The setting was a stretch of coastline on Whole Cake Island.
No, it could no longer be called a coastline, because the island was now floating in the sky. The dim sea beneath the night sky lay hundreds, perhaps thousands, of meters below the island.
The island's edge was no longer a shore at all.
Bright stood there, with Katakuri, who had just arrived, behind him.
"That was terrifying."
Bright looked down. "If this island fell, I'm afraid no one could withstand that horrifying force."
Yes, just how much did an island weigh?
It was an unimaginably terrifying weight for ordinary people, and with gravitational acceleration added to it, the island had become a destructive weapon suspended in the air. Smashing another island to pieces would be effortless, and even wiping out enormous nations like Alabasta or Wano Country probably would not be difficult.
It only needed to be lifted a little higher.
"No wonder you gave him the stone."
Bright said.
"The family nearly got wiped out."
Katakuri sighed dejectedly. "Golden Lion... that man possesses terrifying power capable of destroying everything."
Golden Lion had lifted the island into the sky earlier and declared that if Katakuri did not hand over the stone, he would drop the island and send everyone in the Charlotte Family to their graves beneath the sea.
With no alternative, Katakuri could only compromise.
If he had been alone, he would naturally have had nothing to fear. But many of his younger brothers and sisters had been on the island.
Bright nodded deeply in agreement.
Hadn't Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron intended to raise a city into the sky and drop it to destroy the world?
Golden Lion could accomplish something like that with ease.
Although his ability in direct combat was not particularly strong,