"Isn't BIG MOM Coming Out to Welcome Us Herself?"

At the sight of this, Chopper's eyes sparkled with admiration.

Covering his mouth, he stared at the utterly transformed Nami in astonishment and murmured:

"Wow... Nami, you've really changed! Sure enough, only true strength that can decide life and death can make someone this calm and confident!"

Meanwhile, aboard BIG MOM's flagship thousands of meters away.

Five main warships of the Big Mom Pirates were spread across the sea in a fan formation.

On the deck of the central flagship, Charlotte Perospero, the Charlotte Family's eldest son and the Minister of Candy with a bounty of 700 million Belly, leaned on his ornate cane made of hardened candy and stared fixedly at the Lion Head sailboat gradually cutting through the waves at the horizon.

"Perorin..."

Perospero stuck out his bizarre tongue, which hung all the way to his chest, and licked his dry lips. The sharp face beneath his heavy makeup no longer held its usual mocking arrogance.

A cold drop of sweat silently slid down his dark-blue hair, speckled with pale-blue spots, and onto the collar of his light-yellow long coat.

"The Straw Hat Pirates' ship is in sight."

Perospero took a deep breath, then abruptly turned to the fleet elites behind him, who had long been standing at the ready with sweat pouring from their palms. In a harsh, cracking voice that even carried a hint of warning, he ordered:

"Everyone! Keep yourselves on edge!"

"Stay absolutely focused!"

"Put away all your hostility and weapons! Prepare to line up... and welcome the Straw Hat Pirates with the highest honors possible!!!"

The order made every pirate in the fleet swallow hard, yet not a single one dared raise an objection.

There was, of course, no coincidence behind Perospero personally leading his direct fleet to these outer waters of Totto