasts Pirates’ miss. Our Roger Pirates owe you a favor.”
With one sword, he repelled the approaching Big Mom Pirate Crew members who wanted to grab people. Rayleigh caught Shanks and the other with one hand and thanked Obei.
“You owe that red-haired idiot over there. I’ve never intended to help you.”
“Haha~ You’re right. I’ll have to thank her properly later.”
Saying that, Rayleigh quickly dealt with the surrounding enemies, then walked toward Big Mom with his sword in hand.
In the end, this was their Roger Pirates’ business. The other side helping out was already going above and beyond; they couldn’t cause her more trouble.
“I think you shouldn’t interfere right now. That red-haired idiot needs an outlet to vent right now.”
“Hm?”
Rayleigh stopped and turned back to Obei with a puzzled look.
“What do you mean?”
……
“Hey~”
“Pink-haired big mom, I hate you.”
Looking at Big Mom, who was nearly three stories tall, Aoxi, who was only about 1.4 meters, spoke calmly, bluntly expressing her dislike.
“Hm?”
Hearing this frank statement, Big Mom was first stunned, then grinned.
“Well well~ What an impolite little girl!”
“But perfect, old lady doesn’t like you either, brat!”
These two had an instinctive mutual dislike from the first moment they saw each other.
In Aoxi’s eyes, the other was a vile monster who toyed with souls at will. The entire Whole Cake Island was like a twisted Cthulhu paradise, and even Big Mom’s own soul was malformed.
During her three days in Whole Cake Island, she had been so disgusted that she hadn’t eaten a single thing or drunk a sip of water.
It wasn’t until today, when she ate that box of chocolate from the copper fetishist, that the sweet taste slightly improved her mood.
Then she turned around and saw her two subordinates beaten half to death.
And in Big Mom’s eyes, this brat had destroyed almost all the homies on Cake Island upon arrival, even making Prometheus and the others uncontrollable.
That soul-originating sense of threat convinced Big Mom that her and the nun’s dream—a ‘soul country’ where all races coexist in peace—would be ruined by her.
But despite that, for their respective reasons, both sides had been trying their best to tolerate each other and deliberately avoiding one another.
Big Mom had deliberately tossed the table of kids who should have been by her side to the edge of the venue.
And Aoxi had held back from seeking her out throughout the entire banquet because Big Mom was right nearby.
Now, because of Shanks and Buggy, the fuse had finally been lit.
……
“Prometheus!”
“Zeus!”
Big Mom reached out with both hands, trying to forcibly use her homies like before, but this time there was no response.
Little Sun Prometheus and Thundercloud Zeus had already hidden far away.
Even though they were made from Big Mom’s own soul, that same soul-originating survival instinct made them desperately avoid conflict with Aoxi.
“Mommy, we’ll die!”
“Yeah, Mommy. We’ll die!”
“Useless trash that can’t be of use! Napoleon!”
“Napoleon?!”
Big Mom impatiently called again, but the captain’s hat on her head continued pretending to be dead.
It didn’t move, but someone else did.
“Thunder Cannon!”
A blast of golden thunder breath shot straight at Big Mom’s head. This time, Napoleon, who had been playing dead, jumped up in fright and fled in panic toward Zeus and the others.
“Sorry, Mommy! This guy is just too scary!”
Just a touch of that golden thunder, and it would probably ascend straight to heaven.
“Damn brat!”
Looking at the few strands of pink long hair that had fallen before her eyes, Big Mom ignored the homies and attacked Aoxi with the most primitive weapon—her fist.
Bang!
The fist wrapped in overwhelming Haki was no less than any weapon, carrying a compelling gust of wind like a cannonball toward Aoxi.
“Underworld God Fist!”
Aoxi didn’t dodge this time, instead meeting it head-on with her much slimmer fist.
Boom!!!
Zap!
An eardrum-piercing explosion erupted from where their fists clashed, no less imposing than when Big Mom had clashed with Rayleigh earlier.
“What?!”
Feeling the force from ahead of her fist surpassing expectations, Big Mom’s eyes widened.
『This brat……』
“Hah!”
?!
After over half a year of high-intensity sparring with Kaido, Aoxi’s battle experience was now vastly different.
In the instant Big Mom was distracted, Aoxi suddenly exerted force, directly pushing the other back a step!
……
“She, she retreated?!”
“Mommy actually retreated a step!”
“Impossible! Mommy was actually repelled by that brat…!”
Big Mom’s children seemed to witness an unbelievable scene.
Whole Cake Island’s queen had actually been repelled!
Scrape—
High-heeled shoes scraped across the ground. Big Mom quickly steadied herself, then exerted force in turn.
“Brat! Don’t underestimate old lady!”
Haki on Big Mom’s arm, thicker than Aoxi’s waist, suddenly intensified. Aoxi’s fist was instantly pushed back, and with undiminished momentum, she was directly knocked away.
Bang—!
Zap~
Strands of electric arcs burst from Big Mom’s arm—this was the reaction of Haki at a certain intensity frictioning with the air.
Big Mom looked coldly ahead. Over there, Aoxi, who had just been knocked flying, flipped a few times in the air before landing lightly, looking completely unharmed.
Dissipating force.
And it was extremely pure dissipating force.
……
Thud! Thud! Thud!
The sound of a giant creature stomping the earth rang out rapidly. Big Mom’s massive body began moving at an extreme speed, arriving in front of Aoxi almost instantly.
Bang!
Another punch powerful enough to pulverize the earth, and Aoxi was knocked flying again.
“Not done yet!”
As Aoxi repeated her trick to flip in the air and dissipate the force, Big Mom grabbed a nearby tree stump and yanked it up by the roots.
“Elbaf Spear · Ikkoku!”
