Charlotte Linlin's retreating body stiffened. In her bloodshot eyes, orange gained the upper hand, and the red veins gradually faded.
The light in her eyes faded with them.
Charlotte Linlin looked at Kuta and opened her mouth to speak, but what came out was not words. It was blood.
From the moment she set out to sea, her life had been nothing short of legendary.
Though she had spent the latter half of it bearing and raising children, her undiminished Haki had made it easy for her to claim a place among the Four Emperors.
She had ambition and the confidence to build a nation where every race and every kind of being could live together as equals. She wanted everyone in the world to become "family."
She had done it. She had founded Totto Land.
But under her selfish, twisted rule, that grand ideal had gradually become Totto Land's shackles.
She knew it, too.
She had not always been like this.
When had she changed?
Countless images flashed through her mind. At last, they stopped on her sixth birthday party, on Mother Carmel's old
face.
"Was it you?"
"Did you let me eat you on purpose? Did you merge with my soul on purpose?"
In that moment, she seemed to understand so much, yet perhaps nothing at all. When the last glimmer faded from her eyes, a trace of relief appeared at the corner of her mouth.
Why she felt relieved, even she could not say.
Slash!
Her enormous head flew into the sky, then plunged back down, just like her body.
Charlotte Linlin was dead. Like Kaido, her head had been severed from her body.
With her death, the three Homies made from fragments of her soul scattered on the wind.
Without Zeus, Nami had lost a powerful