Chapter 535 - 375

Chapter 376: The Big Mom Pirates Attack!"A cake ship?""It can sing?"Chopper and Franky looked at each other, their faces filled with confusion.However, the others on the ship didn't think it was a joke at all."Everyone, on full alert!!!"Zoro was the first to react; his right eye instantly sharpened, and his hand was already tightly gripping the hilt of the wado ichimonji.Almost at the same time, the atmosphere on the sunny switched from heavy to the highest level of combat readiness!!!Nami and Robin also put away their panic; one took out her clima-tact, and the other crossed her arms over her chest, expressions serious.Jinbe and Law's expressions changed drastically; they rushed to the railing at the stern almost simultaneously.It was a giant ship filled with a grotesque fairy-tale style.Its hull seemed to be made of melted cream, giant chocolate blocks, and colorful candies.Giant biscuits were used as oars, and the masts were huge, spiral lollipops.And the most hair-raising part was its figurehead.It was a woman's head with a wide, bloody mouth and heavy makeup, seemingly singing at the top of her lungs; its eyes were hollow and crazed, emitting an eerie aura that made one's SAN value plummet.In front of it, the thousand sunny was like a majestic lion that had suddenly encountered an indescribable behemoth from a nightmare fairy tale!!!And that weird singing became clearer and clearer as it drifted over with the sea breeze."Life~ or~ Treat~?""Your life~ or snacks~?""If you don't give snacks~ I'll snatch away your~ soul~!"The singing was sometimes as innocent as a child's and sometimes as raspy as an old woman's; the two completely different voices intertwined weirdly, drilling into everyone's ears and giving them instant goosebumps."The Queen Mama Chanter..."Jinbe's voice was extremely dry as he spat out the ship's name word by word."It's Big Mom Charlotte Linlin's ship!!! There's no doubt about it!!!""Four Emperors... Big Mom?!?!"Nami let out a low cry, her grip on the clima-tacttightening.They had just made an enemy of another of the Four Emperors, Kaido, because they defeated Doflamingo, and now, another emperor of the sea's ship had come looking for them?!What on earth was going on?!...Right at this tense moment...As the Captain, Luffy did something weird that left everyone dumbfounded.He didn't rush to the bow excitedly, shouting about having a fight like usual.Nor did he strike any combat pose.He just slowly closed his eyes.In this instant, all external sounds and the tense atmosphere seemed to drift away from him.His world fell into a state of absolute, tranquil darkness.His already peak Observation Haki extended toward a deeper, more ethereal realm at this moment!!!The future!It was a sea of time, chaotic and fragile, woven from countless possibilities.And at this moment, Luffy was like the most skillful surfer, standing steadily on the crest of a wave in this ocean!The next second!Countless chaotic, fragmented images that didn't belong to the present flooded into his mind like a bursting dam!!!..."Buzz—!!!"Luffy snapped his eyes open!The tense air of the real world wrapped around him once more.Usopp's screams, Franky's roars, Zoro's heavy breathing, and the increasingly close, eerie singing from that cake ship...Everything was exactly the same as before.It was as if everything that felt as long as a century had only happened in an instant.Luffy's face was a bit dazed at first, clearly because the sheer volume of information was too much to process.But soon, that daze turned into the shock of realization.Finally, when he quickly pieced all the fragments he saw into a complete story in his head... all the expressions on his face vanished, replaced by an extremely strange, playful, and mischievous grin, as if he were watching a good show!"Luffy!!!""Captain!!!""What's going on?! Should we fight?!"The anxious inquiries of his companions pulled him back from his thoughts.However, Luffy seemed not to have heard them.He ignored everyone's anxious gazes and the giant enemy ship that was almost in their faces, emitting the pressure of an Emperor.He just turned his head and looked at the serious-looking Sanji.He grinned, revealing a smile that was brighter than sunlight and more playful than a demon."Sanji.""Your luck with women... is really something else!""Heeheehee... This is too interesting!"