Meanwhile, in the Totto Land, on Whole Cake Island, the affiliated forces of the Big Mom Pirates and members of the Charlotte family, summoned by orders, gathered at the harbor.
Over a hundred warships lined up across the sea, with the Big Mom Pirates' flag, symbolizing the status of the Yonko Charlotte Linlin, fluttering wildly in the wind.
The Sweet Commanders of the Big Mom Pirates, led by Katakuri, boarded their respective warships.
Smoothie, towering over four meters tall, sat imposingly on the deck, her expression grave as she stared at the Den Den Mushi in her hand.
Katakuri stood alone at the bow of the ship, his gaze fixed intently on the sea ahead, waiting for their mother command.
At her signal, his warship and the others in the harbor would set sail en masse.
"Buru Buru~"
Suddenly, the Den Den Mushi in Smoothie hand rang. Without hesitation, Smoothie was the first to speak.
"This is Charlotte Smoothie!"
"Lady Smoothie, something terrible has happened!" A voice filled with suppressed despair came through the Den Den Mushi.
"Admiral Kuzan of the Marines attacked us half an hour ago. Now, I'm the only one left on the island, everyone else has been turned into ice sculptures!"
"Huh?" Smoothie pupils contracted as she asked in a deep voice "Half an hour ago? Why are you only reporting this now!"
Before the words had even finished, Smoothie abruptly stood up, her gaze fixed on the sea ahead.
At the same time, Katakuri, Cracker, and other members of the Charlotte family almost simultaneously turned or stood up, all straining their eyes to look into the distance.
In front of them, the previously calm sea surface suddenly began to freeze at an astonishing speed. As a bone-chilling cold swept silently across, the frozen sea rapidly expanded its coverage.
In just a few blinks of an eye, the sea several nautical miles away from the port of Whole Cake Island had transformed into an endless open-air ice rink.
On this vast ice rink, a bicycle slowly approached, heading towards the port.
On the bicycle sat none other than Admiral Kuzan of the Marines, draped in a Marine Admiral coat, his expression indifferent.
As Kuzan rode his bicycle closer to the port, the frozen sea rapidly spread towards it.
By the time Kuzan was within 300 meters of the port, the bone-chilling cold had surged into the harbor, freezing the sea surface at an astonishing speed.
As soon as the port sea surface froze, the eight warships floating at the outermost edge of the port were also enveloped by the icy chill.
"Damn it, it's Aokiji!"
"Quick, quick, get off these ships!"
"Ahhh, we're going to freeze!"
The pirates on the decks of these eight warships instantly fell into chaos.
Amidst the sounds of panic, the pirates on the decks scrambled to escape to the nearest ships.
However, they were too slow.
The moment they realized their ships were also enveloped by the icy chill, the hulls began to freeze at an astonishing speed.
In the chaos, the pirates on the decks were one by one engulfed by the cold, turning into human ice sculptures, frozen in their frantic attempts to escape, standing rigidly on the decks.
In the blink of an eye, these eight warships and everyone on board were frozen, creating a visually striking ice sculpture tableau.
Witnessing this scene, the pirates on the other ships in the port were utterly panicked, jumping off their ships and scrambling ashore in disarray.
Katakuri, standing on the deck of his ship, remained unmoved.
He glanced down at the frozen port.
Only the outermost seven or eight ships were frozen, the rest of the ships had merely stopped rocking due to the frozen sea surface, with their hulls largely unaffected.
However, Katakuri didn't simply believe that the enemy had intentionally held back.
The reason the freezing hadn't spread further was because the Marine Headquarters' top combatant had stopped advancing!
At that moment, Smoothie, Cracker, and several other members of the Charlotte family swiftly arrived, landing beside Katakuri and standing shoulder to shoulder with him.
Before Katakuri could react, Smoothie, who had arrived first, had already drawn her sword, staring intently at Admiral Kuzan, who was 300 meters away, as if facing a formidable enemy.
With just one man and a bicycle, Admiral Kuzan had completely blockaded the Big Mom Pirates' fleet of over a hundred ships in the port, rendering them unable to take a single step.
The overwhelming pressure from the Marine Admiral was vividly manifested at this moment.
Even someone as powerful as Sweet Commander Smoothie could clearly feel the immense strength and confidence of the Marines' top combatant at this moment.
Daring to venture alone into the territory of the Whole Cake Island and without hesitation, he delivered a stunning blow, turning eight warships and their crews into ice sculptures.
To this day, only Kuzan has achieved such a feat worldwide.
"Damn it, wasn't there supposed to be a naval fleet accompanying him?" Cracker, who had just arrived beside Katakuri, quickly scanned the surroundings and fixed his gaze on Kuzan.
In a panic, he exclaimed "Is he planning to take us all down by himself?"
"Yare yare~"
Before Cracker could finish his sentence, Kuzan voice drifted over from a distance, clear and audible to everyone at the port.
"If I let you leave the port, Fleet Admiral Orion would be quite upset. So, I kindly ask the members of the Big Mom Pirates to cooperate with me and stay on Whole Cake Island for the time being!"
Before Kuzan words had fully faded, an overwhelming wave of bone-chilling cold erupted, sweeping across the frozen sea like a ferocious ice dragon, its claws extended as it lunged toward the port, heading straight for Katakuri and his companions.
"KUZAN!"
Facing the oncoming ice dragon, Katakuri seemed to have anticipated it.
He took a decisive step forward, and a visible surge of immense power burst from beneath his feet, instantly forming a shockwave that collided head-on with the massive ice dragon.
Boom—
The deafening explosion of the collision echoed across the port. Immediately after, ripples spread through the air, rapidly expanding across the entire port.
Wherever the ripples passed, the frozen sea began to melt.
"Great, the frozen sea is melting!"
"Go, Katakuri! You can do it!"
"Conqueror's Haki! Katakuri never lets us down!"
Seeing the frozen sea at the port rapidly melting, the members of the Charlotte Family and the Big Mom Pirates' affiliated forces, who had already jumped ashore, were overjoyed.
Especially the children of the Charlotte Family, regardless of age, they all looked up to Katakuri with admiration, many even cheering for him with stars in their eyes.
Amidst the chorus of adoring cheers, Katakuri, after releasing his Conqueror's Haki to disperse the oncoming ice dragon, leaped off the deck.
He landed on the still-frozen ice, wielding his trident as he charged straight toward Kuzan.
However, just as he rushed out of the port, the sea several nautical miles behind Kuzan was suddenly filled with warships speeding toward them.
They came to a halt in a line just before the frozen area.
In the next moment, the cold, murderous intent of the ship's cannons swiftly turned, aiming directly at Whole Cake Island.
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