Could this thing's "laws" take priority even over Rocks himself?!
The instant this thought, full of doubt and probing curiosity, flashed through Yas's mind, the absolute silence left in the distance by their final showdown was finally shattered by gasps!
"Dead?"
"The captain just..."
"Got sliced apart like tofu?"
Aboard the few distant pirate ships belonging to the remnants of the Rocks Pirates that had miraculously survived "Heavenly Thunder Star Burial," countless pirates stared blankly up at the unbelievable scene in the sky like puppets stripped of their souls, murmuring as though in a dream, their voices filled with bewilderment and disbelief.
In their hearts, their captain had been as powerful as a god, as cruel as a demon king, invincible in battle!
Rocks D. Zebek, who had led them across the seas, challenged the World Government, and was about to ascend as King of the World!
Had he really just died like that?
And in such a humiliating, complete, utterly disgraceful way, casually dismantled into two halves like trash before the entire world?!
"Jihahahaha..."
Golden Lion Shiki, himself a legendary pirate, stood at the bow of his ship. His cigar had long since fallen from his mouth, and his face, usually filled with arrogance and disdain, now mingled relief at surviving with an even greater, absolute terror that rose from the depths of his soul!
His body trembled violently beyond his control!
At that moment, his vaunted Float-Float Fruit ability did not even have the strength to lift a speck of dust!
He had no doubt!
He had no doubt that if the one standing opposite that Navy brat just now had been Golden Lion Shiki rather than Rocks!
His end would have been absolutely no better than Rocks's!
It might even have been worse!
Because he was not