Rune and Tashigi walked together to Yamato, watching as Yamato lifted a floorboard up from the ground. Beneath the floorboard was a somewhat narrow passageway.
"Let's go, let's go take a look."
Rune frowned slightly, and the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit enveloped all three of them. That way, even if there was an ambush inside, they would not get hurt.
Besides, Rune had already checked after landing on the island, and no one else was here.
There was quite a bit of dust on the narrow path, and Rune and the others walked along, watching the environment inside with vigilance. After walking only a few steps, the light grew too dim to see anything.
Rune had no choice but to take out a lantern and light it.
Using the light emitted by the lantern, Rune, Yamato, and Tashigi successfully entered the underground space connected by the passageway. And here, many corpses lay scattered about in all directions.
Just judging by the degree of decomposition of these corpses, they were estimated to have been dead for a very long time. Moreover, judging from the postures of these people when they died.
Most of them looked very painful.
"These people seem to have all died of poison."
Tashigi looked at the corpses of these people, feeling inexplicably distressed. She remembered the huge shell she had seen earlier in the center of the island, and suddenly realized something.
That shell... was not an explosive-type bomb. Instead, it was loaded with poison gas.
Otherwise, that shell would not have been preserved so completely.
Tashigi felt terrible all over.
She had never thought that the Marines would do such a cruel thing.
Those two battling factions of pirates on the island could die for all she cared. If they were heinous pirates, then even