Bit the Attack in One Bite

"Are you looking for him?"

A listless voice suddenly rang out.

Before anyone could react, a dark figure fell from the sky without warning and crashed heavily onto the deck in full view of everyone.

Bang!

A dull impact echoed out, making the thick deck tremble violently.

Faced with this sudden development, Marco and the other division commanders instantly tensed up.

They were just about to spring into action and seize the intruder.

Yet when they clearly saw the figure lying on the deck, they froze in shock.

"It's Ace!"

"W-Why is his face so bruised and swollen? Isn't he a Logia-type Devil Fruit user?"

"Ace isn't dead, is he?"

Alarmed cries rang out one after another.

Even Whitebeard and Red-Haired Shanks, who had been confronting each other, were instantly drawn over.

Their pupils abruptly contracted as they looked at the utterly miserable Ace.

Ace's clothes were in tatters, his face bruised and swollen, and his entire body was covered in sand and blood.

He was completely different from the spirited, handsome young man they usually saw.

Most importantly, Ace was a man with a bounty of 500 million Beli and the Logia-type Flame-Flame Fruit.

Even if he could not defeat a powerful opponent, he should have been able to escape easily.

Yet now, he had been sent back to the ship in such a wretched state.

If they had not seen it with their own eyes, who would have believed it was real?

"Pops... th-that thing is a monster!" Ace said haltingly as he struggled to open his swollen eyes after crashing onto the deck.

The moment those words fell, everyone present was stunned, including Whitebeard and Red-Haired Shanks.

"A monster?"

Marco was the first to rush to Ace's side. With a flick of his hand, he rapidly pushed