A massive pirate ship painted in shades of red and pink sped toward Dressrosa.
On its huge sail was a skull-and-crossbones flag: a beckoning skull with pink curls, a top hat, and lipstick.
The ship rarely appeared at sea, but its flag and the words "BIG" printed higher on the sail warned anyone who saw it to steer well clear.
For this ship represented Charlotte Linlin, one of the Four Emperors of the New World. It represented the Big Mom Pirates.
"Mama."
At the bow, Perospero turned to the enormous figure beside him with a smile. He was tall and slender, with a long nose and a tongue that reached his chest. His long, dark-blue hair was flecked with pale blue. Lollipops adorned his top hat, and he wore a pale-yellow coat. Heavy makeup covered his narrow face, and he held a candy cane in one hand.
"Dressrosa's just ahead. Mama, is that brat really worth making a special trip?"
He was Charlotte Linlin's eldest son and her first child. A member of the Big Mom Pirates and the Totto Land Kingdom's Candy Minister, he was based in Perorin Town on Candy Island. He was a Paramecia Devil Fruit User who had eaten the Lick-Lick Fruit, making him a candy man. His bounty was 700 million Beli.
How should one put it?
He had strength, certainly.
But only compared to ordinary pirates. Against the best, he fell short.
Several tall figures in equally strange clothes stood behind him.
Charlotte Linlin had come. The Big Mom Pirates had come, though not all of them.
Everyone aboard this ship was one of Charlotte Linlin's sons or daughters.
How had Charlotte Linlin managed to have so many children?
She was only sixty-five.
Yet she had had forty-three husbands, thirty-nine daughters, and forty-six sons.