Long Bread's operation of creating food out of thin air was not only a shock to Ida and Hajrudin, but even the heavily injured Loki found it very miraculous.
"This doesn't look like a sign of an onset."
Golden Lion Shiki floated over to Fang Huo and Charlotte Linlin, studying them with great interest.
"If you don't want to be unlucky, don't come near us!"
Fang Huo was concentrating on dealing with Carmelo's soul, using various methods like the Luck-Luck Fruit ability, Gulp-Gulp Fruit Ability, and the seven star demon sword... to weaken Carmelo in every way.
He even used the Rumble-Rumble Fruit ability to try and attack the souls of Carmelo and Linlin.
"What happened? Fang Huo!"
Rocks exploded with his Observation Haki, seemingly discovering a clue.
He seemed to have discovered two 'people' on Charlotte Linlin.
In the original timeline, when Straw Hat Luffy and Zoro met Teach, they seemed to have already discovered the clue on Teach.
They didn't call Teach 'that guy', but rather 'those guys'.
They seemed to have discovered that Teach possessed more than one soul and consciousness.
"Don't worry about us!"
"Take Loki over there and let those two giants call Harald back."
Fang Huo directly activated a Gravity Field and a Thunder Cage, forbidding others from interfering with his dealing with Carmelo's soul.
"Tsk tsk, it seems Linlin has quite a few secrets!"
Rocks shrugged; he had great confidence in Fang Huo, believing that Fang Huo could definitely handle Linlin's matters.
"Disperse, disperse! Don't disturb them!"
Whitebeard Newgate dispersed the crowd of Executives watching the commotion, leaving only Stussy and Shimotsuki Furiko standing nearby, looking at the two serious faces with a bit of worry.
"Hey, Harald's woman, business is here, aren't you going to receive us!"
Rocks crudely dragged the massive Loki directly to the entrance of the giant tavern.
Ida endured her fear and threw herself directly onto Loki.
"How can you beat a child into such a serious injury!"
Ida cursed loudly, hurriedly running back into the tavern to bring out white bandages to wrap Loki up.
"If you don't notify Harald to come back immediately, I wonder if that guy can withstand one of my slashes like Loki did."
Rocks didn't care about Ida's cursing; instead, he grinned fiercely at Hajrudin, a tyrannical aura erupting from his body.
Hajrudin felt Rocks' terrifying Haoshoku, so frightened that the sword in his hand dropped to the ground, his whole body trembling, his face instantly turning pale.
"Don't!!"
Ida's pupils shook; she knew Hajrudin's constitution was far inferior to Loki's.
Now that even Loki was seriously injured, she estimated Hajrudin would die on the spot.
"I'll call Harald to come back right away! When he gets back, you'll regret this!"
Ida held back her tears, ran back to the tavern to find a transponder snail, and told Harald, who was on a distant sea expedition and diplomatic mission, about the situation here.
This made Harald so angry that after comforting Ida for a few words, he immediately rushed back to Elbaf in a rage.
He would never allow those hateful pirates of the Rocks Pirates to harm his wife and son!
"wahaha! That's more like it!!"
"Also, since you've opened a shop, do business properly!"
"Bring out Elbaf's fine wine and food for this lord!"
"I have plenty of money!"
Rocks' mood immediately improved when he heard that Ida had notified Harald, and he stopped teasing these two Giant Race brats, Loki and Hajrudin.
The other Executives hopped onto the tavern's giant tables, waiting for Ida to serve wine and dishes.
However, most of their gazes were still focused on Fang Huo and Charlotte Linlin outside.
They didn't know what exactly was happening to Charlotte Linlin.
Ida bit her teeth, and after giving Loki initial bandages, she left Loki to Hajrudin's care and began to host these unwanted guests.
Originally, Hajrudin wanted to take care of this pathetic younger brother, but he only received a cold snort from Loki.
This made Hajrudin so angry he wished he could beat Loki up and get revenge for the beatings he had received before.
--- At this time, the soul battle outside the tavern also reached its final moment.
Carmelo's soul had just awakened and was originally no match for Charlotte Linlin; she had planned to slowly influence and devour Charlotte Linlin's mutated soul.
As it turned out, as soon as she woke up, she had to face a final battle, and there was also Fang Huo, an outside support helping Charlotte Linlin.
This simply gave her no way to survive!
'Why! Why am I so unlucky!'
'Back then, an error in judgment led to me being unable to beat the 6-year-old Linlin, and now I encounter an even stronger bastard!!'
Carmelo's soul grew weaker and weaker. Even as the owner of the Soul-Soul Fruit Ability, with her luck at rock bottom, she was also affected by the strange power of the seven star demon sword and completely lost her ability to resist.
Charlotte Linlin's mutated soul took the opportunity to devour and fuse with the soul power Carmelo had accumulated and recovered over the past 10 years.
It could be said to be extremely unlucky.
However, Carmelo's soul, which possessed the Soul-Soul Fruit Ability, was still not completely devoured in the end. Like a barnacle, it clung tightly to Linlin's soul and fell silent once again.
At this time, Carmelo's soul, controlled by the seven star demon sword, also slightly influenced Charlotte Linlin.
It made Charlotte Linlin increasingly attached to Fang Huo!
'Still couldn't completely fuse?!'
'But Carmelo's soul is no longer a danger!'
Fang Huo's eyes narrowed slightly. The Gulp-Gulp Fruit Ability still didn't possess the unsolvable power to fuse souls; otherwise, he could mass-produce and fuse the souls of ability users onto non-ability users.
Wouldn't that be a roundabout way of stripping Devil Fruit abilities!
However, the Gulp-Gulp Fruit Ability clearly didn't have such a bugged capability.
Linlin's mutated soul was also not strong enough and could not completely devour Carmelo's soul.
This might be a special effect of the Soul-Soul Fruit Ability itself!
In the future, when he encounters a Memory-Memory Fruit ability user, he could completely erase Carmelo's memories, making her a total subordinate soul of Linlin.
However, this perhaps also allowed Fang Huo to see another path.
Perhaps this was a path for multi-fruit ability users.
But the souls of other ability users might not be as strong as those of Soul-Soul Fruit Ability users at all.
If the physical body died, the soul would likely die too, and the Devil Fruit ability would be reborn.
Unlike the Soul-Soul Fruit Ability user Carmelo, who could still survive.
Fusing two living ability users together—that was possible.
But it still had flaws; the two ability users would fight for dominance.
The seven star demon sword could barely resolve the issue of dominance.
The path of people with a deep understanding sharing a body was also feasible; the current pet path of the Rocks Pirates was this path.
However, two ordinary ability users sharing one body wouldn't necessarily become stronger.
Sometimes, it's better to stay separate, as that provides one more combatant.
---"What's wrong! I found that my Soul-Soul Fruit Ability has become stronger!!"
Charlotte Linlin, who had recovered, spoke excitedly. She had devoured the soul power Carmelo had recovered over these ten years, and Carmelo's soul was ordered by Fang Huo using the seven star demon sword to fully cooperate with the invocation of Linlin's ability.
So now Charlotte Linlin could basically use the full version of the Soul-Soul Fruit Ability!
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