"Kill him!"
When Rocks's order to kill, imbued with supreme will, rang out, the last trace of personal emotion vanished completely from Charlotte Linlin's enormous blood-red eyes.
In its place was the pure, cold, absolute will of a killing machine-the "Top Executive of the Rocks Pirates"!
"Mamamama... mamamamamama!"
She let out a piercing, bizarre laugh utterly unlike any she had given before! There was no joy in that laughter, only madness and a desire for destruction!
"My dear sons! My dear daughters!"
Charlotte Linlin spread her arms like a queen embracing her kingdom. An unprecedented surge of pink soul energy erupted from her massive body like a flood bursting through a dam!
"Offer all your souls to me!"
"Soul Pocus: Soul Edict!"
Hum!
Accompanying her incantation-like chant, an eerie pulse invisible to the naked eye, yet capable of freezing souls, swept wildly in every direction from the Queen Mama Chanter!
This was not an attack aimed at Yas alone!
She meant to turn this entire stretch of sea, the sky, the ocean, everything, into her own "Soul Kingdom"!
"Mama!"
Aboard the Queen Mama Chanter, Perospero, Smoothie, Daifuku... every child of the Charlotte Family shuddered involuntarily the instant they heard that edict. They could feel their souls being frantically drawn out by an irresistible force and channeled into Charlotte Linlin's body!
This was a forbidden technique!
It was Charlotte Linlin's ultimate form, pushing her Soul-Soul Fruit powers to their limit at the cost of burning her children's souls!
In an instant, the wind stopped, the clouds stood still, and the waves subsided.
The whole world seemed to become a motionless oil painting filled with eerie colors.
Then everything came "alive"!
"Heeheeheehee!"
"Roar!"
The clouds in the sky turned into grotesque faces with mouths stretched wide in sinister grins!
The sea below