What, Is That All?

No schemes were needed, nor any sneak attacks.

The Maud Pirates descended from the sky and launched a direct assault on Onigashima.

The battle had only just begun.

Yet with their overwhelming combined strength, the Maud Pirates suppressed the twenty thousand members of the Beasts Pirates stationed on Onigashima.

In their brief clash with the Maud Pirates, the members of the Beasts Pirates experienced pressure they had never felt before.

The strength their opponents displayed was far beyond their imagination.

Even so—

Even if they were only deceiving themselves—

The battle-hardened members of the Beasts Pirates believed that, relying on their numerical and geographical advantages, they could still drive back the invading Maud Pirates.

But Maud had severely wounded Page One with a single Conqueror's Haki attack, while also piercing straight through Onigashima's entire castle.

That shocking and overwhelming scene directly shattered the Beasts Pirates' final sliver of hope.

In its place, despair rapidly spread throughout every corner of the battlefield.

Facing the gazes coming from all directions, each filled with different emotions, Maud raised the black-and-red Shusui and pointed it straight at King, who had once again activated his human-beast form.

He had dealt with Page One using a single attack. If he could take down King, the leader of the All-Stars, in a short time as well—

Then the Beasts Pirates' morale would plummet to rock bottom.

Their loss of the ability to resist would be inevitable.

After that, cleaning up the battlefield should be much easier.

As the one at a disadvantage, King naturally understood this logic as well.

With Page One having fallen so easily, if Maud also dealt with him in just a few moves...

The Beasts Pirates, who had always launched expeditions against others, would surely collapse in an instant.

King did not want