Both start in hell: but their talents are multiplied a hundredfold.

Cake Island was filled with a sweet aroma, but the air was as heavy as solidified syrup.

Katakuri stood atop the castle, his scarf covering the lower half of his face, his three-meter-tall body motionless.

His eyes, those eyes that could see into the future, were fixed on the enormous, roaring figure in the distant banquet hall.

At the most critical moment for the Big Mom Pirates, Charlotte Linlin, one of the Four Emperors of the Sea, the user of the Soul-Soul Fruit, and Big Mom, suffered a food craving.

As a mentally ill person, the woman's behavior was perfectly reasonable.

You can't expect a mentally ill person to build a large power, even if she's exceptionally prolific.

Charlotte Linlin was an absolute beauty in her youth.

But this powerful and exceptionally talented female pirate started having children as soon as she came of age.

The middle-aged woman who advocated for "all races to sit together in equality" resorted to having husbands of different races marry into her family and have children with her.

Before she turned 60, she had given birth to 85 children, including 46 sons and 39 daughters.

She can be considered a legendary progenitor in the world of One Piece.

The Big Mom Pirates are actually a pirate crew formed by Charlotte Linlin and her children.

In particular, after Charlotte Linlin joined the Rocks Pirates, she sailed with Whitebeard, Shiki, Kaido, and others.

She gets pregnant and gives birth every year.

This makes it reasonable to speculate that Charlotte Linlin in her youth was indeed a must-do activity for the Rocks Pirates.

"A wedding cake... I want a wedding cake!!"

The entire island was trembling.

The Homies scattered in terror, and the Ministers of Desserts frantically stuffed cream puffs into Charlotte Linlin's mouth, but it was far from enough.

Her screams created a sonic boom, shattering windows and cracking the ground.

Katakuri did not move.

His Observation Haki, which he had honed to its peak, allowed him to see brief glimpses of the future.

A ship crashed through the cookie defenses surrounding Cake Island.

A large number of new naval soldiers stepped ashore, and the Cracker biscuit soldiers crumbled like paper before their leader.

He saw the old woman swing Napoleon and chop at the three-meter-tall new naval admiral, Shen Jue.

Then everything shattered, leaving only pure bloodshed.

Katakuri's pupils contracted sharply.

The scenes flashed by frame by frame: the old lady fell down, the Homies lost their lives in wails, the Cake City collapsed, and the flags of all nations burned.

Katakuri removed the scarf he used to cover his fangs.

A few hours earlier, his younger siblings insisted on leading the fleet into battle.

Snack, Oven, Daifuku, and the others said they wanted to teach the Navy a lesson, saying that even the new Navy that defeated Kaido could not provoke the Big Mom Pirates' authority.

Katakuri tried to stop them.

But when his mother has a food craving, he has to stop her from going berserk.

This prompted his brothers and sisters to go and confront the new navy's fleet.

Katakuri was very pessimistic about this, and he wished his mother could go and help his brothers and sisters.

But at this moment, Charlotte Linlin is going crazy over a cake.

The Devil Fruit power operates silently around Katakuri.

He is a user of the Mochi Mochi Fruit.

Katakuri, who has developed his Devil Fruit ability to its fullest extent and whose Observation Haki can briefly foresee the future, is arguably the strongest among the Yonko's lieutenants, below the Four Emperors.

But the powerful Katakuri was muttering to himself at that moment.

"If I forcefully stop them..."

Katakuri seemed to have already foreseen the end of Whole Cake Island and the Big Mom Pirates.

In the banquet hall, the middle-aged woman swallowed the last cream puff, her frantic eyes turning towards the coastline.

She felt a special aura calling to her.

The last line of defense for the Big Mom Pirates consisted of Katakuri and his brother Cracker, the user of the Cookie-Cookie Fruit.

When Shen Jue led the new Marines, who were still reeling from the shock of the colossal Sea King destroying Big Mom's fleet, to land on Whole Cake Island.

The group encountered no obstacles.

The Big Mom Pirates' officers, scattered across various islands, had already fled at the mere sight of them.

Even after the new naval fleet landed on Whole Cake Island, many soldiers still felt as if they were in a dream.

The pirate emperor who roamed the seas and reigned supreme in the New World is about to be destroyed by them so easily?

Many soldiers didn't even break a sweat.

Shen Jue, however, was not surprised at all.

With the strength of his Observation Haki, merely foreseeing the future is just a basic skill for him.

The fragments of the future that Shen Jue saw could even be pinpointed to specific times.

Shen Jue timed the timing of the old lady's food cravings before setting off the new naval fleet to attack Wan Guo.

When everyone stepped onto the land of Cake Island, their shoes crushed the frosting on the ground.

The new navy soldiers gripped their swords and guns tightly, their breaths still ragged.

The image of the colossal sea king smashing through Big Mom's fleet is still replaying in people's minds, and some people's hands are still shaking.

Shen Jue looked relaxed, with Hina, Drake, and Smoker following closely behind him.

Shen Jue's good sister, Bai Xing, was kept by his side by him using gravity manipulation.

Despite her powerful physique, Shirahoshi, a giant mermaid, is not quite used to living on land with her fish tail.

The sweet aroma of Cake Island is so strong it's almost cloying.

Shen Jue doesn't really like sweets.

When he smelled that scent, he thought of blood, that sticky, sweet-smelling liquid mixed with syrup that flowed down his tongue.

Two figures appeared ahead.

A man stood on the main road leading to Cake City, with cookie soldiers lined up behind him, all golden brown.

Cracker, one of the three Sweet Commanders of the Big Mom Pirates and a great pirate with a bounty of 860 million Berries, sat on his shield, holding half a cookie in his hand. The moment he saw Shen Jue, the cookie crumbled into pieces.

But Shen Jue didn't look at the chocolate bar.

He was looking at the man standing at the very front.

Three meters tall, with muscles twisted like steel bars, he took off his scarf, revealing sharp fangs at the corners of his mouth.

The mochi fruit swirled around him, and his arms were covered in a glossy black Armament Haki hardening.

He stood in the middle of the road, motionless, like a wall.

That's Katakuri, the leader of the Big Mom Pirates' three Sweet Commanders.

Shen Jue stopped in her tracks.

Two men, each three meters tall, stared at each other from a hundred paces apart.

The new naval soldiers raised their swords.

Shen Jue raised his hand, and they lowered it again.

"Katakuri, a general." Shen Jue's voice was calm, without sarcasm or contempt.

"The Big Mom Pirates' fleet was completely wiped out, and many of your brothers and sisters died at sea."

"A small number of lucky ones will also face trial by the new navy."

Katakuri did not move; his expression was both sorrowful and resolute.

"I know," he said.

"You want to avenge them?" Shen Jue asked immediately.

Katakuri suddenly smiled, a faint smile, just a slight curve at the corners of his mouth, but it was definitely a smile.

This is a bleak, tragic laugh.

"Revenge?" he said.

"And then? I died, Cracker died, and Mom died too."

"All the remaining younger siblings died at your hands."

"This is the price I pay for my revenge."

Shen Jue narrowed his eyes slightly.

Katakuri's choice was not unexpected.

However, Shen Jue imagined that Katakuri would not surrender so quickly.

Because before truly witnessing Shen Jue's power, according to the basic logic of the pirate world.

There will definitely be some minor figures who come to provoke Shen Jue.

For example, Cracker, the Sweet Commander next to Katakuri, who looks somewhat arrogant and frivolous.

"It shouldn't be like this," Shen Jue sighed.

"Creak must have been trying to wear me down with the biscuit soldiers, and then my stamina became inexhaustible."

"If I keep showing off and slapping people in the face, I'll get Cracker to summon you and Charlotte Linlin to come and fight me."

"I fought again and won."

"This is the standard plot!"

"What are you saying?" Katakuri asked, somewhat surprised.

"Your battle with Kaido has completely proven that we are no match for you."

"My brother Cracker wouldn't do something so irrational."

"That's not necessarily true." Shen Jue recalled another general, Smoothie.

The long-legged female pirate is gone.

The new naval soldiers couldn't even find her remains.

"My Observation Haki tells me that if I fight you, I will die instantly," Katakuri said calmly.

"If I die, my family will suffer terribly."

Katakuri's Armament Haki hardening disappeared.

He stepped aside, clearing the way to Cake City.