The lingering chimes of midnight still circled above Water 7, but icy killing intent had already seeped into every inch of the walls of the Galley-La Company president's mansion.
Blueno pressed his palm against the solid wooden wall of the study. The instant he activated his Door-Door Fruit ability, a round hidden door appeared silently in the middle of the wall. Rob Lucci led the way, darting into the study like a black panther, with Kaku and Kalifa close behind. Seven dark figures sealed off the entire study in an instant.
"Don't move!"
Iceburg sprang from his chair and instantly drew the pistol behind his waist, aiming straight at the Bull-Headed Mask Man at the front, his finger clamped tightly on the trigger. But the moment he finished speaking, Kaku flashed to his side with Geppo and chopped precisely at his wrist. The pistol clattered to the floor, and Iceburg was slammed against the desk, unable to move.
The masked men did not kill him immediately. They simply stood around him, their icy gazes settling on Iceburg as though he were prey caught in a trap.
"Who the hell are you?" Iceburg gritted his teeth, cold sweat sliding down his cheeks from his temples. He could clearly sense a chilling pressure from these seven people unlike anything he had encountered in his life. "Are you with the World Government?"
The Bull-Headed Mask Man at the front gave a low chuckle and raised a hand to remove his mask, revealing a face Iceburg knew all too well-Rob Lucci, the ace shipwright of the Galley-La Company's Dock One.
Then Kaku removed his skull mask, Kalifa her red mask, and Blueno his bear mask. The remaining three-Kumadori, Fukurou, and Jabra-also revealed their true faces.
Iceburg's pupils abruptly contracted. It felt as though all