They would settle things through arm wrestling.
Thor had no intention of letting Linlin keep pestering him forever.
At the same time, he wanted to see just how strong the greatest natural-born monster in the One Piece world had become after fifteen years.
“If I win, Thor, you have to become my husband.”
“Hey! I never agreed to anything like that!”
“Mamamama~ What’s wrong, Thor? Are you afraid you’ll lose to me?”
“What kind of joke is that? You think I’d lose to you?”
Thor was furious.
He wasn’t Brother Sun.
How could he possibly lose to a woman twice?
“Fine! I accept. Let’s do this!”
“Mamamama~”
Linlin revealed an extremely smug smile.
Watching from the side, Rocks immediately sensed something was wrong.
‘Not good!
That woman Linlin is planning something.
Thor’s in trouble!’
Rocks was about to shout a warning to Thor when another thought suddenly occurred to him.
‘Then again, that brat Thor has had things go his way his whole life.
It wouldn’t hurt for him to suffer a loss.’
‘I’ll just treat the treasure I bet as the price of teaching him a lesson.
Maybe then he’ll stop underestimating the outside world.’
Rocks chose to keep his mouth shut and instead put on an expression of eager anticipation.
Whitebeard took one look at his captain’s face and knew the bastard was full of bad intentions.
“Come on!”
Thor was the first to place his hand atop Mjölnir, which was serving as their arm-wrestling table.
Linlin, however, didn’t immediately follow.
Instead, she tossed the bicorne on her head high into the air.
“Prometheus, wake up!”
A tiny sun tumbled out of the bicorne while yawning.
Hearing Linlin’s call, the little sun rapidly expanded before flying to her side in confusion.
“Mama?”
“Wrap yourself around my right arm.”
“Okay, Mama.”
Obeying Linlin’s command, Prometheus immediately enveloped her right arm.
Scorching flames erupted across it.
Only then did Linlin reveal a crafty smile and place her hand on the hammer.
“Come on, Thor~ If you’re scared, you can always surrender.”
“That’s Mother Carmel’s ability? So the rumors really were true!”
“You vile, shameless woman! How dare you defile a sacred contest like this!”
Seeing Linlin’s underhanded behavior, the Giant warriors immediately erupted into furious curses.
Thor waved his hand, signaling for everyone to shut up.
“Just watch. I’ll win.”
Thor didn’t care in the slightest that Linlin had buffed herself.
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Even if Linlin had given herself a flaming-fist buff, it didn’t matter.
Thor was confident he could decide the arm-wrestling match in an instant.
“Begin!”
At Buckingham Stussy’s signal, Thor and Linlin’s palms slammed together.
Both of their hands were coated in Armament Haki.
Their tremendous Haki and raw strength collided, producing a terrifying blast of wind that sent some of the weaker pirates watching nearby flying.
‘What incredible strength!’
The instant the contest began, Linlin’s expression changed.
Thor was far stronger than she had expected.
Her hand was already being forced downward toward the head of Mjölnir.
At this rate, she wouldn’t even last long enough for Prometheus to make a difference.
Ten seconds?
Five?
No.
If this continued, Linlin might not even last a single second before losing.
Was Linlin going to lose?
No.
Instead, she only wanted Thor as her husband even more.
The kindness Thor had shown her back in Elbaph.
The overwhelming strength he possessed now.
For the first time, Linlin’s hunger pangs seemed to flare up over a Giant.
She wanted Thor.
She wanted to “eat” him.
“One year of lifespan!”
At the very instant she was about to lose, Linlin suddenly shouted.
At the same moment, Thor felt a tremendous surge of strength erupt from her arm.
The hand he had nearly forced all the way down against Mjölnir was suddenly pushed back up through sheer force.
And that wasn’t all.
Linlin’s eight-meter-tall body rapidly expanded to twenty meters.
She was still a head shorter than Thor, but her strength had already surpassed his.
“Holy shit?!”
Thor stared in disbelief.
Just to beat him at arm wrestling, Linlin had actually used one of the Soul-Soul Fruit’s trump cards and sacrificed part of her own lifespan.
“Mamamama~ Thor! I’m definitely going to have you!”
Linlin’s tongue lolled out of her mouth as greedy drool dripped from her lips.
Right now, she looked exactly like some perverted older woman who had set her sights on a young boy—the kind of ridiculous plot you’d see in a doujin.
Oh hell no!
Thor could feel his right hand growing unbearably hot.
At this rate, he was actually going to lose the arm-wrestling match.
Was his innocence really going to fall into the hands of a woman?
“Hahahaha! Look at that brat Thor’s face! This is hilarious!”
Rocks, who had been watching from the sidelines, was laughing so hard that tears were streaming from his eyes. Enjoying the story? Read on at g.com.
This was way too damn funny.
He doubted he would ever forget such a hilarious sight for the rest of his life.
The hell are you laughing at?!
Thor was already in a foul mood because he was about to lose.
Hearing Rocks’s obnoxious laughter only made him even more irritated.
Fine.
If that was how they wanted to play it, then Thor was done being honorable too.
Dirty tricks, huh?
As if he didn’t know how to use them himself.
Thor hardened his resolve.
He withdrew all the Armament Haki he had spread across Hachinosu to protect the island.
The moment the ground lost the reinforcement of Thor’s Armament Haki, there could only be one result.
BOOM!
With a thunderous crash, the ground beneath Thor and Linlin instantly collapsed under the pressure generated by the two monsters arm wrestling atop Mjölnir.
An enormous crater formed beneath them.
And from that crater, massive cracks rapidly began spreading in every direction across Hachinosu.
Within moments, the entire island would split apart.
Rocks froze.
He had been laughing only seconds ago.
Now he couldn’t laugh at all.
“HEY! LINLIN! AND YOU TOO, THOR, YOU DAMN BRAT! STOP RIGHT NOW!!”
Rocks panicked.
But neither Thor nor Linlin listened.
Whoever released their grip first would lose.
And both of them had reasons they absolutely could not afford to lose.
With no other choice, Rocks stopped caring about the rules.
He drew the saber at his waist and unleashed a horizontal slash.
A flying slash infused with Conqueror’s Haki blasted directly into Thor and Linlin, knocking both of them off their feet.
Rocks had forcibly ended the arm-wrestling match.
“Damn you, Rocks! What the hell are you doing?!”
Linlin scrambled back to her feet and immediately began cursing.
She had been about to win!
She had even sacrificed a year of her lifespan for it!
And now that idiot Rocks had ruined everything.
“If I let you two keep going, my damn island is going to sink!”
“Who cares?! You idiot! Die!!”
Linlin grabbed the bicorne on her head.
The hat transformed into the giant sword Napoleon.
Weapon in hand, she immediately charged at Rocks and slashed at him.
Calling Rocks “Captain” was something she did out of respect.
But once Linlin became truly furious— she didn’t give a damn whose face she was supposed to respect.
And just like that, what had begun as a perfectly ordinary arm-wrestling match turned into—
Linlin versus Rocks.