Meanwhile.
Onigashima, Wano Country, in the New World.
"Glug, glug, glug!"
His Adam's apple bobbed in his thick neck as liquor spilled from the corners of his mouth and dripped onto the floor.
Around him, pirates wearing various bull-horned helmets looked up nervously and fearfully at the enormous figure before them.
His terrifying presence loomed like a mountain that could crush them at any moment, keeping their nerves stretched taut.
"Worororororo!!"
He hurled the emptied wine jar away, smashing it against the floor. His face flushed, the towering figure suddenly broke into a strange laugh.
"How ridiculous, Whitebeard!"
"You actually got captured by the Marines!"
"A lifetime of glory, gone in a single day!"
Mocking, scornful words spilled from the huge man's mouth.
The pirates flinched, their legs trembling. They had realized their captain was drunk.
And anyone who had experienced the consequences of his drunkenness knew just how terrifying they were.
"Ridiculous!!!"
Suddenly, an utterly sinister roar erupted overhead.
A massive foot slammed into a nearby pirate's waist, sending him flying with a scream.
"Ridiculous! Ridiculous!! Utterly ridiculous!!!"
The man roared.
Tears actually spilled from his eyes.
"A Great Pirate with such a glorious reputation, and the Marines got to take him!"
"Whitebeard!!!"
"I should have been the one to cut off your head!"
The man cried and laughed, shouted and screamed.
His wildly unstable emotional state left all the pirates around him trembling with fear.
Just then, a cold figure stepped through the doorway, a flame burning on his back and a birdlike metal mask covering his face.
"Lord King!"
The pirates were startled, but they also breathed a sigh of relief.
With King here, their captain would no longer focus his attention on them.
After sweeping his cold eyes around the room, King looked at the drunken