"That's Douglas Bullet, the Heir of the Devil! Why is he suddenly here?!"
A startled cry rang out without warning.
Like an invisible sledgehammer, it struck everyone's nerves.
The crimson figure plummeting from the sky utterly overturned everyone's understanding.
If Shiki the Golden Lion's declaration of war was a disaster for Marine Headquarters—
Then Blackbeard Teach's betrayal only made things worse.
And now, Douglas Bullet, the Heir of the Devil, had suddenly appeared. This was practically sending Marine Headquarters down the road to destruction.
Boom!
Bullet slammed into the ground like a cannonball.
The tremendous impact shattered the earth, sending waves of air and dust rolling outward.
However, the moment Bullet landed, he showed no intention of staying still.
The instant he pushed his Observation Haki to its limit, he locked onto Tsuru, who had been blasted backward by the shockwave.
"Old hag, you put in quite a bit of effort to send me into Impel Down. This time, I'll get rid of you first!"
As soon as he spoke, Bullet moved without the slightest hesitation. With a heavy step, the already fractured and crumbling ground shattered once more.
Like a cannonball, he shot toward Tsuru a thousand meters away with a piercing roar through the air.
The sudden assault shook everyone to the core. Sengoku and the others, who had just landed on the collapsing observation platform and barely regained their footing, had their expressions change drastically.
Tsuru was very powerful, and her Devil Fruit abilities had been developed to an absurd degree.
Under normal circumstances, she had no fear of facing other enemies.
However, the enemy before her now was Bullet.
Caught in such an unexpected sneak attack, she had no time to fight back.
As they watched Bullet rapidly close in on Tsuru like a cannonball—
His