Carol nodded and said:
"Yes, sir."
But he did not move immediately. Instead, he stood beside Sakazuki, and silence settled over them.
A moment later.
Sakazuki looked at Carol and patted his shoulder.
"Go."
With that, he turned into a pool of magma without lingering.
He melted straight through the fortress and sank into the island, disappearing from sight.
He was going to channel the magma gathered from the earth veins of the entire New World, down in the deepest reaches of the planet...
Carol stood frozen for a long time before drawing a deep breath, his voice trembling slightly.
"Yes, sir..."
So this day had finally come...
Carol gritted his teeth, and his figure vanished in an instant.
Luffy, whom he held, and Red-Hair's head on the Execution Platform vanished along with him...
Meanwhile, at dawn.
The New World, the ruins of Wano Country.
Jack the Drought, the last remaining member of the Beasts Pirates' All-Stars, had led dozens of pirate ships here, but all they found was an endless expanse of ocean.
Wano Country had disappeared...
They even began to wonder whether this was really where Wano Country had been...
But their years of sailing experience and their calculations could not possibly be wrong. The only explanation was that Wano Country had been wiped out.
None of them could believe it, least of all Jack.
Though he had suspected something, actually seeing it was still impossible to accept.
Wano Country had disappeared, there had been no word from King, and Lord Kaido, whom he had considered invincible, had vanished as well.
Taken together, those facts pointed to only one conclusion-one they could not accept.
Crash!
Jack slammed his fist into the deck, shattering more than half of it as his furious voice rang out.
"Damn it!!"
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