An Iron-Fisted Judgment for the Beasts Pirates and the Ultimate Temptation to Break Past a Yonko Commander's Limits!

At the head table, Ronan's slender fingers brushed the stem of his wineglass, setting the crimson wine inside gently swaying.

Luffy's bold declaration of war had fired up everyone in the hall, but Ronan's mind was already working through a far more meticulous strategy.

He knew better than anyone that the Beasts Pirates were fundamentally different from the Big Mom Pirates before him.

Totto Land, ruled by the Charlotte Family, was bound together by blood.

No matter how cruel or unpredictable Big Mom had been, the blood flowing through Perospero, Katakuri, and her dozens of other children was still hers.

In that vast family empire, if they won over the mother at its heart and ended the source of her cruelty, her children would never lightly betray or abandon the family and siblings they wanted to protect.

Capture the leader first. Win over their hearts.

But the Beasts Pirates entrenched in the Land of Wano were a different breed of madmen and monsters!

They were a violent force that lived by one rule: the strong devoured the weak.

From the three All-Stars—King, Queen, and Jack—to the Tobi Roppo and the tens of thousands of Headliners and Gifters below them, most had once made names for themselves on the Great Sea. They were proud, defiant souls whom Kaido had beaten into submission through sheer force!

Ronan could already picture Onigashima as an inferno of billowing smoke and boiling magma.

Even if Luffy utterly defeated Kaido on the battlefield, his bloodthirsty Ancient Zoan and mythical Zoan users would never surrender like docile sheep. They would lash out like a pack of starving wolves that had lost its leader, fighting back with even greater frenzy amid the chaos.

So there can be no mercy for beasts.

A cold glint flashed through Ronan's eyes.