As if to set off this scene,
Austin looked up at the sky. Layer after layer of dark clouds rolled in, rumbling with thunder.
"Such a strong wind came out of nowhere~"
Austin looked up at the sky as gust after gust blew fiercely, the hem of his splendid clothes snapping wildly in the wind.
"How abnormal."
Mihawk naturally sensed it as well. Before nature's mighty power, he merely pressed down his hat with one hand, his cold eyes fixed ahead.
Because of the unrest at the execution square, countless civilians fled in panic, shouting the pirates' names.
By then, Zoro, who had defeated Tashigi, had already reunited with Sanji and the others. Naturally, they too sensed that something was off.
Nami, who knew weather patterns well, looked at the dial on her wrist.
"The air pressure changed so suddenly. I've never seen it drop this strangely before."
Sanji carried a fish over his shoulder and chimed in.
"Come to think of it, this wind is strange too."
"A storm is coming. Right here on this island."
At the same time, Smoker, Tashigi, and the other Marines received word that a group of pirates had occupied the execution square.
"Pirates, you say?"
"Yes. Straw Hat Kid Luffy, Clown Buggy, Iron Mace Alvida, and the others are all there. They're notorious pirates, and they've taken over the square."
Smoker's expression instantly turned cold, and he immediately dispatched every Marine unit to surround and capture them.
Yet when they arrived at the square, the farce before them left them utterly baffled.
"What are they doing?!!"
Looking at the man who had been captured and was about to be executed, Smoker could not help recalling Austin holding that Wanted Poster.
He had thought that guy would be different from other pirates.
After all,