The future of the Charlotte family!

"Mom lost..."

Compote repeated Katakuri's words in a daze.

"Yes, Mom lost."

Katakuri looked expressionless at Charlotte Linlin in the deep pit in the distance and spoke, but the bulging veins on his right hand, gripping the trident, showed that Katakuri's mood was not as calm as he appeared.

This is how battles between strong individuals go.

Once one side's momentum is overwhelmed in a direct confrontation and the opponent seizes the opportunity, the situation will collapse like an avalanche, with little chance of a counterattack.

If it were against other enemies, like those slightly weaker but in greater numbers, there might still be a chance for Charlotte Linlin to regain the advantage, relying on her monstrous physique's tolerance.

But her current opponent is not just slightly weaker opponents teaming up against her; it's Nicholas, who is at her level or possibly even stronger.

Without the high tolerance brought by the talent of the Steel Balloon, and with Charlotte Linlin's relatively inexperienced combat experience, once she's caught, it's almost impossible for her to stand up again. After all, Nicholas won't give her a chance to recover.

At this moment, seeing Charlotte Linlin lying silently in the big pit, and Perospero beside her in a panic...

Nicholas had a clear target in mind.

He raised his long sword.

Haki quickly wrapped around the blade, with black-purple electric arcs constantly active around it.

His arm muscles swelled abruptly, clearly using his life return to increase his strength.

Nicholas's eyes flashed red, firmly locking onto Charlotte Linlin. As he concentrated all his strength on the arm holding the sword, the countless thunderbolts in the sky seemed to be drawn to his long sword, continuously converging towards it.

Sensing the danger from Nicholas that Charlotte Linlin had been locked onto, she seemed to perceive the crisis. Her eyes, previously unconscious due to severe injuries, slowly regained focus as her consciousness returned.

"Ahhhh!!!"

Feeling the intense pain in her body, Charlotte Linlin let out a painful scream. Perceiving the imminent danger brought by Nicholas, she struggled to stand up again.

At the same time, the muscles around the wound where Nicholas had previously struck out continued to squirm, seemingly trying to repair her severely injured body.

Seeing Charlotte Linlin awaken, Perospero beside her showed an excited expression.

Obviously, although Charlotte Linlin was severely injured, she hadn't died yet. As long as she was alive, the Charlotte Family and the Big Mom Pirates would not decline!

Seeing the gruesome wound on Charlotte Linlin's body, Perospero immediately drew a circle on the ground with his candy cane.

With Perospero's gesture, a giant candy mirror made of syrup appeared beside them, reaching tens of meters high.

"Brûlée!"

As the mirror formed, Perospero shouted loudly into it.

In Brûlée's mirror world, she heard Perospero's voice and hadn't reacted yet, but soon she saw the conspicuous giant mirror that suddenly appeared not far away, as well as Perospero outside the mirror and the terribly wounded Charlotte Linlin.

Brûlée hurried over.

Soon, the face of Brûlée, like a witch, appeared in the candy mirror in front of Perospero.

"Perospero, what happened to Mommy?"

Through the mirror, Brûlée asked anxiously.

"Forget about that, hurry and bring Mommy into the mirror. Also, have the medical team in the mirror world get ready!"

Sensing the increasingly terrifying pressure behind him, Perospero said hastily.

"Oh, okay..."

As Brûlée kept promising and prepared to bring Charlotte Linlin into the mirror, she saw Nicholas in the sky through the corner of the mirror.

Nicholas calmly watched Charlotte Linlin and Perospero's actions.

He swung the long sword he had been preparing.

"Raimei Taito: East: One Strike Annihilation."

As the power concentrated into the strike was finally unleashed, it erupted into a violent wave of air, sweeping toward the entire Cake Island.

Being covered by this raging air wave, Katakuri, who was closest, was instantly enveloped.

Feeling the pressure of the air wave, Katakuri's face immediately changed, and at the same time, a pitch-black rice cake wall appeared around him and his siblings. Behind the rice cake wall, Katakuri's eyes flashed with red light as he watched Nicholas, his heart racing uncontrollably.

He could clearly feel the terror of this aftermath.

The raging air wave quickly passed over Katakuri and the others, like a raging wave sweeping toward the entire Cake Island.

All those protected by Katakuri's rice cake wall, under the terrifying pressure of this air wave, were filled with horror.

However, at this moment, many people noticed a sight that made their faces turn pale.

They saw countless milky white orbs appearing where Charlotte Linlin was, floating up into the sky above, then falling into the Cake Island and the surrounding sea.

"That's... the souls of the Homies..."

Smoothie instantly realized what was happening, looking incredulously at Charlotte Linlin's location.

He knew better than anyone that with Big Mom's death, not only the remnants of the Charlotte family like them, but the entire Totto Land, with its vast territory, was sliding into the abyss of destruction.

In the cruel competition of the New World, without the existence of top-tier sea forces, the vast legacy of Totto Land and the huge influence, were things that they, the remnants of the Charlotte family, couldn't hold onto no matter what.

Unless another figure appeared within the Charlotte family, one whose strength was close to or even surpassed Mom's.

Thinking of this, Smoothie couldn't help but cast his gaze towards Katakuri.

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