After a round of relentless bombardment, Xie Wen, whose Armament Haki was nearly depleted, finally returned to Explorer One with Klee Meow, who had played to her heart's content, and Meow Jūshirō, whose limbs had gone weak from the explosions...
Sure enough, Klee Meow's bombs had grown even more powerful!
Watching the island, which had lost nearly half its area, gradually disappear from view, Xie Wen sighed helplessly.
And once they entered the New World, the power of explosives would go up yet again!
After all, the enormous bomb in the first half had failed to kill Pell, who did not know Armament Haki, while a bomb with a modest blast radius in the second half had blown off one of Perospero's arms and outright killed Ashura Doji, both of whom could use Armament Haki.
Ruling out creative reasons such as the author contradicting established lore or the demands of the plot, there was only one possibility: in the second half, where Haki users were plentiful, explosive formulas designed to counter Armament Haki had already been developed.
There was also that Dyna Stone, which had only appeared in a movie. He had no idea whether the stuff actually existed in this world.
There was no helping it. Some movies and TV-original storylines contradicted the main story's established lore in far too many ways. Who the hell knew which parts were real and which were not?
Take that great gold pirate Woonan, who supposedly owned a third of all the gold in the world. His bounty was only sixty million Beli.
If the early movies felt out of place because Oda had not been involved, then the later movies were relatively more reliable... though some things still did not quite line up.
Unfortunately, the movie about Zephyr belonged to the relatively