Consuming!

Big mom, ever since a while ago was starting to grow slimmer and slimmer. Elene didn't know how that was possible, but maybe she was too distressed by the fight, so that was why.

Right now, though she was still ugly, she was not as fat as she was before.

But to Elene's shock the moment big mom called her technique, blue-like energy started to gather around her.

Then next, her injuries started healing at a visible rate to the naked eye.

Elene had no idea what big mom had done. But thankfully the idiot hag started explaining herself.

"You are done for. I wouldn't normally use this, but you have pushed me too far. I have now called back all the life-force of the regular homies to heal myself. I have healed while you are still injured." Big mom laughed as she gloated. Although her homies were no more, she could always make herself some more.

Prometheus, Zeus, Napoleon were of course not included among the homies she sacrificed, as they were special.

Big mom had started treating Elene as her equal for a while now.

As such now that she was healed while Elene is still hurt, it meant that she would win now, in her mind.

But Elene was not panicking or the like.

She just smiled at her. If big mom thought that she would win just like that then she was mistaken.

She used 'shave' and their fight started once again.

Elene delivered her attacks with her clone, while big mom who was healed used her sword to send flaming slashes at Elene. And once she was close enough they would clash their swords together.

But after a few exchanges of moves, big mom started to notice something.

Nothing changed.

She was still getting oppressed. It was just her bad luck, she had no advantage against Elene.

Speed? Don't joke around. Not with her fat self.

Power? She would have to touch her first. And that wasn't likely.

Defense? What was internal destruction for then?

Meanwhile, Elene was faster, she could attack from big mom's blind spots since her clones were shadows and would not be picked up by observation Haki.

All her attacks dealt internal destruction to big mom. So her defense might as well not be there. But Elene had to give it to big mom. Since even so, she was still quite durable. She was sure that the only people who can take more damage than her must be Kaido and Whitebeard.

For power? Though she wasn't as strong as big mom in attacks since big mom had the fire and lightning elements at her call, Elene still couldn't be underestimated much.

One could say that the only advantage big mom has against someone is her soul fruit. She could make armies of homies and have them attack people. But she had tried that, and Elene with her shadows constructs easily obliterated them.

Plus whenever Elene did that, big mom felt a bit weaker so she refrained from doing that anymore.

Now even after she was brought back to her peak, she was still on the losing side.

Her attacks at that moment started to get sloppy and weak due to her stress increasing.

And whenever she was distressed much, big mom would start to get thinner unconsciously as she would burn through her stored energy.

So that's what happened next.

****

Everybody watching was shocked. Except for Elene's crew.

Even the Vinsmoke's were no different (Sanji and Reiju). Of course, they heard from Ian that she would fight big mom, but who could blame them if they were a little skeptical.

But now all of them there were feeling the same shock. Reporters. Big mom's children. Allies... Everybody.

Why?

Because Elene, the Shadow empress, was fighting big mom and suppressing her. Yes. Suppressing her. Not fighting her to an equal stand. No. she was beating her.

And that is even after big mom healed herself.

For the reports, this was big news.

For the children of her, this was bad news… but they couldn't do anything about it.

Meanwhile, Ian was looking at Elene in pride. But he knew that the fight was far from ending though.

He was sure big mom must have a few more trump cards.

So he continued watching intently.

He also noticed how thin big mom started to look. Due to her stress, she had slimmed up.

And he would have to admit. This slim form of her was much better than before.

All of a sudden a yell brought all of their attention towards big mom.

"AHHHHHH" Big mom was hit by the sword of Elene straight in the stomach which had her throw up blood before she was thrown backward.

Ian noticed that when she got up, she exuded such a feeling of rage, that Ian remembered a character from an anime in his past life who was like a beast when in rage.

"You forced my hands… you… made me do this… you will pay" She yelled out and all of them there heard her. Her yell contained Haki.

Ian noticed her as she held her flame cloud and lighting in each hand and started to bring them to her mouth.

He somehow guessed what she was planning to do. But he calmly looked at the fight as he shared a look with his crew. They had already decided to trust Elene.

So they were not going to interfere in her fight. Well not unless Elene was in danger of dying...

****

Elene watched intently as big mom started eating her homies.

"Mama! STOPP!" Prometheus started to yell in pain.

The moment he was put near her mouth, a blueish light started to enter her mouth and he began to yell in pain.

Zeus tried to run away but she held him tightly.

Meanwhile, Napoleon watched on in pain as his brothers were getting consumed.

He was there when big mom did this the very first time. When she had just tried this technique. She had eaten one of her homies and entered into a state of extreme power. So while he sympathized with his siblings, he also knew that what she was doing right now was necessary.

As to why he wasn't panicking himself? Well, she wouldn't eat her sword now, will she?

The sounds of Zeus soon followed after Prometheus.

And then when she had consumed them both, everybody started to see what would be different now. When big mom did something else.

She grabbed her hat and started to bring it into her mouth too.

Only at this did Napoleon notice that big mom was influenced by her rage completely.

He didn't yell as his siblings though. No, he smiled one last time at her before he was completely consumed.

That smile expressed all the memories he had with her. Ever since she was still young.

Too bad big mom was not in the right state of mind to notice...

Then a fire started to build up around her form. Sounds of lightning cracking were surrounding her form as she all of a sudden yelled at the sky.

"I'll kill you!!" Shockwaves filled with Haki started to emanate with her as a center point.

The real fight between the empress of the shadows and emperor big mom was just about to start.