The immense force packed into the mochi struck through Armament Haki, blasting the Blood Demon's body into a spray of bloody mist. The mochi's terrifying heat then evaporated every last droplet.
White vapor billowed outward.
Katakuri breathed a little harder. That move, Charcoal-Grilled Power Mochi, had taken a lot out of him, but it had worked.
The Blood Demon had been—
Impossible!
Katakuri's pupils contracted as he watched the sea of blood on the ground suddenly churn with violent waves.
A viscous, horrifying figure slowly rose from it. Curved demonic horns, scarlet skin, sharp claws and fangs...
The Blood Demon, whose body the Power Mochi had just destroyed in one blow, had been reborn from the sea of blood almost perfectly!
"Heh heh heh heh heh..."
As long as the sea of blood endured, the Blood Demon could not die!
The Blood Demon let loose a villain's trademark cackle, making Katakuri frown.
The Thunder Lion in the sky glanced over at the familiar laugh. If he remembered correctly, he had laughed like that when he was alive, too...
Regeneration on this level... Could a Paramecia Devil Fruit User really do that? The Blood-Blood Fruit...
Katakuri's brow tightened. He watched the Blood Demon's every move.
Just then, the little mirror hidden in his black scarf—the one Perospero had given him before leaving with Brûlée, which could connect to Mirror World—suddenly emitted a grief-stricken cry.
"Brother!"
A little earlier.
Inside Mirror World.
Adrian cut down members of the Charlotte Family as easily as mowing grass.
The Totto Land officials who had long relied on Charlotte Linlin and the Big Mom Pirates' fearsome reputation to wreak havoc across the seas were not spared. He struck them down one by one.
The Minister of Tea, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Ice