Above the sea, snowflakes silently drifted down, covering the deck in white. Everything seemed so peaceful.
But suddenly, the sea that had just been filled with snow became brilliantly sunny, followed by a torrential downpour.
Not long after, the temperature in the sky dropped again, and hailstones the size of small rocks came crashing down, growing larger and larger.
Well, this did not refer to the scale or density of the hailstorm, but to the size of the hailstones falling from the sky.
They grew from tiny stones to egg-sized chunks, then to the size of human heads, becoming increasingly severe. Meanwhile, Sola and the others had already leaped from the deck to smash the hailstones hurtling toward the ship.
"Ouroboros, hurry up and help! The ship will get smashed to pieces at this rate!" Sola shouted at the Ink Snake on Dawn's shoulder as she punched apart a hailstone the size of a washbasin.
"Got it, got it." Ouroboros had been developing his abilities with Dawn, using his unique perspective to help Dawn understand his power.
Now that Sola had disturbed him, he saw the situation everyone was facing and hurriedly manipulated the air to reinforce the warship against the hail.
Dawn also learned of the situation outside through Ouroboros, but he did not act. Instead, he continued sorting through the gains from this battle.
Whether it was developing his abilities or the breakthrough in his Observation Haki, both needed to be reviewed and carefully contemplated after the battle.
As for the breakthrough in Dawn's Observation Haki, he had wanted to call it "Bullet Time," but then he remembered that this world did not have a film called The Matrix. It would have been a completely nonsensical name here.
Since he was terrible at naming things, Dawn simply called