Kizaru's Thoughts

"Ding! Threat targets locked. Extermination protocol... full overload!!"

Just as Nami and Carina were dangerously maneuvering around the giant boar Saint Warcury with their exquisite illusions and the Invisibility Fruit, the sound of steel blades cracking once again echoed endlessly across the sky above the white alloy causeway at the edge of the coastline.

A vast mechanical army of Pacifistas, remotely awakened by Saint Saturn amid the war and stripped of their highest authority, surged madly out of the secret factories on both sides of the shore like a steel tide rising from the abyss. Their crimson mechanical compound eyes glowed with cold killing light as their enormous iron palms rose in unison, the laser cannons in their hands illuminating nearly the entire coastline in a blinding yellow.

Directly behind those mechanical weapons, Bartholomew Kuma stood like a mountain, blocking the only path to the ships. Behind him was Vegapunk himself, trembling as he leaned on his cane while Robin and Jinbe desperately supported him.

"None of my creations will get past today."

There was not the slightest emotional fluctuation on Kuma's perpetually dull face. He drew a deep breath, removed his black gloves, and slammed his broad palms with their pink paw pads together in the empty air before him, neither joyful nor sorrowful.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Huge, translucent bear-paw-shaped shockwaves exploded through the air. Kuma's power revealed its overwhelming dominance at that moment. Any Pacifista weighing several tons, no matter how formidable its defenses were, would have its steel framework shattered into scattered scrap the instant it was struck head-on by his palm wind.

Then, propelled by Causality, those enormous mechanical bodies could not even struggle for a second. Like kites with their strings cut, they were ruthlessly slapped away one after another by Kuma, all sent