"Is there a battle going on up there?"
"Looks like Shanks is fighting your people."
Beneath the vast white sky, a massive suspension bridge stretched from the edge of the snowy mountain cliffs all the way up to the Sunny World of Treasure Tree Adam. Despite the biting wind, it did not sway in the slightest.
Gaban looked toward the end of the bridge and chuckled as he spoke to the puzzled Zoro.
Above them, Luffy crouched atop a thick iron chain, curiously watching the forest below as he sensed a powerful presence.
The moment he heard Red-Haired Shanks's name, he forgot about his earlier discovery and hurriedly jumped down from the chain.
"Uncle A-shan, can you sense the aura up there? Who is Shanks fighting?"
"It's an aura I don't recognize, so I can't identify them."
Gaban explained with a smile.
"I see. Then let's hurry up! Shishishi, I can't wait to see Shanks!"
Luffy excitedly quickened his pace and ran ahead.
Watching him run past, Zoro sighed helplessly.
"Wouldn't it have been better to just take a ship up there from the start? We've drunk all the booze already, and this place is freezing."
"Who drinks themselves stupid in broad daylight like you?"
Usopp shot back speechlessly before stepping forward to follow Luffy.
Under the sky obscured by wind and snow, everything fell silent.
In the forest below, at the base of Treasure Tree Adam, an enormous giant was nailed against the trunk with Seastone shackles and chains, tightly bound and unable to move.
Loki looked up at the bridge in the sky. An eyepatch covered his eyes, yet he could still accurately face the direction where Luffy and the others stood.
In the Elbaf arena of the Sunny World, where a giant sword stood planted upright.
After