A Frog in a Well Can Never Know How Vast the World Is / You Wretches Think Taking Drugs Can Make You Truly Strong?

A red glint flashed in Kuta's eyes. Without even looking at the Fish-Men charging him, he took another step forward and vanished into the distance like a mirage.

The countless Fish-Men rushing toward him froze in place.

They looked around, frantically searching for him.

"Where did that human go?"

"Damn it! Is that bastard a Devil Fruit User?"

"Everyone, look for him! We have to find him. Hody Jones pushed his ship away. There's no way he'll just leave!"

Fish-Men flooded the street and searched everywhere, but Kuta seemed to have truly vanished. No matter how hard they looked, they found no trace of him.

Then one Fish-Man looked up and spotted what seemed to be a figure floating in the distant sky.

His eyes widened. Once he recognized the figure, he grew excited.

"There's that human!"

At his shout, the others stopped searching and looked up where he pointed.

When they saw that it really was the human, their eyes gleamed with bloodlust.

They surged toward him.

High in the air, Kuta looked down at the towering building below.

This was the New Fish-Man Pirates' headquarters, and the Freedom was moored in an artificial canal behind it.

In the canal sat an enormous Fish-Man shaped like a sea monk, his body as massive as a giant's.

If Kuta remembered right, he was one of Vander Decken's men, a redfin pufferfish Fish-Man.

Kuta couldn't remember his name.

Inside the building, he sensed several presences far stronger than ordinary Fish-Men.

One radiated boundless madness. That had to be Hody Jones.

The other had an unmistakably sleazy air. That must be Vander Decken IX.

A Frog in a Well Could Never Know How Vast the World Was

Kuta ignored the countless Fish-Men closing in from every direction.

They were formidable compared with