"This should be the place. The city center should be in this direction.
But why is it completely different from the map on the monument?
Did the force of the Knock Up Stream blow it apart?"
Following the map, Robin had arrived at an entrance to the center of Shandora. She looked at the scenery before her and spoke in puzzlement, seeing how different it was from what the map depicted.
She stepped through the opening and followed the passage, soon entering the space within.
Rustle...
Rustle...
"Hmm..."
Robin walked across the soft Island Cloud beneath her feet to a stone figure pillar.
She crouched down and copied the entire inscription into her notebook.
Then she sat on a collapsed wall and carefully studied what it said.
"This is so strange...
Is this where the City of Gold was?
The terrain and area are completely different...
And what's even stranger is... hmm... could it be..."
Robin hesitated at first, seeing how completely different the place was from the description, then guessed at another possibility.
Rustle...
Rustle...
Rustle...
Thud... hiss...
Inside Shandora's tallest building, Robin was alone, cutting through the Island Cloud beneath her with a knife and using her ability to carry it upward. By now, she had nearly dug to the bottom.
"Phew...
Hmm... the knife can reach through to the bottom now."
Robin caught her breath, then poked the Island Cloud with her knife again. Seeing a glimmer of light through the hole below, she finally breathed a sigh of relief and spoke.
She cut a circular opening with her knife and jumped down through it, arriving inside the building.
"I never expected it to be this big...
Just as I thought, this ruin is exactly what I imagined."
"It's clearly a Blue Sea ruin, so how could it have been completely covered in Island Cloud...?
I thought it was strange at the time... so the ruins above were simply eroded by Island Cloud, and the lower half should still be here."
Robin had arrived at an important guess from the information in her notebook and put it to the test. Now her idea had indeed been confirmed.
Rustle...
Rustle, rustle...
Robin continued forward, cutting through the roots blocking her way with the knife in her hand, until she came to another passage entrance.
"Hmm... there's light..."
She followed the light into the passage.
"I never expected it to be here... How magnificent must the city of Shandora have been before it suddenly vanished 800 years ago? Even now, it's still so magnificent... so grand...
This is... the City of Gold... Shandora!!"
Sitting at the end of the passage, Robin gazed at the sight before her and exclaimed in heartfelt admiration.
The northeastern coast of God's Island
"Sorry about this. This should be far enough, right? Conis, this should be the coast where they agreed to meet, shouldn't it?"
Following Luo Chen's instructions before he left, Conis and her father had brought the Going Merry here. Her father then asked her the question.
"Yes, Father. That's what Lord Luo Chen told us before he left. He said this was where Miss Nami and her companions agreed to meet."
Conis answered her father.
"But asking us to watch the ship puts us in a difficult position!
Still, we have to guard this ship until they return.
But it's rather dangerous outside. How about this? I'll go down and turn on the horn to scare the enemies."
Her father felt troubled because it was very dangerous here. Then he thought of turning on the horn to frighten their enemies and made the suggestion.
"All right, Father. That'll help give us courage!"
Conis agreed with her father's suggestion.
Honk, honk, honk...
Honk, honk, honk...
Honk, honk, honk...
The horn on the Waver was switched on, filling the air with a noisy blare.
"Su, can you go over there and keep watch?"
Her father directed the little fox to check on the other side of the ship.
"Su!!"
The little fox called out with a serious expression, then went over there to keep watch.
"All right!! I'll do my best to take care of you, so you all have to stay strong too!"
Inside the cabin, Conis knelt before the unconscious Usopp and the others, giving herself a pep talk.
"I hope everyone's all right! But Sky Island is in such chaos right now, it really is worrying!!"
Conis's father stood on the deck, looking into the forest as he spoke worriedly.
"To the shrine! If we're going to take Enel's head, now's the time..."
In the Upper Yard, the surviving Shandia warriors pressed onward over the bodies of their comrades.
"Don't let them get to the shrine!! Meh..."
In front of them, the divine soldiers desperately tried to block their path.
"Wyper, don't use the Reject Dial again.
Don't challenge Enel!!"
Laki pressed onward along the cloud stream. After seeing the tragedy that had befallen her comrades, she wanted to stop Wyper from continuing to dream of challenging Enel's divine authority.
"Hahaha... yes, that's it. All of you, come on up and slaughter one another in the ruins above..."
Somewhere in the forest, Enel sat atop the branch of a great tree, using Observation Haki to sense what was happening on the island as he laughed aloud.
"God's prophecy... is absolutely correct!!"
High above the giant vine.
"Boom!!"
A massive column of gas blasted from Wyper's cannon toward Gan Fall.
"Wyper, stop!! I'm not..."
Gan Fall shouted, trying to make him stop attacking.
"What? Are you trying to say you're not my enemy?
As far as we're concerned, you and Enel are cut from the same cloth, Gan Fall!!"
Wyper didn't listen to him at all. In his eyes, Gan Fall, just like Enel, was his enemy.
As enemies, they naturally had to be eliminated, so he had no intention of stopping his attack on him.
"Why won't you listen?!!"
Gan Fall spoke helplessly.
Hissssss!!
Just then, a disturbance came from behind him. The Lord of the Sky thrust its serpent head forward and lunged at Gan Fall.
"Hmm..."
Gan Fall hurriedly rode Pierre away from the serpent's jaws.
"Damn it!!"
Thud...
Wyper couldn't resist attacking the Lord of the Sky again, but his attack couldn't even pierce its scales.
And the person inside the giant serpent's belly...
"Aaaaaaah!! I can't stand this lousy hole anymore...
Aaaaaaah!!"
Luffy suffered as the giant serpent kept rolling its body, and he shouted loudly inside it.
"Cough, cough!!
What was that attack just now...?"
Zoro clutched the wound on his stomach and asked.
"Hmph! Blue Sea People are annoying because they're useless...
This blade is made of Iron Cloud too. In other words, I can use the dial set into its hilt to add more Iron Cloud to the blade..."
Holding the ever-changing sword in his left hand, Ohm spoke, then swung it at him again.
"To keep pursuing an enemy!!"
Clang!!
Zoro blocked his attack with his swords.
"Heh heh, do you understand now, swordsman from the Blue Sea?!!"
Ohm looked at him arrogantly as he spoke.
"I get it. Isn't it just like a whip?
Looks like the White-White Sea is a gathering place for juggling fighters!!"
Having heard his explanation, Zoro understood how Ohm's bizarre attack worked.