"What are your last words?"
"It's rare to have so many people here to watch, hehehehe~"
"Well, whatever. Whether you have any last words or not, you're going to die anyway."
Dark clouds blanketed the sky as rain swept through the city. On the Execution Platform in Loguetown Square—
Buggy, clutching a steel blade, stood on the shackles pinning down Luffy's neck and arms and laughed wildly.
Garp, Zephyr, and the others, who were also "standing" in the square below, stared in dumbfounded disbelief.
After watching Luffy set sail and meet Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, and the others before they joined his crew, they had assumed he would make it smoothly into the first half of the Grand Line.
None of them had expected things to develop this way.
Edward Newgate quietly reminded them, "That Buggy is the red-nosed brat I mentioned before."
Aramaki nodded. "That's right. He's also the president of the Adventurers Guild now, but he isn't a Celestial Dragon."
The unspoken meaning was clear: insult him all you want.
"I—" Garp had just begun to speak when Luffy's roar rang out from above.
"I'm the man who's going to become the One Piece King!!!"
That shout silenced the thousands gathered in the square. They stood frozen like statues, allowing the wind and rain to lash against them.
Kaido sighed inwardly. One Piece King... he had once held that dream as well.
Otherwise, he would not have collected the "coordinate" Poneglyphs.
But from his current perspective, becoming the One Piece King was nothing worth mentioning.
"Yahahahaha!"
"This is the end, Straw Hat!"
Buggy raised his gleaming steel blade with both hands and swung it down at Luffy's neck.
No matter how one looked at it, Luffy was trapped in a hopeless situation.
Garp clenched his fists and repeatedly