"Brat! You deserve to die! I'll never forgive you!"
At the bottom of the massive crater, Charlotte Linlin rode Zeus into the sky. Her enormous body carried world-destroying fury as she shot toward Dawn in midair.
Although several of her most important children had escaped the blast by relying on Brûlée's Mirror-Mirror Fruit, the other children who had happened to be at the center of the explosion had died alongside the low-ranking pirates, wiped out completely.
So many of her children had died at once. Even though she usually beat and cursed them at will, casting them aside like worn-out shoes, when they truly died before her eyes, the twisted rage of a mother instantly devoured her reason.
"Don't rush. I'll send you to reunite with them soon."
Dawn swung Kikoku like a baseball bat. Black-red lightning snaked along the blade's path. "I'm a kind-hearted man. I can't stand tragedies like mothers and children being separated."
The air seemed to be struck by an invisible sledgehammer. The space before Dawn suddenly caved inward, gathering into a solid circular shockwave that smashed toward the charging Charlotte Linlin.
"Abyssal Echo!"
"Big words! I don't need your pity!"
Charlotte Linlin raised Emperor Sword Napoleon overhead with both hands, then swung it in a full arc before her, unleashing a cylindrical shockwave that spanned heaven and earth.
"Elbaf's Spear: Ikoku!"
The two shockwaves collided thunderously in midair, and the raging airflow instantly scattered the clouds filling the sky.
Golden sunlight pierced through the clouds and fell upon the devastated Whole Cake Island.
David's Revenge, infirmary.
"Alright, this should do it."
Luo looked at Lucci's fully restored hands and wiped the sweat from his forehead. Reattaching hands was effortless for him, but it still consumed quite a bit of stamina.
"Thanks."
Lucci coldly tossed