Meanwhile, on Cake Island in Totto Land.
Charlotte Linlin, dressed in a pink queen's gown, sat on her throne, tasting her desserts with great "elegance."
"He's been away from home for so long, and he hasn't even called me on a Den Den Mushi. Looks like his feelings have faded..." Charlotte Linlin suddenly muttered.
Katakuri, who was sitting below and discussing matters with Perospero, froze for a moment. She's talking about Ortolan, right? But it doesn't seem like you and Mom ever had such deep feelings for each other...
Then Katakuri looked at his mother and asked, "Mom, have you exchanged Den Den Mushi signal frequencies with Ortolan?"
Charlotte Linlin froze for a moment, then fell silent.
It seemed they had not!
Come to think of it, she did not even know whether that brat had a Den Den Mushi!
"If he doesn't take the initiative in something like this, am I, his mother, supposed to do it first? Who does he think he is? Next time we meet, I'll make him understand just how deep a mother's loving iron-fist care can be!" Charlotte Linlin said, slightly embarrassed and irritated.
Katakuri smiled, then said, "Ortolan should be doing quite well in the Marines right now. We should try to have as little contact with him as possible. It would be good for us and for him."
Charlotte Linlin did not respond. Of course, she understood that reasoning. She had only mentioned it in passing.
Not long afterward, the Den Den Mushi Perospero carried began to ring. Without any hesitation, he answered it right there.
"Lord Perospero, we've received a new piece of intelligence!" a subordinate from the Big Mom Pirates reported through the Den Den Mushi.
Perospero licked the candy in his hand and calmly asked, "What intelligence?"
"A scientist