"What was that?!"
"It's so bright?!"
"My eyes! My eyes!!"
"Is that the sun?!"
First came the light, an aurora like a second sun exploding in the distance from Marineford!
It drew everyone's attention, while blinding countless people.
The light was simply too bright, too dazzling. Anyone who looked at it felt their eyes burn with pain!
"Rumble..."
Next, after the light-speed flash came the deafening noise and tremors!
Like an active volcano erupting underground, all of Marineford—and even the crust of the Red Line—began to shake!
The earsplitting roar left people stunned, while the biting pressure formed a gale like a hurricane!
The sea was pushed back again and again, the water level rose, and a tsunami formed in the distance!
And this was only the aftershock!
When the dazzling light faded, all that could be seen in the distance was a billowing cloud of black smoke. A hole had even been blasted in the sky!
Everything in a swath of the distant landscape seemed to have been wiped from existence!
"That direction..."
"Could it be..."
Sengoku's eyes widened to their limit. He didn't even notice his glasses slipping down.
A terrifying suspicion began to take shape in his mind.
"Impel Down, the City of Evil..."
"It's full of the worst kind of pirates..."
"I helped you Marines take care of so many pirates,"
"Surely you can give me a medal of justice for that, right?"
At some point, Sarutobi Hiruzen had put on Doflamingo's sunglasses. He gazed toward Impel Down, admiring the fireworks' devastating power.
"Sarutobi Hiruzen!"
"You devil!"
"Do you know how many people were there?! How many lives?!"
Sengoku roared, his face twisted almost beyond control!
Impel Down, said to be impossible to escape from, had accumulated tens of thousands of pirates, along with more than