Above the sea, where the currents were abnormally turbulent, four warships sailed out through the massive, heavy Gates of Justice, heading toward distant Marineford.
On the bow deck of one warship, Blackbeard Teach held a spyglass as he gazed toward Marineford in the distance.
Suddenly!
Before Blackbeard's stunned eyes, a gigantic ball of energy abruptly fell from within the black clouds above Marineford, carrying a terrifying force capable of destroying everything as it engulfed the entire island.
But...
Before he could recover from the shock, that massive sphere of energy silently vanished in midair, as though it had never existed.
Seeing this, Blackbeard broke out in a cold sweat. He turned to a pale-skinned man beside him and said:
"Lafitte, hurry up and fly into the sky to see what exactly happened over at Marineford! What just happened was far too bizarre!"
"Captain, what happened just now? To actually shock you that much..."
"I don't know the exact details either. Marineford seemed to have suffered an island-destroying attack just now, but it vanished without a trace in the blink of an eye... That's why I want you to scout it from the air."
As he spoke, Blackbeard Teach handed over the spyglass in his hand.
"Huh!? Something like that happened?"
Lafitte's face immediately filled with astonishment. After taking the spyglass, he spread a pair of white wings from his back, flapped them, and flew high into the sky.
Because of his altitude, he could clearly see things dozens of kilometers away even without using the spyglass.
Thus, before Lafitte could even raise the spyglass to observe distant Marineford, he froze in place...
The Red Line had actually been blasted open with an enormous breach!
And... that was precisely where Mary Geoise had been!
Shock!
Suffocation!
Disbelief!
A chaotic surge of