The forest is not quiet at dusk. Nocturnal animals on the desert island gradually become active, and the chirping of insects and birds is endless.
After walking through the tropical rainforest covered with vines, Katakuri stood in front of a waterfall and shook off the mud stained on his spiked horse shoes.
Rumble!
The water flowed rapidly down into the canyon connected to the sea below, making a deafening sound.
The cold water droplets hit her face, and Katakuri lowered his head silently.
Open your hands and move the paper of life to the left little by little.
On the corner of the yellowed paper, written in simple font, is a string of letters, "charlotte·owen".
It’s Charlotte Owen’s lifeline!
I’m afraid Big Mom would never have imagined that it was not Owen who stole the life sheet, but Katakuri!
From the day he convened a meeting of ministers to declare war on Kaido and later reached an agreement between the two parties, Katakuri has been secretly investigating Charlotte Owen's abnormal behavior.
In the past, they all thought it was because Owen was depressed after losing to the Black Earl, but the nightmare told Katakuri that things were not that simple.
So he knew very well that Charlotte Owen did not have the time to prepare in advance and steal the life paper from her mother, because after that day, he never returned to Cake Island.
So after learning that what happened, Katakuri immediately stole the paper of life when he found an opportunity, and then asked Big Mom to come to investigate the matter.
"What happened to you, Owen?"
Suddenly, Katakuri whispered softly.
"Has the beast finally lost its hold?"
Whoosh!
As he finished speaking, a strong wind sounded behind him.
A black shadow jumped out from the treetops in the forest, its skin was orange and hot, and it grabbed Katakuri head-on.
But the moment the incoming man was about to pounce on Katakuri, Katakuri suddenly ducked, raised his left hand to grab at his right shoulder, and grabbed the incoming man's head in his palm.
Then……
Bang!!
After a heavy fall over the shoulder, the waterfall rock Katakuri was standing on suddenly fell into pieces, turning into countless fragments that continued to collapse downwards, causing shocking white waves to splash in the canyon river.
Whoosh!
Katakuri moved to the rock on the opposite side of the canyon and stood up again, with sadness in Katakuri's eyes.
"You clearly know that I can predict the future, and sneak attacks are ineffective against me."
But the visitor didn't pay attention, and the words fell...
Hot wind fist!
boom!
Wow!
The canyon river was instantly filled with white mist, and the terrifying hot wind rolled upwards along with the boiling steam. If you look closely, you will see that most of the turbulent river has been evaporated, revealing the dry river bed below.
"Becoming stronger?"
Katakuri's pupils shrank.
He had never seen such a terrifying hot wind fist before.
Boom!!
A mighty hot wind blew from the corners of the standing stone. The high temperature caused the vegetation to wither and turn yellow quickly. Then scarlet sparks scattered and floated out from the stone, making the large forest starry and igniting flames.
But this scene was completely unexpected by Katakuri. When the opponent was stunned when he fired the punch, Katakuri clenched his fist and landed from the sky into the canyon, hitting the opponent's Tianling Cap with an uppercut.
Baked rice cakes!
Bang!!
The terrifying impact was released, and the mountains on both sides of the canyon suddenly collapsed, and tons of rocks fell down, turning the canyon from its original "concave" shape into a "√" shape.
Then, a figure smashed into a falling stone, penetrated the waterfall water, and hit a tree trunk as thick as a house in the tropical rain forest, and the whole person was embedded in it.
But it turned out to be Katakuri!
"Cough...cough!"
Stuck in the middle of a tree trunk, Katakuri lowered his head and coughed out a mouthful of blood. Katakuri couldn't hide the shock in his eyes.
"What a terrifying power...who are you?!"
"Roar!!"
There was no answer, and with a roar like a beast, a strong figure jumped up from below, stepped on the air current detonated by high temperature, and continued to pounce towards him.
Seeing this, Katakuri didn't dare to be careless. He slapped his palm on the tree trunk and jumped to avoid the attack.
The beast smashed into the tree trunk and then turned again.
Poof!
Then, a black rice cake right foot was thrown on his face, kicking him away hard.
Click!
Boom!
Suddenly there was a snapping sound in the tropical rain forest, and the long brown dragon was pulled out for hundreds of meters in the forest, and then finally stopped moving.
immediately……
"Roar!!"
The roaring sounds of something like a horse but not a horse, something like a tiger but not a tiger, echoed through the valley. Katakuri looked up and saw a monster falling from above his head in the setting sun.
Bang!
With a slap on the ground, the ground suddenly shook violently like dozens of kilograms of explosives were detonated, and was filled with cracks.
However, the place had long been deserted, and nothing was left except for the cracks in the spider web like those struck by a heavy hammer.
Seeing this, the monster shook its head and let out a mouthful of white mist.
The temperature in this rainforest is at least 30°C, which means that the low temperature that causes the water mist in the breath to condense does not come from the outside world, but from the monster's body.
But the terrible heat wave surging around him was making the air distorted, but white smoke was puffing out of his mouth, which seemed particularly contradictory.
The tip of its nose moved, and the monster slowly turned around, staring at Katakuri standing on the branch with bright red eyes.
"Owen!"
Katakuri couldn't help shouting.
The monster's appearance is exactly the same as Owen's, except that the canine teeth on the left and right sides of the upper jaw are protruding from the lips, and its eyes are cold, as if looking at a stranger, full of murderous intent.
After paying attention to the distance between the two sides, Owen stepped forward.
Said at the same time.
"You're too late, brother."
Katakuri's eyelids twitched wildly and he asked, "Why?"
"I had a chance to turn back. All the time, I ate only unimportant bachelors. Even if I couldn't help it, even if I was so hungry that I gnawed the meat from my hands, I didn't do anything to my brothers and sisters."
"But then what?"
Snapped!
Clutching his chest, Owen said coldly: "You clearly knew I had a problem, but you still didn't stop my mother from arranging him and me on a boat."
"How can I bear this! Brother!"
hiss……!
Taking a sharp breath, Katakuri thought of his premonition nightmare, and his eyes widened in fear.
"So...you ate Rezan?"
"That's right!"
Charlotte Owen's face was full of morbid enthusiasm: "For the first time, I knew that there was such a wonderful enjoyment in the world. The internal organs with a hint of mucus and the skinny and fat thighs were so coveted.
.”
"I just took a bite, just a bite!"
He raised his index finger, frantically as if trying to convince the other party: "Then I completely fell."
Katakuri's scalp instantly became numb and his hair stood on end.
eat human!
What a disgusting and dirty behavior is this?!
Katakuri has never seen such things as cannibalism except in countries where people are so poor and starving.
But now this is happening in all nations.
It happened to my brother!!
His hands and feet were cold and trembling slightly. Katakuri lowered his head and said nothing.
Seeing this, Charlotte Owen, who had already closed enough distance, took a deep breath and suddenly jumped out.
Hot wind fist!
This move can set off a heat wave and break rocks, but the more threatening thing is still the fist itself.
With an appetite flashing in her eyes, Charlotte Owen punched Katakuri in the head mercilessly. If it hit, even the leader of the four generals would be concussed on the spot.
But just as his fist was about to land on Katakuri's head, he suddenly raised his head.
Clap rice cake!
Buzz!
The invisible power spread rapidly in the air. Charlotte Owen was instantly startled, but before she had time to step back, two huge rice cake palms, one on the left and one on the right, stretched out from the assimilated tree trunk behind Katakuri, and clasped them heavily on the tree trunk.
Together.
Poof!!
A mouthful of blood sprayed out and wet Katakuri's scarf.
The strong wind stirred up by the violent impact lifted the scarf, revealing a hideous and terrifying mouth, split from left to right to the base of the ears, and full of sharp teeth.
There was pain in Katakuri's eyes, even though his ferocious appearance made it impossible to feel the pain.
Looking at Charlotte Owen, who was sandwiched between rice cakes, he clenched his fists: "Don't waste your efforts, you know it's useless."
"puff!"
After coughing out a mouthful of blood foam, Charlotte Owen smiled instead of getting angry: "Ah, of course I know."
"But do you know? After eating Rezan, I am no longer the same person."
"This distance happens to be the most powerful limit range of my move!"
That move?!!
After saying that, in Katakuri's shocked eyes, an earth-shattering wave of heat surged out of Charlotte Owen's body, directly drying out the rice cakes he controlled and making them full of cracks.
Then...
Bang!
When she exploded the stone-like rice cake palm, Charlotte Owen's whole body lit up with orange light like a meteorite. Under the terrifying high temperature, the air was squeezed to form a nuclear bomb-like explosion.