Grand Line "Paradise", Little Garden.
"Gababababa! Dorry! Already giving up!?"
"Gegegegege! Brogy! What nonsense are you spouting! I'm just warming up!"
"Good! Then let the 71,525th battle... begin!"
As soon as the words were spoken, one swung his battle-axe while the other brandished his sword, both striking against each other's round shields simultaneously.
The dull impact signaled the beginning of yet another battle.
Not far away, Ginny in her flame form floated idly in midair, watching the giants' combat.
"Both their weapons are so worn out they're barely functional anymore… yet they still manage to fight this enthusiastically!" Ginny sighed, shoving a piece of meat with the bone still attached into her mouth.
She chewed noisily while muttering between bites, "And what about Michael? It's been two days already—how has he not arrived yet? Oh right! I never even asked where he is now… Ah, whatever. Judging by his tone on the Den Den Mushi, he must be pretty interested in these two giants too."
Ginny, now in her naturalized form, watched the commotion from midair, while the ground below had descended into utter chaos.
"Hey! Daz! Didn't I tell you!? Even if it's just for a little while! Stop slashing everything around here!"
A beautiful woman with blue curly hair, dressed in spiderweb-patterned lingerie, snapped impatiently at the burly man in front of her.
"Paula, I don't like being told what to do," replied the buzz-cut man called Daz, his expression cold.
Though his words were defiant, the blades extending from his arms reverted back to normal.
"If you don't like being told what to do, why not just be a pirate? Since you're in the Revolutionary Army, you'd better follow orders, you bastard!"
This only made Paula angrier.
A strangely dressed man with heavy, eccentric makeup and blunt bangs sidled up to them, grinning.
"I think little Paula is right, you know… But I also think little Daz clearing out the nearby trees isn't so bad. After all, we still need materials to set up camp, don't we…?"
"Easy for you to say! Isn't all the actual work falling on me!?"
"Oh, but you're the Wax-Wax Fruit user, aren't you? So using wax to bind the wood together is just part of your job, right?"
And just like that, the group dissolved into full-blown bickering.
Only one man—wearing a long brown coat and sporting an afro—tried to mediate.
"Alright, alright… Settle down… By the way, has anyone seen Mikita and little Bonney?"
No one paid attention to his attempts at peacekeeping, but his last question instantly grabbed everyone's attention.
"What do you mean by that!?" Paula seized the afro man by his collar.
"Gem! Weren't you two supposed to be watching the kid!? Now not only is the kid missing, but one of the adults too!?"
"Paula! It's not my fault! Bonney and Mikita can both float into the sky with their abilities… I just looked away for a second, and they vanished!"
Paula massaged her temples.
Damn it all!
They were newcomers, having only joined the Revolutionary Army a few months ago.
Now, on their first mission with the higher-ups, they'd gone and lost the boss's kid!
Not to mention…
Bonney was just too adorable!
The thought of her wandering alone on this island, filled with dinosaurs and other ancient creatures, sent a chill down Paula's spine.
"Search! We're searching now!"
"We have to find them before Boss Ginny notices!"
...
"Ahahaha! Mikita! Look how high we're floating!"
"We are pretty high up… but shouldn't we head back?"
Mikita held a yellow-and-blue-striped parasol, wearing a lemon-patterned yellow dress.
Her charming face was perpetually smiling…
But now she had to press down on her skirt with one hand, caught between laughter and tears.
As a Devil Fruit User of the Superhuman Series' Kilo-Kilo Fruit, she shared a lot of common ground with Bonney, who had eaten the Float-Float Fruit.
However, she couldn't help but feel that she and Bonney had strayed a bit too far from the main group.
"Huh? We have to go back now?" Bonney turned her head, glancing at Mikita before looking at the two giants locked in battle in the distance.
"Hmm... alright."
With a flick of her fingers, the two began descending slowly toward the ground.
Of course, Bonney hadn't reached the level of awakening her Devil Fruit to directly make others float in the air.
Instead, Mikita had reduced her own weight to the minimum, and Bonney had made the parasol float, allowing them both to rise together.
Just as the two touched down...
A rustling sound suddenly emerged from the forest.
Instinctively, they turned around.
And locked eyes with a massive red tyrannosaurus rex!
"B-Bonney, ready to run?"
"Huh? Aren't we both Devil Fruit Users!?"
"But before we can even use our abilities to take it down, we'll already be swallowed whole!" Without hesitation, Mikita grabbed Bonney by the collar and shouted.
"Quick! Get us airborne!"
Bonney glanced back at the tyrannosaurus's gaping maw, gulped heavily, and immediately made herself float.
Seeing its tiny snacks about to escape, the red tyrannosaurus roared and charged forward.
But... just two inches short!
Mikita, who had nearly been bitten on the foot, sighed in relief—then...
A charmingly wicked grin spread across her face.
She let go of Bonney's hand.
"Ten-Ton Guillotine!"
Descending from the sky, her weight instantly surged to ten tons.
Using that mass as a weapon, she delivered a graceful downward kick right onto the tyrannosaurus's neck.
The seemingly thick neck instantly dislocated, and the entire beast crumpled limply to the ground.
"Whew! That was close!" She turned around and waved at Bonney, still floating midair.
But as she turned, she was met with a shocking sight.
A man with two large pairs of wings and one small pair had appeared in the air—and seemed... oddly familiar with Bonney.
Wait a minute...?
Three pairs of wings... wasn't that the legendary Chief of Staff of the Revolutionary Army, Michael?!
So he was the one Army Commander Ginny had contacted via the Den Den Mushi earlier!
But that cloud behind him... it looked downright eerie.
Almost as if...
It was alive.
...
"Uncle Michael! That's my friend over there!"
Hearing Bonney's words, Michael followed her pointing finger.
Oh? Ms. Valentine!
An acquaintance!
With so many people around, isn't Little Garden getting a bit too lively?
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