"Want to Keep Your Family Safe? Then You Should Know What to Do!"

But he merely swept a casual, indifferent glance over Perospero, Smoothie, and the other Big Mom Pirates officers in the distance, who were drenched in cold sweat and trembling like startled quails.

"Buzz..."

There was no roar of Conqueror's Haki, but that simple glance alone!

A terrifying, supreme aura that seemed capable of seeing through every soul and ruling over life and death descended instantly over all the officers, like the crushing pressure of an entire deep sea!

Under the suppression of this aura, even Perospero and the others couldn't stop their legs from trembling.

They discovered miserably that before this man named Ronan, they—monsters with bounties worth hundreds of millions, nearly a billion—had been completely stripped of even the courage to draw their weapons!

Katakuri's hand, gripping Mogura, froze in midair.

His Observation Haki clearly told him that everyone present was just as Ronan's death-god-like declaration had decreed:

Whoever made a move... would die!

There was absolutely no chance of survival!

Looking at Katakuri, who was like a trapped beast, Ronan slowly withdrew his aura. The corner of his mouth curled into a meaningful, faint smile like that of a chess player.

"Katakuri."

Ronan's voice wasn't loud, yet it rang clearly beside Katakuri's ear, carrying an extreme coldness and dominance that saw straight through the human heart:

"You're a smart man. You're also the only person in this pirate crew who still has a somewhat clear head."

Ronan's gaze passed over Katakuri and landed on the trembling sons and daughters of the Charlotte Family in the distance. His tone was like he was stating an unchangeable truth:

"If you want to keep your younger brothers and sisters alive... then you should know very clearly what choice you ought to make now."

"Drip."

A bead of cold sweat slid down