"Looks like I'll have to handle you myself to get that little hedgehog body of yours warmed up!"
As Whitebeard's voice thundered through the heavens, his towering, mountainlike body finally rose slowly from his enormous throne.
Boom!
An indescribably terrifying presence erupted from his body, as though it would trample heaven and earth beneath its feet. It was not merely Conqueror's Haki, but an overwhelming domain unique to Edward Newgate, combining the supreme will of the World's Strongest Man with the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, enough to overturn the world.
Beneath that presence, the sea, which had already calmed, began boiling and roaring wildly once more. Overhead, thick clouds gathered out of nowhere across skies that had been clear for miles just moments before. Lightning flashed and thunder rolled within them, as though they were trembling and wailing at this emperor of the sea's awakening.
Inside the Leviathan's bridge, every Marine felt as though an invisible giant hand had seized their heart when that terrifying pressure descended like the might of heaven. Even breathing became a luxury. Their bodies shook violently beyond their control, and their legs went weak, nearly sending them to their knees.
"Th-this is the presence of the World's Strongest Man?" Brannew's lips trembled. He stared at the godlike, demonic figure on the Surveillance Den Den Mushi's screen, who had shaken heaven and earth merely by standing up. He felt his very soul shuddering. Though their faith in Yas had been fanatical, only now did they truly understand what a terrifying den of monsters they had entered.
In front of them, however, the black figure who had remained as immovable as a mountain finally made a new move. Yas slowly raised his head. In his eyes, where vortexes of black lightning burned, a trace of genuine