The smoke and dust slowly dispersed.
Amid the ruins of Cake Palace, Charlotte Linlin's enormous body lay buried beneath the collapsed wreckage.
Blocks of magma and layers of ice pressed down upon her, completely swallowing the once-unrivaled figure.
Her Queen of a Thousand Souls form collapsed.
Prometheus sank into the molten lava, while Hera shattered into icy fragments in midair.
Napoleon lay broken and embedded in the ruins, every fang along its blade closed tight, never making another sound.
The entire Whole Cake Island was silent as death.
The fairy-tale kingdom had been forcibly stripped of its shell, leaving behind nothing but corpses, ruins, and silence.
"Mom..."
A member of the Charlotte Family fell to his knees.
Beside him, an officer held his lifeless younger sister in trembling arms.
The girl's eyes were still open, terror lingering on her face from the moment her soul had been taken.
"Wake up..."
"Wake up—!"
Someone stared blankly at the Homies that had fallen along both sides of the street.
The tables, chairs, streetlamps, and trees that had once laughed, sung, and greeted them had all become lifeless objects.
The streets no longer spoke, the lights no longer sang, and even the wind passing through the ruins was so quiet it sent chills down their spines.
A Charlotte officer gripped his weapon, his eyes bloodshot.
"We can't surrender!"
"We're the Charlotte Family!"
"Mom isn't dead yet!"
"We haven't lost!"
But the moment his words fell, a muffled rumble came from afar as the collapsed palace ruins sank further.
Magma and ice covered each other in overlapping layers, black smoke slowly rising from the cracks.
There was no response, nor was there that familiar—"MAMAMAMA."
At the sight, every survivor turned pale.
They finally realized that the monster who could keep all of Totto Land