Crocodile took less than five seconds to deal with the two of them. From sensing them to finishing the fight and resuming his pursuit, barely a dozen seconds had passed.
That was not enough time for the others to escape the range of an ordinary expert's Observation Haki. The moment the two auras vanished, the remaining woman and dog on the sled fell silent.
"Are they dead?"
The speaker was the only woman among them, the wielder of the Phantom-Phantom Fruit. Her Observation Haki was the weakest of the group, so she wondered if she had sensed it wrong.
After a moment's silence, Husky shattered that hope. "Yeah. They're dead."
Thud!
With that, Husky stamped hard on the ground, slowing abruptly. The sled kept hurtling forward, its momentum dragging him by the harness and carving two deep tracks through the snow.
It took the sled a while to stop swaying. The woman, shaken senseless by the jolt, asked anxiously, "What happened? Why did we stop?!"
"We can't escape. Get ready to fight for our lives!"
"What?!"
The woman spun around in shock.
Sure enough, the distant sky had gone dark, too gloomy for sunlight to break through. But it was not clouds blocking the sun. It was a boundless mass of dark-green Raging Sand, spreading like a storm cloud!
Two awakened Devil Fruit users who had activated their Secret Technique had been taken down almost the instant they encountered their enemy. Husky had never expected that!
Fortunately, Ice Cream Town was only a few dozen miles away. That vast Raging Sand was impossible to miss. Someone must have noticed it already. If they could hold out a little longer, that lord would arrive and take Vegapunk away!
As for whether they would survive after that, they would have to leave