Udon, the quarry.
After Pero and Kizaru disappeared.
A deathly silence hung over the quarry.
A long time passed.
A portly figure emerged from the mine tunnel behind him, trembling all over.
Queen the Plague stared at the devastation before him, his face blank and his eyes filled with fear.
When Kaido had appeared earlier, to avoid disturbing Kaido's enjoyment of the fight,
he had hidden inside the mountain.
He saw that his familiar colleagues had all become ice sculptures, standing throughout the quarry like works of art.
Finally, his gaze settled on the center of the quarry.
Those two enormous legs covered in azure dragon scales were still standing there.
Like two totem poles.
"G-Governor?"
Queen's voice trembled, his chattering teeth keeping him from getting a complete sentence out smoothly.
He could not believe his eyes.
The Governor whom the world called the "Strongest Creature" had not lasted a single move against this Pero.
The body he was so proud of seemed like a joke now.
Without so much as a final word or a roar, he had just... evaporated?
He could not accept it.
"Urgh..."
Queen clapped a hand over his mouth.
His stomach churned violently. He braced himself against the ore beside him and, with a retch, threw up all the roast meat he had eaten for lunch.
Pero and Kizaru walked along a country lane in Wano Country.
Kizaru followed behind Pero with both hands behind his head, a foxtail grass stem between his pursed lips.
His tall frame blocked the sunlight, his shadow covering Pero completely.
"Oh my..." Kizaru broke the silence, speaking as slowly as ever. "Kaido was a major figure, after all. He lorded it over the seas and gave even us Marines headaches for ages."
"And you sent him off with