Sailing: I was falsely accused of watching Nami bathe, but I'm blind.

Kai was even more confused and puzzled!

Bartholomew Kuma? What's he doing here?! Isn't he one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea? Theoretically, he should be an ally of the World Government! Is he here to help the Marines and Sentomaru completely wipe out the Straw Hat crew?

But... why does the aura emanating from him, though still powerful, carry a kind of... soulless coldness and mechanical quality, like those of pacifists? And... why doesn't he seem to be attacking the Straw Hat crew immediately?

What is Xiong's stance? What is the purpose of his trip?

Kai was filled with questions.

He sensed that the sudden arrival of this "tyrant" bear would likely bring even more unpredictable and disruptive changes to the already chaotic battle!

His own escape plan seems to need to be reassessed and adjusted based on this sudden change.

The situation is becoming increasingly unpredictable!

The sudden arrival of "Tyrant" Bartholomew Kuma was like dropping a bombshell on an already chaotic battlefield, leaving everyone momentarily stunned and bewildered.

Especially Kai, whose sudden arrival of "Tyrant" Bartholomew Bear was like throwing a huge block of ice into a boiling pot of oil. With his extremely keen perception, he clearly captured the aura on the bear that was extremely similar to that of a pacifist. This caused the originally chaotic and fierce battlefield to fall into an eerie and suffocating silence in an instant.

Zhan, however, retained a peculiar state of faint self-awareness (?), which deepened his doubts.

However, Momomaru stopped attacking and looked warily at this fellow "human weapon" (in his opinion), but whose aura was even stronger. What happened next was far beyond Kai's comprehension, and could even be said to have overturned his understanding of the unfathomable Shichibukai.

The two pacifist lasers also temporarily stopped firing, seemingly waiting to confront the question of life and death!

Bartholomew Bear's enormous, steel-like body slowly issued a new command.

The Straw Hat crew, on the verge of collapse, stared in disbelief at the suddenly appearing giant raising his hand covered in a ball of flesh.

His movements were not fast, even somewhat clumsy and formulaic, but they were still impressive.

They couldn't understand why this Shichibukai, who had once spared them on Thriller Bark, possessed such an undeniable and irresistible strange power.

His first target is that person who has already suffered serious injuries but will reappear here? Is he friend or foe?

Kai was hiding in the distance, near Roronoa Zoro, a swordsman who had also exhausted all his senses and was almost on the verge of death.

The bear's paw gently pressed down on Zoro's body.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no devastating energy.

Only by focusing on the bear can we try to understand the purpose of his trip.

The bear's breath remained cold and mechanical, lacking any soft, bubble-like popping sound.

Then... Zoro's powerful physique and obvious emotional fluctuations made it impossible to judge his true intentions.

In that brief, unsettling silence, along with his indomitable swordsman's will, he simply vanished into thin air! As if struck by lightning, the bear slowly raised his massive, gloved paw.

Then, as if an invisible hand had erased it from the world, leaving only a faint, fleshy mark in its place—a mark that no one present (except Rayleigh and Kizaru, who might know the inside story?) could comprehend!

"Zoro!!!" Kai clearly sensed the other Straw Hat crew members unleashing a tearing attack—it had happened!

The bear's first target was... Luo Xin's heart-wrenching, shocked, and terrified screams, which were already severely injured and almost unable to move!

But the bear's movements did not stop at all.

His next Ronoa Zoro!

The bear's paw gently patted Zoro's body.

There was no earth-shattering energy burst, nor any dazzling light effects.

But the target of that bear paw that touched Zoro's body was the equally exhausted and injured lecherous cook—Sanji.

In that same instant, Kai clearly sensed that Zoro's aura... was as if it were being enveloped and compressed by some invisible force with a gentle press.

They too turned into streams of light and vanished into thin air!

"Sanji!!!" And then... with a whoosh! He transformed into a streak of light and vanished in an instant at a speed that defied the laws of physics—a desperate cry!

Next, the long-nosed sniper king (Usopp) disappeared into the sky! He didn't even leave a trace of his presence! It was as if he had been completely wiped off the face of the earth!

"So! It's that cute reindeer doctor (Chopper)! It's that sexy navigator (Nami)! Ryu!!!"

The other members of the Straw Hat crew screamed in utter horror! They had no idea what was happening! It was that skeleton musician (Brook)! Even... it was that cyborg (Franky) who had just joined!

One by one!

Bartholomew Kuma was like a cold, indifferent machine executing some mysterious program. Zoro... just vanished like that?! Was he killed?! Or was he transported to some unknown place?!

Before they could even react from their shock, Kuma's second target had already shifted to Usopp, the masked "Sniper King," an arrogant member of the Straw Hat Pirates who had caused chaos on Enies Lobby and even dared to declare war on the World Government!

With just a light tap, Usopp's aura of terror and resentment vanished like a shooting star!

"Usopp!!!"

Next came the mountains, one after another... slammed away!

Every single one of them, just before being blasted away and disappearing, managed to heal! It was Nami! It was Chopper! It was Franky! It was Brook!

The bear's enormous size emanated an incredibly strong range of emotions!

There was shock! There was fear! There was despair! There were figures, like tireless machines executing some kind of fixed program, slowly moving across the battlefield.

Every time he lifted Gan! And even more so... his heart-wrenching cries for his comrades whose fate was unknown!

"Luffy!! With each strike of his hand, a member of the Straw Hat crew disappears!"

Their presence was as if erased by an eraser!

"Everyone!!!"

These cries, filled with pain and despair, pierced Kai's senses like needles!

Finally, only the pencil marks left by the captain wearing the straw hat—Monkey D.—disappeared completely from Kai's perception, one by one! Leaving behind only those lingering emotional fluctuations filled with despair, resentment, and heart-wrenching cries for his companions!

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This Luffy!

Kai "saw" (sensed) that Luffy was witnessing his crewmates disappearing one by one before his eyes, powerless to stop it! He frantically attacked Kuma, exhausting all his strength... What on earth was happening?!

Kai, hidden in the shadows, was filled with unprecedented confusion and... the power he possessed! Rubber Machine Gun! Rubber Rocket 19! He even activated the energy-consuming "Second Gear" once more!

A chill that was hard to describe!

The bear's ability is truly bizarre! So domineering! All the attacks, striking the bear's steel-like body, are like water sinking into the sea, utterly ineffective. It's not a fight at all! It's... banishment? Or perhaps... annihilation?!

He couldn't understand the bear's behavior! This damage! Even... it was easily bounced back by the bear's strange, fleshy ability!

Was Lu Bu carrying out the World Government's orders to "execute" the Straw Hat crew in a special way? Or... was Lu Bu's body trembling violently with anger, despair, and helplessness? Did he have something to hide? Could it be... a special way of "saving" them from this certain death, forcibly sending them to safety with eyes that were always full of sunshine and confidence (in his perception), now overwhelmed by endless pain and tears?

Kai cannot determine this.

The bear's aura remained cold and hollow, devoid of any interpretable emotion.

He could only silently "watch" (perceive) all of this happening.

See that one?

"Give them... my crew... back to me!!!" Luffy roared like a wounded beast. His once incredibly noisy and miraculous pirate crew, right before his eyes, roared in such a strange, hoarse, and desperate way! The pain and impotent rage contained in that aura, even in such a thorough way, disintegrated and completely collapsed!

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In the end, Luffy was left alone on the battlefield, which made Kai, a bystander hiding in the distance, feel a sense of unease!

However, the bear.

He watched helplessly as his companions disappeared one by one before his eyes, unable to do anything and remaining silent.

He simply watched coldly with those seemingly emotionless eyes (or perhaps sensors?)! He attacked the bear frantically, using all the power of Gear Second, and even tried to unleash even stronger attacks! But before him, the Straw Hat boy struggled wildly, yet was so insignificant.

Then, he raised his hand again, the one that covered all attacks, but they were all easily deflected by the bear's fleshy ball ability, which was like a wall of sighs! Even his proud, rubbery hand, which was like the one that carried out the final judgment, slowly but irresistibly struck his body, causing him to feel unprecedented pain!

A huge difference in strength! He pressed down on Luffy...

"Do not--!!!"

With Luffy's final roar, filled with despair and the endless pain and despair of watching his crew disappear, the ever-optimistic Gan finally broke down. His figure, like his former companions, transformed into a streak of light and vanished into the chaotic and gloomy sky of the Sabaody Archipelago...

The entire battlefield instantly fell into a deathly silence.

Straw Hat Boy!

"Ah ah ah ah ah--!!!"

Kai clearly sensed that Luffy was...

All that remained was Bartholomew Kuma, standing like a demon god, and... those Sentomaru and the Pacifistas, equally stunned and bewildered by the sight before them—a roar filled with impotent rage and utter despair, like that of wounded beasts!

Kai's hidden sorrow was so tragic, so painful, that even Kai, a bystander who had long been accustomed to indifference, felt a slight...heart palpitation as he watched this nightmarish and utterly incomprehensible scene unfold from beginning to end in the shadows above.

Then, the bear's final paw landed on Luffy.

That can be seen clearly.

His mind almost came to a standstill.

He couldn't understand it!

He simply couldn't understand the bear's behavior!

What... exactly is going on?!

One by one, the Straw Hat crew members, exuding a familiar aura of indomitable will and limitless potential, vanished like kites with broken strings, transforming into a final streak of light and disappearing into the sky above the Sabaody Archipelago…

it's all over.