Successfully taking King's soul made Mousse, who was usually as still as water, unusually excited:
King had not yet reached his peak, but his bounty was already seven or eight hundred million Berries. If he could directly use Soul Capture on a powerhouse like that—and without needing to be right in front of him, since Mousse had confirmed that Soul Capture's range was calculated from himself rather than the Book World's exit—then he could instantly kill most of the powerhouses in this world.
Combined with the strength of those Homies and his already formidable Observation Haki, even though Mousse's actual body was still rather frail, he was fully qualified to rank among the first-rate powerhouses. Considering that he was not even eleven years old yet, it was truly unbelievable.
And after realizing that he was already strong and would inevitably become even stronger in the future, Charlotte Mousse, who had thought only of growing up safely ever since awakening his memories from before transmigrating, began to consider his goal in life:
I never wanted to become the One Piece, because I'm not a libertarian. Nor did I ever want to conquer the world, because I hate exploitation and oppression. But since I possess the power to change the world, why not remake it into the kind of world I like?
Just like in my previous life, I'm still not much of a speaker. But as long as I'm strong enough, I don't need to persuade those idiots at all. I just need to force them to obey, then let the facts prove that I'm right!
Along with that confident thought, Mousse felt an unprecedentedly powerful force deep within his heart, as though it were about to burst forth. But perhaps something was still missing. In the end, it lay dormant