Era's Final Requiem "Gurararara!!! Little girl, it seems you still don't understand the romance of being a pirate!"
Whitebeard's laughter grew ever bolder. "Still, those are matters of the old era. Young people of the new era like you truly don't need to understand. Come on—if you want to stop me, then kill me!"
Bzzzz!!!
Whitebeard unleashed his full power, driving the Tremor-Tremor Fruit's ability to its absolute limit.
The entire space shattered and warped layer by layer beneath his power like a fragile spiderweb. The world-destroying tremors spread wildly toward Hiyori Kozuki.
"Pirate romance? Heh!" Hiyori Kozuki sneered, her eyes filled with mockery. "You mean letting your comrades foolishly dance that ridiculous Fool's Dance, yet stubbornly believing that since a man hadn't asked for help himself, he should bear his own burden?"
Her words were as sharp as blades, and the swords in her hands moved with extreme speed.
Yet amid the fierce clashes of their twin blades, Whitebeard's attacks showed the slightest, nearly imperceptible hesitation.
Clearly, Hiyori Kozuki's piercing words had affected him.
Although he had ultimately gone to support the battle in the Land of Wano without hesitation, and had even taken Momonosuke in and protected him—only for Momonosuke to later choose to defect and leave—when the Land of Wano had first fallen into the abyss of suffering, he had indeed vaguely known that Oden Kozuki had encountered a little trouble.
But because Oden Kozuki had been constrained by his pride and never actively sought his help, Whitebeard had simply gone along with it and pretended not to know.
Yet who could have imagined that the small trouble he had ignored would ultimately become the spark that led to the destruction of the entire Land of Wano?
On that matter, he did indeed feel guilty deep down.