Charlotte Linlin, Kaido, and the others finally raced across the luxurious bridge made entirely of pure gold at breakneck speed, guided by the CP0 turncoat. They left the exceptionally noisy Golden City behind, smashed through the entrance, and rushed into the first-floor lobby of the Golden King Hotel.
After all the charges, battles, and deliberate sacrifices along the way, only these few members of the Big Mom Pirates and Beasts Pirates remained.
The rest had either been defeated and captured or killed, or had been left behind in the city to cause more chaos, draw the pursuers away, and hold off the powerful enemies they encountered along the way.
And now, judging by the noise in the city gradually dying down, it wasn't hard to guess that those they'd ordered to stay behind—or who had volunteered to stay, such as the more than one hundred family ministers from the Big Mom Pirates and senior officers from the Beasts Pirates, including the Flying Six and the Numbers—were probably in dire straits. Few of them were likely still alive.
"!!"
"Hm?"
"Strange!"
"This place..."
"How come there's only one person here?!"
"What's going on?"
"Who's he?"
"..."
"Never seen him..."
As Charlotte Linlin, Kaido the Beast, King the All-Star, Who's-Who of the Flying Six, and their guide—five people in all—hurried into the amusement hall on the first floor of the Golden King Hotel, they found only one person in the vast hall: a blind man with what seemed to be injured eyes, standing with a cane before the largest reception stage. There were no guards anywhere around him, and the sight left them puzzled.
"Forget about it for now!"
"Hurry!"
"They must have noticed us by now. There are surveillance Den Den Mushi everywhere!"
"The brat and that mermaid princess are definitely