Behind a massive boulder.
Gladius watched Sugar's movements through a crack in the rock and lowered his voice as he spoke to Diamante beside him:
"Diamante, this won't do. None of us know Observation Haki, so it'll be hard to hit that little brat when she's so fast. We have to wait patiently for an opening! When the time comes, coordinate with the others' attacks and take her out in one blow!"
Diamante raised an eyebrow in surprise. "Oh? Hearing that from a hothead like you who blows up at the slightest provocation is really something."
Gladius clenched his fists helplessly, his hair standing on end with anger—the sign that he was furious:
"Hmph! I don't want this either! I hate unexpected changes more than anything! That brat in front of us is an enemy outside the plan.
But that brat is too damn strange. If we don't come up with something, we might all go down here! This is our only option!"
However, while they were fully focused on Sugar ahead of them and discussing countermeasures, they failed to notice transparent ripples silently spreading through the air behind them.
An Air Door appeared out of nowhere.
The door silently opened.
A pair of thick, muscular arms shot out from within like a cheetah that had been lying in wait, moving faster than the eye could follow!
Before Gladius and Diamante could react, icy hands like iron pincers clamped around the backs of their necks. An irresistible force yanked them both backward.
"Mm?!"
"What?!"
They only had time to let out half a startled cry before they were instantly dragged into the strange Air Door.
The next second, the door silently shut and vanished just as it had appeared.
Only the massive boulder and the empty snowfield before it remained,