Giants

**Giants** (巨 (きょ) 人 (じん) 族 (ぞく) , *Kyojinzoku*?) refer to gigantic humanoids originating from the Giants' World. They are one of thirteen natural enemies of humanity featured in *Versus.*

## Appearance

Giants resemble humans with a very bulky and muscular build, albeit much larger. The size of those observed so far varies from 5 to over 20 meters. Their body is covered in a lot of body hair, especially on their legs or back. They have very pronounced brow ridges and powerful jaws with exposed muscle-like parts.

## Biology

Their defining trait is their bloodthirsty and malevolent nature. They will attack anything that appears in front of them. Braginte notes that for the Giants, allowing even a few people to remain alive is rare and only happens when they come across something interesting. When Ryam was using the full power of her Spirit Peace Magic: Magic Therapy, they casually killed Shox and Shigeru, showing that even in a tranquil state of mind, violence just comes naturally to them.

Their hearts can be ground into a powder and compressed into pills known as the super supplement "Red". These pills can explosively boost one's physical abilities, at the cost of a significant burden on the user's body, a characteristic presumably derived from a similar transformation the Giants can undergo using the organ.

Giants live in desolate mountainous areas. Though they haven't displayed signs of a civilization on the same level of complexity as modern humans, they are capable of speech, move in groups, make simple flags, clothes, weapons (primarily clubs) and cages, placing them at around the early Stone age when it comes to technology.

## Overall Strength

The strength of a giant likely varies by size and hierarchy. They don't rely on any magical ability but rather raw strength and durability. They usually bring a club or a spear, but their weapon usage is mostly simple swinging. The giant spotted by Hallow effortlessly runs through buildings and walls without any injury and is unaffected by laser weapons from Machine Rule World and Fog Magic from Zaybi, merely using his breath to blow away the latter. He can casually punch Hallow and leave a crater on the ground underneath, as well as jump over a valley dozens of meters wide. A giant requires dozens of low-ranking demons to take down. Likewise, dozens of New Humans working in sync are required in order to take down giants.

The group of giants that the human negotiation party encounters are all practically unaffected by Jupito's Cosmic Laser Beam. After Braginte consumes the super supplement "Red" and boosts his abilities to be on-par with the giants, they casually toy with him and kill him in only a few exchanges, treating it like a fun workout. When it comes time to chase the magically gliding humans down a slope, they kept roughly the same pace and one even tumbled down the entire way unharmed.

Taking most things at ease, they can still trivially destroy walls and toss around cars, but when faced with something recognized as an enemy unlike humans, the Giants take things a step further. Beating on their chest and yelling, their hearts lead to a transformation which increases their muscle mass, strength, and speed by a significant amount. This process is enough of a boost to hit a species a child of which had easily dodged their blows before, and destroy the ground around their feet with every strike. Seeing as one was taken down before without the characteristic appearance, it's possible that not every Giant can use this ability.