"Come to think of it, a giant's ability to 'push' could be considered a rudimentary form of rock manipulation..."
Sending the two officers skilled in earth and traversal should have made things easier.
They could easily avoid the venom and move freely through the rock.
But against an expert who could anticipate their moves, that advantage would crumble in an instant.
So, in the end, he had to make this trip himself.
While the Donquixote party returned to Carnival Island to consolidate their power, the New World was already boiling over.
"That bastard Roger-!"
On Whole Cake Island, where the Totto Land Kingdom had only recently been founded, the nearly thirty-foot-tall woman known as "the sea's greatest **"
Charlotte Linlin was venting her fury on everything around her.
Beneath her skull-adorned captain's hat, long pink hair spilled messily over her shoulders. Her heavy coat could not conceal her increasingly plump figure-her obsession with sweets, lack of exercise, and successive pregnancies kept expanding her waistline.
"He beat every other pirate to the top, only to get thrown in prison by the Marines right afterward?"
"He disgraced the entire sea-"
"Mama, shouldn't you be angry about something else right now?"
A calm reminder came from beside her.
Slender fingers held a candy cane, and the thick face paint on a pointed face creased as its owner's lips moved.
The tall, thin young man cut off the legendary figure's roar.
"The rubbing of the Road Poneglyph disappeared from the treasury before Roger became the Pirate King."
"Those indestructible stone tablets must have something to do with the throne."
"Mamamama, is that so?"
The merriment did not last.
The enormous figure in the broad chair leaned forward, casting a shadow over the deck.
"Where can I find someone who can read the writing?