Near the waters where magma was still erupting at Marine Headquarters.
On the sea surface, fiery red magma gushed out, solidifying into black rock upon contact with the seawater.
With the loss of Fujitora and Shiki's abilities, their previous foothold had sunk beneath the sea.
Crocodile used his Erosion Cycle ability to create a patch of sand on the solidified magma, allowing everyone to barely stand on it.
Bang!
Gin slamd his fist heavily onto the still-steaming rock, gritting his steel-like teeth, his eyes bloodshot.
"Damn it! Why am I still so useless! I can't help at all!"
Beside him, Doflamingo, Crocodile, Yamato, and Loki all wore expressions of sha.
"You're all Devil Fruit users, going down there would be pointless. Besides, the seawater has been boiled by the magma—few can withstand such scalding temperatures."
Benn Beckman said gravely.
Just monts before, Shanks had followed Roger, jumping into the sea below to search for the missing Caesar.
Of course, Gin and the others wanted to dive in too, but firstly, they were all Devil Fruit users,
and secondly, as Benn Beckman had pointed out.
The sea surface was still erupting with magma, bubbling with white steam.
The water temperature had long reached boiling point.
The severe burns covering Gin and Doflamingo's bodies showed what they had just attempted.
Benn Beckman looked at their skin, red like boiled shrimp, and felt a chill run down his spine.
"These two are truly reckless, injured as they are, yet they still dared to jump into the sea to search for their boss."
Loki clenched his massive fist, looking up at the sky.
"Shiki hasn't returned either. That huge fireball earlier must have been Uranus crashing, right? Shiki, he..."
Upon hearing Loki's words, the remaining mbers of the Beast God Pirates all wore pained expressions.
Not far away, Momousagi stared blankly at the sky above, saying nothing.
...
Deep in the ocean, Roger enveloped his body with a layer of Armant Haki, darting through the water like a swimming dragon.
"Nothing, there's nothing! Caesar! Where exactly are you? Could you really be dead?"
Roger furrowed his brow, continuously using his ability to Listen to the Voices of All Things in an attempt to locate Caesar.
However, due to the various catastrophic disasters that had ravaged this sea area, his ability had beco sowhat unreliable.
Even after Roger switched to Observation Haki and scanned the ocean over a dozen tis, he couldn't detect even a trace of Caesar's presence.
Not far away, a wave rapidly approached.
Roger focused his gaze and saw that it was Shanks, who had just separated to search elsewhere.
In Shanks' hand, he held the unconscious Kaido.
When Shanks looked toward him, Roger shook his head and pointed upward.
"Let's go up first."
Shanks seed to sigh.
The two imdiately ascended rapidly with Kaido.
On the sea surface, the anxiously waiting crowd suddenly saw bubbles rising from the water and excitedly turned their attention toward them.
Gin and Doflamingo quickly stood up and walked to the edge of the rocks.
Soon, a shadow erged from beneath the surface as Shanks and Roger surfaced, gasping for air.
Doflamingo quickly shot out several strings and pulled them out of the water.
When they saw Kaido being dragged by Shanks but no sign of Caesar, Gin and the others' faces instantly turned pale.
Roger sighed.
"Sorry, we couldn't find Caesar. Two possibilities: one, he's drifted away to who knows where. Two... he's dead, his presence has vanished."
After speaking, Roger looked up at the sky with a sowhat desolate expression.
"Shiki and Fujitora's presences have disappeared too..."
With a thud, Momousagi weakly knelt on the ground, lowering her head and sobbing.
Gin and Doflamingo's faces twitched, their bloodshot eyes streaming with hot tears down their cheeks.
Gin hoarsely said, "Don't lose hope! Boss will be fine! If that bastard Roger didn't get killed by Imu, how could sothing happen to our boss?"
Roger: "?"
"Watch out! Sothing big is falling from the sky! It looks like... an island!"
Yasopp held his long rifle while looking up at the sky.
"It's the islands that Boss Shiki floated with his ability. Without his Float-Float Fruit supporting them, those sky islands will fall."
Doflamingo's eyes revealed dejection.
Yamato looked at Kaido, who remained in pain and worry even while unconscious, her heart aching intensely.
Her mind involuntarily recalled Caesar's invincible figure.
"Uncle, could he really be..."
...
In a deep corner of the ocean floor, a skeleton with a pierced skull lay quietly on the seabed.
Despite the powerful underwater currents at ten thousand ters depth, the skeleton remained completely motionless, as if weighing thousands of tons.
Through the pierced skull, a faint white light could be seen pulsating within.
The light spilled out from the finger-sized hole, flowing toward the skeleton's entire body.
A rushing sound of dense water approached as a snow-white wave appeared in the distant water, rapidly parting.
In the blink of an eye, a pink figure rushed close to the skeleton.
"Husband!"
Shirahoshi radiated an unfamiliar aura, its intensity no weaker than that of an admiral.
The colossal whale soul hidden within her completely revived due to Caesar's sudden silence.
Perhaps because too much ti had passed, the ancient great whale's consciousness dissipated as soon as it awakened, leaving behind vast soul energy that perfectly rged with Shirahoshi.
And when Shirahoshi's soul beca imnsely powerful, she imdiately sensed Caesar's location.
Even though Caesar had fallen into a peculiar state at that mont.
Thus, Shirahoshi leaped directly from the ten-thousand-ter high sky island!
Hiyori, who was standing beside her at the ti, fainted from fright.
When Indigo and Queen heard the news, they were terrified out of their wits and hurriedly inford Katakuri.
Only after learning from Katakuri that Shirahoshi was still alive did they breathe a sigh of relief and collapse to the ground.
Katakuri, who had just returned to Tottoland, quickly gathered several large ships and rushed back toward this sea area.
In the deep sea, Shirahoshi sorrowfully embraced Caesar's skeletal body, tears continuously streaming from her eyes.
She cried for a long ti. Through her tear-blurred vision, she suddenly noticed white light continuously erging from the skull.
The white light was soaking and enveloping Caesar's entire body.
As the white light spread across all the bones, an astonishing transformation occurred.
Flesh grew upon the bones, ridians and blood vessels extended.
Organs, tendons, and skin rapidly ford and grew.
In just a few short minutes, the originally tall skeleton transford into a burly, imposing man.
Under Shirahoshi's joyful gaze, the man's eyelids twitched and slowly opened.
"Shirahoshi..."
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