"No way..."
"We're done for! What is that?!"
"It's almost broad daylight!"
"Luffy with a hundred shadows beat Oars so badly he couldn't fight back... and Moria has ten times that many?"
"An ability user's capacity really is on another level!"
"We're dead now!"
At that moment, Moria seemed to have truly become a devil from the underworld. His enormous body strained to support itself against the ground as he let out one demonic roar after another!
"Roooar!"
Already gripped by panic, the pirates grew even more terrified at Moria's roar. They clamped their hands over their ears, as though trying to shut out that horrifying sound. What did it feel like to have a newly kindled hope snuffed out in an instant?
Despair!
And now, that was the only emotion left on the faces of the pirates who had just run out of the forest, believing they would finally be able to see the sunlight.
"We were so close to winning! How did it suddenly turn into this?"
"Straw Hat's shadow got sucked in too! Run!"
"We're definitely finished!"
"Oh, God!"
"Our bodies are going to melt!"
Unlike the panicking Forest Pirates, however, the Straw Hat Pirates slowly rose to their feet. Even Luffy, who had shrunk into a little kid, struggled upright and stared expressionlessly at the overwhelmingly powerful Moria...
Barn did the same. Holding the First-Generation Onikiri, its blade gleaming a cold red in the rising sunlight, he stood expressionlessly before Moria.
Just then, Moria let out that demonic voice again!
"Barn! Do you see now?! Even you can't defeat me as I am now! I'll use this power to beat Kaido! And then I'll take the throne of the Pirate King!"
As he spoke, Moria let out a series of roars!
"Roooooar!"
Moria, now larger than