Dawn was approaching, and a faint glimmer of light spread across the horizon, piercing through layers of mist to shine upon the ruins.
At the edge of the nearby forest, a group of ragged people dressed like vagrants cheered excitedly, tears streaming down their faces.
"Shadows! Our shadows are back!"
"After all these years, finally!"
"Quick! There's sunlight over there!"
"Let's go try it!"
Figures rushed out of the forest one after another, charging toward a patch of ground illuminated by the dawn light.
One of them was a woman with an oval, plump figure, pink hair braided into two pigtails, twin blades crossed on her back, and a pair of thick, fiery red lips.
Lola followed behind her excited subordinates. They had been drawn here during Luffy's battle with Moria.
They had remained hidden in the bushes at the forest's edge, watching the two fight with their own eyes.
Even now, she still wore an incredulous expression. Gecko Moria, the Shichibukai who had stolen their shadows, possessed immense strength, and controlled countless zombies—
Had actually lost to an unknown young man!
Lola slowly walked over to Moria. His body was currently wrapped in blazing Azure Flame.
The blue flames gradually died down, retracting along his body into the plump belly of the man standing atop him.
The man's face was calm and expressionless. His fitted blue shirt faintly outlined his muscular build. When he noticed her arrival, he merely glanced at her before ignoring her.
"Um..."
Blushing furiously, Lola bent at the waist and shouted, "Would you marry me?"
"Get lost," Reiner replied coldly.
"Captain Lola got rejected again!!"
"Her 4,444th proposal has failed!!"
The two shabbily dressed men cried out in shock. They were Lola's subordinates, the Squirrel Brothers.
Lola was not too disappointed. She simply smiled lightly,