The ones who had come from Totto Land this time were all genuine powerhouses: Totto Land's Minister of Flour, Charlotte Katakuri; Minister of Nuts, Charlotte Amande; and Charlotte Compote, the Minister of Fruits who had come last time. Because the foods they oversaw placed the greatest demands on their growers, they had also arrived the fastest.
The Big Mom Pirates of today were not what they would become in the future. Although Charlotte Linlin herself was at the peak of her strength, her Pirate Crew was far weaker than it would be twenty years later. Many of her younger children had yet to rise to prominence. These three, now in their twenties and thirties, accounted for nearly half the Big Mom Pirates' strength, excluding Charlotte Linlin herself, their Captain.
Under such circumstances, the Big Mom Pirates' determination to obtain the Tontatta Tribe was already obvious.
Charlotte Compote stood aboard the Pirate ship. Still young, she had not yet become a horizontally expanding lump of flesh like her mother. She looked slim and strikingly beautiful, but several bandages wrapped around her body gave off a faint scent of blood, ruining the picture entirely.
"Is this Dressrosa? When the time comes, we should just occupy it. That way, all the Tontatta Tribe can be taken for ourselves."
Katakuri stood with his arms folded. Though he was certainly not yet as powerful as he would be twenty years later, he already possessed the combat strength of a Four Emperors crew's Top Executive. The reputation of the Charlotte Family's greatest creation had already spread throughout these seas.
"That won't do. They are, after all, one of the World Government Member States. Annexing them directly would cause too much of an uproar," Charlotte Compote said.
"Then we'll control them and have them offer us food