Inside the Fleet Admiral's Office.
After admiring the view for a while, Sakazuki and Carol returned here.
Sitting in the Fleet Admiral's chair, Sakazuki looked through some documents for the first time in a while, along with reports on the current war situation. Nothing much had changed. He closed the files and set them aside.
"Have you found any unusual Devil Fruit Users lately?"
Carol smiled.
"Yes, quite a few, actually."
"I don't know why, but more users with relatively rare abilities have been appearing lately."
"They've all been registered."
As he spoke, he opened the drawer at his seat, took out a booklet, and handed it to Sakazuki.
It was packed with records of ability users, with the rarer ones specially marked.
Sakazuki took it, skimmed through it, and nodded slightly.
"Find some time to deal with these people."
"Pick out some Paramecia fruits to recover."
"The Barrier-Barrier Fruit, the Magnet-Magnet Fruit, and the like."
"Leave the others for now. There's no rush."
Sakazuki remembered a request for reinforcements among the documents he had just read.
"The Rommel Kingdom is in the New World, right?"
"Go take a look tonight."
Carol nodded.
"Yes, sir."
Late that night.
The New World, the Rommel Kingdom.
The entire Royal Capital was brightly lit yet utterly silent. Every room had been illuminated by all manner of light sources, leaving no dark corners, but people still huddled in corners with weapons in their hands, terrified of something.
It had all begun with a legend that had spread at some unknown point: "Rommel's Kamaitachi."
"Rommel's Kamaitachi" had earned its name by killing with the swiftness of the wind.
At first, the rumors had circulated throughout the Royal Capital, then spread across the entire kingdom.
According to the rumors, once night fell, a demonlike figure