"So it really was just a Pacifista?"
Ye Chuan understood.
Sure enough, another figure slowly emerged from behind Kuma.
"Honestly... PX-4, didn't I tell you to wait over there? Why did you come here on your own?"
The newcomer wore an enormous bellyband and carried a massive battle-axe on his back. It was Sentomaru.
Looking at the wrecked restaurant and Bonney, who had frozen at the sight of the Pacifista, he asked impatiently:
"Hey, Big Eater, I'm talking to you."
"Have you seen a black-haired brat carrying a black tachi, with a really high bounty? He's got two women with him."
But at that moment, Bonney seemed not to hear Sentomaru's questions at all.
Her beautiful purple eyes were fixed on PX-4.
That face, identical to her father Bartholomew Kuma's, instantly dragged her back into her most painful memories!
Anger, sorrow, fear... all those tangled emotions seized her heart at once, leaving her body rigid and unable to utter a single word.
"Tch, I asked you a question. Have you gone mute?"
Seeing that Bonney would not speak, Sentomaru grew even more impatient.
He had no time to waste here on some little girl.
He swung his enormous battle-axe, pointed it at Bonney, and gave the Pacifista beside him a cold command:
"What a disobedient woman. In that case, PX-4, get rid of her first!"
"Fire!"
The Pacifista called PX-4 emitted an emotionless, mechanically synthesized voice.
He slowly raised his arm and opened his mouth. A dazzling yellow light began rapidly gathering inside it!
It was a laser derived from Kizaru's Glint-Glint Fruit ability, powerful enough to pierce steel plates several meters thick with ease!
"Stop!"
Robin's expression changed at the sight, and she immediately moved to activate her ability.
But just as the devastating laser was about to fire-