Lily Carnation: Queen Lily Version

"Master, my true body is that broken root!"

The blood servant puppet parasitized by Lily Carnation hurriedly pointed at the massive remnant branch of the Flower of Life and Death.

This legendary plant called the Flower of Life and Death had no flowers, no leaves—only a broken root.

When it first gained consciousness, it had already looked like this.

It had always felt an instinctive hunger.

Only by continuously eating, eating, eating might it fully recover and become a true Flower of Life and Death.

It did not know what it had experienced before it gained consciousness.

Could its master's Devil Fruit really turn it into a human?

"Then have your true body eat this fruit. Don't disappoint me!"

Houka looked at the enormous broken root. Could this be a surviving fragment from the war eight hundred years ago?

Judging from the existing Zunesha, giant Sea Kings, the War Tree—Treasure Tree Adam, Sun Tree Eve, and the giant vine in the sky islands...

Houka began to suspect that the Great Kingdom from a thousand years ago had mastered gigantification technology.

Those giant animals and plants all seemed to have some connection to the Great Kingdom.

This Flower of Life and Death might also have been a product of the Great Kingdom.

It had merely been eradicated by the Twenty Kings afterward.

Yet this broken root had come back to life and developed a new consciousness.

Most importantly, this sea region truly was not far from Alabasta, though it was rather remote.

Could Nefertari Lily, one of the Twenty Kings, have even the slightest connection to Lily Carnation?

Could Lily Carnation's difficult-to-heal wound have been severed by Imu or some powerful member of the Twenty Kings?

But none of that mattered anymore!

The current Lily Carnation was about to become