Post-Battle Recuperation

Rumble—

The Ashen's deep-diving chamber let out a dull, powerful roar beneath the sea. This steel behemoth, forged from obsidian crystals and Extreme Pressure alloy, rapidly descended at an astonishing gravity-driven speed into the pitch-black depths where light could not reach.

After the earth-shattering godslaying battle on Science Island, Rain's adventurer crew and the Straw Hat Pirates had officially split up at sea. The Thousand Sunny rode the winds toward another hidden route. To completely evade the World Government's ensuing global manhunt and safely escort Vegapunk and the injured Bartholomew Kuma, the Ashen had slipped alone into the absolute blind spot ten thousand meters beneath the sea.

In only a few minutes, the sky-covering flames of Egghead, the Five Elders' lingering malicious demonic aura, were all completely cut off above them by ten thousand meters of seawater. The lights inside the diving chamber were warm and gentle, gradually soothing away the exhaustion and tension left by the battle.

Unlike the raging waters above, the world at the deepest level of the sea was so silent it was almost eerie. Only the obsidian oars flowing across the Ashen's hull gave off faint buzzing sounds as they pressed against the surrounding seawater.

"Rip... hah..."

On a maintenance bench outside the medical bay, Keen sat bare-chested. His increasingly burly body was covered in scorched claw marks, and large portions of his pink dragon scales had curled up and shattered. Those were the lingering traces of divine power left behind by Environment Warrior God Saint Mars in the sky. Even though the wounds constantly burned like lava, making the corners of his eyes twitch in pain, he still clenched the cap of a liquor bottle between his teeth and refused to make a sound.

Before leaving the ship, Jinbe had specially prepared a fish-man