The soft sound of boots touching down rang like a death knell in everyone's hearts. Enel felt his heart leap into his throat, ready to burst out of his mouth at any moment.
Crocodile felt a chill shoot from his tailbone straight to the crown of his head. The palm gripping his golden hook was slick with icy sweat.
The three Baroque agents trembled like quails in a storm, their fear choking even the sound of their chattering teeth in their throats.
Meanwhile, Kirishima Bupai's gaze finally settled on the sizzling, smoking, yet empty frying pan.
Time seemed to stretch countless times over, every second an exquisite torture. Enel watched the last faint glow of the watch on his wrist about to die out completely, and despair swallowed him like an abyss.
My liver... my liver... That terrifying thought was all that remained in his mind, and his body began to shake violently beyond his control.
"Thunder... come, thunder!!!"
Extreme terror instantly turned into destructive power. Driven by his survival instincts, Enel lost all ability to think rationally. Only the most frenzied impulse remained: cook the food.
He flung his arms wide, his single eye crimson from excessive congestion, and an unprecedentedly blinding blaze of lightning erupted from his entire body.
Bzzzz-BOOOOM!!! A Thunder Pillar roared down from the sky like a rampaging Thunder Dragon.
It struck no one. Instead, precisely, brutally, and without holding anything back, it slammed into the frying pan... and the plump piece of foie gras inside it...
Blinding white light illuminated the entire deck. The raging current instantly heated the pan red-hot, and it even showed faint signs of melting.
Under several million volts of electricity and the ultra-high heat generated in an instant, the expensive piece of foie gras let out a fierce sizzle.