"Her physique, her Devil Fruit... they're gone..." Everyone turned their disbelieving eyes toward Mother, who now had the mind of a child.
They could barely understand if her physical talent had vanished, but the disappearance of her Devil Fruit ability was utterly unbelievable.
In anyone's understanding of this world, the only way for a Devil Fruit ability to disappear was through death!
But if Mother was already dead, then who exactly was standing before them?
At that thought, quite a few of the more timid ones felt chills crawl down their spines. Their gazes toward Charlotte Linlin were filled with lingering fear.
"Streusen, you must have some guesses already, right?" Katakuri asked the man beside him.
He was one of the veterans who had founded the Big Mom Pirates alongside Mother. It would not be an exaggeration to say he had once been one of Big Mom's most trusted people.
"Nothing can escape those eyes of yours, Lord Katakuri!" Streusen's eyes held traces of remembrance. "I once looked into it. During Linlin's time in Elbaf, she possessed the same extraordinary monstrous strength, but she did not have the Iron Body you all knew. Yet from the day I first met her, she suddenly possessed a body that could withstand every kind of force!"
"If I'm not mistaken, after that incident, she split into two personalities. The Main Personality was the Big Mom you knew best, while the Alternate Personality was the Charlotte Linlin before us now!"
"That Iron Body was the Alternate Personality's mechanism for protecting the body while it lay dormant."
"No wonder, no wonder Mother didn't lose her abilities when she went berserk. Only when she became distracted by her deepest memories did her body become as fragile as an ordinary person's!" Oven suddenly realized. "In other words,