Within the Silent domain, the blazing fire gave off no sound at all, not even from the Marine soldiers swallowed by the flames.
They opened their mouths as if screaming with all their might, but their voices only echoed inside their own heads.
Their silhouettes turned to ashes in the scorching heat before long. Once the wreckage of the warship sank beneath the sea, not a trace remained.
Momonga, who had done all this, wore his usual indifferent expression.
"How cruel. You'd be better suited to living in that prison than I am."
The Nine-Tailed Fox first waved her hand and said a couple of things, then realized that all outside sounds had been erased. Only she could hear her own words.
She furrowed her brows. "Can't even hear them scream anymore."
There was nothing wrong with talking to herself. Catarina Devon had often done that while locked up on the sixth level of Impel Down.
She was just thinking about how heartless Momonga was, a Marine traitor, when another pitch-black ship sailed past them.
A pirate flag flew high above it.
Ochoku's fleet.
"The old pirate's ability is pretty useful."
"No wonder he's lived so comfortably all these years."
The Bottle-Bottle Fruit could shrink Ochoku's entire fleet into bottles. With Momonga, a Marine Higher-up, covering for him, he'd managed to slip right into the Marine fleet.
That explosive bottle earlier had been nothing but child's play.
Only after Swan spread the Silent domain did the old pirate truly bare his fangs.
On a soundless, moonless, starless night, as the Marines and pirates clashed, this surprise force suddenly appeared inside the Marine fleet.
Just imagining it sent a chill through her.
Good thing she and Joker weren't enemies now.
If she'd surrendered early enough, maybe she could've made herself an