Leaving Buggy, who had just launched a livestreaming career, aside for now, dawn brought the battlefield in Wano Country to the brink of war once more.
The Beasts Pirates spent the morning tearing into meat and drinking without restraint.
Tillman and the others saw them, but no one tried to stop them. This might be the pirates' last meal.
"We'll use yesterday's strategy. I'll cut open the wall, and Jack will knock it down."
Everyone agreed with Werther's proposal.
The walls were built of black stone, and no one but Werther could cut through them.
Even Werther needed his strongest technique to do it.
It was hard to imagine how Wano Country's ancestors had built wall after wall like that. Carving and polishing the black stone alone must have been an immense task.
Inside Wano Country, the mood was nothing like the Beasts Pirates' eagerness for battle. The civilians were terrified.
Enemies filled the land outside the walls, the main gate was blockaded, and all of Wano Country had become a prison.
Worse, the prison was running out of food.
Without fish to supplement their stores, Wano Country might not last two months on grain alone.
Unless Kozuki Oden made the ruthless decision to reduce the population, famine would sweep through Wano Country in less than two months.
Wano Country had favorable geography and winters that were not especially cold. Hardy crops could grow through the winter, and together with the fish they caught, the country could feed itself.
But fishing had stopped. The Beasts Pirates surrounded Wano Country on every side.
Their forces were thinner away from the main gate, but escaping over the walls was still nearly impossible.
Kozuki Oden sat in the council hall of the Daimyo's Residence, worry written across his face. The more he read