Kizaru hurried as fast as he could and finally managed to... not arrive late. The Marine high-speed ship had reached a distance from which Gran Tesoro was visible to the naked eye.
-What on earth was going on with the environment here!?
Standing at the bow, Kizaru scratched his head at the vast, chaotic auroras surrounding Gran Tesoro.
If visibility hadn't been so good, he would have thought he'd run into the world-famous unsolved mystery, the Rainbow Mist.
"Admiral Borsalino-we've caught up! The men are ready to land!"
The Marine Branch Captain responsible for escorting Kizaru to the battlefield mustered his courage and reported.
They were the Marine Branch closest to these waters, and their involvement in the operation was pure happenstance.
"There's no need for that. Just follow behind for now."
Kizaru vanished in a flash of golden light. A second later, he appeared on the balcony of a restaurant somewhere in Gran Tesoro's Commercial District.
-What's this?
His Observation Haki was being badly disrupted, and Kizaru found it rather uncomfortable.
It was like a mildly nearsighted person suddenly losing their glasses. He was nowhere near blind, but it was hard to adjust.
There was also a sensation of standing within an enormous shadow.
Though his Observation Haki was disrupted, Kizaru could still vaguely sense the overall situation.
There were no pedestrians left on the streets, but they were all hiding inside buildings. Titans Mechs were fighting Praying Hands all over the place.
The whole of Gran Tesoro had become rather uncanny.
The cutlery on the balcony's dining tables occasionally discharged electricity from its tips. Auroras appeared within arm's reach on the streets, then vanished without warning. Blue flames-St. Elmo's Fire-also flickered on the streetlights from time to time.
-BOOM!!!
Just as Kizaru was about to teleport toward the