Sailing: I was falsely accused of watching Nami bathe, but I'm blind.

He "saw" Sanji wearing that white suit that symbolized restraint and sacrifice, and the forced smile on his face, which contrasted sharply with the churning pain and struggle deep inside him.

He walked step by step toward Pudding, a three-eyed girl who looked sweet and lovely with an innocent smile.

Brin's eyes gleamed with anticipation, but Kai could sense a cold and venomous aura, like that of a viper, deep within her soul.

This young girl is an actress who is even more skilled at disguise and acting than her mother, Bigom.

He "heard" BIGMOM's thunderous laughter, filled with greed and anticipation.

She sat high on a throne made of candy and cream, like a gluttonous queen about to feast.

Her enormous body exuded a suffocating sense of oppression, and her eyes were filled with covetousness for Germa's technological power and excitement for the impending slaughter.

He "saw" Judge of the Vinsmoke family and his sons, Ilji, Niji, and Yonji, dressed in battle suits symbolizing so-called "honor" and "power." They appeared calm on the surface, even with a hint of disdain and arrogance, as if they believed that they were about to climb the tree of the Four Emperors through this marriage, thereby gaining greater power and a higher status.

But Kai could clearly sense their deep-seated fear of Bigom and their foolish scheming that they thought they could control everything.

These warmongers, blinded by the power of technology, are completely unaware that they have already become fish on the chopping block of BIGMOM, just waiting to be slaughtered.

The wedding ceremony proceeded methodically in an eerie and tense atmosphere.

The priest read the prepared vows in his emotionless tone.

The guests clapped numbly and cheered mechanically.

The air was filled with a cloyingly sweet aroma and an unsettling silence.

Kai knew this was just the calm before the storm.

Real chaos and carnage are about to erupt like a volcano in the next moment!

really!

Like a thunderclap from a clear sky! A sudden change occurred!

He "saw" it all! Just as the wedding was reaching its most crucial moment! Just as the priest was about to announce their union, and Bigom was preparing to bare his fangs and ruthlessly destroy the Vinsmoke family!

Straw Hat Luffy! That guy who's like an unkillable cockroach! He actually burst out like a cannonball from a giant, multi-tiered wedding cake used to decorate the wedding venue!!!

His body was covered in colorful cream and jam, but his face wore that signature, silly, and infectiously bright smile!

"Sanji—!!! I've come to pick you up—!!!"

Luffy's powerful roar was like a bomb thrown into a calm lake, instantly igniting the entire wedding scene!

Then! To everyone's utter astonishment, a horde of strange animals surged forth from the enormous cake like a tidal wave! There were ferocious lions, crocodiles with menacing eyes, giraffes with outstretched necks… These were all Homies that Brulee had created using her Mirror-Mirror Fruit powers—Homies who had been defeated by Luffy in the Seduction Forest! Now, they were like wild horses, rampaging through the wedding venue, creating utter chaos!

The plan to assassinate Big Mom was completely exposed because of Luffy's sudden, unpredictable, and disastrous entrance!

Capone Bege, the captain of the "Flame Tank Pirates," who had been lurking beneath Big Mom's coattails, patiently plotting this earth-shattering assassination, turned as black as the bottom of a pot the moment he saw Luffy emerge from the cake! He had meticulously planned for months, even sacrificing his beloved Castle-Castle Fruit power to create a massive fortress capable of withstanding Big Mom's attacks, and a specially made poison gas rocket launcher capable of instantly killing Big Mom! But now, all of that had been completely ruined by this damned, utterly useless Straw Hat brat!

"Straw Hat Kid—!!! You hopeless idiot—!!! I'm going to kill you—!!!"

Becky unleashed a torrent of profanities she had ever learned in her mind, roaring wildly.

But he knew that things had come to this point, and there was no turning back! The arrow was on the bowstring, and he had no choice but to release it! He had no choice but to grit his teeth and carry out this flawed plan to the very end!

"Fire!!!! Target: Big Mom!!!!"

With a hysterical roar from Bege, the members of his Flame Tank Pirates, as well as the subordinates of the underworld emperors who had long harbored resentment towards Big Mom and had also participated in the assassination plot, all revealed the weapons hidden under their tuxedos and launched a barrage of attacks on the high and mighty Big Mom!

At the same time, Sanji completely exposed the true nature of the three-eyed girl, Pudding! Her sweet, charming, and pitiful facade crumbled like a shattered mask, revealing a face filled with malice, mockery, and malice! Her third eye gleamed with a chilling, eerie light! It turned out that from the very beginning, she had been exploiting Sanji's kindness and gentleness, cooperating with Big Mom's plan to completely annex the Vinsmoke family and execute all its members!

"What a hopeless idiot! You actually believe I would fall in love with a good-for-nothing prince like you, abandoned by his family?!"

With her sweet yet venomous voice, Pudding delivered the cruelest mockery to Sanji, "You and your so-called noble family will all become Mother's collectibles! Becoming the new power of Whole Cake Island!"

After Sanji saw through Pudding's ugly true colors and Big Mom's nakedly sinister intentions, his inner pain, struggle, anger, and despair erupted like a volcano! He no longer hesitated or wavered! He abruptly broke free from the syrup chains that tried to bind him, and with a "Diable Jambe" fueled by burning rage, he kicked the still-talking hypocritical priest away like a ball! Then, he resolutely stood in front of his scumbag father and cold-blooded brothers, who were about to be executed by the Big Mom Pirates!

"My family members may be a bunch of hopeless scum, but it's none of your place, you even more despicable bastards, to lay a hand on them!!!"

In Sanji's eyes burned a resolute, hellish flame of rage! He knew he might not be able to change his family's fate, but at least he wanted to face it all as a man!

Luffy and Katakuri's first direct clash erupted amidst the chaos, as violently as a collision of planets! Katakuri's powerful Observation Haki, capable of foreseeing the future, allowed him to easily see through all of Luffy's attack intentions! Furthermore, his masterful Mochi Mochi Fruit ability completely countered Luffy's rubber powers! In an instant, the two exchanged hundreds of blows, the powerful shockwaves, like a tsunami, shattering surrounding buildings, tables, chairs, and guests! Even Luffy's Gear Fourth "Boundman" form seemed somewhat stretched thin under Katakuri's calm and precise attacks!

Germa 66, realizing they had fallen completely into Big Mom's meticulously woven death trap, finally unleashed their proud and fearsome technological power! Judge and his three inhuman sons—Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji—along with their sister Reiju, instantly donned colorful "battle suits" that greatly enhanced their combat abilities! Like scientific demons from hell, they engaged in a fierce and desperate battle against the Big Mom Pirates' executives! Lasers, flames, electricity, poison gas… all sorts of powerful technological weapons raged across the wedding venue, turning the already chaotic situation into utter chaos!

The Flame Tank Pirates, under the command of Capone Bege, engaged in a fierce battle with Big Mom's Sweet Commanders! Bege transformed his body into a massive, indestructible mobile castle with countless cannons! He used his powerful cannons to bombard the towering Big Mom relentlessly and futilely!

The entire wedding venue was completely transformed into a bloodbath, a battlefield filled with carnage and destruction!

And in this most chaotic, desperate, and frantic moment, an unexpected event occurred that no one anticipated and that was enough to change the course of the entire battle!

The mysterious box, a replica of the Fishman Island's national treasure, the Tamatebako, which was presented as a "gift" and was filled with unimaginable explosive power, was accidentally knocked over by some unknown unlucky fellow in the chaos! It fell from the top of the tall wedding cake tower and crashed heavily into the very center of the wedding castle!

boom--! ! !

A deafening roar, powerful enough to shatter the heavens and tear apart the earth, accompanied by a blinding white flame like the sun and a devastating shockwave, instantly engulfed the entire wedding venue!

The entire magnificent cake castle, built entirely of candy and cream, was utterly reduced to a burning, black-smoking ruin in the sudden, incredibly powerful explosion and the ensuing horrific chaos, like glass shattered by a giant hammer!

From afar in the outer seas, Kai "watched" this terrifying scene, which seemed like the end of the world, through his omnipresent "mind network." Deep in his heart, he was filled with an indescribable feeling of "admiration" that was both shocking and absurd!

The Straw Hat crew... they're practically a walking disaster! The embodiment of chaos! A bunch of madmen who don't play by the rules! Wherever they go! No matter how powerful or cunning the enemy they face! They always seem to manage to completely disrupt every meticulously planned scheme in a way that's entirely unexpected, even bordering on "foolish" and "reckless"!

Chapter 138 A single command! The entire Navy is empowered with Reiju's power!!!

They even managed to ruin a grand wedding that the Four Emperors had meticulously planned for months, inviting emperors from all over the underworld?! And in such a horrific way, practically a "mutual destruction" scenario?!

This ability to make a complete mess of things, drag everyone down with him, and always manage to create "miracles" in the most unlikely circumstances... is simply unbelievable! Unmatched! Unprecedented!

Although Kai still felt deeply puzzled and somewhat contemptuous of their almost "stupid" and "reckless" behavior.

But he also had to admit that these seemingly simple-minded but physically strong guys did possess a special "magic" that was hard to understand, turning the impossible into possible and creating miracles in desperate situations.

Of course, this fleeting "admiration" was quickly suppressed by Kai's cold and rational heart.

What he was more concerned about was the more real and terrifying power that this unprecedented chaos revealed about the Four Emperors Big Mom and her pirate crew!

But what's even more terrifying is yet to come!

Because she didn't get to eat that unique wedding cake that embodied all her expectations and desires! Because her meticulously planned marriage and assassination scheme, which she had been working on for months to absorb Germa's technological power and further consolidate her position as the sea's hegemon, was completely ruined by a bunch of damned little bugs that appeared out of nowhere!

That sea empress, BIGMOM Charlotte Linlin, who was as greedy as a monster, as willful as a child, and extremely emotionally unstable, suddenly unleashed her most terrifying, primal, and uncontrollable gluttony!

"Cake—!!! Where is my wedding cake—?!!"

Kai clearly sensed it! BIGMOM's already enormous body, as massive as a mountain, suddenly expanded by a size in that instant! Her skin became as hard as steel, and her nails became as sharp as claws! Her eyes, completely devoid of rational light, became empty and blood red, filled only with an endless, black hole-like craving and hunger for the "delicious cake"!

A terrifying, suffocating soul power, almost tangible and filled with a destructive hunger and a frenzied desire for destruction, erupted from her body, sweeping across all ten Cake Island like a black storm!

At that moment, her reason completely vanished!

She transformed into a walking, indiscriminate weapon of destruction, solely focused on finding "delicious cakes" and relentlessly destroying anything in her path!

She began to rampage wildly across the now-ruined Whole Cake Island! Each stomp of her enormous feet caused the earth to groan in agony! Each swing of her steel-like fists pulverized the remaining buildings! Her gaping maw, like a black hole, relentlessly devoured everything around her—rocks, trees, Homies, and even some pirates who couldn't escape in time!

Anything she deems "possible" to be cake, or anyone who "possibly" knows where the cake is, will become her target for attack and devouring!

At this moment, the entire wedding tea party completely transformed into an absurd, chaotic, dangerous, and darkly humorous apocalyptic farce!

Kai, on the distant sea, "watched" this terrifying yet comical scene that seemed to appear only in myths and legends. Deep in his heart, his "admiration" for the Straw Hat crew surged up like a tide once again, becoming even more intense and complex.

These guys... they didn't just ruin the Four Emperors' wedding! They even managed to drive one of the Four Emperors insane?!

This ability to "cause trouble" and "stir things up" is beyond description! It's practically a talent! A damnable talent that can give all enemies (including Takai himself) splitting headaches and keeping them up at night!

At the same time, Kai also perceived more clearly and intuitively the terrifying, devastating power that Bigum, the sea queen, displayed when she went into a berserk state!

That's not just a matter of sheer physical strength! It's a more bizarre and terrifying force that directly affects the very essence of the "soul"!

The Soul-Soul Fruit! This ability, hailed as one of the top-tier Paramecia-type Devil Fruits, has been brought to its ultimate potential by Big Mom! She can freely extract the souls of others, imbue inanimate objects with souls, and even directly devour the souls of others to enhance her own power!

Kai could clearly sense it! During Big Mom's rampage! Countless weaker pirates, Homies, and even some powerful figures in the underworld who had come to the tea party! If they showed even the slightest fear or hesitation towards Big Mom! Their souls would be forcibly sucked away by an invisible, gigantic straw! Instantly ripped from their bodies! Then, they would be mercilessly devoured by Big Mom's black hole-like maw! Transformed into her even stronger, more ferocious power!

This terrifying ability to directly strip away the very essence of life and turn the souls of others into sustenance is far more frightening and despairing than any sword, gun, or physical attack! Because it directly targets the most vulnerable and core aspect of humanity: the "soul"! Once the soul is taken, it means utter death! There is no chance even for reincarnation!

Moreover! BIGMOM's own strength is not only terrifyingly powerful! Her children and subordinates have also demonstrated extremely strong and terrifying combat power in this sudden and chaotic battle!

Charlotte Katakuri, the leader of the Sweet Commanders! The man who always covers his mouth with a scarf, with a cold exterior but an extremely loving heart for his family! His incredible Observation Haki, capable of foreseeing the future! And his Mochi Mochi Fruit ability, which allows him to manipulate mochi in countless ways! Even against Luffy, who had activated Gear Fourth "Bungee Man" and whose strength had greatly increased, he was able to fight him to a standstill! He even held a firm advantage in terms of skill and experience?! If it weren't for Luffy's damn, cockroach-like tenacity and endless stream of strange moves, he would probably have been completely crushed by Katakuri long ago!

Sweet Commander Smoothie! That tall, slender beauty from the Long-Legged Tribe, with enviable long legs, who always seems to enjoy extracting juice from everything! Her Jug-Jug Fruit ability allows her to drain the water from any object (including living things) and use it for her own purposes! Or perhaps she can condense the extracted liquid into a massive liquid slash capable of cutting through steel?! The strangeness and destructive power of her ability are absolutely not to be underestimated! Kai even sensed that during the battle, she attempted to extract the soul power of some Homies to replenish her own energy! The upper limit of this ability is simply unfathomable!

Cracker, a Sweet Commander! Although he was defeated by Luffy and Nami in the previous battle, Kai was able to clearly analyze the residual intelligence and energy fluctuations within the Big Mom Pirates to determine that Cracker's "Biscuit-Biscuit Fruit" ability, which allows him to infinitely create and control biscuit soldiers, along with his extremely powerful and resilient Armament Haki, makes him a top-tier fighter at the level of a Marine Vice Admiral, or even close to an Admiral! If he hadn't encountered Luffy, a "glutton," as his nemesis, any other opponent would probably have been worn down and killed by his endless army of biscuits!

And then there's Big Mom's eldest son, Charlotte Perospero! That man who's always licking a giant candy stick with a creepy smile on his face! His Lick-Lick Fruit ability allows him to create incredibly sticky syrup that's as hard as steel and can be shaped at will! Whether used for attack, defense, binding enemies, or creating all sorts of bizarre candy weapons and traps, they're extremely troublesome and disgusting! Kai even sensed that he once created a giant candy maze with syrup, trapping the Straw Hat crew inside and nearly wiping them out!

Not to mention Big Mom's astonishingly large number of children with dazzlingly diverse abilities! Like stars surrounding the moon, they closely surround Big Mom, forming an extremely large and stable family-style pirate crew with blood ties as the core bond, working together seamlessly, and with almost no risk of betrayal!

Each of their children possesses remarkable strength and unique Devil Fruit abilities or racial talents! Together, they form the formidable and unfathomable foundation of the Big Mom Pirates!

Through this chaotic wedding farce, Kai gained a deeper, more direct, and more awe-inspiring understanding of the overall strength of the Four Emperors and the terrifying foundation hidden beneath the surface of the sea like an iceberg!

Compared to the Big Mom Pirates, a massive force with a stable structure, numerous members, complementary abilities, and a monstrous, absolutely powerful core, the Navy, while possessing an advantage in overall numbers and conventional weaponry, doesn't seem to have an absolute edge in the quantity and quality of top-tier, decisive fighters. In fact, in some aspects, they might even be at a disadvantage.

To try to maintain so-called "peace" and "order" in the New World, a brutal sea dominated by the Four Emperors for decades, or even to challenge and replace their rule... the difficulty is simply unimaginable! It's practically a pipe dream!

Can Fleet Admiral Akainu's iron-fisted policy of "pursuing absolute justice at all costs" really be successfully implemented in this new world that is more cruel, more powerful, and more unreasonable?

A deep sense of doubt and an indescribable...confusion rose in Kai's heart once again.

But he quickly extinguished this fleeting doubt and confusion, like putting out a cigarette, deep within his heart.

No matter how difficult and tortuous the road ahead may be, no matter how powerful and terrifying the enemy he will face may be, he must persevere.

Because he has his own "justice" and his own unwavering ambition!

Now, what he needs to do is continue to lurk in the darkness like the calmest, most rational, and most dangerous hunter, silently observing the huge chaos that the Straw Hat crew caused and swept across the entire Whole Cake Island, collecting all the information that is useful to him, analyzing all the possible variables, and waiting for that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that will allow him to obtain the greatest benefit at the lowest cost.