"It's Mama! Don't go over! Mama will kill us!"
Zeus shivered in fear, hiding behind Prometheus.
"No! It's not Mama! It's Big Sister!"
Prometheus's flames flickered excitedly, sensing a familiar and friendly aura.
"It's Big Sister! Big Sister is back!" Napoleon also buzzed happily.
After confirming, the three little ones immediately flew over joyfully, circling Gölz affectionately and chirping happily:
"Big Sister! Big Sister!"
Gloriosa looked on in confusion:
"How do you know she's your sister? Isn't she Mama?"
"Ah! It's you guys!" Gölz also recognized them and said in surprise,
"You actually know me?"
"Of course we do!" Zeus floated in front of her as a matter of course,
"We were created by Mama using Big Sister's soul fragments! How could we not know Big Sister?"
"That's why we knew Big Sister always wanted to defeat Mama, so we helped the beautiful big sister take action together!" Prometheus added.
"Though we don't quite understand why Big Sister insisted on defeating Mama..." Napoleon muttered softly.
Hearing this, Gölz's giant eyes were instantly filled with tears of emotion.
She didn't expect that in those dark times, there were actually "people" who knew of her existence and even helped her.
She knew very well that for these Homies, they were risking being killed by Galmo to help her... Inside a certain room.
"Have you found out? What on earth is that woman Charlotte Linlin up to?!"
Shikaku sat in the main seat, his face as dark as water.
A pirate lackey reported tremblingly: "Reporting to the Lord Leader, it has been confirmed that the previous celestial phenomenon was related to the Dragon Swordsman, Charlotte Linlin.
After the thunderclouds dissipated, someone saw with their own eyes the newly joined Female Giant executive carrying Charlotte Linlin back to her territory."
Shikaku's brow furrowed tightly: "It really is that woman! Is there any other intelligence? Just this? Haven't you thought of a way to plant people in her Pirate Crew to steal information?"
The pirate lackey looked troubled: "Lord Shikaku, Charlotte Linlin... she only recruits female Crew members. Even the handymen are a group of female pirates she brought back from somewhere.
We... we really don't have any female members who can act as undercover agents."
"Useless! If you don't have any, can't you go find some? Can't you train some?!"
Shikaku flew into a rage, grabbed the teacup on the table, and smashed it hard at the pirate.
"Get out! Keep investigating! Don't come back to see me until you've cleared this up!"
"Yes, yes, yes! Please calm down, Lord Leader!"
The pirate lackey felt like he'd been granted a reprieve and scrambled out of the room.
"Damn it! Why does good luck always favor these guys! Newgate is one! Shiki is another! And now even this woman Charlotte Linlin!"
Shikaku slammed his fist on the table, making a dull thud,
"I can overlook Shiki, but why do even a blockhead like Newgate and a woman like Charlotte Linlin possess Conqueror's Haki!"
He paced irritably in the room:
"If Galmo really defected to Charlotte Linlin, then wouldn't my original plan to use Rocks' hands to deal with her be completely ruined?!"
A series of crashing sounds and suppressed roars suddenly echoed inside the room.
Outside the room, the pirate lackey who had just been scolded, Deco, was clutching his bleeding forehead and sighing as he walked out.
"Hey, Deco, finished reporting? Let's go grab a drink. I heard a new batch of girls arrived at the Fragrant Flower Pavilion. Want to go try them out?"
A wretched-looking pirate came over and put his arm around his shoulder.
"No, no,"
Deco pointed to his still-bleeding forehead and smiled bitterly,
"I have to deal with this first. Every report feels like a brush with death... Moxi, maybe one day you won't see me anymore."
The pirate named Moxi looked at the wound on his forehead and smacked his lips:
"True, you should deal with that wound. But you won't die that easily. Lord Shikaku's intelligence line depends entirely on you. If you died, the Lord Leader would be so heartbroken!"
"Maybe..." Deco smiled forcedly,
"Alright, I'll go back and bandage it first. Let's meet up next time."
"Deal! But you're treating next time!"
"Okay, I'll treat next time."
Deco clutched his forehead and swayed back to his narrow room in the corner.
Before closing the door, he pretended to be weak and looked around. After confirming the hallway was empty, he closed the door.
Click!
As he looked at the locked door, the submissive expression on Deco's face vanished, replaced by a calm and serious look.
He walked to the corner of the room, moved a few wooden boards, and took out a transponder snail with a white shell from an extremely well-hidden compartment.
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