A Decisive Advantage in the Current Battle

"Black Blade?" Zoro asked.

"Until you grasp that, no drinking." After taking a sip of red wine, Hawkeye spoke to Zoro.

Zoro could hardly believe it. "Huh?!" The ghost girl beside him covered her mouth and laughed when she heard that.

At that moment, Zoro gripped the wall of the Royal Plateau with one hand and held his sword in the other. Looking at it, he saw that his blade had turned black. He crooked his mouth into a grin.

"The blade isn't chipped! Hahahahaha!" Zoro was overjoyed.

Zoro sheathed his sword and began climbing upward.

Usopp hurriedly clung to the rocky cliff of the Royal Plateau and shouted down, "Zoro! Zoro! Are you okay?!"

Zoro took off the black bandana on his head and said, "Of course I'm okay."

In another corner of the town, Fujitora asked, "Was anyone injured?"

"No, thanks to you, sir."

After Elizabello II's King Punch blasted the fragments beyond the Royal Plateau, they had fallen straight toward the town behind it. There were still many civilians in the town, while the Marines shouted, "Run! Get out of here!"

Fujitora used his gravity to hold all the rocks in place, suspending them steadily in midair.

"Sir!" The Marines before him were stunned as they asked.

Fujitora told them, "Get everyone out of here! Villagers, run!"

The Marines immediately began evacuating the civilians, shouting, "Hurry while you can! Move!"

"Everyone, take cover!" Everyone fled the dangerous area, running beyond its borders.

"Sir, the evacuation is complete."

"Good." Only then did Fujitora sheathe his sword. The rocks instantly lost the effect of gravity and all came crashing down onto the town, smashing its buildings to pieces.

A Marine said, "Thanks to you, sir, those rocks were kept floating for a while. Not a single person was killed