Aboard the pirate ship.
Perona had already been scared out of her wits by the battle that had seemed like a natural disaster descending upon them. Hugging Kumashi, she hid in the cabin and trembled.
"That was terrifying. Is that really power a human could possess?"
She muttered to herself, her eyes filled with fear.
"That wasn't even a battle anymore. It was a clash between natural disasters!"
Robin, meanwhile, stood quietly at the bow.
Her deep, beautiful eyes pierced the lingering smoke, gazing into the distance at the black-haired figure kneeling on one knee and panting heavily.
Yet a gentle, heartfelt smile slowly curved her lips.
At the same time, however, her gaze grew utterly grave.
"To single-handedly slay an emperor of the sea who reigned over the New World for decades..."
"He has undoubtedly announced his existence to the entire world in the most staggering way possible."
"From here on, these seas will probably be thrown into complete turmoil."
She leaped lightly off the ship and came to Ye Chuan's side, helping up the man whose exhausted legs could barely keep him standing.
"Let's go, Captain."
Robin said with a faint smile:
"It's time to find the payment you wanted."
With Robin supporting him, Ye Chuan reached the treasury of Whole Cake Chateau Castle, which had already been reduced to ruins.
Perona also gathered her courage, entered her ghost form, and passed through countless floors and walls to help them search for the Poneglyphs Big Mom had collected.
Meanwhile, on an unnamed island somewhere in the New World.
Morgans, the president of the World Economy News Paper, looked at the almost unbelievable, top-secret intelligence that had just arrived from Totto Land, along with a blurry photograph of Big Mom's enormous body crashing to the ground, taken by