"But in the years that followed, that passage must have closed for some unknown reason. Otherwise, the energy wouldn't have simply run out and dissipated after being used. It would have acted like a beacon, drawing in that Devil's power."
"That's all we can do—guess." The arcs of electricity around Kuina vanished, and she slipped her arm around Kuta's again. Tilting her head, she smiled at him. "Who knows what happened so long ago?"
"Maybe in ancient times, Devils like that were... no, maybe they were the beings ancient people called gods!"
"Gods?"
Kuta thought for a moment, then nodded. "You have a point. In ancient times, this world might have been full of all kinds of mysterious powers. And those powers might have come from beings like the one behind that door."
"Then something happened. Those gods cut off their connection to this world and abandoned it."
At that, Kuta looked down once more at the monster. It had sunk almost entirely beneath the sea, leaving only the tip of a horn visible. He withdrew his gaze and soared into the sky with Kuina.
After they left, the waters gradually grew calm. Even the hole the monster's roar had torn through the clouds quickly filled in, and the sky looked as it had before.
If not for the shattered planks drifting on the surface and the vast dark shape slowly sinking into the deep, it would have seemed as though nothing had happened here at all.
No one knew that the last of the Beasts Pirates' forces had vanished in these uncharted waters.
Wano Country
"Kuta! Kuina! Are you all right?"
The moment Kuta and Kuina landed on the Freedom, Ahua and the others looked at them with concern.
They knew how strong the two were. They trusted that