"Whoosh..."

  Gusts of wind whipped across the shore as El, wings bck as night, swooped down like a fallen angel from legend, moving at incredible speed. He quickly arrived at the isnd's coast, where Carmel was making her deal with the Wover. El had already scouted this remote isnd near Elbaf.

  “El, stop them quickly!” Carmel rushed fripping El’s clothes with feigned desperation. “They’re human traffickers! We’ve been deceived, and the children have been captured by them!”

  The children locked in cages looked on in shock. Had Sister Carmel been tricked? heless, they saw El as their savior, and their cries for help echoed through the air.

  “El, boss, save us!”

  “These bad people locked us up!”

  The children knew all too well how strong El was. Even adult giant warriors couldn’t match his strength. He could lift them effortlessly and toss them into the air like ragdolls. They were sure he could defeat the vilins who had captured them.

  “Gray hair, bck wings, fmes at the back of his head…”

  “It really is the legendary Lunarian! It’s the first time I’ve seen one.”

  “He doesn’t look like the rumors—his skin isn’t brown…”

  “Is it because he’s a giant hybrid?”

  “This is the cursed race the Wover has pced a bounty on!”

  “We ’t let him escape!”

  Meanwhile, the CP agents had drawn their guns and ons, aiming them at El. Their eyes were filled with caution and hostility.

  “We’ve got quite the dangerous one here,” the CP0 officer in charge remarked coldly, ign Carmel’s charade. He fixed his gaze on El and said, “The Wover received intelligence about a Lunarian hiding in Elbaf, but because it’s the nd of the giants, we couldn’t arrest you. I didn’t expect you to e to us willingly.”

  To the CP0 agent, El was clearly formidable, but they were CP0—far more powerful than ordinary CP agents. As long as they could prevent him from flying away, capturing him wasn’t impossible.

  “Oh, is that so?” El chuckled lightly, ign the CP0 agents.

  He looked down at Carmel, her face full of fake urgency, and smiled. “Sister, I’ve been meaning to have a heart-to-heart talk with you.”

  Even now, Carmel utting on an act, fearing that if CP0 failed to capture him, he’d return to Elbaf, potentially exposing her secret life as a human trafficker. It was uandable—Carmel had pyed the role of “Holy Mother” for years, fooling tless people.

  “What...?” Carmel faltered, surprised. The moment, El, his enormous hand like that of a small giant, grabbed her by the ned lifted her into the air.

  “El, what are you doing?” Carmel's face twisted in pain as El’s grip tightened, and she struggled desperately.

  “That’s enough ag...” El’s face remained indifferent, his voice dripping with mockery. “Did you really think I didn’t know you sold these children to the Wover, Mountain Witch?”

  “What!?” Carmel’s face turned pale, while the CP0 agents stood in stunned silehey hadn’t expected that Carmel’s true identity had already been exposed.

  She thrashed wildly, denying his words. “What are you talking about? Let me go…”

  “You thought you could sell me and Linlin to the Wover, theire in peace?” El sneered, his eyes cold. “Sorry, but hell is your real retirement pn!”

  “You... you knew!?” Carmel’s expression torted as she realized her cover was blown. No longer b to pretend, she screamed at the CP0 agents. “What are you waiting for? Save me!”

  Crack—

  Before the CP0 agents could react, El’s grip tightened mercilessly. “Ahh!” Carmel’s scream was cut short as her bones shattered. She didn’t even have time to activate her Soul-Soul Fruit powers before her body was crushed into a bloody pulp.

  Her head lolled to the side, eyes wide in disbelief as she died. Blood spilled onto the ground in a gruesome dispy, sending shivers down the spines of everyog.

  “Sister—”

  “El, he... killed Sister Carmel?”

  The children in the cages were stuheir eyes wide with terror. None of them had expected that the normally kind El would so brutally kill Sister Carmel. They turned pale with fear and began g untrolbly.

  “Carmel—” The CP0 officer leading the operation was shocked and furious. He hadn’t expected El to act so decisively. Before he could intervene, Carmel was dead. They still hadn’t drawher “monster” out, and now they had lost a valuable asset.

  Without hesitation, the CP0 officer charged forward, shouting, “Shave!”

  “Finger Gun: Oren! (Yellow Lotus)”

  In an instant, the CP0 officer was in front of El. His index fiurned pitch bck, coated in Armament Haki, aruck with rapid, bullet-like jabs aimed at El’s body.

  “What!?”

  But to his horror, El’s body was as hard as steel. No matter how many times he struck with his Haki-itacks, he couldn’t pierce El’s skin. He was starting to uand just how terrifying El’s invulnerability truly was. El stood there, pletely defenseless, yet his body couldn’t be harmed.

  “Are you scratg an itch?” El asked coldly. Without even moving, he brought his foot down hard.

  Boom—

  The ground trembled and colpsed beh him, causing many of the CP agents to lose their footing and crash to the ground, bleeding from their injuries.

  Swish... swish...

  Green sprouts erupted from the earth, transf into massive vihat whipped through the air like spears, aiming to impale the CP0 officer.

  The CP0 officer's face twisted in shock as he retreated. “Iron Body: Go! (Strength)” At the same moment, two other CP0 agents sprang into a, charging at El with their bodies hardened like steel through their Iron Body teique, throwing powerful puoward him.

  “You’re c death!” El’s expression remained cold, his eyes fshing with a blleam. Thanks to his extraordinary Observation Haki, he had already predicted their movements. g his fists, he swung them with devastating force.

  Boom!!

  Boom!!

  In an instant, both agents were sent flying like onballs, their bodies crashing violently into a hillside in the distance.

  Boom... Boom...

  “What!?”