"Dorry-!"
"Brogy-!"
The giants, clad in leather armor, roared, their boots trampling the earth.
Haki scraped against each other, producing intense sparks as they swung up the enormous sword and axe that ordinary people couldn't possibly wield.
They charged towards each other's bodies.
But Sakura was faster than them.
A Flying Thunder God kunai shot out, a phantom light of Space-Time flashing by.
Clang!
A palm caught the giant axe, while a shin blocked the sword.
Wedged between the two massive weapons, Sakura was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.
Yet she solidly caught the attacks of both Dorry and Brogy, and with a burst of tremendous strength, pushed both of them flying back.
"Ouch ouch ouch... Sakura, what are you doing!"
Brogy, who had been knocked to the ground, rubbed his head as he got up.
"Yeah! Don't interfere with our sacred duel!"
Interrupted during battle, Dorry also held some resentment.
Sakura shrugged and walked forward. "Fighting like this, you two will never decide a winner!"
"I know." Brogy was also quite helpless. "But this dispute that's lasted nearly a hundred years has to have a result, right?"
"As long as we fight to the end of our lives, naturally a winner will be decided!" Dorry laughed, raising his thumb.
Sakura shook her head in amusement. "So you two really plan to keep fighting here for another two hundred-plus years?"
The current oldest living member of the Giant Race is close to four hundred years old.
With Dorry and Brogy both being around one hundred and fifty years old, they could still fight on this island for another two hundred and fifty years.
These two... really are two one-fifties planning to fight it out for two-fifty.
"How about trying a different way to duel?"
Seeing their troubled expressions, Sakura suggested.
"It's no use. In these nearly hundred years of facing each other, we haven't only dueled."
Brogy scratched his head through his steel helmet, but the more he scratched, the itchier it got.
"From hunting competitions at the start, to all sorts of contests, we've tried every method we could think of."
Dorry put a single fist to his mouth and gave a light cough.
Judging by his look, he was also surprised that he could be so evenly matched with this old friend.
But when everything else faded away, the giants had only the purest method left to decide a winner.
Duel!
Under the witness of the God of Elbaf, a victor would be born through the clash of strength and weapons.
They believed such a victory would be recognized by the gods, even if it reached the heavenly realm.
"Then how about this."
Sakura stepped forward, the spirit around her beginning to burn fiercely.
"You two have been deadlocked for so long. Don't you want to add something different to this fight?"
The tempting proposal was laid before them. A duel that started from a hunting competition, evolved, and finally lasted nearly a century.
It was as if someone had pressed fast-forward, suddenly giving it a new development.
"Gyagagagaga, looks like the young one is very confident in herself!"
Dorry stroked his drooping beard, narrowed his eyes, and tightened the arm holding his sword.
"Kababababa, seems we're being looked down upon!"
Brogy laughed loudly as he picked up his axe, his five fingers gripping the handle tightly.
Since the young 'giant' had ignited her will and sent an invitation to them, her seniors, how could they refuse such a thrilling-
"Free-for-all!" x3
Without the slightest hesitation, the giant axe swept through the air.
Sakura drew Kumotsuna, a black cloud sword slashing towards the sky.
However, the giant sword behind her roared with a high-pitched hum, intending to cut both her and Brogy nearby in one sweep.
Sun Saw!
Brogy's Armament Haki adhered to the round shield on his hand, forming an invisible layer of armor.
After the shield on his left arm collided with the sword blade, it erupted in a sharp clang. Simultaneously, the giant axe in his right hand had already reached Sakura, resulting in a collision.
Sun Shield!
Clang!
A shockwave was lifted by some brutal force. Endless flashes of iron flew out from where the sword and axe edges met.
"Boil Release: Unrivaled Strength!"
Sakura grinned, the Chakra within her boiling. Steam burst forth from her body.
Her strength, already surpassing that of the vast majority of the Giant Race, became even more frightening after receiving a secondary boost from her Chakra Burst. With a powerful push, she actually sent Brogy flying.
At the same time, she threw a ruthless punch at the giant sword descending behind her from Dorry.
A hand wrapped in Haki, carrying dark-colored lightning, moved freely through the air. The moment it touched the sword blade, it emitted a roar.
"Such terrifying power! Are you really human?"
Amidst a dull, loud noise, Dorry's giant sword was sent flying, and the man himself was forced back several steps by this power, barely managing to steady himself.
"Haki, sword skills, combat skills... all excellent. And she's a Devil Fruit User herself..."
Brogy patted the dust off his body, moving his joints as he walked back.
In that brief instant of clash, they had already been utterly routed, and the other party hadn't even used her fruit abilities yet.
Dorry walked over and stood together with Brogy. The will of both men rose, their Haki burning fiercely on their shields.
The Giant race was not incapable of using Haki. On the contrary, because their fighting spirit was inherently more intense than humans', they could easily become masters of Haki with training.
Unfortunately, their gifted bodies gave the Giants excessively powerful strength, but also made them lack a measure of humility and vigilance.
Therefore, when fighting humans, they often looked down on them and didn't use Haki, causing many powerful Giants to be defeated by humans.
However, having already regarded Sakura as a 'fellow clansman', Dorry and Brogy, after the previous lesson, had put away their arrogant attitude and intended to go all out!
"Gyagagagaga, she's too strong, partner, but I don't want to lose to a youngster just like that!"
"Kababababa, I feel the same! So let's fight together!"
The two formed a pincer position, subtly surrounding Sakura for an attack.
"Youngster, don't blame us for being underhanded!" x2
"Hahahaha, how could I? I'm immensely looking forward to facing the Red Ogre and Blue Ogre together!"
Sakura laughed heartily, spreading her arms wide, while the rainbow glow of Observation Haki flickered in her eyes, wary.
The two, whose tacit understanding was so great that the World Government had to print their wanted posters on the same sheet of paper… only when cooperating fully could one catch a glimpse of the former glory of the Giant Warrior Pirates from a hundred years ago.
"Barrier!"
The two round shields, poised for action, erupted with violent impacts under the empowerment of the invisible armor forged from Haki.
When the two massive outlines came crashing down, the air also emitted a sound of overwhelmed rupture.
A loud roar boomed!
"Then I won't hold back either! Ikoku Sovereignty!"
Sakura used her Devil Fruit's Ability to create high-energy particles within the blade of Kumotsuna. Their friction and collision against each other caused lightning to bloom.
A high-pitched shriek rushed out from Kumotsuna. A torrent of storm-force energy poured onto the shattered earth.
Immediately after, a strand of scorching iron light shot towards the sky. The savage thunder caused all things to momentarily dim.
Boom!
Slashing, cutting, piercing, impacting...
The dazzling, intense light tore apart everything around it. Enormous dust covered the ground.
Witnessing this unimaginable scene made Kuina and the others swallow hard.
"What... what happened in the end?"