"Cover Serial: Four Emperors Arc 4: 'Kozuki Yamato'"
"On Onigashima, over the past few days, all the top officers of the Beasts Pirates had been walking on eggshells, terrified of angering the person in the palace. Ever since that battle, Lord Kaido had been in an awful mood, drowning himself in booze every day and flying into a rage over the slightest thing..."
"What exactly happened? Yamato, still wearing shackles, had held back for several days before finally being unable to endure it any longer. She took the initiative to find Aunt Sena, who had always doted on her, and ask for the truth..."
Boom!
Lightning poured down. Before Black Hawk could even let out a scream, he plummeted from a thousand meters in the air, landing squarely atop that ancient giant boulder and blasting straight through it.
A charred, grilled-meat-like aroma wafted from the hollow in the rock...
"What a coincidence."
On the deck of the Thunder Eagle, Noah retracted his outstretched index finger and shrugged. "Another Black Hawk Fruit user, huh?"
The previous owner of the Black Hawk Fruit had been Misaia, known as Hawkeye. One reason Shichibukai William had wanted to kill him was tied to that woman.
More than four years had flown by in the blink of an eye. It really was nostalgic.
Around them, the pirates treading water in the sea all stared wide-eyed, utterly stunned.
Captain Adu had... died just like that?
Their captain was a great pirate with a bounty of nearly a hundred million Beli, after all! And after transforming into a black hawk, his entire body had been like forged steel, impervious to blades and bullets.
Yet this guy had flicked a finger and killed him instantly?
Even if this guy was the famous Romanov Noah, wasn't that