Upon seeing the ravaged, dilapidated land beneath their feet,
all the young women on the deck simultaneously covered their mouths.
Two days ago, when they arrived, Cocoyasi Village was still a vibrant, peaceful village.
Though not wealthy, its people lived in peace and contentment, and happiness permeated everywhere.
However...
Now, two days later,
this happy village had vanished.
It no longer existed!
It had completely become a wisp of historical smoke!
"How could something like this happen?"
Kuina murmured unconsciously, her eyes red.
"Those ferocious beasts did it! Damn it!"
Bonney clenched her small pink fists.
"Those ferocious beasts… where did they come from?"
Kalifa's face paled with fright.
"This is truly too much!"
Koala, the revolutionary young woman who came with the ship, shook her head repeatedly.
"Those frenzied beasts… they also appeared during the Water 7 incident. This is a pirate's revenge!"
Robin stated with certainty.
"To do something like this, he absolutely cannot be forgiven!"
Ulti ground her silver teeth.
"Nami, you…"
Vivi looked at Nami with a worried expression.
From beginning to end,
Nami had merely stared blankly at her ruined homeland, not saying a word.
"No… it can't be, I don't believe it…"
Whoosh!
Nami transformed into a flash of lightning, elementalizing and rushing towards the orange grove cottage on the mountaintop.
"Nami!!!"
The young women cried out in unison.
"It's alright! Everything will be fine!"
Roland finally spoke, his voice calm and firm.
Listening to his voice, the restless hearts of the young women immediately settled down.
"That's right!"
"The most pressing matter now is to deal with those rampaging beasts!"
"And to search for anyone who might still be alive!"
The young women quickly began to act.
In less than ten minutes,
the hundred-plus mutated ferocious beasts rampaging through Cocoyasi Village were all slain on the spot.
At the orange grove cottage on the mountaintop.
Nami sat on the charred head of a ferocious beast, as large as a small mountain, staring blankly at the ruined orange grove.
In her hand, she tightly clutched a small Transponder Snail.
That was the Transponder Snail she had specially left for Nojiko two days ago to contact her.
However...
After the recent contact,
the Transponder Snail had fallen here, but Nojiko was gone.
". If you want to cry, then cry!"
A faint voice came from behind Nami.
Seeing Roland approach her,
Nami's numb face finally showed some change.
Her tightly strung emotions, which she had kept in check, finally broke down uncontrollably.
"It's all gone… Roland, everything is gone… my homeland… Nojiko, Roland… and everyone, they're all gone…"
Tears streamed down Nami's cheeks like a bursting dam.
"I searched with Observation Haki, and there's no one left in the village. Everyone is…"
Roland gently embraced the sobbing girl in his arms, smiling as he interrupted Nami's tearful lament.
"If everyone had died, how could there not be a single corpse to be seen?"
"Huh?"
Nami's sobbing suddenly paused.
Normally, with Nami's intelligence, she would have figured it out.
But at this moment, Nami's mind was in extreme disarray, completely unable to think.
"Honestly, Roland, stop being so mysterious and just tell Nami!"
Vivi, along with the other young women and Sabo, arrived one after another.
"Seeing is believing. I'll just take you to see for yourselves!"
Roland smiled mysteriously.
With a flip of his hand, he produced a special black token.
The moment he grasped it, black shadows continuously gathered and took shape.
More than a dozen burly black Shadow Warriors appeared out of thin air.
"What the f***!!!"
"What is this?"
Sabo and Koala, who witnessed this miraculous scene firsthand, couldn't help but widen their eyes, blurting out exclamations.
In contrast, the young women, who were also seeing the Shadow Warriors for the first time, looked much calmer.
Because they were already used to it; no matter what strange things Roland brought out, they wouldn't be too surprised.
"Giants, take us to the Black Shadow Kingdom!"
Roland calmly ordered.
The next second,
more than a dozen burly Shadow Warriors lifted the "Never Empty Army".
Both the ship and the people were pulled together into the black abyss on the ground.
Not long after,
Roland's group arrived deep within the shadow dimension.
A massive palace appeared in everyone's sight.
In the plaza in front of the palace, all 1,196 people from Cocoyasi Village were gathered!!!
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