The tea party pza was in plete chaos. Guests fled in all dires, screams filling the air. Cudius and his group preteo be caught up in the otion, running around to avoid suspi. However, their eyes darted around, carefully and clearly waiting for the right moment to act.

  Through the thick smoke, Charlotte Linlin's massive, muscur arms suddenly burst outward, scattering the bck haze. Her enormous figure emerged, t and unyielding. She roared furiously, her terrifying presendimihough her appearance was slightly disheveled, and she bore some superficial marks from the attacks, she remained pletely unscathed.

  "You bastards! How dare you disrupt my tea party!!!" Charlotte Linlin bellowed, her voiing across the battlefield.

  "Tea party? Let's call it a funeral instead," Sakazuki shot back coldly. "Today is your death day, Charlotte Linlin!"

  Without waiting for a reply, Sakazuki's body radiated intense heat, the grouh him melting from the sheer temperature. His arms morphed into molten magma as he unched himself forward, his stride leaving scorched craters in its wake. He raised his magma-coated fist, r, "Dark Hound!"

  This was one of Sakazuki's most devastating attacks, infused with the explosive power of a volic eruption and carrying the heat to ie anything in its path.

  Charlotte Linlin's body, famed for its near-invincibility, was often pared to a "steel balloon" or unbreakable diamond. Yet, as Sakazuki charged toward her, she felt an unfamiliar sense of danger. Unlike earlier, she didn't dare take the blow head-on. Her instincts screamed at her to act.

  In an instant, her pirate captain's hat, Napoleon, transformed into a massive sword, nding in her hands just as Sakazuki's fist hurtled toward her.

  "Die, Sakazuki!!!" Charlotte Linlin screamed, sshing at the ining attack with all her strength.

  But before her bde could ect, a wave of freezing cold air rushed in. Faster than Sakazuki's strike, the icy bst engulfed her, and in the blink of an eye, her enormous frame was encased in solid ice.

  The source of the attack stood calmly nearby—Marine Admiral Kuzan. A light puff of icy vapor escaped his mouth as he muttered, "Ice Time Capsule."

  Kuzan's freezing abilities were exceptional, but against a monster like Charlotte Linlin, such trol could only buy a brief moment. She immediately began to shatter the ice with her overwhelming brute strength.

  However, that moment was all Sakazuki needed. As the ice cracked and fell away, his Dark Hound smashed into her. Her sword, Napoleon, had lost its target and hung mid-swing.

  Charlotte Linlin's reflexes saved her from a direct hit. She swiftly cloaked her chest in a thick yer of Armament Haki and altered Napoleon's shape. The bde curved and torted, pg itself between her and the magma just in time.

  Even so, the impact was devastating. Sakazuki's magma fist exploded as it struck, the force sending Charlotte Linlin's massive body hurtling backward. She tore through the ground, uprooting flowers and shrubs, her nding carvirenches into the earth.

  Despite the sheer power of the attack, Charlotte Linlin mao steady herself quickly, nding on her feet. Her chest smoked from the heat, and her clothes were singed, but her injuries were superficial, her skin was merely scorched b pces, with no signifit damage.

  Gripping Napoleon tightly, she roared, her eyes bzing with fury.

  Sakazuki clicked his tongue in irritation. "If you'd pitched in earlier, Borsalino, we could've nded a hit," he said, his tone full of annoyance.

  But instead of looking at Borsalino, Sakazuki's gaze shifted toward anure nearby—Katakuri. Holding his trident, Katakuri stood with unshakable resolve, his gre filled with fury as he watched the Admirals who dared to invade his mother's territory.

  Borsalino, hands raised in mock surrender, yawned zily. "Look, even if I'd done something, it wouldn't have mattered. I'd have been stopped anyway, right?"

  The moment he spoke, Katakuri's arm shot upward, his trident flying toward Borsalino with lightning speed. But if there was ohing Borsalino was known for, it eed. With a fsh of golden light, his figure disappeared, reappearing far off in a rexed stance, his hands casually resting in his pants pockets.

  He ignored Katakuri entirely and raised his leg, firing a ser beam straight at Charlotte Linlin's already scorched chest.

  Charlotte Linlin didn't flinch. With a snarl, she raised her fist, unleashing her "Lightning-Fire Crit." Sparks of electricity and fmes danced along her arm as she puhe ining ser, causing it to explode mid-air in a burst of smoke and light.

  Meanwhile, Katakuri moved to attack. His arms expaurning into enormous spiked ons coated in Armament Haki. He charged toward both Sakazuki and Kuzan, his voice low as he growled, "Chikara Mochi!"

  Katakuri's powerful strike was aimed at Sakazuki first, but the Marine Admiral didn't even g him. To Sakazuki, Katakuri was merely a sedary threat. His true target was, and always had been, Charlotte Linlin.

  Kuzan, however, reacted immediately. With a siomp, an icy wall rose to intercept Katakuri's attack. The force of Katakuri's mace-like arms smashed into the wall, shattering parts of it, but the structure held firm.

  A chilling frost spread from the ice wall, creeping up Katakuri's arms. Realizing the danger, he quickly shattered the frozen parts of his limbs, retreating to a safer distance.

  Katakuri's Mochi-Mochi abilities, though teically Paramecia, gave him a physique and adaptability simir to a Logia. The lost portions of his arms could easily be replenished, a distinct advantage in battle.

  Just as Kuzan prepared to follow up with atack, Charlotte Linlin's enraged scream echoed across the pza. Leaping into the air with surprising speed for her size, she raised her fming sword high.

  "Emperor's Sword: ac!!!" she roared, bringing the bde down with earth-shattering force.

  her Sakazuki nor Kuzan dared to block the attack head-on. They retreated simultaneously, while even Katakuri stepped back to avoid being caught i.

  The bde smmed into the ground, sending fmes and shockwaves across the pza. The earth cracked violently, trembling as if struck by ahquake.

  But Charlotte Linlin wasn't finished. Abandoning her embedded sword, she rushed forward, her enormous fist crag with a mix of electricity and malice. Her target was Sakazuki, and she closed the distah terrifying speed.

  Sakazuki met her head-on, his own arm transf into a gigantic magma fist. With a defiant roar, he swung at her ining blow.

  The two fists collided with cataclysmic force. The sheer energy of the csh sent shockwaves rippling outward, leveling everything around them. In her furious state, Charlotte Linlin unleashed the full brunt of her monstrous power, overp Sakazuki.

  Her fist smashed into him, driving him into the ground with enough force to leave a massive crater. Dust and debris filled the air, obsg Sakazuki's form as the ground seemed to colpse uhe weight of the blow.

  The pza fell silent, the tension thi the air as everyoraio see the aftermath of Charlotte Linlin's devastating strike.