Boom!
The blast waves from the explosion gradually subsided.
The sky-filled dust, rubble, and ruins buried quite a few pirates, along with severed limbs and mangled remains.
Faced with this sudden explosion, most people had clearly been caught completely off guard.
No!
Rather, they had never expected anyone to be able to tear off an explosive collar so easily with their bare hands.
Nor had they expected Kaido of the Beasts to be so crazed that he would even devour his own child, loading the collar with so much explosive powder.
The blast had been powerful enough to leave Yamato without even a corpse.
However, what shocked them most was that Duke Inuarashi, the Musketeer Squad, Yamato, and the others—who had been at the center of the explosion and surrounded from all sides—
were now within a translucent blue barrier.
A slender young man with Nine-Tomoe Sharingan slowly rotating in his eyes came into view.
At that moment, he stood beside Yamato, a harmless, gentle smile spread across his sharply defined face.
"Y-You... who exactly are you? Why did you save me? Were you the one who tore off the explosive collar with your bare hands just now?" Yamato stared stiffly at the young man before him.
Yet no matter how hard he searched through his memories, he could not find anyone matching this figure.
Even Ulquiorra, the most likely candidate, clearly did not fit.
"Who am I? Haven't you always wanted to meet me? You'll find out soon enough." Qin Yu smiled and patted Yamato on the shoulder.
When they had parted ways and Yamato had been sent to Zou, Qin Yu had left a Flying Thunder God mark on him.
With that Flying Thunder God mark, he might not have been able to cross hundreds or even thousands