Damn!
Feeling the terrifying pressure from the sky, almost suffocating even at such a distance, Kizaru's mouth twitched. He wanted nothing more than to turn and run, but he couldn't!
He glanced at Saint Saturn of the Five Elders. With that imposing figure here, if he dared desert the battlefield, the World Government would put out a worldwide bounty on him the moment he returned.
But...
Saturn gave him an enormous surprise.
"Kizaru, withdraw first!"
Saturn looked up at the terrifying presence in the sky, his expression grave, and told Kizaru to leave ahead of him.
"Afterward, we'll..."
Before he could finish saying they would contact each other by Den Den Mushi afterward, Kizaru had vanished without a trace. He fled at astonishing speed, afraid Saturn might change his mind the next instant.
Saturn's face darkened at the sight.
He had told Kizaru to leave because he didn't want to lose an Admiral. Who would have thought Kizaru was such a coward?
"Is that Tux Oak, the pirate with the highest bounty in history?!"
Beside Saturn, Tesoro also stared blankly up at the terrifying presence in the sky. Though he couldn't make out the man's face, that aura alone, which made him want to drop to his knees, told him who it was. And then there were the reactions of Saint Saturn and Admiral Kizaru.
There wasn't another person in the world who could make them so wary and afraid.
That realization filled Tesoro with overwhelming terror.
The three former lieutenants of the Four Emperors' pirate crews facing him had been sent by that man in the sky to kill him. Once the man landed, would he have any hope of surviving?
At that moment, Tesoro wanted to flee just as Kizaru had, but he didn't have Kizaru's incredible mobility.