"Oh? Looks like someone slightly worth noticing has arrived."
Ronan stood with his hands clasped behind his back. Not a ripple stirred in his fathomless eyes as he spoke those few words calmly.
As Ronan's voice faded, an invisible force pushed aside the windblown sand ahead.
A dozen or so fully armed elites of the Beasts Pirates, reeking of blood, slowly emerged from the haze around an eerie man wearing a coat, his blond hair falling to his shoulders.
It was Hawkins!
As a strategist among the Supernovas renowned for his caution and divination, Hawkins had detected the presences ahead with his Observation Haki the instant he entered the area.
But then he raised his head and saw that straw hat-especially Katakuri, towering like an iron fortress at the rear of the group, and the man as unfathomable as an abyss beside him-Ronan!
Buzz!
Hawkins's pupils instantly contracted into dangerously sharp pinpoints!
His normally pale, composed face drained of all color as though he had seen a ghost. Even his breathing stopped completely!
It's actually... the Straw Hat Pirates!!!
A devastating tsunami raged through Hawkins's heart as he screamed inwardly.
These were the absolute overlords of the New World, who had swallowed up the entire Big Mom Pirates, one of the Four Emperors' crews, single-handedly just days ago! Their fame was now at its peak, and their power had already surpassed even the Four Emperors!
Why have they appeared in the Land of Wano without a sound?!
Why are they out here in this remote wilderness?!
Run!!!
After frantically running countless calculations, his supposedly perfectly rational mind arrived at that one answer-the only correct answer!
Against an army of monsters at this level, a mere Headliner like him stood no chance. Even if all the All-Stars gathered here, they would