"Imu!!"
"If you can hear me, get the hell out here!"
Houka watched the churning devil shadows and suddenly shouted into his surroundings.
This Devil Shadow Zone was Imu's domain of power, a god-level territory more advanced than an awakened domain.
Houka even suspected that the original Florian Triangle had been one of Imu's early testing grounds.
The Florian Triangle lay very close to the Red Line, the Sabaody Archipelago, and Marine Headquarters, and had existed for a long time.
In the original timeline, before Gecko Moria moved into the Florian Triangle and took charge of it...
During Harald's time as one of God's Blades, one of his assignments had been to clear pirates out of the Florian Triangle.
The enormous Harald had also left legends of demons and monsters behind in the Florian Triangle.
A few years after Harald's death, the World Government had approached Gecko Moria and recruited him into the Shichibukai to oversee the Florian Triangle.
There seemed to be some unspeakable secret hidden in those waters.
Fear that someone might stumble into the area was why they had repeatedly sent people to clear out its pirates.
When Luffy defeated Gecko Moria and left, an enormous shadow and giant scarlet eyes in the sky had watched the Straw Hat Pirates.
That certainly wasn't Zunesha. With the Red Line blocking his path, Zunesha could only wander through the West Blue, the New World, and the North Blue as punishment.
The polar bear Bepo had accidentally ended up stranded in the North Blue when Zunesha's punitive wandering brought him there.
Zunesha could not possibly have appeared in the Florian Triangle, in the Paradise half of the Grand Line.
That enormous shadow had most likely been Imu, or Imu possessing someone else.
Even Uranus might once have been hidden in