"I've changed my mind."
When Rocks D. Zebek's cold, unquestionable voice rang out through the Den Den Mushi across the deck of the Queen Mama Chanter, the entire world seemed to pause.
Charlotte Linlin, who a second earlier had been furious and stunned at being suppressed by Yas's Conqueror's Haki, shuddered the instant she heard that voice. A trace of... fear flashed involuntarily through her blood-red eyes.
"R-Rocks..." She struggled to utter the name.
Meanwhile, in the distance, at the bow of the Leviathan.
Yas's normally placid ice-blue eyes narrowed slightly for the first time as he caught that voice.
He could "hear" it.
He could "hear" the pure "evil" within that voice, utterly different from his own will of "Divine Punishment," yet arriving at the same destination on some level!
It was the ultimate ambition and madness to drag the entire world into darkness, overturn all order, and trample everyone underfoot!
"An interesting fellow," Yas murmured, the faintest curve lifting the corner of his mouth.
At the same time.
The New World, the pirates' paradise, Hachinosu.
Inside the great castle hall fashioned from an enormous skull, the atmosphere was unbearably oppressive.
Whitebeard, Golden Lion, Captain John... all the officers of the Rocks Pirates watched the man on the throne, not daring to breathe too loudly.
Rocks D. Zebek.
He slowly lowered the Den Den Mushi in his hand. His face, usually wearing a crazed smile, was now cold and calm as ice that had endured for ten thousand years.
But everyone knew that beneath that calm lay a killing intent more terrifying than any storm!
Just moments ago, through his informants scattered across the world and a special Den Den Mushi, he had "watched" the entirety of Yas's battle with Charlotte Linlin.
From erasing a Devil Fruit ability