"Leave that fly on the mountain-to me!"
Rocks's declaration, brimming with absolute dominance and arrogance, echoed like thunder over the chaos of God Valley.
Whitebeard, Big Mom, and Kaido, the three beasts already crazed with slaughter, all paused.
In unison, they turned their gazes toward the solitary peak Rocks had pointed to, towering into the clouds.
When their gazes-or rather, their Observation Haki-touched the cold, white figure sitting cross-legged on the summit, three entirely different expressions appeared on their faces.
For the first time, a trace of gravity appeared on Whitebeard's face, which always wore an unrestrained smile.
What a powerful presence!
This cold, deathly still presence, as vast as a sea of stars, felt even purer than Captain Rocks's!
Was this really power the Navy could possess?
But the instant Big Mom and Kaido sensed that familiar presence, their bodies stiffened!
On faces always filled with brutality and greed, utter terror rose uncontrollably from the depths of their souls!
It was that man!
The White Demon God who had shattered all of Kaido's pride with one punch, flattened an entire island with a single move, and trampled them like garbage!
Why was he here?!
"Ma... mamama..."
An incoherent, terrified tremor escaped Big Mom's throat.
She instinctively wanted to turn and flee!
The moment that thought arose, she forcibly suppressed it!
No! She couldn't!
The captain was here!
If she dared show cowardice before the captain, her fate would be ten thousand times more miserable than dying at that White Demon God's hands!
Kaido's beastlike eyes were likewise filled with conflict and terror.
He instinctively touched his jaw. Though it had already healed, the horrifying pain of having it shattered by a single punch, leaving even his soul trembling, seemed to return with perfect clarity!
*Had he come to join