"What fact?" Yonji asked with a sneer.
"We're family!" Sanji murmured. "I could never just watch you slowly walk toward death and do nothing!"
The moment he said that, Niji and Yonji's expressions turned utterly ugly. The useless trash they had once looked down on was now standing before them and saying such sentimental, pitying words. It was like a vicious slap across their faces!
"Roar!"
Suddenly, a miserable roar silenced the chaos across the battlefield. Everyone looked toward its source in terror.
Charlotte Linlin crawled out of the dust, disheveled and filthy. Her body was covered in blood, and her expression was vacant and twisted. She charged toward Star River with a terrifying aura, leaving Ronglin behind.
"Big Mom! Hahaha! Big Mom has pulled herself together!" someone shouted excitedly.
Charlotte Linlin came charging over with a savage expression. Several attacks Ronglin unleashed were forcibly endured by her massive body. She staggered several times and nearly fell, but she stubbornly held herself upright.
"Big Mom! Wonderful! You're finally back on your feet!" many pirates cheered, while the Star Alliance members around them had long since retreated far away.
Charlotte Linlin looked around, but the Star Alliance members wisely made no move to stop her. Instead, they allowed her to return to the BIGMOM Pirates' main fleet.
Severely wounded and bleeding all over, Charlotte Linlin looked at the pirate crew still locked in internal conflict. A fierce gleam blazed in her eyes as she glared viciously at her subordinates, her voice chilling. "Die, or become a part of me!"
Charlotte Linlin's Devil Fruit ability activated instantly, covering a vast area of the BIGMOM Pirates. Nearly three hundred pirates were caught within its range—those loyal to her, those whose hearts had wavered, and those who had already rebelled, none were spared.
"Big