If things look bad, run

Rattle!

Chains scraped, then pulled taut, dragging the giant sailing

ship forward with them.

Before long, everyone at the Freedom's bow saw a long black silhouette emerge from the thick fog ahead. As they drew closer, they realized that the shadow was a moving island!

Looking up, they saw a sail so enormous it loomed over the entire island, with a skull emblazoned on it. Only then did they realize that the legendary Thriller Bark was actually a ship.

They reached the teeth of the island's enormous mouth.

The island's mouth remained closed.

Kuta knew that Moria had already discovered them.

Since Moria knew who he was, his actions made it clear that he did not want Kuta coming aboard.

"You think I won't come aboard just because you won't let me?"

Staring at the enormous, tooth-lined gate before him, Kuta's eyes flashed coldly.

Shing!

His blade rang out.

The crisp ring of steel carried with extraordinary clarity across the silent, dark sea beneath the thick fog, as though it echoed throughout heaven and earth.

With a cold flash of steel, two enormous, crescent-shaped, silver-gray slashes hummed through the air, crossed the intervening space, and appeared before the enormous mouth in an instant, one on either side.

Before the enormous mouth could possibly react, the slashes sliced straight through its teeth with a soft hiss, as easily as cutting tofu.

Boom!

After the blade light passed, the middle section of the enormous gate fell straight into the sea.

Clearly, this gate could not stop Kuta and his crew.

The Freedom continued forward, breaking through the spray thrown up by the falling gate, and stopped beyond it in a U-shaped harbor resembling a person's lower jaw.

"Moria, come out and see me!"

Kuta was not King Luffy. He was not about