The Fattened Guests of Whole Cake Island Borin23 Although she hadn't believed she was yet ready to become a Strawhat Pirate, Yamato knew that she eventually needed to leave her homeland someday soon to get experience out there in the world. she wished to be of help to Luffy and the others in the coming future, so she had bought herself a little boat and prepared to venture out to unknown oceans. she even had something of a good reason to go, as well: Ulti and Black Maria, two members of the Beast Pirates' Tobi Roppo, had apparently escaped custody and disappeared to another island nearby. she wanted to go after them and bring them back to face proper justice. Ê "You should take this one with you, Yamato." Kikunojo approached Yamato before the latter had finished putting together preparations for the trip, "It would be for the best if you had some allies with you. You never know what could happen on these oceans, surely you've learned that much from reading Kozuki Oden's journal? This one may not be as powerful as you and wields no devil fruit, but this one would be honored to fight alongside you even for a short while. Returning home to Wano on my own would be possible after the fact, as well." Ê "...Are you sure you're not just interested in going out to travel with me?" Ê "Heh, this one supposes that would be part of the reason for wanting to accompany you, yes." Ê Yamato didn't wish to push Kikunojo into doing anything harsh, especially after she had lost an arm in the battle against the Beast Pirates. However, there was little reason to doubt the kind of power that she wielded. Her good arm was still well intact and the blade could still be empowered with Armament Haki. Truthfully, while certainly as self-confident as ever, Yamato wouldn't know if she would be able to handle taking on Ulti and Black Maria at the same time. They would no doubt feel quite contemptuous regarding the betrayal of their former captain's own spawn; they would have no qualms going after her anymore with their full power. Yamato needed backup and there were few who would make a better fit than Kikunojo. Ê "I want to go too! I want to see the islands outside of Wano! Please, I promise I'll go back with Kiku after you've captured those two! I want to see the last remnants of those brigands are stopped for myself! Please, please, please, allow me to accompany you!" Hiyori, Oden's very own daughter and the most beloved woman of the capital, had seemingly spontaneously materialized out of thin air beside the two of them. Ê She looked up at the pair with those big pleading eyes and her bottom lip bitten hard; it was the exact face that she always made when she tried not to cry. This time around, she was undoubtedly using it to get something out of them. Kikunojo was not exactly comfortable with her insistence. She was braver and smarter than most women her age, no question, and yet Hiyori possessed no powers. Nothing she could do would make her capable of withstanding the might of the two absconded Beast Pirates they were hunting. By all accounts, her presence would be a serious liability. Ê Kikunojo obviously wanted to turn her away...but Yamato just smiled and slapped a hand down onto Hiyori's shoulder. "Of course you can come with us! We'll keep you safe, Hiyori! Why not! We probably won't have to go too far, they had no real ship of their own, and you'll have a fun adventure to regale your brother about when you get back! Kiku, that should be just fine, right?" Ê Kikunojo nervously glanced back and forth between Yamato and Hiyori for several moments before heaving a sigh, "V-Very well, I suppose this one can allow it as long as Hiyori agrees to stay by our sides or in hiding when need be." Ê Hiyori squealed with delight before jumping up to kiss both Yamato and Kikunojo on their cheeks. She rushed over to go and prepare her things, perhaps throw on a casual robe for travel as well. Kikunojo still felt like she was doing something wrong, but she swore with her very life at stake that she would do everything to guard Kozuki Oden's daughter. All Yamato could focus on was how she had just gotten kissed, even if it was only on the cheek. While Hiyori made some final preparations, Yamao and Kikunojo got to work setting up the boat. Ê Fortunately, this haphazardly-established team did not have to search for very long to locate the runaway criminals. With some helpful information provided by both Wano dock workers and a random merchant ship that they came across out in the open ocean, the trio were able to find their way to an island literally covered with what appeared to be candy. It was especially exciting for Yamato and Hiyori, but Kikunojo tried to keep her excitement to a minimum; it was no longer quite as thrilling for her when she had to worry about Hiyori's well-being too. Ê "Look at that! Giant towers of red and white stripes! Huge mountains spewing brown sludge! Fluffy white roofs on top of checkmarked houses! Why does it all look so tasty?" Yamato licked her lips over and over again. she had been eager to see new lands beyond Wano, but she had never thought she would be THIS excited because of it! Ê "It smells really good too!" Hiyori sniffed at the air repeatedly, barely able to hold back her own drool forming on the corners of her full lips. Ê Kikunojo sighed and shook her head. "This one is not entirely sure if this is the sort of place that we should be lingering in for very long." Ê Yamato let out a great big guffaw as she continued to push the paddle and thus subsequently push the boat itself toward their brand new destination. "Oh come on! Just look at how incredible this place is! We're definitely going to find Ulti and Black Maria here! Who WOULDN'T want to stay at a place like this?" Ê There were very few concerns shared among the friends at first; neither Yamato nor Hiyori could possibly imagine anything wrong going at a place so colorful and sweet-scented. Although Kikunojo tried her best to remain on guard, she was also feeling her stomach grumble in desire for a taste of whatever it was that the island was apparently made out of. Upon making their landing, however, the trio was immediately accosted by strange-looking people in even stranger-looking gear. Not a single one of them looked anything like a person from Wano, some of their faces even making Hiyori shriek out loud. Ê They were forced by spear-point to walk all of the way to the center of the island, where supposedly their 'Big Mom' would decide what to do with them...and treat them as either friends or invaders. Kikunojo walked at front, Hiyori was in the middle, and Yamato was last. Guards marched on all sides, spears at the ready, and there was no telling how strong they actually were. Hiyori being a potential victim if any fight were to break out meant that Yamato's and Kikunojo's actions were severely limited. Ê As they walked, the hapless trio at the very least were offered a good layout of the surrounding land. It had not been their eyes that had fooled them when they were still on the boat. The island itself appeared to be somehow constructed entirely out of candy! Ê Enormous gumdrops emulated mountains in the distance, topped with what could only be assumed as white vanilla icing. Houses were literally made out of chocolate and waffles. The very street they had to traverse to make their way to Big Mom's home was constructed with hardened taffy. Tall streetlamps of black licorice loomed over their heads. Wheelbarrows full of rock candy were being pushed down the street from a nearby mining shaft. Funny people of all sorts, most of them dressed in similarly strange-looking clothes as the guards, kept walking out to watch them walk by. Ê Yamato and Hiyori would have been exceptionally eager to jump right into the eating if they weren't so nervous about what was to become of them. Kikunojo tried to resist her own stomach's rumblings, even though the decadent aroma of caramel wafted past her nostrils every few seconds. Even if it was part of the landscape, the food really did look as appetizing as it smelled too. In fact, as they exited the townscape and entered into the fields, they passed a group of elderly women literally picking chocolate berries off of bushes and filling baskets. If only they could try just one little piece, a single taste; some sweets would certainly help calm the nerves. Ê "D-Don't worry about a thing, Hiyori!" Yamato tried her best to reassure Hiyori, even though she had no idea what was going to happen either, "We'll be fine as long as we stick close together, just like we had said beforehand!" Ê Hiyori, however, kept her head hung low. She didn't wish to let Yamato see the tears that were welling up in her large eyes. "Yes, I believed in you then, Yamato, but I have no idea what's going to happen to us here and now! We're in a lot of trouble, aren't we?" Ê "I think that we'll be alright! We're tough! The toughest there is! You're the daughter of Kozuki Oden! Kikunojo is a retainer of Kozuki Oden! And I AM Kozuki Oden! We'll be just fine!" Yamato boasted loud and proud. The soldiers marching them along didn't seem to particularly care either which way. They had no knowledge of Wano, of Kozuki Oden, of the strength of the Red Scabbards and the brave heroes that had defeated Emperors of the Sea. Ê Hiyori couldn't resist from smiling a little after hearing Yamato's exclamation, even if she couldn't necessarily stop from trembling. Ê "This one will do whatever is necessary to ensure both of you will survive and escape back to Wano." Kikunojo remarked coolly, but perhaps it had been TOO cool for its own good because it seemed to actually incite something of a panicked response from her two friends. Ê "H-Hey, don't even think about that, Kiku! There's no way we're going to leave without you! Don't even joke about something like that!" exclaimed Yamato. Ê "That's right, Kikunojo! Please, don't be so willing to give up your life even if it's for us!" Hiyori agreed. Ê Kikunojo looked back over her shoulder and offered a faint smile. She wished that she could rightfully promise them that nothing bad would happen. "I'll make sure to keep that in mind, thank you both." Ê The trio were eventually brought to a large building, a castle of some sort, but it appeared as if it were made entirely out of pink cake with a fluffy white frosting making up the roof and the edges. However, the chocolate biscuit double doors nonetheless swung wide open to permit them entrance. Yamato tried to lean over to get a quick bite out of the pink wall, but she was struck over the head with the blunt end of a spear for her trouble. The interior of the building carried no scent to it whatsoever, it seemed like any ordinary castle, and that tempting hunger sensation from outside soon faded. Ê They were delivered to the throne room, where they would meet with the island's ruler, Big Mom, herself. However, at that very moment, Yamato realized something very, very strange. If she so rightly recalled, Big Mom had been one of the former Emperors of the Sea that they had defeated during the raid on Onigashima. The last anyone had seen of her, Big Mom had fallen into the core of Wano's active volcano. Yamato had no idea that crazy old woman had gotten all the way back to her home if she was a Devil Fruit user without a ship or a crew to cross the ocean. There was no need to spend long contemplating it, however; the answer made itself immediately known to Yamato and the others. Ê "I can't say that I've ever seen you three on Whole Cake Island before. In fact, I don't believe any place across the entire Totto Land archipelago has had your manner of dress available at all. Wherever you've come from, it certainly wasn't from around here. Who are you and what are your intentions?" Ê The woman that addressed the Wano trio bore such physical immensity that she could have easily rivaled the previous Big Mom in girth alone. The statuesque, tan-skinned woman with exceptionally long legs sat upon a marble throne. The throne itself was framed by a haphazard collection of treasure boxes, piles of old books, and a tall table with what appeared to be a hippopotamus sleeping on top of it. Kikunojo and Yamato were both taller than the average person by several feet, but this woman towered high enough to make them have to bend their heads back just to meet her judgmental, cerulean-eyed gaze. Ê She had wavy white hair, some of the bangs covering a portion of her face, and multiple chin folds that spilled far enough to need covering by her oversized yellow scarf. Her chest was so distended that it greatly obscured the view of her beautiful face for those much shorter than herself. In fact, Hiyori couldn't see the new Big Mom's portly jowls and chins at all. Such a pair of grandiose spheres were stacked on top of an even larger sphere, her stomach. Everything about her seemed locked in constant jiggling motion in spite of her tight-fitting leotard. Her stomach lurched across most of her lap, but that didn't account for much when her lap itself was, to put it mildly, ludicrously vast. Ê Those titanic and turgid thighs, those lard-laden legs stacked to the brim and overflowing with adipose, now THAT was the stuff of legend. Her lower extremities were where the might was hidden, you could just tell from a mere glance. It felt like it conjured a strange pleasure in the bosom, a curious source of pride to be able to say you ever saw something so huge. Kikunojo noticed a highly distorted tattoo, likely having once resembled a rose at one point, was present on the large woman's upper right thigh. The giantess lifted that leg and for a brief moment the trio feared that they were going to be squashed. Instead, Big Mom simply rested that bulbous leg on top of the other. The fact that she could cross her legs at that size said plenty about her capabilities already. Ê "I think you must have come from the land of Wano, judging by the information I'd been provided. Based on the direction which you sailed here from, I will have to assume that you came from that place. That is where...I inevitably took over the reins as the new leader of Totto Land and was crowned as the next Big Mom. Hmph. I suppose I can't very well send you three back where you came from after all the effort it must have taken to get here, what with that mountain waterfall and everything." Ê The three captives didn't know how to respond to any of that. They kept quiet nonetheless. This huge woman really did look like she could eat them, so getting on her bad side, saying anything potentially negative at all, was best to be avoided. Ê "Besides..." Big Mom leaned forward somewhat, making her breasts, her belly and her lap all squish together at once, so that she could get her best possible look at the three new captives, "I think you three would make for a lot of fun, just like those Beast Pirate runaways we've recently taken into custody." Ê Yamato's eyes lit up upon hearing that. "Wait a minute," she exclaimed, "Do you mean that you have them right here right now? Ulti and Black Maria? Those are their names! They're the ones that we came here to find!" Ê "They only began to divulge what we wanted to know once I had...taken care of them." That ominous pause didn't imply many good things. Big Mom smirked from between a pair of soft and sagging jowls. She reached over to the table next to her, picking up the sleeping hippopotamus mentioned earlier. She held the animal directly overhead, above her open mouth, and then she SQUEEZED. The poor hippo let out a squeal as copious amounts of amber liquid gushed from its body and filled Big Mom's throat. Big Mom gulped and gulped until she swallowed every last drop. The crushed animal, still alive but severely dehydrated, was casually tossed aside like any ordinary piece of trash. Ê Hiyori bit her bottom lip and her eyes welled up with tears; she felt seriously bad for that hippo. If she hadn't been surrounded by guards, she would have probably rushed over to try and comfort the poor thing. Ê Big Mom slapped her gut in satisfaction, making her entire body ripple and wobble in response. "You three can stay with them. We'll make sure you're nice and comfortable for the duration of your stay. I'm sure you won't mind once you see the sort of accommodations that I have in mind. A woman such as myself, I won't let my new guests go without their needs being met. I swear it on my pride as the leader of the Big Mom Pirates." Ê Big Mom ushered them away soon after that, but her gaze followed after Yamato's back for a few moments. She had never met Kaido's son before, but she had to suspect, based off of the spiked club and the prominent horns, that they were indeed related. Yamato would certainly make a fun one to keep around here on Whole Cake Island. In fact, they all would be. Once the new captives had gone away, Big Mom called upon her chefs to begin cooking as soon as possible. They had three new mouths to feed...and they would be expected to eat PLENTY as long as they remained under their care. They would not be left with their stomachs empty for more than a few minutes at a time at best. Ê Yamato, Hiyori and Kikunojo were taken down a certain corridor. They were eventually stopped in front of a room with large double doors made out of what appeared to be dark steel. Yamato felt a shiver as she stood so close; she suspected that it was actually seastone that the doors were made out of. The locks were undone and the doors were pushed forward wide open. The room within bore pink walls with polka dots, a white ceiling and a red carpeted floor. The guard leading them bore a sneer on her lips and there was good reason for why. Yamato's jaw dropped. Hiyori gasped. Kikunojo's brow wrinkled. They didn't know what they could possibly say to what they were seeing right now. Ê "You...you...you damn monsters! Doing this to me...making me so...so FAT! How dare you! How dare you ruin my figure?!" Ulti roared in a breathless, sputtering fury. The former Tobi Roppo hopped off of the massive pink feather mattress that she had been reclining on. The very floorboards underneath her fat feet audibly cracked and crunched. You could tell from her ruthless glare that she was fully intending to march over and give the smirking guard a piece of her mind, but Ulti suddenly felt her knees give out and she collapsed right back onto the bed. Ê Black Maria, sitting nearby with her colossal rear atop a crushed bed frame, just sighed and shook her head. She was blatantly dismayed at her partner's antics. Tables stacked with food surrounded them on all angles. Most of said food was already eaten, but there were still piles of donuts and cakes waiting to be consumed. The room itself was exceptionally spacious, like the size of several rooms at once. There was a pleasant aroma that lingered over their heads, likely because of the plentiful sweets present. Yamato licked her lips, suddenly feeling pangs of hunger just as she had outside. Hiyori and Kikunojo were not so eager to eat themselves but they too were curious about what was going on. Ê "Please excuse her, would you? She's always worked up like this. Always." Black Maria took a moment to inhale from her long smoking pipe. She then exhaled, blowing out a plume of smoke that seeped from her nostrils and lips. She was also quite large, but thanks to her incredible height and strength she was not nearly as encumbered by her shocking levels of obesity. She scratched at her double chin and yawned, but the yawn turned itself into a belch at the very end. Ê Ulti was definitely an outright plumper lying on top of her creaking bed. She wasn't nearly as fat as Big Mom, but she certainly hadn't done anything at all to maintain her strong and lithe figure of the past. She had bloated up to considerable proportions, becoming an outright butterball. Her weary arms were so pudgy and plump; they were engulfed in such large mounds of loose fat that it made her upper limbs resemble puffer jacket sleeves. Her flabby legs weren't any more reliable, chafing almost all the way down to her knees, and they could hardly support the rest of her own weight anymore. Ulti begrudgingly and angrily slapped at her huge spare tire belly and pushed her plump hands all over its supple, gooey-like surface. She basically wanted to rip her own fat right off, but there was absolutely no way for her to be able to do that. She must have weighed several hundred more pounds than the onlookers had last seen her. Ê Black Maria was far less out of shape than Ulti, but not by any particularly great deal. Ulti's face was chubby as all get out behind that mask of hers, but Black Maria's three chins spilled right over onto her chest. Her breasts were absurdly humongous, a pair of blimps that eclipsed everyone else around her. One tit alone would have made a suitable bed in itself. Black Maria's physique was more appropriately shaped like an hourglass in contrast to Ulti's apple look. She wore a custom-made kimono that was supposed to only be able to fit her and her alone, but the kimono had begun to ride up over her tremendous thick thighs. Ulti was covered in lumps and bumps, rolls and folds, but Black Maria was very smooth and mark-less all over her body. No stretch marks or obvious dimples to be seen. Still, there was no denying that she was quite the overweight giantess now. Ê "My goodness...the both of them...they've both gotten so FAT!" Hiyori proclaimed into her palm as she clutched her mouth with shock. Ê "If they had been ordinary women, they would have long since lose their mobility. The fact that they can still move at all is wondrous enough." remarked Kikunojo. Ê Black Maria went off on something of a tangent to the guards as they began to enter their current quarters. "I haven't been able to keep her under control at all. She only ever stops complaining when she's eating and I have absolutely no idea how she can stuff anything into her face with that mask in the way. I'm telling you, she'd probably be a lot happier if you just upped the amount of daily food you bring us. It's the only way to satisfy her...and satisfy me too, for that matter." Ê Ulti wobbled and wiggled in place, getting as worked up as she could possibly hope to be, but she was too out of shape to do anything about it except sink deeper into the creaking bed below. She raised her flabby bingo wings and waved them about. "I'm...gonna...kick your butt, Black Maria...just you wait...I'll crush every single...one of you...ooh...my stomach..." Ulti paused and belched, "BBBBWWWWOOORRP...urgh, at least my brother isn't around to see...or hear...any of this." Ê "See? You went and worked yourself up and now you're getting a tummy ache for your trouble. Calm down and drink the rest of your milkshake already, woman. It's sitting over there for you on the nightstand." Black Maria snapped back at her. Ê "Grrrr...fine, fine...j-just shut up about it...you're just lucky that I'm thirsty and all that..." Ulti's chubby fingers wiggled as she reached for the cup on the nightstand beside her bed. She had her back turned to the trio now, revealing the extent in which her back fat rolls drooped. They just couldn't stop jostling all over. Her body was unable to sit still for more than a few seconds at a time. Everything about her, from head to toe, seemed to have obtained the texture and consistency of fresh jelly. It was sort of mesmerizing to watch the way her fat bottom rocked and forth while she laid on her stomach, sipping away at her milkshake. Ê Yamato was flabbergasted, as were both Hiyori and Kikunojo. They hadn't expected to ever see anything like THIS in all of their lives. No one knew quite what to say at first. The guards stepped aside and gestured for the new guests to step forward. When Yamato did so, Black Maria dropped her smoking pipe onto the carpet and let out a shriek. She toppled over, breasts nearly flying straight out of her kimono, and she scampered to get onto her feet. She was too heavy to do so, however, and so the obese woman remained lying where she was. However, Black Maria was no less panicked than she had been a moment ago. Ê "N-N-No way! It's Lord Yamato! Lord Kaido's son! What in the world are you doing here?" Ê Ulti stopped slurping her milkshake to look over and see what was going on. The dimming fire of fury in her eyes immediately blazed back to its full height upon seeing Yamato. Tossing the cup aside, Ulti once again tried to get herself to stand by rolling off of the bed. "You bastard! You stupid...t-traitorous...bastard! I'm going to...kick your ass...for betraying...your own FATHER...you stupid...piece of...!" Ê Unfortunately, Ulti couldn't accomplish a whole lot of anything at her size. When she stood for a moment, holding onto the bed frame for balance, the very floorboards shattered apart beneath her pudgy feet. She tumbled forward and landed face-first against the floor. Now both of the former Beast Pirates were stuck and unable to do anything about it. Yamato almost felt like she wanted to apologize to them somehow, even though they had been the ones in the wrong in the first place. The guards pushed Hiyori and Kikunojo further inside and then began to walk back towards the doors. As they did, one of the guards made her fateful announcement to the new gang of roommates. Ê "You five will all have to live here and be big, fat buddies here from now on, got it? That's what Big Mom says. She COMMANDS that you will stay indefinitely as her guests, and no one denies Big Mom what she wants, especially not THIS Big Mom. We'll bring beds for the newcomers and another round of food for everyone in a few minutes' time. Do not attempt to resist. The very walls of this room are surrounded with a dense layer of sea stone. You will not be able to break free, not any of you. I have no idea why it is that Big Mom wishes to spend her resources keeping you all so..." The guard paused to scowl at Black Maria and Ulti, who were starting to get up, "...well-fed...but I suppose I'm just too low on the totem pole to need to know these thing. Be thankful we don't just take your heads like we would have done with our last captain." Ê The guards slammed the doors shut as they left, and that was that. The next hour was quite possibly the most uncomfortable one yet. Black Maria and Ulti demanded to know everything that they possibly could about Yamato's purposes for being at Whole Cake Island. Of course, all she could really say was that she had traveled such a distance to hunt the two of them down and bring them to justice. Ulti started cussing out Yamato again, but Black Maria was a little less offended. If anything, she was strangely touched that Kaido's own son would come all this way. Kikunojo and Hiyori were reacted to with far less fanfare; they had very little idea of who either of the women were, after all. Ê "So you two have been kept here ever since you left Wano? How did they manage to defeat and capture two of the Tobi Roppo like you two?" Yamato asked, only to stop herself, "No! Wait! What I really should be asking is: why are you two so FAT?" Ê Ulti and Black Maria exchanged knowing glances with one another before they looked back at Yamato again. "You'll find out soon enough." Ê As it turned out, they were not wrong about that. Yamato, Hiyori and Kikunojo were delivered their beds, new clothes and other such necessities. Once everything was set up for the newest arrivals, that was when the true prize arrived: over a dozen tiny chefs came rushing into the room while pushing carts stacked with food nearly to the point of overflowing. Most of it was candies, pastries, cakes and other desserts of many a sort. Ê The cakes were as large as Yamato's own head. she was provided everything that she needed to be able to eat it, but she had never been one to follow good table manners. she shoved her fork into a large slice and chomped down on it whole. Hiyori wasn't so sure about these strangely intimidating snacks, but when she was offered some very sizeable rice balls and a cup of green tea, she couldn't rightfully refuse. Kikunojo received some kind of round pastry filled with jam. She was hesitant to eat it at first, but after a quick nibble, she was pleased to discover how pleasant a flavor it actually was! So sweet! And then she saw that there was dango being dipped into honey as well as topped with sugar powder and her appetite immediately took the reins. Ê "L-Look at you three!" Ulti sputtered with dismay from her bed, so worn out from her earlier attempts at standing that she was still a little bit out of breath, "I can't believe you'd give in and start eating so quickly! Without even hesitating! Damn you, Yamato! You're supposed to be Kaido's son! Why would you do something like this?" Ê Yamato's mouth was still full of partially chewed cake, but she did the best that she could to explain her reasoning without choking, "Hey, you know as well as anyone that I HATED being related to that monster! I was helping Straw Hat Luffy with the raid from the very first moment that we met! I would never stick up for her or any of you Beast Pirates, ever! I just really wanted to make sure that you two didn't go around hurting other people because I didn't do enough to keep you imprisoned like the others!" Ê Black Maria was able to move around easier, so she was able to retrieve some of the food off of the trays on the other side of the room. She continued smoking her long pipe, blowing out thick plumes of smoke that filled the bedroom. Some kind of ventilation shafts on the ceiling were able to inhale much of the smoke and remove it from their quarters, but Hiyori, Yamato and Kikunojo did not fail to inhale a good amount into themselves too. They felt overcome with a strange desire, along with a lightheaded sensation and overall fuzziness directly below the skin. These funny feelings made them want to eat even more, like it would be the one and only way to solve everything that they were experiencing right now. Ê "I hope you don't mind it, but it seems like the tobacco they gave me is filled with a mixture of herbs meant to induce intense hunger if the smoke is inhaled." Ê "You could just...URRRP...not smoke it, then?" Ulti barked over at her comrade. Even her own stomach started making all sorts of rampant noises and growls. Ê Black Maria shrugged. "I like to smoke, that's just how I am. I'm not going to change that about myself." Ê Yamato would have probably eaten more than her fair share without the assistance of smoke-induced prompting. Everything tasted so good! It was practically impossible to stop! she had always liked the food on Wano well enough, but the portion sizes had never been up to her preference. However? Here on Whole Cake Island? It seemed as if one could simply gorge themselves to the very limit as much as they pleased. The cakes vanished down Yamato's throat one after another, being swallowed practically without chewing. she ate until there was nothing left on top of the cart. Of course, with all of that food now piled up inside of her stomach, Yamato had no other choice but to go ahead and collapse onto the bed being offered. Yamato's stomach was already sticking out quite far, like the shape of an orb. Ê "You already ate way too much. Yamato, you really should be more careful." Kikunojo warned him, even with her own cheeks still bulging with dango. Ê "I'm...I'm alright..." Yamato waved off the concerns, "I just...need a moment...URP...ugh...why did I eat all of that cake..." Ê "Because you wanted to," Black Maria took another drag of her pipe, "And you're going to keep wanting to as long as you remain here. It's the same for all of us. We're not going to be getting any chance to keep our waistlines anywhere the same way that they used to be." Ê Yamato didn't have a whole lot to say about that. She just yawned, shut her eyes, and soon began to sleep with loud and rancorous snores filling the air. Ulti groaned and rolled over onto her side, her mattress creaking along in time to her movements. Black Maria let out a little laugh, shaking her head but still thoroughly amused. Both Hiyori and Kikunojo were concerned for their friend, but they couldn't do anything to help Yamato right now. It was more imperative that they focused on their own needs, and those needs just happened to be met by eating more and more food. Ê "They're totally...t-totally...BBBBLOOOUUUURRRRPPP~!" Ulti paused to release a belch and her entire body rippled, "They're totally hopeless..." Ê "Just like we are." Black Maria had completely accepted her fate by this point. She had very few complaints about how things were likely going to turn out for her and the others. She preferred getting to eat whatever she wanted anyway, it was how she had lived for the last twenty years ruling over Wano and she personally didn't want that to have to end. As of now, Big Mom hadn't come forth with her expectations for them. It was possible that THIS, fattening them up until they were practically incapable of doing anything on their own power at all, was her grand intention for her captives. Why she would do this in the first place and what results she expected to garner from it, that was anyone's guess. Ê The food was eaten with great haste by the hungry guests. They couldn't really control themselves around it, no matter how hard they might have tried. The more that they ate, the more that they wanted to keep eating. Kikunojo never once imagined herself a person with an exaggerated appetite; in fact, she had been used to intermittent fasting for many years. Yet for whatever reason, when the sweets graced her tongue over and over, she couldn't stop. She gobbled up every last one of those snacks until nothing was left behind. A similar transformation of the mental state occurred for Hiyori as well. She had lived much of her life performing as a high-profile oiran, not the sort of career where one could carelessly indulge to put at risk their figure. Now that she was no longer required to fulfill those duties to survive, however, Hiyori had not a good reason anymore to restrain from eating. Ê Of course, her stomach had never been capable of handling this amount of food in one sitting so she quickly exhausted herself. Hiyori required Kikunojo's assistance to be able to retire to the bed without collapsing. She fell asleep almost as quickly as Yamato did. She was snoozing comfortably, her breathing a near-inaudible whisper compared to Yamato's bellowing snores, but she still left a hand lingering over her swollen abdomen for the entire time. Black Maria recalled when this woman had been known as Komurasaki, a beloved oiran that even Orochi himself lusted after. To see as she was right now, you would hardly believe they were supposed to be the same person. Ê Ulti grumbled and tugged at her own belly some more, rubbing her folds and slapping at her rolls, trying to make everything calm down and center itself. However, the more that she fondled at her blubber, the more she seemed to get worked up until it was barely controllable anymore. She threw her chubby face back and let out a pretty harsh belch. It was strong enough to make her curl her own chubby toes with delight. It felt GOOD to get out some gas like this. Black Maria made a face at her, but Ulti rolled her eyes and scoffed back in response. She wasn't going to feel guilty for doing something that came natural to her. Ê "It certainly is better treatment than I would have expected for captives like us. I doubt that the fact that our pirate crews had originally agreed to unite is being taken into consideration. The deal between Kaido and the original Big Mom didn't even last a few days before they were both ousted from their positions by the Onigashima raiders. The Big Mom Pirates as they are now have no reason to assist us, yet they've given us shelter and plenty of food without any demands made to repay them. I think we should take advantage of this for as long as we can." Ê "Hmph...whatever...I don't want to feel like I owe them anything...I'm gonna...I'm gonna get out of here...no matter what..." Ulti grumbled and grunted, but her exhaustion from earlier finally started to take its toll on her. She yawned again and again, her eyelids growing increasingly heavy. It was as hard to keep her eyes open as it was to stand up on her own feet anymore. Ulti drifted off and fell straight into slumber. Kikunojo and Black Maria were left as the only ones still awake. Ê Black Maria winked and blew a kiss. Even when she was so monstrously fat and getting fatter, very little seemed to shake her unwavering confidence. "So you're one of the Nine Red Scabbards of Kozuki Oden, are you not? You're quite the gorgeous one, compared to those unsightly friends of yours." Ê Kikunojo smiled back at her, but her words seemed to give off a different impression entirely, saying, "This one certainly appreciates any compliment directed towards one's beauty, but would also greatly prefer if you did not disparage one's beloved comrades in the same breath." Ê Scowling in response, Black Maria went back to smoking with her pipe and reading a book she happened to have with her at the time...or at the very least, she would do the latter, but she hadn't found the book since it had gotten lost between her many rolls. She could feel something shift underneath her absolutely massive rear from time to time, but there was no telling if that was what she'd been looking for. Ulti, Yamato and Hiyori snoozed away a good portion of the day in the matter of their own exhaustion. They had little else that they wished to do apart from letting their tummies rest and digest. The eating had already been going good on the new arrivals' very first day. Meanwhile, Black Maria and Ulti showed no signs of slowing down with their own gluttony either. Ê "It seems like everything is going to plan, exactly as I had expected it would." Big Mom remarked aloud to herself from her personal chambers. She had been observing their behavior this time entire time, watching it take place through the eyes of a surveillance den den mushi, which she had tucked up in the northwest ceiling corner of the room. She could see them all grow in real time, much to her infinite delight. Ê Big Mom's chair creaked loudly underneath her incredible weight. Only someone as tremendous as her could fill this chair, but it wasn't likely going to be able to support her for very much longer. All the better, she thought to herself with a sneer. She grabbed at her own body, really pushing her fingers nice and deep into the flesh of her figure, and it made her feel like she was absolutely on top of the world. It was no longer any wonder to her how her own mother lost herself to the gluttony of sweets. She could completely empathize with her now, even if it was a little too late for that to matter anymore, given the first Big Mom is now gone somewhere in this world. Ê The captives spent much of the rest of the day sleeping it all away. They had nothing else that they could do as long as they remained prisoners, after all. Their stomachs were much too full, stuffed to the aching brim with sugary delights. The sugar would have ordinarily given plenty of energy, but then it would have made them feel slow, sluggish and listless after the fact. However, the sugar of Whole Cake Island simply made you feel the latter, skipping the rush that typically came with gorging on an abundance of snacks. It was all part of its purpose; that was what the current Big Mom wished for. If they could overload their typical sweets with more sugar than ever before, it would help expedite the entire gaining process. Ê Making them fatter was, as far as Big Mom could be bothered, the entire purpose of her continuing to keep them here as the crew's captives. Whole Cake Island, Totto Land as a whole, will operate similarly as it has always been, but now with particularly new changes. There would no longer be a need to offer up one's soul as payment for residing on the peninsula. Instead, they would be expected to pay their taxes through their work; the more food that they could produce for the island, the better. Entire islands would be turned into farmland to grow new crops of many sorts, mostly anything that would be best served to craft more delicious sweets. If there was one thing that the original Big Mom got right, it was a focus on the tasty things in life. Sugar was king here and forever would remain so. Ê "I'll give everything that I have to make them as fat as possible...and then the juice to come out of their bodies..." Big Mom licked her plump lips, "It'll be EXQUISITE." Ê Eventually, day became night and then became day again. Yamato had not realized that she had slept through an entire day as she had remained essentially comatose for the entire time. Sleep was a satisfying mistress, after all, and it provided the growing fatties with exactly what they needed after a long and fulfilling feast. Yamato didn't stir until the doors flung wide open. she opened one eye and glanced over. The women were also starting to awaken. A bevy of delicious aromas overwhelmed their nostrils as brand new carts of treats were rolled in for them to partake. Ê "W-Wait? More food?" Hiyori sat up and yawned, rubbing her eyes with the back of her hand. She then rubbed her stomach as well. "Oh, I still feel rather full from the last meal. For almost twenty years of my life, I've had to wear restrictive clothing and be especially mindful of my diet every single day. My stomach isn't meant for all of this food. I believe I will have to pass on it this time." Ê "Are you sure?" The guard smirked. she lifted a cover off of one of the plates to reveal a whole assortment of cinnamon buns, freshly baked and still steaming. Ê Drool immediately began to form on the corners of Hiyori's lips. "I...I suppose...I could find room in my stomach for at least ONE of those delectable-looking buns..." Ê Kikunojo and Black Maria were still understandably wary of one another, but they were both quite hungry as well, so thy didn't hesitate to share some apple pie together. Given that the two women had rarely eaten anything beyond Wano's simple but effective cuisine for most of their lives, the fact that they could indulge in decadence of this nature was almost like a brand new experience. Ê No rice, miso soup or tofu to be found. It was just sweets, sweets, sweets all the way, not to mention some incredibly oversized sweets at that. Apple pie was about as foreign as anything else could have been beyond Wano's borders for the two of them. The only reason Black Maria already knew a little more was because she had been eating stuff like this for the past few weeks now, hence all of the obesity that now clung to her like a weighted jacket. Ê "If you really want to know the trick of being able to enjoy a pie like this to the fullest," Black Maria began to say, and then shoved an entire pie right into Kikunojo's open mouth, "You really need to eat it all in one go!" Ê "I think the only reason you can eat it in one go is because you're literally fifteen feet tall." Yamato remarked while helping herself to some buns stuffed with roasted pork and garlic. her stomach still had a fairly noticeable pooch left to it after the last few meals. Even Yamato's breasts were already starting to look bigger when they had been sizeable from the very start. Yamato tried to ignore the discomforts she started to feel all over her body where her clothes seemed to pinch the tightest. she couldn't really explain it, but there was definitely something funny going on around here. Needless to say, Yamato had never gained any unnecessary weight before in her entire life, so this was another new experience of a different kind. Ê Ulti didn't fail to notice that the doors had been left wide open. She smiled from behind her mask, her chubby jowls just barely lifting themselves. She was eager as anything to charge straight through and get out of here as soon as possible. Of course, she knew it would be difficult at her tremendous size, but that was the sort of price that she had to pay for letting her stomach be the bigger woman here. Now she couldn't dare allow it to go any further or get any worse, or else she would forever be this psychotic Big Mom's captive. Ulti hoisted herself off of the bed with a great amount of strain on her part. Her double-rolled belly slipped right out of her top and flopped over onto her chunky knees. She groaned in despair over her morbid obesity, but she could worry about shedding the pounds AFTER she had gotten on a boat and safely sailed away from Totto Land's borders. Ê Ulti took a single step forward and the very ground itself violently shuddered. This woman was so huge and heavy, she literally struggled to even perform the most basic of mobile actions. Her feet were so fat, even her soles were plush and puffy like pillows. The floorboards hadn't even been repaired from yesterday and they continued to crack and creak underneath her. Ulti didn't care, of course, but it did garner a few concerned expressions from the others. Two of the guards on duty attempted to approach her; she might not have been able to use her Devil Fruit's transforming power due to the abundance of seastone in the walls and floor, but Ulti still had her Haki. She encased her chubby fist in Armament Haki and took a swing. Of course, it was exceedingly easy to avoid being struck by the obese blob of a woman. The guard simply stepped aside. Ê "No...no...no!" Ulti wailed out loud. Her fattened feet could not support her for very long and she lost her balance. The guards watched without even making an effort to help her. Ulti crashed to the floor with an incredibly loud thud. The floorboards shattered apart and Ulti's ever-shrinking skirt tore wide open to reveal her big, chunky rump. Ulti whimpered. Yamato and Kikunojo didn't jump to Ulti's side to assist her. When Hiyori took a step to do so, the latter grabbed her shoulder to stop her. As far as they were concerned, that woman deserved absolutely no help from them. Surprisingly, Black Maria took their side too. The titanic blob just kept eating her pies, not so much as turning to take a proper glance at her former crewmate lying on the floor. Ê While the others ate, their stomachs gradually began to fill and bloat out even more and more. The concerns and worries that they may have had for their waistlines and their rampant appetites were essentially forgotten about as soon as they took that very first bite. These sweets weren't exactly the sort of thing that made for a proper or healthy breakfast, but with nothing else on offer and their own addictions getting them thoroughly hooked right from the start, they ate like it didn't even matter. The food filled their bellies and made them grow all the closer to truly obese perfection. Ê Yamato's rope belt and red hakama pants suddenly split apart. she gasped and looked down to see that a newly-formed paunch was now jutting out from her lower abdomen. Even her thighs had grown thick and chunky already in the span of a single meal. That was the power of the chefs here at Whole Cake Island, and all those who were unprepared for it would quickly pay the price when it came to their waistlines. Yamato grimaced and tugged at her belt to try and keep it together, but she couldn't do anything better than to simply let go and allow it to drop to her feet. Yamato's cheeks flushed as bright red as her horns. Ê "That definitely wasn't something that I meant to have happen...!" Yamato gulped nervously. she grabbed at her own chub and felt it in her hands; there wasn't a whole lot there yet, but it was definitely much, much more than she would have ever anticipated. In fact, her gut already stuck out further than her breasts, which was a pretty impressive feat in itself. Ê Hiyori giggled into her hand before she reached her arms around Yamato's wider waist and embraced him. "You look really cute like that, with some softness on you, Yamato. You don't have to feel embarrassed about anything at all! I think it's fine! You're an incredible fighter, you know! You'd be able to burn off some fat like this without even trying!" Hiyori was briefly hesitant, but she eventually conceded with that little voice in the back of her brain and she put her hand directly upon Yamato's stomach before even asking. The son of Kaido could feel a tingling heat build up around the ears, cheeks, and nape of the neck. Ê Kikunojo nearly dropped the pie that she had partially chewed inside of her mouth. She couldn't believe how brazen Hiyori was acting right now. Was it all of that sugar going right to her head? She was still dressed in the same kimono from yesterday, but the robe did appear more strained over her abdomen than the samurai last remembered. It would be exceptionally rude to point out the weight of a lady, however, and doubly so when said lady was the one and only daughter of your beloved master. Kikunojo turned her head away and resumed eating more pie alongside the very hungry Black Maria. Ê A pair of incredibly large heels stopped in front of Ulti. The obese butterball didn't want to be bothered any more to make her feel any more humiliated than she already was. To see who exactly it was that dared come to infuriate her even further, She looked up and let out a great gasp. Although she could not see the taller woman's face from this angle, Ulti already knew well who it was: Big Mom herself had arrived upon the scene. Ulti growled. She attempted to stand up and she made a lunge for the damned woman's leg. She wanted to snap Big Mom's leg right in half before jumping on top of her and pummeling her face until it was nothing more than a bloody pulp. That was the PLAN, anyway, but the butterball collapsed back onto her gut after a mere several-second effort to try and stand again. Ê "I think you're going to find it rather difficult to move around and fight like you once did, Ulti of the Beast Pirates. I can ensure you, it won't be getting any easier as long as I have a say in things. In fact, you're already pushing yourself plenty as it is. You should go back to bed. Take a deep breath, relax, and let one of my men bring you all of the food that you want to eat. There's no need to try so hard. You know that, don't you?" Ê Ulti grumbled and grunted. She muttered a string of various curses and swears the likes of which that Yamato, Hiyori and Kikunojo had never heard before. She grabbed at Big Mom's shoe and tried to harm her in some sort of way, but Big Mom simply laughed it off. Ulti groaned one last time before rolling over onto her side, her gut splayed out from her torso and her limbs far too exhausted to do anything at all anymore. She was an utter mess. It even made Black Maria shake her head in shame at the sight. Big Mom leaned down and revealed her true strength; in spite of her weight, she almost effortlessly hoisted Ulti's near-immobile body into her fat arms and carried her over to her designated bed. The others watched on with a sort of abject awe. Ê "You should all take a cue from Black Maria here as long as you're under my care. Don't try to fight back against it. You're only going to get yourself hurt somehow and I would hate for that to happen." Big Mom instructed them. She was not nearly as tall as Black Maria, but despite the size difference, it was clearly evident that Black Maria didn't attempt to fight back. She acted as if Big Mom wasn't even there, in fact. She just kept on eating, lying back on top of her own bottom, crushing the mattress into shreds underneath her with every new pound. Big Mom walked over and pressed her chubby palm into Black Maria's gut. It sank and sank until her fingers nearly disappeared. Ê Yamato wanted to say something to snap back at her, but suddenly something snapped and her breasts flopped forward and almost came barreling right out of the top. Yamato gasped. Both for the sake of assisting her friend and getting an excuse to grope Yamato some more, Hiyori threw herself onto her to try and serve as makeshift cover. Hiyori was out of breath already; she had only intended to eat one cinnamon bun, but of course, she had already devoured about five of them by this point. Now that was perfectly fat. Ê "This one worries that you may be trying to fatten us up for some sort of nefarious reason. Perhaps you intend to turn us into food for the Sea Kings that roam your waters." Kikunojo did not think that it would hurt to let her feelings be so readily known to their captor. Kikunojo paused in eating more pie so that she could tug on the back of her kimono. Just like with Hiyori's, it was getting tight in a whole lot of different places that she didn't think that it could get tight in. She was perturbed by this. The food that they ate, it didn't seem like anything but innocuous when looked at from the outside, but who knew what kind of 'darkness' was being hidden inside to encourage their fattening like this. Ê "I'd never do anything bad to you, of course. If I wished to dispose of you all, I would have done it right from the start. Your heads would have been sunk at the bottom of a chocolate lake mere moments upon stepping off of your boats." Big Mom said this so matter-of-factly, it made Hiyori extremely uncomfortable. Then, the giant woman continued, "I want you all to eat as much as you can and enjoy yourselves to the fullest. That's all. I find it very amusing." Ê "You're some kind of pervert, huh?" Yamato snapped back. she didn't feel any need to watch her tongue around this woman. She was holding them all against their wills AND fattening them just as well too. She wasn't all that terrifying, not when Black Maria was already so much bigger than her. Big Mom looked over at Yamato and smiled at Kaido's son. She had heard plenty of stories about her before, but...those stories didn't do justice. It would be especially FUN to watch these three visitors from Wano become the biggest, fattest, most piggish blobs that she owned yet! Ê "Let's keep our opinions to ourselves for now. I want you all to just relax and enjoy yourselves. That's it. I won't ask for anything else. If you must eat more, then I will bring you more. If you must go outside to see new views, then I will let you do so, albeit with some caveats to ensure that you don't go rolling away on me. If you must sleep more, I will give you new beds or even new rooms if you wish to have complete solitary comfort. I won't get in the way. Just let yourselves go however you see fit and enjoy the splendor of food that Whole Cake Island has to offer. You won't be disappointed!" Ê Big Mom was certainly adamant about giving the five captives as much food to eat as possible. Going from two fatties to five was as great a boon as she could have possibly ever asked for, so she wasn't going to be lackadaisical and fail to take advantage of it. She secretly had more den den mushi set up throughout the room, hidden in corners both high and low, so that she could observe both their incredible growths and their manners of behavior. Any clues whatsoever to ensuring a better life for her gluttonous guests, her corpulent captives, then the better. Big Mom was obsessive, it was true, but no one was going to dare try to stop her while she was captain of a former Emperor's crew. Ê Great amounts of food, mostly ingredients, were shipped in from many of the islands that made up the peninsula. Big Mom's own island from back int she day, 100% Island, was tasked with shipping over as many barrels of pure juice that they could provide. As the previous Minister of Juice, Big Mom ruled over everything regarding sweet, fruity liquid within the territory of Totto Land. She always took a sampling of the juice herself to ensure its quality before having the barrels rolled over to the kitchens. The 34 subsidiary islands that surrounded Whole Cake Island were depended upon to be constantly shipping supplies to the center island every single day. Not even once were the scheduled deliveries permitted to be late on time or missed altogether. Ê Black Maria and Ulti were able to focus all of their time and effort on eating now, more than anything else. They were not given all that much of a choice, of course, but they still did whatever they could to fulfill their own needs for satisfaction. The gluttonous hunger that prevailed inside them was really what denied them any other available options, not so much the fact that they were being held against their will. Ê If they had truly wished to defy Big Mom's pirates, they could have resisted in a multitude of different ways. They could have starved themselves to avoid giving that damned woman the satisfaction of watching them eat. Instead, though, they just took whatever food was put their way and devoured it all without a second thought. Once they knew that it was completely safe to eat it, it seemed like there was no real reason to try and hold back. Ê Black Maria was already so huge and heavy that it would be nearly impossible to fit her onto most ships. Standing at over twenty feet tall and quite proud of that fact, the blonde woman had been considered a titaness of sorts from the very start. She towered over everyone, including the new Big Mom, but her powers were about wielding the might of her unique Ancient Zoan Devil Fruit. Ê She was nearly impossible to defeat if she was at full power, yet when she arrived at the island, the poor woman had been nearly drained to the breaking point. It seemed as if she had been punctured by some kind of strange needle or cut by a whip. Either way, it made Black Maria an easy capture. Then, when she was at her most helpless, she needed to accept the juice and the cake or else she would very well die. She could have still refused and held out as a proud Tobi Roppo, but Black Maria ultimately chose the path of least resistance. Ê Now here she was, practically a blob and bursting out of all of her clothes in the finest of fashions. She knew all too well how it must have appeared to the likes of those who were so special to her. She felt all of those eyes gazing upon her in such a adoring manner. Wielding that influence over others was what Black Maria was all about. She had her humongous tits, one of the orbs alone being bigger than most fully grown people, show off as a means of temptation. Ê They could never truly see them fully, she wouldn't allow it. Not only that, but she wouldn't let anyone touch them either, at least not at first. When she started gaining more and more weight, it became extremely difficult for her to be able to move around like she used to. She was rendered helpless by her obesity and became overly reliable on the aid of others. However, that too offered its own sort of erotic appeal. Ê Ulti wasn't looking to draw a whole lot of attention to herself, but her bitterness over losing both her home and her crew had been steadily building up. She couldn't even bring her brother Page One with her, they got separated in all of the chaos. Now she was stuck on an island that belonged to the pirates that were supposed to be their allies, but Ulti clearly recalled that the original Big Mom had beaten her down and humiliated her. Ulti wasn't the kind of woman who would let a grudge pass on by. Ê She grew increasingly more bitter as she remained a captive by the new Big Mom. When they brought the food in front of her, she didn't see any reason not to simply jump in and indulge. She was hungry for one thing and she was also willing to eat as much as possible to be her big middle finger at those bastards who treated her like she was a pushover. Ulti was the only one who ever made any escape attempt, although weighing hundreds and hundreds of pounds made it all essentially an impossibility. Ê Ulti got fatter a lot faster than Black Maria, although she didn't weigh the same entirely due to a height difference. Whereas Black Maria seemed to inflate and grow like an exaggerated hourglass, Ulti was shaped more closely to an apple. She couldn't really do a whole lot at her size. She would wobble all over like a helpless bloated balloon and she would breathlessly waddle around until she could feel her inner-thighs begin to chafe. Ulti tried so many times to squeeze her fat ass out of those doors and get away from this place, but as she grew increasingly fatter, the more improbable and impossible it soon became for her. Ê Her arms and her legs were practically useless, so overburdened by flesh that they were unable to really move like they used to. She had to keep her arms somewhat extended out from her sides because her armpit flesh was already so filled out. Ulti's bloated, chubby feet often left cracks in everywhere that she stepped, even weighing down heavily on the sturdiest of materials. Ê She was constantly disgruntled by her own obesity, but she couldn't be bothered to actually do anything to improve her. Her need to feed was much more important, and it only became increasingly more important for her with time. Her stomach was so often filled with the sweetest and fluffiest cream, the tastiest sweet treats. All of it made her so heavy that even her own incredible strength couldn't do anything to move her. Ê Ulti was made to look like a fool, so far more often than she would like, by both Big Mom and her obnoxious little minions. She wished she could just roll over all of them with her big, fat gut and flatten them into pieces. It was nearly impossible for her to get out of bed most days, though, so she had to put her whole 'squashing for revenge' plan on hold indefinitely. Ê Ulti kept on eating what was given to her because she was always so hungry, but it meant she was often watching her own body grow more and more encumbered by its own blubber. She soon became completely immobile, a total blob, less of a dinosaur and more of a pig. One of Big Mom's personal pet pigs, to be precise, and no matter how much she swore or complained, nothing could change what she had become. Ê "Eat! Eat! Eat! All I want to do is to see you eat! Enjoy yourselves! You don't have to do ANYTHING anymore as long as I am to say it!" Big Mom was fully in control of the situation and she likely would forever be. Nothing could shake this woman's almighty resolve to see her 'guests' swell up into literal balloons of lard. She wanted to make them so obscenely obese that they would become more like playthings rather than people. If she intended to drink from them like she did that poor hippopotamus, then there was some serious danger afoot. Unfortunately, it was already far too late for the heroes. Ê The mobility struggles were the worst part of it all. They couldn't move like they used to, nobody could. For the first week or two, it had seemed like it was simply easy enough to stand up and waddle over to the tables and the carts with food, but then it became a serious challenge. Yamato noticed how her feet were getting so plump and puffy. They were as soft and supple as you would expect the whipped cream on top of her favorite sweets to be. Yamato didn't know what to do about it and there was frankly very little that she could rightfully do about it. her powers were not able to protect her from the rampant obesity that she suffered...or that she had ultimately enjoyed as well. Ê "Haah...haah...haah...I...I can't...mmngh...I can't do this anymore..." Yamato flopped back against the pile of pillows behind him. Some sweat trickled over her swollen jowls and thick chin rolls. With her enormous breasts in the way, already so huge that they had since burst out of her remaining clothes and been forced to be covered with blankets to conceal, Yamato could barely see past them to reach for the nearby bowl of candy sitting on the nightstand. she had tired herself out and was already prepared to simply go back to sleep for another few hours. Ê He felt so incredibly heavy all over. Yamato had been putting on the most weight of the three new arrivals. she had been into the snacks from the very start, the first bite had been more than enough to get her hooked. However, it had clear side-effects that she should have been more aware of. The sheer amount of weight that Yamato put on was incredible, it had transformed her from a slender and agile fighter to a morbidly obese butterball that can barely walk anymore in the span of mere weeks. Ê All of the eating and the gorging had transformed her into something so much MORE than what she used to be. Sure, wielding her club Kanabu was next to impossible for her to accomplish anymore, but why wield a weapon when she could wield pastries and pies instead? Ê His stomach split into two great rolls and spilled forth so far that it jutted past her knees now. her arms were humongous bingo wings that were fatter, thicker, softer pillows than the ones she already slept on. Yamato's face was bloated and puffy, like she had been stung by a hundred bees, but it was all just adorable chub that filled her cheeks and chins. her massive belly would slope almost far enough to touch the floor on the rare occasions that she stood nowadays. Ê Yamato's gargantuan ass filled up plenty of the bed that had become her new place of residence. she loved this bed almost as much now as she had loved all of Wano. It was just far too comfortable, somehow always holding together in spite of the fact that she was always putting more and more weight on top of it. Yamato reached around near where her largest back fat rolls drooped and reached underneath to see if there were any snacks tucked inside her rolls and folds. Unfortunately, she was unable to find anything in particular. A few crumbs, at the very least. Ê "Are you awake there or are you just moving around because of a dream? Are you okay? Do you need anything?" A voice called out over to him, but Yamato couldn't really look over to see who it was. she just had to remain in place. she couldn't get up to go over and sit with the others like she used to. That was just asking way too much for her chubby feet to be able to handle. Ê Just like Ulti, Yamato was basically a danger to the very ground itself. she couldn't stand very well anymore as the muscles of her body were imbibed by plentiful amounts of newfound adipose, but when she did stand, her chubby feet caused all sorts of problems for the overall structural integrity of the flooring. Big Mom never thought that she would have to spend so much time having the floors replaced in that room full of fatties. If anything, that was a reason to give her greater drive to keep them fattened and make them into immobile blobs sooner than later. Yamato was definitely well on her way to satisfying Big Mom's hopes and dreams in this case. Ê "Ahh...I guess I could...eat more later..." Yamato grumbled, her chubby toes curling and her fat hands clenching with discontent. she wanted to eat more, honestly, but she might have to wait until her most recent gorgings finished digesting inside the vast pit of her stomach. Then, she would have a chance to move a little more easily and get more food. Yamato licked her lips over and over. The hunger was building, though, and it was becoming quite the frustration to try and withstand it. Ê "How are you feeling over there, Yamato? You're not sick, I hope?" Kikunojo wheezed out loud and groaned a little as her stomach started to rumble. She had wanted to be over there by Yamato's side, to give her the belly rubs that she so sorely needed. Kikunojo may have been one of the Nine Red Scabbards sworn to Kozuki Oden, but that didn't mean that she felt nothing for Yamato. They were not the closest of friends or anything yet, but they were far from enemies. Ê "I'm doing just fine, Kiku. I'm...URRRRRRP...just tired." Yamato didn't always feel tired, but when she did, she felt really tired. she glanced over at Kikunojo, but she couldn't bring herself to let her gaze linger for very long. It felt so wrong to be looking this closely at a good friend of his. she wanted to say something, because she thought she saw one of Kikunojo's breasts drooping out of her overstretched kimono, but commenting meant that she had been looking in the first place. Ê Kikunojo had grown especially large around the chest and stomach. She saw her bust expand dramatically, in fact, likely on account of all of the pumpkin pie, strawberry juice and cheesecake that she had been gorging on recently. Her kimono couldn't even hope to fit over such an abundance of cleavage anymore. Kikunojo saw how Yamato's tits were already bigger than her own head, but Kikunojo's breasts might have been bigger than THAT somehow. Not to mention, they were already large enough to start eclipsing her own stomach, which itself was just a gigantic and taut orb most of the time. Ê While Yamato's belly was flabby and saggy, Kikunojo's stomach had managed to stay very form. She could push her fingers onto that tummy and she could barely make it jiggle at any point of time. It was almost like a pregnant woman's stomach. Kikunojo had fairly thick thighs now and she struggled to move around like she used to. Ê The brand new arm that she had been given, all thanks to a certain Devil Fruit user on Whole Cake Island making her a replacement out of candy, it proved to actually serve quite well. Sure, she had a bad habit of taking bites out of it from time to time, but otherwise it functioned exactly like her old arm did. Even when she wasn't eating it, the scent of caramel wafting off of the false limb kept the woman feeling constantly as hungry as ever. Ê "Do you ever think we might have gone too far with this? Like, we should try and hurry to find a way home? Or at the very least, contact our friends and let them know that we're alright?" Hiyori tried to be the voice of reason, but that was just about the only thing that she could hope to be nowadays. Ê "I'm sure we will be fine. It seems like we've been kept so well cared for, I couldn't imagine how it could possibly ever go wrong." Kikunojo said with a slight chuckle on her lips. They had been like this for ages now, hours and hours, just sitting in place, getting fatter and lazier, sinking into their own pits of obesity, unable to even think about anything else. It was so pleasant, it was almost like heaven. Ê "Wait, are you serious?" Yamato sighed and burped some more under her breath. she had a bit more energy and drive than Kikunojo, perhaps, but she couldn't do a whole lot with the way she was right now. A totally helpless blob was he, sitting there and just letting her stomach stretch further and further outward beyond her control. Ê "I certainly want to believe you both very much right now." Hiyori shook her head and stuck out her tongue, blowing out raspberries with frustration. Ê Hiyori really had changed a great deal. Somehow it was more shocking to see her changes than anyone else's. She was literally so bottom heavy: her ass cheeks rose up behind her like a pair of fleshy beachballs and her thigh rolls were drooping over the edges of the mattress. She was practically draped in layers and layers of meaty flesh from all over every inch of her. She had more back fat rolls than Yamato and Kikunojo combined. Ê Hiyori had not seen herself stand in a good week by now. Her pudgy feet would not last supporting the rest of her body. She had a shockingly thin face compared to her fellow blobs, but everything past her neck seemed to be swathed in bundles and bunches of excess fat. If they were to see her now, Hiyori's brother and the others would be quite shocked. All of Wano would struggle to believe that this butterball who could not walk on her own anymore had once been the most beloved oiran in the country. Everyone had adored her, but it was a wonder who would like her now that she was large enough to be rolled down the street. Ê The five butterballs were Big Mom's greatest treasure of all. It was quite easy for her to proclaim that these were more precious to her than the One Piece itself could ever hope to be. Of course, the other pirates of her crew far from agreed with those sentiments, but they couldn't argue back against the boss. She had taken over the crew using her own powers, defeating the likes of her elder brothers and sisters so that she could be the one who would rule. They weren't about to try and stop her from doing whatever it was that she wanted. Ê That being said, Big Mom marched into that formerly spacious room to surround herself with literal thousands of pounds of jiggling, wobbling, wheezing, sweaty blubber once again on one particular morning. She was greeted upon stepping through those double doors by a cacophony of belches and moans. These fatties had been eating all day already but they were still far from being satisfied. Surely they would appreciate getting to eat a little bit more? Big Mom smiled down at them all. She wished she could be as huge, helpless and dependent as they were, but she had a peninsula full of hundreds of citizens to oversee. She could not risk becoming a useless blob of lard like them...YET. Ê "I'm so PLEASED to see that you've been indulging plenty lately. Everything that we've observed with your recent eating habits has helped us figure out better how to serve your appetites and give them what they're hungriest for! You've all grown so splendidly! We're going to be working to remove the wall closest to Black Maria soon so that you five will have even more room to grow!" Ê Ulti glowered and grumbled, but she was still too fat and exhausted to even attempt to sit up on her bed. "Not even us...our appetites...that's all you care about...BWWOORRRP..." Ê "Exactly." Big Mom stepped aside and several little men carrying long extendable tubes from another room came rushing past her. There were five tubes, one for each of the fatties present. "I wanted to REWARD you all with something that I've been working on for a while with my crackpot team of scientists. We managed to buy off some old tech that had been stolen from Egghead Island, the home of the world's greatest genius Dr. Vegapunk. With the machine that these tubes are attached to, I will be able to pump you five with INFINITE ICE CREAM. I thought that would be quite appreciated...and it would help fill you up much faster too!" Ê Yamato, Hiyori and Kikunojo were unable to do anything to resist as the tubes were fitted into their open mouths. Their stomachs roared and churned, eager as anything to be filled as soon as possible. Their bellies did not think like their brains did, almost like they had a completely different set of values and a greatly lacking sense of morality that couldn't be reined in. Their stomachs would prefer to be filled to the bursting point even when the rest of their bodies were panicking to not let it happen. With all of this adipose holding them down, Yamato and her companions were totally helpless against Big Mom's whims. Ê Black Maria and Ulti were both disappointed but they had no way to resist the urges to guzzle ice cream. If they turned down a chance such as this, it would be like giving up one's opportunity with a golden ticket. There was no way that they could lose out on the chance to really fill themselves up. If they swallowed enough ice cream to ACTUALLY be full, then they wouldn't have to eat again for the rest of the day. There was no denying that sleep sounded really good right about now, but no sleep was better than a nap after a nice, long gorging session. Ê "Now, if you five don't mind relaxing and letting the machine do the rest of the work, all you have to do is breathe and swallow. Sounds easy, doesn't it? The perfect kind of task for blobs such as yourselves. Just give in. Keep giving in. You're doing great, all of you." Big Mom gave each of them a nice, firm slap on the belly. It made Yamato moan, and then it made Kikunojo shiver and Hiyori mewled. Black Maria had no reaction whatsoever. Ulti shifted in place, she probably wished she could lean right over and bite one of Big Mom's fingers off. Ê Big Mom waved for the machine to be turned on. A call was made over a walkie-talkie. Somewhere else within the castle, the infinite ice cream replicator was brought to life for the first time. It didn't take longer than a few seconds before the ice cream began pouring down their throats. Yamato could feel her throat bulge with sweet, cold, creamy goodness. Hiyori could feel it flowing down her throat and into her stomach. Kikunojo clutched tightly onto the tube so that it would not accidentally break free of her lips. Black Maria laid back and just let it all flow down into her stomach to make it fill out even more. Ulti tried her hardest to alternate between drinking and swearing, but in the end she had to relent and focus on the former instead. Ê Big Mom was very pleased for the opportunity to watch them all eat like this. They were truly beautiful in her mind. A great treasure like no other. Not even the One Piece could hope to compare to this sort of massive majesty. Highly pleased with the way things had progressed at this point, Big Mom departed. She was getting a little hungry for some ice cream herself after watching them all eat so much.