One Piece: The Legend of Beasts

Hearing Uno's panicked voice, Kaido was slightly stunned, and the domineering aura wrapped around the mace instantly dissipated. He turned around and saw Lingling walking towards him with heavy steps, step by step. Her eyes were shining, and her mouth was wide open, revealing a row of white teeth. A huge sense of oppression swept over like a mountain. This scene made Kaido subconsciously alert, and his breathing gradually became heavier. He asked in a tentative manner: "Hey, old woman, are you okay?"

Lingling pretended not to hear what he said. She licked her tongue greedily and murmured to herself, "Hand over the puffs..."

"It's useless. She has lost her mind now and won't recognize who you are!"

Uno grabbed the dying loaf of bread and ran in the opposite direction, shouting without looking back, "Run faster, or you will die!"

Kaido didn't understand the meaning of his words for a moment, but when he saw Linlin's temperament which was completely different from usual, he ran back without thinking.

"What about the food cravings you just mentioned?"

Kaido quickly caught up with Uno and told him his doubts. Uno did not answer directly, but said while running: "Mr. Long Bread has decades of experience as a pirate and is very powerful, but he has not become a cadre. Do you know why?"

"How should I know? What does this have to do with..."

Kaido abruptly stopped talking, suddenly remembered something, took a breath, and said in a lost voice, "Could it be because of the craving for food..."

"That's right!"

Interrupting what he said, Uno added solemnly, "Mr. Long Bread is a user of the Parahuman-type Food-Food Fruit, who can turn any item into food. If Miss Lingling cannot replenish the food she wants to eat for a long time, she will become heartless. At this time, only Mr. Long Bread, who takes care of her daily life, can stop her, but now..."

He glanced at the old man hanging on to his breath, with a complicated look on his face. "If Mr. Long Bread can't get up, the only way now is to keep delaying time and let her starve to death. But we don't have any extra time to wait!"

"Damn it! The stinky old woman has to cause trouble at the critical moment!"

"Also! Lingling's physique is different from that of ordinary people. She is invulnerable to swords and guns, so she is also called the 'iron balloon'. Don't confront her head-on!"

"What a nuisance! That guy looks like a balloon now!"

While they were discussing, Lingling suddenly stopped, took a deep breath, and roared: "Hand over Puff to me!!"

Instantly, with her as the center, extremely violent red lightning spread out in all directions, and instantly struck the entire sky above the dial. Kaido and Uno felt their breathing stagnate, and they couldn't help but slow down their actions.

At the same time, a huge figure flew over them, swung his sword and turned 360 degrees to chop down. Kaido didn't have time to think about it, and raised his iron rod to block it.

"Oh!"

The moment the sword and the mace collided, sparks flew everywhere, and both sides involuntarily took a few steps back. Kaido's face looked very ugly, his arms were slightly numb from the shock, and he could hardly hold the mace in his hand. However, Lingling patted her skirt calmly, not affected at all.

——What a stinky old woman, she's so strong! A direct confrontation wouldn't work, so I could only try my best to stop her.

Having made up his mind, he grabbed the handle of the rod with both hands, slowly turned it counterclockwise, placed the iron rod horizontally in front of his chest, stood still, ready to go.

"Mmmm! You want to fight me? You still have five hundred years to go!"

Lingling was quite surprised by the boy's seemingly reckless behavior. She raised her right hand and a huge ball of fire appeared in front of her. On the flame was a ferocious face, grinning and saying to its owner: "Mom, is there anything I can do for you? You've changed a lot."

"Stop talking nonsense! Go burn that horned gorilla to a crisp, Prometheus!"

"As ordered!"

As soon as the last word was spoken, the fireball took a deep breath and spewed out a stream of scorching flames, shooting straight at Kaido.

"Well done!"

Facing the overwhelming flames, Kaido showed no fear at all. He swung his mace like a windmill, which drove away all the incoming flames. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Linlin went behind Kaido and slashed at the back of his head with a knife.

The blow came through the air, and Kaido felt the wind behind his head. His horns were covered with a layer of domineering. His head turned like lightning, and with a "clang", his right horn just blocked the blade. Kaido used the force to do a somersault and jumped behind Lingling. He grabbed the iron bar and posed a home run posture, hitting her like a baseball, dispersing the flames all the way. Prometheus suddenly saw such a huge monster flying, and his eyes widened in fear. He forgot to dodge and was immediately knocked to the ground by her body, letting out a painful scream.

Kaido didn't give his opponent a chance to breathe, and rushed forward. Lingling propped herself up and shook her head, and saw Kaido jump up and swing the iron rod towards her face. She quickly rolled to the side to avoid the attack, picked up the long knife on the ground, and slashed at his left side diagonally, determined to cut off his arm.

In a flash, Kaido dodged sideways and thrust forward with a stick, hitting her wrist. Rao Lingling had an indestructible body, but she felt a piercing pain when hit by the stick, and the long sword in her hand fell out of her hand. She swung her left fist wrapped in armed color reflexively, but Kaido used his strength to push her fist away and kicked out with a tiny lightning, hitting Lingling in the face and kicking her whole body into the air.

Prometheus saw Lingling was about to fall, so he flew over and caught her. Lingling stood up and stared down at the boy who had put her in a difficult fight.

Kaido saw that although she was at a disadvantage, there was no damage on her body, and he deeply realized the meaning of the "iron balloon". If the woman had not lost her mind and her fighting skills had not declined, it would not have been so easy for him to succeed, and he secretly felt lucky.

——There is no time to waste with her anymore. Starving her to death is not a solution. I can only put my hope on this one attack.

He clenched his mace tightly, and was about to gather his domineering spirit again. Suddenly, a golden lightning bolt pierced through his right shoulder from behind, and the intense pain spread throughout his body without warning, and bright red blood continued to flow out of the wound. He turned around with difficulty, and at some point a black thundercloud appeared nearby, with several electric currents running through it, making a "sizzling" sound.

"Damn it, they actually launched a sneak attack..."

"Well, well, well done, Zeus! Thanks to me for being careful and replenishing your Prometheus flame!"

Zeus changed his usual honest and straightforward demeanor and said with a wicked smile: "Hehe, luckily that kid was blocking the flames just now and didn't notice that I was secretly released."

"Alright! It's time to give this brat the final blow!"

Lingling rode Prometheus back to the ground and retrieved her knife. She flew into the air again and stopped. She held the hilt with both hands, placed it on the upper side of her right shoulder, and shouted, "Spear of Elbaf? Weiguo!"

Suddenly, she swung her sword downwards, and an extremely powerful shock wave was released from the blade, moving forward at a speed that could not be captured by the naked eye, flying quickly in the direction of Kaido, and exploded on the ground, forming a huge ball of light, spreading towards the surroundings.

Uno placed the loaf of bread on the edge of the area, and saw from a distance that Kaido was surrounded by it, and couldn't help but worry about him secretly. Suddenly, his eyes inadvertently shot to the center of the explosion, as if he had discovered something important, and his eyes brightened instantly.

There was a house with a cream-filled roof standing out in the harbor. The four children were almost pressed against the window, watching what had just happened at the harbor. They were terrified and began to talk about it.

"Hey, did you see that? Mom and the others were sucked into a strange clock!"

"Pelo Pelo, that guy in strange clothes is really powerful. Mommy has no power to resist him at all~"

"Don't say such words to show off your power, Brother Pelos!"

"Be careful, someone is coming!"

Following the finger of Katakuri, the second son of the Charlotte family, a team of soldiers in golden armor and holding spears came from the corner in a menacing manner, surrounding the pirate ship layer by layer. They did not dare to attack at will because of the protective shield that would rebound. Four soldiers took several long iron chains and wrapped them around the pendulum clock for dozens of times, and locked them several times. They walked to four directions and stood still, each holding a spear and pointing it at the surface of the pendulum clock, obviously worried. One of the soldiers seemed to notice something and suddenly looked towards the ship. Seeing his eyes cast here, the four children quickly shrank their bodies, leaned against the wall and kept panting.

Owen, who had the hottest temper among the four, stood up first and suggested to his brothers: "Why don't we find a way to kill them and rescue Mom and the others!"

"Are you stupid?"

Da Fu, who usually bickered with him, couldn't help but retort, "They have so many fully armed soldiers, how can a few of us be able to defeat them?"

"Then what do you say we should do? Just watch Mom get killed by them?"

Seeing that the two of them were facing each other and were about to quarrel again, the eldest son Perospero stopped them and said, "My two lovely brothers, now is not the time to quarrel among yourselves, otherwise you will play into the hands of the enemy."

Owen asked with a puzzled look on his face: "Brother, do you have any good ideas?"

After looking at the bewildered looks of his two brothers, Perospero coughed a few times and raised a cunning smile: "Why not run away and let me, the oldest one, be the new captain..."

"Go to hell!"

As the two shouted in unison, Perospero was punched twice in the face and flew backwards involuntarily. He fell to the ground in a "big" shape, with a bump on his head. He tilted his head, rolled his eyes, and muttered, "Pelo... There are so many candies flying in the sky..."

"Stop messing around, you guys."

Katakuri, who had been silent until now, stood by the wall with his arms folded across his chest and said calmly, "All we can do now is wait and see what happens. The shield can only hold out for half an hour at most. After that, we can only use Noah to fight them to the death."

"As expected of Katakuri, he's much more reliable than someone else!"

Dafu and Owen praised him sincerely. They have always respected their brother very much.

Perospero stood up shakily and said dizzily, "Don't say bad things about my brother..."

"Since you want to act like an elder brother,"

Katakuri said with a half-smile, "Now go take good care of the brothers and sisters in the room who were woken up and kept crying. It's hard to take care of Compert and the others alone!"

"Okay, I'll go!"

Perospero was disappointed, put on his hat and walked stiffly towards the door.

Katakuri turned around and stared at the pendulum clock on the shore with cold eyes again, his face looking a little worried.

Mom, please don't get into trouble. After all, you are the woman who will become the Pirate Queen in the future!