As the kings attending the Reverie continued their meeting, and the Celestial Dragons living in Mary Geoise continued their lives, none of them noticed that they had just been put on pause!
"Sengoku, did you feel that something was strange?" Zephyr asked with a frown. "I just sensed danger descending, but it vanished in an instant."
"I felt it too!" Sengoku was also puzzled, but he soon let it go. This was the Celestial Dragons' Holy Land—Mary Geoise. Perhaps he and Zephyr had simply been mistaken.
"Enough. The most important thing now is implementing the Shichibukai system!" Sengoku patted Zephyr on the shoulder.
"But..." Zephyr hesitated. Having specialized in Haki, both his Observation Haki and Armament Haki were stronger than Sengoku's. Just now, he had indeed glimpsed a corner of the future. Though it had only been a small part, he had seen Mary Geoise being destroyed by an enormous shell.
"Could I really have been mistaken?"
On Kuraigana Island, Kid looked at the suddenly returned Ryan and asked expectantly, "Captain, how did it go? Did it work?"
"It succeeded, and it failed!"
"What do you mean?" Ryan's words left Kid completely confused.
"Our operation had no problems at all, but the A10 Intercontinental Missile was intercepted in midair just before it exploded!"
"How is that possible!" Kid's face was full of disbelief. He knew the A10 Intercontinental Missile better than anyone. At a speed of 3,300 per second, how could anyone possibly intercept it in midair?
But Ryan's words forced him to accept the fact, because Ryan would not joke with him about something like this.
"Captain, how exactly was it stopped?" Kid asked.
How had it been stopped...
Ryan fell into deep thought. He still could not determine what Imu's ability to freeze everything actually was.
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