Life return!

Ian and co watched on intently as the fight between big mom and Elene kept raging on.

All of them were mesmerized by how easily these two people fighting were throwing attacks that would leave them half-dead if they touched them. But then both Elene and big mom would shrug the attack on and continue the fight.

A while earlier Stella and Bert had joined with Ian after beating Smoothie and Cracker.

Bert had destroyed the swordsman and his army made of biscuit. He was just stronger than him. And no matter how much the guy cried and tried to hurt Bert he lost in the end.

Stella too ended up bullying the giant woman that fought her. She didn't let her touch her not even one time, so their match was pretty one-sided.

Now they too were looking on intently at Elene and watching her fight.

Well, that is except for Ian who was only enjoying the fight and seeing his wife beating the hell out of big mom.

It had already been close to three hours since the start of the fight. And though the fight was intense, it was nowhere near its end. Admirals could fight for days, and emperors were even more ridiculous than that.

However, that is true only when the two sides were closely matched. If one was stronger than the other by a huge margin. Then that person can end the fight quickly.

Right now Elene was quite injured than before.

There were more burn marks on her body than before. Her clothes were shredded in quite a few places, though thankfully not in anywhere inappropriate. Otherwise, Ian would be beating anyone who saw her in that state to a pulp.

She had blood on her forehead falling through her left eye. Which she hurriedly swiped out with her sleeve so that it won't obstruct her vision.

Her speed, if one was watching intently, could be seen that it was a bit slower than before.

But the look on Elene's face was still that of excitement. She was enjoying the fight. She did not have the chance to just let go in a fight quite often. And Ian would just be bullying her if he fought against her.

Meanwhile with big mom, even though she was known for her defense, internal destruction would bypass that and hurt the person attacked.

So it was no surprise when big mom had many injuries on her body. Since Elene was quite adept at that form of advanced Haki.

Elene even managed to inflict external injuries with her stronger attacks. She had injured her enough for her to throw blood out of big mom. And not many could say they have had the honor of doing that.

After all, Elene was using internal destruction. Which was quite hard to find a user of.

Big mom was using her fire and lightning instead. Which Elene still dodged quite regularly. She was also faster than big mom, so she took fewer injuries than her.

Right now Elene had four clones similar to her in shape made out of total darkness which could attack the same as her.

She had them attack big mom with shadow constructs, while she engaged in close-quarters combat.

So unlike what big mom thought before, she was losing quite badly.

All of a sudden big mom gathered energy in her right hand, and then she punched forward at Elene. Which released a huge ball of fire at her. And Elene was forced to dodge quickly.

But Elene retaliated with her own attack.

Using her sword she released a huge ball of darkness at big mom that made big mom's pupils dilate.

So she hurriedly tried to dodge, but then Elene made the ball of darkness that passed by the side of big mom explode.

And then it started to pull everything around it to its center. Including big mom.

Big mom started struggling withstanding her ground.

This has happened beforehand already so she knew what was about to happen.

She had already fallen to this attack beforehand. So she knew that if she stayed in her place now, Elene would attack her with all her clones. But if she let herself be pulled to the black hole, then it was much worse.

She has taken more damage from the black hole so she stayed her ground and gritted her teeth as she glared at Elene.

Elene only smirked at her.

Before she then used Shave to attack with her sword.

While her clones all sent many darkness spears at her to hit her from every possible angle.

And that was what happened next.

Big mom took the attack head-on after coating her body in Haki.

Elene's sword strike hit her directly and it managed to throw her quite a distance away. But not before all the shadow constructs hit her body and drew blood from her.

Big mom was then thrown backward and got buried into the ground. She then got up while coughing blood.

But after standing up she was enraged and she grabbed her hat which transformed into a sword.

She then had fire travel through it to release a flaming slash.

She slashed at Elene in successive motions releasing close to ten strikes. But Elene was quite fast and was dodging them all easily. Still, due to the high number, she was not able to dodge the last two so she made a shadow resembling a wall in front of her and strengthened it with Haki, and took the attack head-on.

And as expected, it did not break the wall.

Big mom again tried to attack with her lightning. But still, the same thing happened.

Big mom was frustrated. Her high defense, would not work against an adept Haki user. Her devil fruit's main ability to take lifespans proved useless.

Her physical strength was matched with Elene even though she was much smaller than her.

Her homies, which were the method she chose to fight also were not providing her much help. As it was going now, she would probably lose.

But who was big mom? If it was this easy to beat her, she would have become an emperor of the sea.

So while gritting her teeth, big mom chose to use something that she wouldn't normally use.

She looked at the sky as she took a deep breath. And yelled.

"Life… Return!!"