"It stopped?"
When Zephyr's incredulous murmur rang out through the loudspeakers on the bridge, everyone's mind went blank.
Sakazuki stared fixedly at the screen. His face, which had only just reflected a worldview reshaped by Yas's power, was once again overtaken by an emotion called "upheaval."
In Bullet's beastlike eyes, beyond awe, there was even more bewilderment over the limits of strength.
"Oh my~" Borsalino adjusted his slipping sunglasses. The corners of his mouth instinctively tried to rise, only for him to discover that his facial muscles had gone completely stiff. "Now this really is... nothing to laugh about~"
Through the surveillance screen, somewhat blurred by distance and energy interference but still clear enough to make out shapes, they saw it.
They saw an apocalyptic tableau that could move even the gods.
The floating continent of Merveille, larger than an entire country, had come to a complete, motionless halt in midair less than a thousand meters above the sea, in utter defiance of the laws of physics and all ordinary cause and effect!
The terrifying wind pressure from its violent descent whipped up towering waves across the sea, but compared with the world-ending tsunami its direct impact would have caused, these were as gentle as ripples in a pond!
And beneath that shadow of death, vast enough to blot out the entire sky.
A white figure, so tiny as to be almost negligible, hovered silently.
He had simply spread his arms and raised them.
As though he were holding up not a continent, but a feather.
One man held up the sky!
Those words seared themselves like the deepest brand into the souls of everyone who witnessed the sight!
"Th-this... this..."
Amid the ruins of the G-5 Branch, the Marines fortunate enough to survive stared up at the sky, utterly