Adrian flashed into the treasure room, his gaze flickering slightly as he looked at Charlotte Opera, the Charlotte Family's fifth son, standing at the head of the soldiers and Homies.
"What a shame. The Paramecia Cream-Cream Fruit holds no appeal for me. I can't even be bothered to run a Devil Fruit reincarnation experiment..."
"An enemy!!"
Charlotte Opera instinctively shouted at the figure that had suddenly appeared in the treasure room.
But once he recognized the intruder, despair welled up inside him.
"White Ghost?! How did you get into Whole Cake Chateau?"
This was their greatest enemy, a man who had killed members of their family several times and fought Mama head-on for years without losing ground.
Charlotte Opera would have been lying if he claimed he felt no fear or despair.
Yet he had not lost his courage to fight.
"Cream Monster!"
Charlotte Opera roared. Huge quantities of fresh cream surged from his massive body, already coated in milky-white cream, transforming him into a gigantic monster. Several thick cream tentacles thrashed menacingly through the air.
"Pointless resistance."
Adrian raised a mass of dark-red Reaper Power in his hand. His figure blurred, and in a flash, he punched a gaping hole through Charlotte Opera's chest. The dark-red energy, an embodiment of death, spread relentlessly.
The cream monster did not last even a moment before becoming a corpse and crashing to the floor.
[You have killed the Charlotte Family's fifth son, Charlotte Opera!]
Opera's instant death sent a tremendous shock through the remaining soldiers and Homies of the Big Mom Pirates.
But a gentle sweep of [Soul Domination] instantly reaped their lives as well, sparing them any further fear.
Following the locations he remembered, Adrian retrieved the [Butter-Butter Fruit], the [Road Poneglyph], and the [Ordinary Poneglyph] from the treasure