"Snort—"

  "Stupid fat pigs!"

  Linlin’s voied like thunder, eg in the minds of everyone ihe au house. The entire room fell into a stunned silence as people turned in disbelief to look at her.

  "Gulp!"

  "Did I hear that right?"

  "It… must be a mistake, right?"

  "No, I must be dreaming!"

  "She... called the Celestial Dragons pigs? Right to their faces?"

  "That girl is so huge, but she looks so young… Is she a Giant?"

  "No wonder she's so ignorant and reckless..."

  At that moment, civilians, pirates, nobles, and merts alike stared dumbfou Linlin, then at the Celestial Dragons, who were themselves pletely stunned. A sense of foreboding filled the room, as if something terrible was about to happen.

  "What did you say?"

  "You wretched woman!!!"

  "How dare you insult the World Nobles?"

  "CP agents... capture her for me!"

  "I wao suffer a fate worse thah!"

  The two Celestial Dragons who had already stood up were reag, but the other three, also wearing bubble headgear, leaped to their feet, faces full of shod rage as they gred at the audacious "Giant woman" who had dared to insult them.

  Hanic Saint even dreistol, aiming it directly at Linlin. His voice was cold and menag: "I woman! Kneel before me now, and I’ll spare your life by making you a sve mount! If not, you die!"

  "Capture them!"

  "How dare they offend the desdants of the Creator!"

  At once—

  Following the Celestial Dragons' orders, a number of CP agents in suits rushed forward, armed and ready.

  "Mamamama~! You dare to threaten me?"

  Linlin ughed angrily, her eyes fshing as the CP agents charged toward her with ons drawn. Her expression turned cold.

  "Buzz—" In an instant, a powerful and terrifying wave of energy swept through the room.

  "Thud, thud..."

  Everyone in the au hall, except for the Celestial Dragons, a few pirates, and the Three-Eyed girl in the cage, colpsed. The guests, the Celestial Dragons' bodyguards, and the au house guards all rolled their eyes back, foaming at the mouth, falling unscious oer another.

  The Celestial Dragons remained scious, not because of their strength, but because Linlin deliberately spared them from the full force of her attack.

  "This… This woman..."

  "queror’s Haki?"

  "You’ve got to be kidding me!"

  In an inspicuous er at the back, the three members of the Roger Pirates—Gol-D, Silver, and S-Copper—stared wide-eyed at Linlin, pletely shocked. Some other strong individuals who remained scious also looked at her in disbelief, stuhat someone eared to be an adolest Giant, not even 15 years old, could use queror's Haki with such mastery.

  "Linlin, you're being too reckless..."

  "But luckily, it’s not El who's here, or these people would have been crushed on the spot."

  "Heh, still, we should at least squeeze some ‘ransom value’ out of these Celestial Dragons."

  Moss, Rock, and Jien all dropped their disguises, removing their cloaks and suo reveal their true identities.

  "Huh?"

  "Those are…?"

  "A Mink, a Longleg, and a Fish-man?"

  Seeing Linlin’s panions, the Roger Pirates' trio were once again taken aback, surprised to find out that the group sisted of suique and rare races.

  "Mamamama, sorry about that—I couldn’t trol my anger," Linlin said, grabbing the hilt of Napoleon at her waist, her expression menag as she gred at the Celestial Dragons. "Although I’d love to just kill them ht, they still have some value. Let’s spare their lives for now... but I think cutting off their limbs and tongues should do just fine!”

  In the er, the three members of the Roger Pirates remained speechless: "..."

  "This woman... so young, but ruthless!"

  If she really went through with it, the Wover might lose their minds.

  "Rayleigh, Gaban, this is our ce. Let’s ger’s eyes lit up as he pulled his two panions along, sneaking away quietly.

  Moss and the others noticed them but paid no mind. After all, things were different now. The Fallen Angel Pirates had no iion of hiding anymore. They were destio shake the seas and reveal their fangs to the world, so they had no fear of being exposed.

  "Everyo’s best if you stay out of this. You might want to leave the isnd right now!" Rock kindly warhe few remaining pirates who hadn’t been knocked unscious by Linlin’s queror's Haki.

  Among those pirates, some were from the New World, while others had just arrived at the Sabaody Archipego. But anyone who could remain scious after Linlin’s Haki bst clearly wasn’t weak. Of course, none of them were frightened enough to back down just yet.

  "Are they really going to attack the Celestial Dragons?"

  "Heh, these guys must be crazy!"

  "This has nothing to do with us. Let’s get out of here!"

  "They’re lunatics! Aren’t they afraid of attrag a Navy Admiral?"

  "Damn it, if you want to die, don’t drag us down with you!"

  "Grab the others and run, now!"

  Upon hearing Rock’s warning, the pirates who were just there to watch the au or buy a Devil Fruit all broke out in cold sweats, cursing uheir breath. Not wanting to stick around, they quickly gathered their unscious rades and bolted.

  "Huh?"

  "Damn it…"

  "What’s going on?"

  "Minks? Fish-men?"

  The five Celestial Dragons were utterly shocked, but without hesitation, they drew their pistols and aimed them at Linlin and her crew.

  "You filthy lowborn scum, die!"

  "Bang, bang..."

  However, the bullets were easily avoided as Linlin and the others casually dodged them, simply tilting their heads or bodies. Linlin didn’t even bother moving. The bullets hit her directly but couldn’t pee her steel-like skin, instantly fttening and boung off.

  "Linlin, calm down..."

  At that moment, a tall aiful figure stepped out from the au house’s backstage, carrying a treasure box. The woman tossed the box to Linlin and said with a smile, "These guys aren’t worth your time. Let me test out this new Pet-Pet Fruit I just got."

  "Nef, you ate the Pet-Pet Fruit?" Moss asked in surprise, seeing the woman with a long whip, dressed in a gsam. To be cautious, she hadn’t stayed with them earlier and had sneaked backstage to steal the Devil Fruit the Celestial Dragons had purchased, avoiding any interference.

  "Yeah, El-sama said I could pie..." Nef grinned. "I think the Pet-Pet Fruit is way more iing than the Mirror-Mirror Fruit!"

  That’s right—one of the Devil Fruits being aued was the Paramecia Pet-Pet Fruit, and the other was the Paramecia Mirror-Mirror Fruit. Both had been bought by the Celestial Dragons.

  "You wretched woman!"

  "You dared to eat the fruit I paid for?"

  "eous!"

  The Celestial Dragons were furious, gring at Nef with disbelief. They hadn’t expected this woman to eat the Devil Fruit they had spent a fortune on.

  "Annoying..." Linlin’s gaze turned cold, and with a flick of her hand, she sent a powerful gust of wind that blew the Celestial Dragons into the air, smming them down in front of Nef.

  "hey’re all yours... I don’t want to see their arrogant faces in the hree minutes," Linlin said disdainfully, gring at the Celestial Dragons with obvious pt.

  Nef, a 25-year-old from the West Blue, wasn’t inally part of the Dream Home. She irate that El had rescued a few years ago he Calm Belt. Already a skilled fighter, she had since mastered the Six Powers and both forms of Haki under El’s guidance, being even stronger. As a talented ship doctor skilled in medie and poisons, she was the perfect match for the Pet-Pet Fruit.

  "Uood!" Nef cracked her whip with a sinister grin. "Leave it to me... I’ll make sure they behave."

  After being rescued by El years ago, Nef had joihe Dream Home, drawn not only to El’s handsome looks but also to his overwhelming power and grand ambitions. She had no sympathy for the Celestial Dragons, who treated others as nothing more than sves, brutally oppressing and humiliating them.

  "Ah! I’m bleeding…"

  "Damn you, filthy oner! What are y to do?"

  "Offending us means the Navy Admirals will e for you!"

  "Someone, call for an Admiral!"

  "Damn Navy, get here and execute them!"

  The Celestial Dragons, bleeding and humiliated after being flung across the floor, screamed in panic, but two of them remained arrogant, vihat no one would dare y a hand on them.

  Crack!

  "Ahhh!"

  Nef’s whip shed out, cutting deeply into the faces of two Celestial Dragons, leaving them screaming in agony, blood p from their wounds.

  "Still sant?" Nef sneered, raising her hand slowly as she grinned wickedly. "You like ensving others, don’t you? Well, let’s see how you like wearing a colr yourselves."

  Crack, crack, crack!

  With a swift flick of her wrist, green rings of light shot out from her whip, ing around the necks of the Celestial Dragons.

  "Damn it..."

  "What is this?"

  "Let me go, you wretch!"

  In an instant, the Celestial Dragons were horrified, but they couldn’t rea time. The glowing green colrs tightened around their necks as they struggled to tear them off.

  "Now then, my loyal little Celestial Dragon sves, crawl over here on your knees!" Nef anded with a mog grin, her whip smming down and crag the floor.

  "Damn you—”

  Bleam