Use My Soul

When Mousse came closer to his mother, his gaze sharpened.

After Charlotte Linlin stopped, the sea breeze quickly dispersed the dust filling the sky. To Mousse's astonishment, her ankles were still pale and spotless, without a speck of dust on them!

Was her Armament Haki covering her body like a protective shield, blocking all the dust outside? And not a single part of her body was dirty. Just as I analyzed before, has Armament Haki become an instinct of Mother's body? Even though Mousse had already suspected it, truly confirming it now still shocked him greatly. He nearly forgot why he had come.

It was not until Charlotte Linlin asked what urgent matter he had that Mousse came back to his senses and told his mother about the bold idea he had devised.

But Charlotte Linlin's answer disappointed Mousse once again.

Fuse several souls from different sources together and inject them into a single Homie?

Even with Charlotte Linlin's Devil Fruit ability awakened, it was still impossible.

In other words, only the souls of powerful people could create powerful Homies.

"Then why collect soul taxes from Totto Land? Weak civilian souls can at most be made into Chess Soldiers. What use is that little Combat Power?" Mousse could not help grumbling in frustration.

Charlotte Linlin laughed when she heard that. She bent down, extended a finger before Mousse, and gently wagged it. "You can't put it that way. They're still useful for keeping watch. And little Mousse, don't you think Homies are fun? Mamamamama!"

Mousse's face immediately darkened. Taking other people's lifespans for her own amusement—Charlotte Linlin truly was a tyrant through and through.

Still, she had given birth to him and raised him, while the World Government had a habit of wiping out entire bloodlines. At his current age, it was impossible for him to leave her behind. They could only weather the storm together for now. Reality really was helpless!

"Mamamamama, little Mousse looks so cute when he's angry." Seeing Mousse puff out his cheeks, Charlotte Linlin was not angry at all. Instead, she beamed, scooped him up in one hand, and planted several kisses on him, scaring him badly.

Thankfully, the difference in our sizes isn't as exaggerated as it was drawn in the anime. Otherwise, it would've been even scarier. However, this was not Mousse's first time experiencing such a situation, and he knew panicking would not help him escape. He quickly calmed down again.

Mousse then kept his composure and continued asking Charlotte Linlin several questions, gaining a deeper understanding of the Soul-Soul Fruit and Homies. Then his eyes shifted, and another idea sprang to mind.

Charlotte Linlin possessed not only powerful Conqueror's Haki, but her Soul-Soul Fruit ability could also be unleashed against crowds across a wide area. Although it did not distinguish between friend and foe, when survival was at stake, who would care about accidental injuries?

Therefore, even with Dragon present to prevent Zeus's storm from posing a threat, the Marines could not overwhelm Totto Land through fleet size and sheer troop numbers.

Moreover, someone had to stay behind to guard their home. Even if they ignored the Marine branches and even Marine Headquarters at Marineford, they would still need people to protect the Celestial Dragons in the Holy Land Mary Geoise.

That meant they only needed to deal with Sengoku, Garp, the four Admiral Candidates, Great Staff Officer Tsuru, and those elite Vice Admirals.

Thus, Mousse only needed to find a way to improve the family's capabilities in small-scale battles, especially one-on-one combat. Large-scale AOE capabilities were no longer necessary.

Originally, Mousse had wanted to create poison-type or ice-type Homies, because as a scientist, he would be able to produce the finest base materials in the world for both types in the future.

But the crisis was already imminent. There was simply no time.

However, since they only needed to focus on one-on-one combat, and their goal was to resist rather than eliminate the enemy, Non-Rechargeable Homies made from solid base materials were actually better. Thus, Mousse came up with an even better idea.

Mousse raised his chubby little face and looked at Charlotte Linlin, who had put him down by then. His eyes sparkled. "Mother, can you turn a Poneglyph into a Homie? You said earlier that the quality of the base material for melee Homies depends entirely on weight, or mass, and hardness. A Poneglyph has both. There couldn't be anything better!"

"It can be done, but..." Charlotte Linlin frowned after hearing this. Clearly, there was a reason she had never considered using the two Poneglyphs in the Treasure Room.

"Mamamamama, no one knows what kind of stone these Poneglyphs are made of. After Mother got them, I once tried slashing one with Napoleon to test its hardness. It didn't even leave a scratch. Even diamonds and Seastone might not compare, right?" Mousse was speechless.

This was practically on par with that "Old Man of Ten Perfections" stamping his seal everywhere. It was outright destruction of cultural relics!

But then again, if it were him, and there were no consequences for damaging cultural relics, after learning that the stone was incredibly hard, he would probably be curious enough to test just how hard it was too, wouldn't he?

Sure enough, once people were completely free of restraints, it was hard for them to resist doing bad things.

Besides being hard, Poneglyphs were also extraordinarily heavy. Their density far surpassed that of ordinary stone, and each was no less than four meters wide on each side. Their weight easily exceeded three hundred tons.

There was probably no better base material in the world for a melee Homie. Seastone could not be used, and where could they find such a massive diamond?

But too much of anything was as bad as too little. The base material was too exceptional and could not be divided, which meant the soul needed to turn it into a Homie had to be extraordinarily powerful.

Even Charlotte Linlin herself would have to destroy the Three Great Homies first and reclaim their souls before she could turn even a single Poneglyph into a Homie. It simply was not worth the cost.

After learning this, Mousse immediately made his decision. With a firm expression, he declared to Charlotte Linlin, "Then use my soul! Didn't you say my soul is extraordinarily powerful? It should be enough, right?"

Charlotte Linlin had previously considered making a Homie for Mousse, but Mousse had politely declined, afraid that something unexpected might happen to his soul from another world.

But now that disaster was nearly upon them, at Mousse's current age, his chances of escaping alive after a defeat were probably less than one in ten. If he were thrown into Impel Down, it would be even worse than death. He would rather take a risk now. Comparatively speaking, the danger might actually be lower.

Charlotte Linlin's eyes immediately lit up. She hurriedly took Mousse back to the Treasure Room on Whole Cake Island.

She had long wanted to understand Mousse's soul, which differed from ordinary people's, but it was far too special. Unless her son agreed himself, her ability could not invade it at all. Now, she could finally satisfy her curiosity.

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