Crack!
The stone shell shattered, and the Age-Age Orbs were extracted one by one.
Two years of time were drawn out of it, while a long-accumulated life force was simultaneously repelled.
When Rocks had been petrified, he had never imagined he could be resurrected, because the Love-Love Fruit's petrification had its drawbacks.
Given enough time, the ability user would inevitably die.
So none of them had taken it seriously at first, but then Shane appeared here, having awakened both the Paw-Paw Fruit and the Age-Age Fruit.
He repelled the time from two years ago, and the stone shell cracked as a life began to revive.
Along with it came unbearable pain.
He had awakened, but after his death, his three Devil Fruits had returned to the seas. Shane had even eaten one of them, the Dark-Dark Fruit. The pain made the man inside the statue roar.
Bang!
The statue's entire outer shell shattered, and a brand-new life stepped out.
Just as the Five Elders' resurrection had actually involved Replications Imu had prepared long beforehand, who was the Rocks who had returned now?
A Rocks who had lost his fruit abilities, with only his life remaining and his memories stopping at his fall at God Valley two years ago.
He looked up with bewildered eyes, which soon filled with delight.
At first, when he saw Shane, he wondered where this giant had come from, but once he saw Shane's face, he recognized the rookie crew member he had once taken under his command.
"Am I not dead?"
Rocks stepped out of the stone statue and discovered that he stood amid ruins covered entirely in rubble. Not a blade of grass grew in God Valley, and there was no telling how long it had been uninhabited.
"You resurrected me? Judging by how