On the bright, sunny sea,
a massive shadow instantly blanketed the deck of the Moby Dick.
A commotion broke out at once. The Whitebeard Pirates' crew all stared tensely at the bird-like behemoth blotting out the sky!!!
"What is that?!"
"A bird? You've got to be kidding—it's as big as a Sea King!!!"
"What does it want?!"
The grunts shouted nervously. The captains were doing a little better, but their expressions were equally grave as they watched the giant bird that covered the sky.
They could sense a deadly threat from it.
"That's no ordinary bird!!!"
Marco, the pineapple-headed Division Captain of the First Division, transformed both hands into wings wreathed in blue flames.
As a fellow user of a special bird-type Mythical Zoan Type, he could tell this giant bird was anything but ordinary.
But someone else was on its back.
"Marco, stand down. That's not someone you can handle. Have the apprentices fall back..."
The two Sea Overlords seated on the deck were not as tense as the others, but the gravity in their eyes was real.
Because they had sensed that presence.
That...
The presence of a king!!!
"Long time no see, Golden Lion!!!" Hum—
At the calm greeting, an overwhelming presence burst from the giant bird's back.
Black-red lightning spread outward from the bird, and planks of the deck began to crack apart. Crack, crack, crack—!!!
Countless enormous Sea Kings rolled belly-up and slowly floated to the surface.
"Plop..."
"Plop, plop..."
Looking at the apprentices sprawled on the ground, already unconscious, along with even some full-fledged crewmen, Marco's face showed a trace of astonishment.
This was!!!
"This level of Conqueror's Haki..."
"Looks like we were too late." Whitebeard took a swig of liquor as he looked at his sons lying unconscious across the deck.
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