Red-Haired spun around at once, ready to fight his way back and rescue his comrades.
But an endless tide of the Puppet Army met him. Calling them fearless of death did not begin to cover it. They were letting Red-Haired cut them down just to hold him and the others in place.
Benn Beckman and the others had the same idea, but the surging sea of bodies before them left them feeling powerless.
It was not that the Red Hair Pirates could not wipe out the Puppet Army. They simply needed time, and time was what they lacked most.
The roughly thousand men under Red-Haired's command and the samurai of Wano Country had been cut off by Werther and separated from Red-Haired's group. They, too, were swallowed by the crowd.
Wano Country's forces were now split in two. Red-Haired and the others had broken through, while Yasopp, Red-Haired's men, and a great many of Wano Country's samurai and civilians had failed to escape.
The situation for Wano Country's people was dire. The rising gas concentration made it impossible to breathe, while the fierce fighting kept burning through the oxygen in their blood.
Yasopp of the Red Hair Pirates was in even greater danger.
The sniper had been swallowed by the crowd. His considerable Hand-to-Hand Combat skills kept him safe for the moment, but someone was already walking toward him.
"You're staying here today."
Intent Blood in hand, Werther pushed through the surging crowd toward Yasopp.
When Yasopp saw him approaching, his blood ran cold.
For a sniper, letting a top-tier Great Swordsman get close meant only one thing.
But with the crowd pressing in from every side, Yasopp had no way to open up the distance.
After smashing a Puppet Army soldier's skull with the butt of his rifle, Yasopp