Shanks raised a hand to stop the furious pirates of the Red Hair Pirates. His eyes were fixed on the man hovering in the sky beside Kizaru, and a bead of cold sweat slid down his forehead.
What was going on?
Why was his entire body trembling at the sight of him?
For some reason, Shanks recalled how he had felt as an apprentice aboard Roger's crew when he first saw legendary pirates like Whitebeard and Golden Lion!
That feeling of an almost mortal threat rising within him from merely seeing them from afar!
There was no mistake!
His Observation Haki was frantically warning him!
But how was that possible?!!
He had only been around ten years old back then!
And now, he was one of the Four Emperors whose name shook the seas!
He considered his own strength among the very best in the entire world.
Even if the Five Elders, the Celestial Dragons who suppressed the seas, attacked him together, he could still retreat unscathed.
He had experienced that firsthand!
That was why he understood it so deeply.
But now...
"Captain?"
"Captain!"
Behind Shanks, Ben Beckman, Yasopp, and the others called out anxiously.
They had noticed that after merely looking up, their captain seemed as though he had lost his soul.
Could it be some strange Devil Fruit ability?
Kizaru turned to glance at Zhu Mang beside him, then silently took a step back, positioning himself diagonally behind Zhu Mang.
It was not only out of respect for the strong, but also because he was wary of Gebinz, that "madman."
Anyone still in Marineford surely had not forgotten how he had wiped out forty or fifty thousand pirates with casual gestures.
At the same time, his gaze instinctively fell upon the enormous straw hat Zhu Mang was dragging