Robin grew worried when she heard Carol's weary voice.
"Are you all right?"
Carol's hoarse voice came through.
"I'm fine."
"Stay there for a while."
"I'll bring you back once things settle down a little here."
He hung up as soon as he finished, clearly in no mood for conversation and with no energy for it either.
Robin breathed a sigh of relief and regained some of her composure. She looked at the Visual Den Den Mushi displaying scrambled images, then at the Den Den Mushi in her hand that had just disconnected.
An eerie sense that something was wrong lingered, as though an earth-shattering scheme was slowly unfolding...
The New World, at the former site of Mary Geoise.
A massive breach had been torn through the Red Line, which towered ten thousand meters high like a city wall. The New World was now fully connected to the Grand Line.
The islands on either side had capsized and sunk in the earthquakes.
The shock waves from that earth-shattering explosion sent wave after wave of hurricanes and tsunamis sweeping across the world.
At the edge of the atmosphere.
After hanging up the Den Den Mushi, Carol kept sweeping the area with his Observation Haki, his eyes bloodshot, but still found nothing. Though he had prepared himself, he could not calm down.
"Cough, cough-"
After spending so long at the heart of the gathered volcanic ash, Carol's already weakened body could not hold out, and he coughed up blood. He wiped it away and continued searching...
Half a day later.
The island drifting over from the moon slowly appeared above the enormous blue planet, before it had even entered the atmosphere.
A bolt of lightning struck down, plunging straight from the edge of the atmosphere into the flowing magma at