"Mom!!"
Perospero and the others had only just landed on the island. They bent slightly against the overwhelming pressure, then looked up at the center of the explosion, worry written across their faces.
The aftershock alone made it hard for them to move. What must it be like for Charlotte Linlin, who was at the center of it?
No matter how confident they were in Charlotte Linlin, they could not help worrying about her.
They had never seen an explosion like this before.
If that blast had struck the island, they had no doubt it would have wiped out everything on it in an instant.
If they had been at the center of the explosion, they had no doubt they would already be dead.
That was what they believed.
But this was Charlotte Linlin, one of the Four Emperors of the New World. She was their faith. She was their mother.
So they believed that even in an explosion this terrifying, their mother would be all right.
High in the air, Kuina retreated again and again before landing atop the Royal Palace Heights. She brushed the bangs from her eyes and looked toward the center of the explosion, a satisfied smile in her eyes.
Since obtaining the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, she had run many experiments. Its thunder was powerful, but it still could not compare with lightning in nature.
That was why Kuta had set a direction for her development from the start. The first priority was speed.
At the extreme, speed naturally became overwhelming power.
Once her speed reached a certain level, her strength had indeed grown beyond anything she had imagined.
Take her and Charlotte Linlin, for example.
They might as well have been different species. Her strength was negligible beside a monster like Charlotte Linlin.
Their sizes alone