"Just as I predicted, I wasn't wrong."
The magician Basil Hawkins lay spread-eagled within the gravity field, staring blankly at the sky.
His eyes were filled with helplessness.
The enemy was far too powerful. There was simply no way to resist!
Their bounties did not even amount to a fraction of Kozuki Houka's 500 million.
"Damn it!!"
Captain Eustass Kid struggled madly, slowly crawling up only to be crushed back down again and again by the terrifying weight.
Yet he refused to give up!
A spirit of unwillingness gradually solidified around him.
I can't fall here. I still haven't taken revenge on Doflamingo!
Trafalgar Law repeatedly tried to activate his ability and teleport away, but even his fingers were pinned down by gravity, completely unable to move.
"Sir, I surrender~"
Scratchmen Apoo was the first to yield. He did not want to die for no reason at the hands of such a monster.
"This is so damn frustrating!"
Capone Bege was also struggling. A West Blue Mafia godfather like him had actually fallen in the Paradise of the Grand Line.
He had not even entered the New World.
X Drake remained silent, enduring the gravity. If he could not infiltrate the Beasts Pirates under one of the Four Emperors—
Then going undercover under this dangerous man did not seem impossible either.
"Uncle, Uncle, I'm still just a child~"
Jewelry Bonney reverted to the age of ten and looked pitifully at the terrifyingly powerful Houka.
She had yet to rescue Kuma, and she did not want to die either.
"Heroes throughout the world... are like crucian carp crossing a river. Beyond one mountain... lies another higher one..."
The Mad Monk Urouge had thought Blackbeard Teach was already powerful enough, but he had not expected an even stronger monster to exist.
Houka