"My Kanabo is still stronger!"
Accompanied by Kaido's wild laughter, brimming with the desire for destruction and conquest, the entire New World, that playground of the strong, erupted into a frenzy.
Two beasts at the very pinnacle bared their savage fangs from different directions, both targeting the same prize.
Countless small and medium-sized pirate crews attached to them turned their ships around like sharks scenting blood, swarming toward the once-overlooked ruins called "Kuraigana Island."
The vast majority of them did not even know what was on that island.
They only knew that by following in an emperor's footsteps, even a few scraps slipping through a giant beast's fingers would be enough to secure them a foothold in the New World.
For a time, Kuraigana Island, a deserted island reduced to ruins by war several years earlier, abruptly became the focus of the entire world!
Yet above this turbulent sea with its surging undercurrents, a streak of light surpassed everyone's imagination, disregarding all distance and obstacles.
While Kaido and Big Mom were still assembling their forces and deploying their troops, a bolt of azure lightning tearing across the sky had already descended above the island shrouded in darkness and an ominous atmosphere, as precise and overbearing as a spear of judgment cast down by a heavenly god.
Yas's figure re-formed from the lightning.
He hovered thousands of meters in the air, his ice-blue eyes gazing impassively down at the chaotic island below.
Unlike Captain John's "Island of the Dead," riddled with vicious traps, Kuraigana Island gave an impression of nothing but decay and desolation.
Collapsed castles, dilapidated houses, dried-up moats, and chilling white bones, long since weathered, lay everywhere.
The air was thick with a nauseating mixture of death, gunpowder smoke, and despair.
And within those vast ruins, one chaotic scene