Under the dazzling sunlight, five enormous figures, like mountains, appeared in everyone's view.
The Marines' morale instantly soared. As for the Germa Corps, stripped of emotion as they were, they did not understand fear at all and remained completely expressionless.
"So those are Giants?"
For many people on this sea, this was their first time seeing Giants.
Although they had always known that Giants existed in this world, because the land of the Giants, Elbaph, was so mysterious, very few people had ever truly seen the Giant Race. Now, this live broadcast of the war satisfied many people's strange fantasies.
"So... so tall!"
"They don't seem that different from ordinary people."
"That female Giant is so beautiful!"
Looking across the battlefield, five huge, imposing humans stood there, each around twenty meters tall and wearing the coat of a Marine Vice Admiral. There were four men and one woman, each holding a different weapon: a spear, a great blade, an iron rod, a great axe, and a shark-cutting blade. Just standing there, they gave people an enormous sense of pressure.
"Let's go!"
As the female Giant in the center, who had golden hair, a slender figure, and a spear in her hand, spoke, the five Giant Vice Admirals charged into the battlefield at once.
At that moment, the Giant Race finally displayed its terrifying power.
As their enormous weapons swung, the soldiers of the Germa Corps were swept away like ants.
Faced with such a massive difference in size and strength, even the fearless soldiers of the Germa Corps were no match for the Giants.
In an instant, under the charge of the five Giant Vice Admirals, a path opened across the battlefield leading toward the surrounded Marine soldiers.
"Great..."
Seeing this, the other Marines shouted excitedly.
"Everyone, charge through!"
Countless Marines rushed through the wide gaps between the five Giant Vice Admirals' massive bodies, heading to reinforce the surrounded Marines.
"Have the Marines finally taken the upper hand again?"
Under everyone's gaze, the Sky Pirates' Germa Corps could not stop those five Giants at all. At the same time, everyone also began looking forward to how the Sky Pirates would respond.
The Marines standing on the flagship felt the same. They looked at Yemu, who still remained completely calm, and the unease in their hearts had never stopped.
Just as the five Giant Vice Admirals were about to lead the Marines to the surrounded troops, another enormous black shadow suddenly leaped out from Yemu's body on the Twin Goddesses and charged toward the five Marine Giant Vice Admirals.
It was so fast that the female Giant at the very front, named Tessis, had no time to react before she was struck by a fist covered in pitch-black light. Her eyes rolled back, and her whole body was sent flying.
This scene frightened the other four male Vice Admirals.
"Tessis!"
A very handsome male Giant rushed over anxiously and caught Tessis in his arms, stopping her from flying farther back.
"Are you all right?"
After asking in concern, he saw that Tessis in his arms had only been injured on the face and that her body was not seriously harmed. Only then did he turn his head in anger, wanting revenge.
But the moment he saw the figure that had attacked them, he suddenly froze. With disbelief in his eyes, he uttered a name.
"Li... Lina..."
Tessis, dazed in the male Giant's arms, instantly woke up when she heard that name. Her eyes widened in disbelief as she looked at the female Giant who had appeared before them, slightly shorter than they were.
"Lina..."
After calling out the same name, Tessis recovered from her shock, seemed to remember something, and stood up in fury as she roared.
"Why... why are you here?"
And standing in front of the many Marines and the five Giants was the tall, beautiful female Giant named Rebellio Lina. She looked at the female Giant before her with anger and tears in her eyes.
"If I'm not here, then where should I be, Mama?"
"Mama?"
That address startled everyone. Even Sengoku and the others on the flagship froze.
"What is going on?"
This sudden, somewhat dramatic scene of mother and daughter recognizing each other made everyone on the battlefield, as well as everyone watching the war, feel very strange.
But Tessis had no desire to say more. After all, this was a battlefield.
"That's not important. Leave here immediately! This war isn't something you can take part in!"
Tessis shouted almost anxiously, her voice commanding.
But Lina shook her head.
"I'm sorry, Mama. I can't obey your orders. I am now Yemu-sama's subordinate."
Hearing this, Tessis glared angrily at the tiny figure of Yemu not far away and roared.
"You pirate! What did you do to bewitch my daughter?"
"It's not bewitching!"
The one who answered her was Lina's angry voice.
"Yemu-sama saved me from the slave traders, gave me a new place to belong, and let me meet so many friends. But you, Mama. When I was captured by slave traders and auctioned off at Sabaody Archipelago, where were you, a Marine Vice Admiral?"
"What?"
This time, Tessis finally understood everything.
She understood why her daughter was here. And as her mother, she had not even known that her daughter had almost been captured by slave traders and sold as a slave.
At that moment, the handsome Giant Vice Admiral beside her hurriedly explained.
"Lina, you can't blame your mother for this. If she had known, she definitely would have gone to save you."
"Then why didn't she know? That's right, she sent me alone to the West Blue the moment I was born, and she hasn't come to see me even once a year since then. How could she possibly know her daughter had been captured by slave traders? Maybe even if I died, she still wouldn't know."
"No... that's not how it is, Lina. You don't know. The Marines are wary of us Giants. Tessis didn't want you to become a Marine tool the way she did, so..."
The moment these words came out, the expressions of the surrounding Marines changed drastically. Meanwhile, the people watching the war looked as if they were enjoying a good show.
"Hehehe... Interesting. So the relationship between the Marines and the Giants isn't as harmonious as we imagined?"
"What a mess of contradictions."
On the flagship, Sengoku's expression was also ugly. He had not expected the Sky Pirates to still have this kind of hidden move.
And with such a coincidence, the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable.
"No... don't say any more, Lacroix..."
Tessis struggled to stand. It had to be said that Lina's punch just now had truly been ruthless.
Looking at Tessis's beautiful face, the Giant Vice Admiral named Lacroix was filled with pity. As if he had made up his mind, he spoke.
"I'm sorry, Tessis. I know this is very difficult for you, but there's no need for you to carry it alone. This isn't only for you and Lina. It's also for us, the Giant Race."
Then he looked at the daughter of the woman he loved, his face filled with anger as he said,
"Lina, you really can't blame your mother. You have to know that your mother, I, and the other Giants in the Marines were sold to the Marines by human traffickers when we were children. Other than the Marines, we had nowhere to go. Unable to return to Elbaph, we could only become slaves. And the Marines, who coveted the power of Giants, put all kinds of pressure on the only woman among us, your mother, trying to force her to give birth to new Giants who would become tools for the Marines. So after she learned she was pregnant with you, she secretly gave birth to you and sent you to the West Blue. She did it to protect you..."