The once-calm sea churned with fierce winds as dark clouds rolled in, and the thunder drew ever closer.
Everyone's attention was drawn over, and they stopped what they were doing.
Doflamingo, who had been lounging in the sun with a relaxed expression, now had cold sweat trickling down his forehead. He forced a smile.
"Fufufufufu, they finally caught up, huh? Kaido, and Big Mom!"
As his voice fell, a massive Azure Dragon body emerged from the storm clouds, riding flame clouds amid thunder and lightning. Its lantern-sized eyes stared fixedly at everyone present.
"Ka... Kaido..."
"Kaido of the Beasts..."
In an instant, most of the pirates recognized the Azure Dragon's true identity. He was Kaido of the Beasts, Governor of the Beasts Pirates, one of the emperors who ruled the New World and was feared by the vast majority.
Terror instantly made most of them cry out in despair.
"What kind of joke is this? We haven't even found Laugh Tale, and Kaido is here..."
"What do we do? Are we really going to die here?"
"No..."
At that moment, an even more terrifying voice rang across the sea. A pitch-black cloud descended from the sky, transforming into a stretch of heavens before Kaido's enormous dragon head.
Standing atop that dark cloud was the other emperor ruling the New World, captain of the Big Mom Pirates: Charlotte Linlin.
Charlotte Linlin's eyes were wide, brimming with impatient greed, as she roared at the pirates before her.
"Mamamama, how lively. But it looks like they haven't found Laugh Tale yet..."
The arrival of two New World emperors instantly made the atmosphere across the sea incomparably tense.
They stood there without moving, yet their sheer presence pressed down from the sky into everyone's hearts, making most people's legs tremble.
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