"Madame Shyarly! What's wrong?!"
Seeing this, everyone in the café hurried over in concern.
But Madame Shyarly seemed not to hear them. She simply stared fixedly at her crystal ball and delivered the most terrifying prophecy of her life:
"A man wielding a Black Blade will descend upon this place..."
"He will destroy this island!!!"
This terrifying prophecy of Fish-Man Island's destruction, spoken by the great fortune-teller Madame Shyarly herself, instantly spread throughout Fish-Man Island!
For a time, all of Fish-Man Island plunged into tremendous panic!
Some believed this was divine punishment for the Fish-Man Race's friendship with humans, a judgment of the apocalypse!
Others believed that perhaps this was not destruction but a different kind of salvation-the hope of freeing Fish-Man Island completely from the shackles of the deep sea and bringing them back beneath the true sun!
Inside Ryugu Palace, the atmosphere was equally grim.
"Father! What are we going to do?!"
"Could that prophecy really be true?!"
Neptune, the coelacanth merman who ruled Fish-Man Island, listened to his ministers' panicked reports and felt his head pounding.
What gave him an even greater headache was that, according to the latest intelligence from the harbor guards, the identity of the man wielding a Black Blade in the prophecy had all but been confirmed.
He was none other than the terrifying monster who, not long ago during the Paramount War, had single-handedly shaken up the entire world order-
Ye Chuanliu, whose bounty stood at a staggering three billion Beli!
"Ye Chuanliu? Why would he come to our Fish-Man Island?!"
King Neptune stared at the bounty poster in his hand, one that would make any king turn pale, as cold sweat streamed down his forehead.
Not daring to delay in the slightest, he immediately issued orders of the highest priority