We Need You to Make a Sacrifice

Inside the conference room, the deathly silence made it hard for Iceburg to breathe.

"Mr. Hanazuki, forgive my presumptuousness, but that ship you entrusted to me... is it... is it the ancient weapon, Pluton?"

Summoning his courage and steel resolve, Iceburg asked in a voice only the two of them could hear.

"Legend had it that centuries ago, the shipwrights of Water 7 personally built an incomparably vile warship—the ancient weapon Pluton, capable of destroying an island with a single attack..."

"Now it seemed the legend was true. The moment you first saw it, you knew it was Pluton, didn't you?"

"How was it? Witnessing a legend become reality with your own eyes, descending into this bustling mortal world—did it give you the thrilling feeling of being inside an epic?"

Thud. With all hope extinguished, Iceburg collapsed weakly to the floor and wept bitterly with his head in his hands.

"Damn it, damn it, damn it! Why? Why had I already resolved to take Pluton into the grave, yet Pluton, which should no longer exist in this world, appeared?!"

"You're in pain? I can answer that question for you. Pluton was buried beneath Wano Country in the New World..."

"When people explored history, they often gained other discoveries as well. When I found the Poneglyph buried beneath the ruins of Wano Country, which had been submerged by water, I instinctively used my Senrigan, capable of seeing through all things, to scan the surroundings."

"The result was obvious. Beneath the waterfall of Wano Country, I discovered this ancient weapon, Pluton, which had been buried within the mountain rocks roughly eight to nine hundred years ago."

A smile played on Hanazuki's lips as he laid out his discovery in full, driving Iceburg further into despair.

"I thought that as long as I