Saul had indeed been sent flying by a punch.
The commotion caused by his landing was nothing much.
What made Saul suffer most was taking Garp's punch head-on.
For an instant after being hit, he almost couldn't catch his breath.
Fortunately, his Armament Haki wasn't weak. It was just that his physical strength fell short of Garp's.
The two forces offset each other. The punch hadn't left him gravely wounded and unable to rise, but he had still suffered a serious injury.
Saul, his mouth full of blood, flipped himself out of the crater. Before the smoke and dust had cleared, he shouted toward where Maud was.
"Are you still not running?"
He hadn't called Maud by name, but anyone who understood would naturally understand.
Hearing Saul's shout, Maud gritted his teeth and paused for a long moment. He could only suppress his worry and first dig something out of the bullet hole in front of him.
Then he directly pulled up Sabo, who was coughing nonstop, and continued running toward Wall Mountain.
"Cough, cough... Molly, cough, cough... and Tatam..."
"The situation doesn't allow it."
Maud's brows furrowed deeply as he cut Sabo off.
Too weak. Far too weak...
Maud hated this feeling of powerlessness, of being unable to do anything.
But as long as they could escape this place, and he was given a few more years...
"Sabo, trust Molly..."
Maud's tone was solemn. He added silently in his heart: And Saul.
Sabo fell silent, merely coughing nonstop.
When facing Gion, Sabo had found it difficult, but he had still felt capable of putting up a fight.
But when facing Aokiji, even with Maud fighting alongside him, they had been subdued by a single move.
If not for those two astonishingly powerful shots that had arrived in time to