"MOM! MOM!"
"Be careful in this war, all of you. I don't want to hear that any of you have died."
Thousands of meters in the sky, the Big Mom Pirates' Queen Mama Chanter rested atop a Flying Cloud Homie, singing without pause.
Charlotte Linlin sat on her Throne, her gaze sweeping over her children.
Her words were harsh, but they carried her concern for them.
Katakuri, Oven, Lucifer, and Cassius were all children Linlin valued highly.
They were the future of the Charlotte Family. Losing even one of them would break her heart.
Of course, Cracker and several of her other children were fairly strong too, but only fairly.
The Big Mom Pirates had not taken part in the raid on the Four Seas.
With the Golden Sea's vast wealth at their disposal, raiding the Four Seas would take too much time and effort.
They were better off putting everything into the war.
A brutal war could transform her children.
Young monsters like Cassius and Lucifer might increase their strength dozens of times in just a month or two.
There was nothing unusual about that.
Monsters simply defied reason sometimes.
Lucifer and Cassius had already come into their own. One was twenty, the other nineteen.
Few in the Big Mom Pirates could match them.
Even with Katakuri regularly sparring with them, the benefits were steadily fading.
They knew each other too well. They needed more opponents.
Both Lucifer and Cassius had potential no less than Katakuri's.
They were Linlin's children, after all.
Linlin's physical gifts, Lunarian blood, and a top-tier Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit ability.
Lucifer's potential spoke for itself.
Cassius, who carried Three-Eye Tribe blood, was no slouch either.
He wielded the Logia-type Aurora-Aurora Fruit, and whatever special power his mysterious third eye held remained unrevealed.
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