Not far from Alabasta lay a peculiar, uninhabited island. It spent most of the year submerged beneath several dozen centimeters of seawater, rising above the surface only between late autumn and early winter. With no valuable resources to speak of, its unusual nature had never attracted much attention.
Today, that very peculiarity brought several unusual visitors to its shores.
There was no question that Kaido was badly hurt.
The moment Jack saw Kaido, he rubbed his eyes in disbelief. What was that?! How had the boss been hurt this badly?
And that thing on the ground, already turning blue and starting to stink... Did it look like a heart?!
Kaido's expression was grim. Even when Jack the Drought, one of his trusted All-Stars, walked up to him, he showed no reaction.
He had misjudged things last night after all.
What Loa had left inside him was more than that lump of ice draining his Life Force. Far from it—that had been a decoy!
They had seemed so desperate to stop him from digging out the ice, but they had only been muddying the waters to conceal Loa's real killing move and throw off his judgment. Even Aokiji and Kizaru had been fooled.
It was only after he reached the island and sat down to rest that he discovered his Life Force was still slipping away!
It was not the weakness that came from losing too much blood. Kaido knew his body down to the finest detail. Loa's strange attack was still inside him.
At the rate he had observed, he would lose all his Life Force and die within a month!
The discovery stunned Kaido!
The Ice Dragon Fruit had a power like this?!
After searching carefully, Kaido finally traced the drain on his Life Force to his own heart!