On Egghead Island, the battle between the pirates and the Marines continued, but both Kaido and Big Mom were now thinking of retreating.
Although the two sides were still trading blows on the main battlefield, the pirates actually held more of an advantage, as the Whitebeard Pirates, who had originally chosen to watch from the sidelines, had suddenly joined in for some inexplicable reason.
But the problem facing them was that even if they charged into the interior of Egghead Island, the invisible barrier above the clouds would stop them.
Without the Marines interfering, Kaido and Big Mom could probably have broken through by force with their strength. Now, however, the Marine Admirals kept the two of them firmly occupied, while Garp and the other old men held up their stronger subordinates.
As for the Whitebeard Pirates, although they had joined the battle, they showed no intention of advancing any farther. They merely fought the Marines along the fringes for a while before withdrawing again. Once the Marines noticed this, they stopped provoking them, so expecting Whitebeard to help tie down the Marines' high-level fighters was completely unrealistic.
For precisely that reason, Kaido and Big Mom saw no hope of breaching Egghead Island and taking Vegapunk away.
Of course, giving up was out of the question.
If the two of them had previously only coveted Vegapunk's Artificial Devil Fruits and human gigantification technology, then after seeing the various technological creations on Egghead Island that could change the course of a war, Kaido, Big Mom, and the other forces that had come to fish in troubled waters became even more determined to seize Vegapunk.
However, just as Kaido and Big Mom were about to order a retreat, the lights in Egghead Island's buildings, its holographic images, and everything else suddenly went