"It's coming!"
While Kong's heavy voice still echoed over Marineford, the two largest, most terrifying beasts lurking in the dark corners of the New World had already caught the sweet scent of blood carried by the storm and slowly begun to bare their fangs.
Whole Cake Island, the New World.
A dreamland built from countless desserts, candies, and biscuits, the heart of the Totto Land Kingdom.
Inside a towering castle thousands of meters tall, built from cream and chocolate, the atmosphere was anything but the sweetness of a fairy tale. Instead, it was suffocatingly oppressive.
"Mamamama-"
A figure as enormous as a mountain sat on her custom-made Throne, letting out a heart-stopping laugh that rumbled like thunder.
She had long pink hair, and her obese body nearly burst the Throne apart. Her blood-red lips stretched into a grin that reached her ears, while her eyes gleamed with a child's innocence and a deity's brutality!
She was one of the Four Emperors, Big Mom-Charlotte Linlin!
Below her Throne, nearly every elite officer of the Charlotte Family had assembled!
Her eldest son, the Candy Minister, Charlotte Perospero.
Her second son, the strongest Sweet Commander, Charlotte Katakuri.
Her third son, Charlotte Daifuku.
Her fourth son, Charlotte Oven.
And dozens of her other powerful children whose names resounded throughout the New World.
They all kept their heads lowered, not daring to look at their mercurial mother on the Throne.
"The Time-Time Fruit-"
Big Mom extended a huge finger coated in bright red nail polish and lightly tapped her lips, her eyes brimming with greed.
"Now that's a name that brings back memories."
"Mama."
Her eldest son, Perospero, stepped forward and said respectfully, "According to our intelligence, that bastard Kaido has his eye on this fruit too, and he seems to be planning to go