Boom!!! A thunderous roar.

  A blinding white light.

  Impossible to look at directly.

  In the disbelieving eyes of the twisted, bloodthirsty Linlin, a terrifying drical wave of sword energy was mercilessly crushed by El’s wild Hero's Spear.

  It struck her directly.

  "Boom..." Her entire body exploded, turning into tless vampire bats.

  However, El’s eyes sharpened.

  “Heavenly !!”

  "Swoosh… swoosh…”

  In the moment, tless vines shot into the sky, iwining tightly, f an imperable with holes too small to see.

  Moreover, the was covered in powerful high-level Armament Haki, making it inparably tough.

  It closed in from all dires, binding them tightly.

  "Crackle…"

  In an instant, El’s entire body was ed in fshiricity. A massive current surged from the vines beh his feet, tinuously flowing out. The densely interwoven vi instantly transformed into an unimaginably high-voltage electric grid.

  The tough and firm vi not only tightened further, but the already narrow space was tinuously pressed.

  "Fp... fp..."

  "Crack… crack..."

  Fierce vampire bats with sharp fangs, impervious to bdes and bullets, fpped their wings violently, trying to tear apart the vines. Sparks flew from the electriet, creating a horrifying sight, and sharp screeches filled the air.

  Yet, the vines, ed in Haki, were unbelievably resilient. No matter how hard the bats, capable of biting through steel, struggled, they couldn’t break free.

  "Where is it? Caramel puff tower~~~"

  The bats gathered by the hundreds and thousands, and Linliuro human form. This level of electricity was naturally not enough to threaten her—a being born a monster. But no matter how much her incredible strength raged, she still couldn’t tear apart the vi ed in Haki.

  Especially since hidden within the vines were several pairs of Seastone Cuffs, tightly iwihese specialized restraints, emitting an o-like energy, rendered Devil Fruit users uo use their abilities. Though they weren’t fully bound ohey pressed heavily against her, sappirength and preventing her from using her Devil Fruit powers.

  “Damn it, is it Seastone?” she screamed hysterically, struggling violently. “Bastard, let me go!!”

  Immediately afterward, the massive vines dragged her along.

  Pulled directly into the sea.

  "Spaash..."

  Without her Devil Fruit powers and in direct tact with high-purity Seastone, even at a fra of her peak strength, Linlin, now immersed ier, was uo tear apart the . As a Devil Fruit user, she became pletely powerless.

  "Blurble..."

  Seawater poured into her nose and mouth.

  As time passed, her eyes rolled back as she began to drown.

  No one knew how long it took, but when El pulled her out of the water, she had lost sciousness, pletely fainting.

  She could struggle no more.

  "Boss El-sama—"

  Seeing El subdue the frenzied Linlin, the members of the Fallen Angel Pirate Crew rushed over, their gazes filled with indescribable awe and reverence.

  If Linlin was a mohen the person before them was a true monster among monsters. His strength was unfathomable, and no one knew how far his limits reached.

  Looking at the unscious Linlin, the vines began to retract, and the Armament Haki ed around them dissipated. El stepped forward and crouched dowly pressing his right hand against her slightly swollen abdomen.

  "Ugh... ugh..." Even in her unscious state, she instinctively coughed, spitting out a rge amount of seawater.

  Seeing that she showed no signs of waking, El raised his eyebrows but did not force her to awaken. Instead, he asked in displeasure, “What happened? Why didn’t you put the Seastone handcuffs on her beforehand?”

  Logically, even if her eating disorder was iable, Linlin should have been able to maintain her posure for a short time and trol herself. With her personality, she would have immediately asked for the handcuffs to be pced on her, which would have prevented her from using the powers of her Mythical Zoan-type Vampire form to cause havoc.

  Even if she lost trol, her immerength would have allowed her to gauge that the s weren’t made of Seastone. But at least it would have minimized damage and casualties.

  “No, we did pn to put them o first, and it was Linlin herself who requested it…”

  Rok, a member of the Loribe, expined helplessly, “But the kids in the Dream House were too young, and they were scared by Linlin’s biting, so they didn’t dare get close and couldn’t put the handcuffs on in time…”

  “By the time I and the other Fallen Angel Pirates, who were training oher side of the isnd, realized something was wrong and rushed over with the handcuffs, it was already too te…”

  "At that point, Linlin was barely holding onto her sanity but was starting to lose trol of her destructive urges.”

  They weren’t making excuses. Just as the Fish-man Jien, who wasn’t a Devil Fruit user and could touch Seastone, arrived with a rge pair of handcuffs for Linlin, she suddenly snapped.

  Had Jien not reacted quickly and used his honed Observation Haki to sehe danger areat instantly, he would have been seriously injured by one of Linlin’s immensely powerful punches.

  “I’m terribly sorry, Boss El. I couldn’t even hahis small matter!”

  To them, El was like a father or older brother—someohey respected and were grateful to from the bottom of their hearts. He had saved them from the poisonous nun and the Wover when they were helpless, abandoned childreo be sughtered or sold like mbs.

  When the Giants refused to let them stay in Elbaf any longer, he took them in, teag them how to read and write, training them in bat and Haki. Although he put them through rigorous training, he never mistreated them in their daily lives—they were well-fed, well-housed, and had plenty of fun.

  Every child in the former Sheep's House cherished fond memories of their childhood and saw each other as siblings, not just bearers of scars and tears. Their current strength and ability to ge their own fate were all thanks to El.

  How could they not be grateful?

  “Never mind. At least there were no irreversible losses or casualties... Learn from this and be more careful ime!”

  El frowned but didn’t pursue the matter further. The new kids in the Dream House were not like Rock, Moss, and Jien, who had grown up with Linlin. They were uandably frightened by her frenzy, uo approach her.

  Even Moss and the others feared the out-of-trol Linlin, but as they matured, they suppressed that fear as much as they could.

  Before the children from the inal Sheep’s House had grown up, he had always made sure Linlin wore Seastone handcuffs when her eating disorder fred up. At times, for safety’s sake, she would wear them for one or two months straight. Over time, Linlin had developed a stroao Seastone, so even without her Devil Fruit powers, her raw strength was terrifying.

  This time, however, her eating disorder had fred up too suddenly, in an unusually erratiner.

  "El/Boss—"

  "El Onii-!!"

  At that moment, far in the sky, Moss, in the form of a Pegornis bird, fpped his wings and approached. Behind him were Lily, Witt, and Gerd.

  Witt and Gerd rode atop Zeus, the thundercloud, a bit behind, while Lily sat astride a massive bck leopard with bck wings and sharp fangs, which flew toward them. This was El's gift to her—an enormous bck hawk empowered with the Bck Leopard Zoan-type Fruit. Whether on nd or in the sky, it possessed incredible speed and strength. Moreover, it could bih Lily, the Pile-Pile Fruit user.

  "Gerd, you've arrived..."

  As the group gathered, El nodded slightly.

  “Is Linlin okay?”

  Looking at the soaki and unscious Linlin, even though she knew Linlin was a natural-born monster, difficult terd couldn’t help but ask out of .

  "Don't worry, she's fine..." El shook his head and said to Gerd, "Please take her back to her room, help her up, and ge her clothes."

  "Got it, leave it to me!"

  Gerd nodded gently. As a giantess, she easily picked up the now unscious Linlin, whose height exceeded seveers.

  “Although the cycle of her eating disorder’s fre-ups isn’t short, it seems uable and irregur, making it impossible to foresee…”

  El sighed, “To prevent any acts, until she pletely suppress and overe her eating disorder with her willpower, she may o carry Seastoh her at all times.”

  Of course, that meant carrying it, not stantly wearing it. That way, if her eating disorder fred up uedly, Linlin, who could now maintain rationality for a short period, could put the handcuffs on herself.

  Better safe than sorry.

  Bleam