Across the vast battlefield ruins, Qin Yu's words alone lingered like thunder.
As they watched Shiki in the sky, rarely showing his age and stripped of his former arrogant dominance, many people's expressions stiffened.
Just moments ago, the legendary pirate Shiki had arrived bearing a floating giant island.
His overbearing, world-commanding demeanor had made everyone at Marine Headquarters feel a trace of despair.
Then came Douglas Bullet, the Devil's Heir, barging in, followed by the sudden betrayal of Teach, who had only just become one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.
It had made them feel as though they had been pushed into the abyss.
Yet no one had expected Qin Yu's arrival to completely turn the situation around.
"Shiki, surrender!" Sengoku was the first to step forward through the crowd. "Laxus is right. The old era has passed. Underestimating the new era will only get you eliminated sooner or later."
"You should not have come this time, nor should you have appeared in this world again. Surrender without resistance."
The sudden words were like an invisible sledgehammer, striking deep into everyone's souls.
Watching Shiki, a hero in his twilight years, they all fell silent.
"Damn Shiki, he really dragged me into this mess!" Blackbeard gritted his teeth and muttered resentfully.
From the very beginning, he had been figuring out how to escape.
But Qin Yu's godlike strike just now had completely overturned his understanding.
By the time he came back to his senses, Shiki had already fallen entirely into a disadvantageous position.
There was no chance for him to flee at all.
"Hahaha, Sengoku, don't tell me those words mean that you, the dignified Fleet Admiral Sengoku the Buddha, are admitting that you're old too." Shiki threw back his head and laughed wildly once more.
"But I, Shiki,