Upon hearing Jack's question, Yamato remained unbothered.
"He is my friend. Is there a problem with me standing here?"
Yamato's position was very clear: she was siding with Cavendish.
Jack's eyes grew much sharper, which showed his displeasure.
"Yamato-sama, let me confirm this with you once more. The person standing beside you is our enemy."
This time, before Yamato could even respond, Cavendish interrupted him.
"Damn ugly Mammoth, the Yamato beside me is clearly a beautiful woman. You say that she is Kaido's son? And you call her 'sama'? Hah, are you blind?"
Yamato intended to explain herself—since she identify herself as a man—but what happened next left no time for any explanations.
This was because Cavendish could no longer hold himself back and he launched an attack on Jack.
In response to Cavendish's challenge, Jack drew his massive sword.
In an instant, the elegant sword clashed against the curved ivory blade.
Cavendish stabbed and slashed at Jack, wildly venting out all of his rage.
Despite his large size, Jack effortlessly blocked the flurry of sword strikes.
After more than ten seconds had passed, Cavendish began to pant heavily.
In contrast to him, Jack remained as calm as ever and his face was like an emotionless machine.
By the time Cavendish realized that his rage had put him at a severe disadvantage, it was already too late.
With his stamina severely drained, he narrowly dodged Jack's deadly strike, but it was at the cost of nearly being cut open by the massive blade.
But even if Cavendish could dodge this strike, how could he escape the next killing move?
The intense pain from the large wound across his chest made it difficult for Cavendish to stand steady for quite some time.
Seizing this opportunity with his combat instincts, Jack stretched out both of his arms—one pointing to the sky and the other toward the ground—bent over, and began to spin.
Like a meat grinder, he once again aimed a slash at Cavendish's head.
At this moment, Cavendish was still struggling against the momentum from his earlier dodge, and he was utterly unable to avoid this incoming strike.
He did not even have time to use his sleeping second personality.
Was he destined to die right here?
Suddenly, a bolt of blue lightning appeared out of nowhere!
Accompanying the lightning was a massive spiked club.
"RAIMEI HAKKE!"
After a loud sound of impact, there came a crisp cracking sound.
It was Yamato who had saved Cavendish during his moment of crisis.
...
Jack stared at the shattered blade in his hand, and the dissatisfaction in his eyes was growing more clear.
"Yamato-sama, I will ask you one more time—are you sure you want to help this blond weakling?"
In front of Jack, Yamato slammed the spiked club heavily onto the ground and replied with a smile.
"Of course. Not only will I help him, but I will also defeat Kaido!"
With that said, Yamato lifted the 1.5-meter-long spiked club with one hand and charged at Jack once more.
Jack threw away the already broken sword and immediately covered his remaining blade with Armament Haki hardening.
He knew all too well how crazy Yamato's attacks could be.
Raimei Hakke was Yamato's signature move, which was learned from Kaido himself.
The technique was filled with a huge amount of lightning power, combined with Yamato's strong Haki and physical strength.
Even Jack did not dare to take it head-on.
If he did not take it seriously, his other sword would surely be shattered as well.
Without him knowing it, Yamato had grown strong to such a high level.
But Jack was full of confidence.
In his eyes, aside from Kaido, every strong fighter in the world was someone that he could take on.
In an instant, the thunderous spiked club crashed into his blade.
Both of them used immense power; every clash caused the air within a 20-meter area to tremble.
As the two of them fought, the surrounding trees trembled in fear, seemingly waiting for a random rebirth.
Wherever they battled, the trees there could only sigh and prepare for a new plant life.
After dozens of exchanges, Yamato landed a solid blow right on Jack's forehead.
The force was so great that even Jack, who was famous for his defense, nearly passed out.
In contrast, Yamato showed no signs of trouble—aside from a bit of dust on his sandals.
Watching from the side, Cavendish nodded repeatedly, muttering again and again about how incredible Yamato was.
Why was he acting so relaxed?
Shouldn't a bunch of Jack's subordinates still be ready to attack him?
The reason was simple...
Jack's underlings had all been knocked out.
Among these hundred or so men, the 'Gifters' with beast-like traits had even been fed dumplings by Tama.
Since Tama had arrived, the reason for Cavendish's relaxation became clear.
With his boss Ray present at the scene, what monster or freak could possibly threaten him?
Jack also began to notice that something was wrong—his subordinates' presence seemed to have.... vanished?
But Yamato's overwhelming pressure left him no room to think about it.
To escape this bad situation as quickly as possible, Jack firmly activated his ability.
Jack's body rapidly expanded, and in the blink of an eye, he transformed into a mammoth beast standing 15 meters tall with a body length of nearly 30 meters.
The 2-meter-tall Yamato appeared as small as a toy poodle before an adult in front of him and she seemed easy to crush with a single hand.
Yet Yamato showed no sign of panic.
With a powerful leap, she swung her spiked club and smashed it toward Jack's elephant head.
...
As the battle between the two continued, the forest echoed with the sounds of thunderous strikes and elephant cries.
After several dozen more exchanges, Yamato was surprised and struck in the waist by Jack's trunk.
"Ahhh!!!"
With a sharp cry, Yamato was sent flying from Jack's direction toward where Ray and the others stood.
Cavendish glanced at Ray, blinking as if he was asking:
"Boss, should we catch her?"
Ray saw Cavendish's look but gave no response.
Instead, he extended his white tail and swiftly wrapped it around Yamato just before she hit the ground.
At the same time, he threw Chouchou who had been sleeping inside his tail, toward Jack's direction.
...
A few seconds later, Yamato climbed out of Ray's tail, and her cheeks were flushed red.
Her blush wasn't due to Ray catching her—after all, Yamato saw herself as a man and wasn't particularly affected by his charm.
It was mainly out of embarrassment.
She had wanted to show off her strength to Ray, intending to defeat Jack without using Conqueror's Haki coating.
But after two years without fighting, her combat senses had dulled, resulting in her being swatted away by Jack's trunk and caught by Ray.
"Ah, I can't face anyone now."
Frustrated, Yamato hugged a nearby large tree and began banging her head against it, then she stuffed her head into the hollow that she had created.
Cavendish watched with a speechless expression, while Ray found it amusing.
"What an adorable girl."
That line was spoken by Tama by the way, there is no way Ray said something like that, believe it!
...
As for Jack's direction.
After swatting Yamato away, he immediately prepared to take on dozens of opponents alone.
But before he could take a step forward, a small white dog with glowing red eyes flew right in front of him.
'??? Is Young Master Yamato this small after transforming?'
The foolish elephant brain was confused for a moment.
He knew Yamato was a Devil Fruit user of the Inu Inu Fruit and that her transformed state was indeed a white dog.
But the little white dog before him seemed only about 20 cm tall.
At that size, it was like a fly in front of a 15-meter-tall giant mammoth.
Even Jack, as dumb as he was, could sense the huge difference in size.
'Has Young Master Yamato's Devil Fruit development improved? Can she change her size at will?'
As Jack thought about this, the red-eyed little white dog began drooling at him.
A massive surge of demonic energy burst out suddenly, shattering all the trees within a 30-meter area and sending them flying into the sky.
"ROOAARR!"
Accompanied by a beast-like roar, what appeared before Jack was a massive white dog, 10 meters tall at the shoulder and 20 meters long, covered in strange magical patterns.
"Huh? How did it get so big again?"
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