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"That's right. My dream is to make everyone family. Ideally, everyone would grow as big as me, so we could all sit around the same table and enjoy a feast as equals..."
The roots of that dream lay buried deep in her distant childhood.
From birth, her body had been different from those of ordinary people.
In just a few years, she had grown taller than an adult man.
Her parents simply could not care for a daughter who might destroy houses or hurt others with her every movement.
Fortunately, the family still had some savings, so five-year-old Charlotte Linlin was sent to Elbaf, the homeland of the giants,
in the hope that she could find a place where she belonged.
An ordinary family might long since have ended this terrifying abnormality with a cup of **.
Later, it was "Sister"
Carmel who found her.
Back then, Charlotte Linlin's mind was no different from any ordinary child's: innocent, naive, and ignorant of the world.
Yet her strength never allowed her to play like an ordinary child.
Simple roughhousing broke her playmates' bones and tore their tendons; a careless wave of her hand killed fierce beasts in the forest... Later still, when that frenzied craving for food struck, she had all but devoured Sister and every one of her childhood playmates.
So deep within Charlotte Linlin's heart, what she had always longed for was family who could meet her
"eye to eye."
"Hmm... That's quite a remarkable wish."
As long as he could keep these two occupied, Rossi did not mind listening to her pour out her ideals.
Elsewhere, two hands coated in pitch-black Armament Haki suddenly pierced the hardened, viscous substance, then tore it savagely apart.
Vergo strode out and swiftly surveyed his surroundings, discovering that his opponent was