"Fifty-six?"
Good lord.
So he had only killed fifty-six Emperors of the Sea before, but now it had become the kings of fifty-six eras?
To gather that many kings, he would probably have to start killing from the era of Joy Boy versus the Twenty Kings.
The Mountain Bandits did not have the courage to make a move against Austin. He looked terrifyingly powerful, so Austin merely watched quietly.
Even Shanks was not angry. Why should he make a move?
At the same time, he noticed something.
Luffy, nearby, had almost finished chewing the Rubber Fruit.
Honestly, his attention had been entirely on the king of the Mountain Bandits just now, and he had not looked closely at Luffy. In that brief gap, Luffy had already eaten the fruit.
What terrifying power of world correction~
Watching that group of Mountain Bandits disappear into the distance, Luffy was just about to get angry and ask Shanks why he had not fought back.
But Austin stood up first.
He ruffled Luffy's hair, patted Shanks on the shoulder, then walked out and left.
Luffy was still rather confused, but Shanks, whose Observation Haki and control over his own body were both extremely strong, sensed that something was off.
It felt like...
Something was missing.
Sitting on Seagull King's back, Austin watched Foosha Village recede farther and farther behind him.
As for the final stories of kings like the king of the Mountain Bandits and the King of the Near Sea, Austin was not all that interested.
Shanks had his own pirate career to attend to and his own fate to shoulder.
Austin had things to do as well. At the very least, much of the preparation work was still unfinished.
"Next... I'll go to the Whitebeard Pirates first."
Taking out the Dark-Dark