Before the start of the war on top.

Maud advances two plane tickets to Bear.

This is his last-minute hole card to ensure that he can leave the battlefield as soon as he finishes his hunt.

But

Even if there is a reference to the original book, Maud is not 100% sure that Bear will be able to get Dr. Vegapunk to agree to set up such a conditionally triggered applet in his [processor] before it is completely transformed.

So, it's undoubtedly a hole card that needs to be taken a little bit of risk.

But there is no good thing in the world that is risk-free and high-return.

If you want to get high returns, you must take potential risks.

Until Maude voluntarily reveals the hole card, no one knows what he intends to do.

Even Vegapunk, who set up the action procedure for the bear, would never have imagined what effect these two tickets would have under what circumstances.

No one wants that.

So much so that Maude's thanks made the yellow ape confused.

Maud withdrew the shadow that had covered Law's body and turned her head to look at the striding bear.

Before paying for the plane ticket advance, Maud took a ray of shadow from the bear as a glimmer of life that would awaken the bear's consciousness in the future.

Before, I had more than enough heart but not enough strength.

Now, the star level of the Shadow Fruit's ability has broken through to eight and a half stars, and it may have the ability to awaken consciousness.

Maude's palm flipped over, and the shadow waves filled the air, quietly opening the shadow box and taking out a wisp of the bear's shadow.

As one of Maude's most painstaking skills that needs to be developed in depth, the Shadow Box was not actually used to store items, but to store shadows.

In other words, a portable prison that can stably imprison shadows.

Under this premise, as long as Maud stores some high-quality shadows in this shadow prison in advance, he can extract the shadows and use them at any time during the battle.

Shadows can be used as a one-time Shadow Gathering Place, or they can be used as stand-ins to defend against damage.

With this in mind, Maud eventually succeeded in developing this skill.

Embarrassingly, the space inside the shadow box is very limited, and at most only two or three three-dimensional shadows can be stored.

When the star level of the Shadow Fruit's ability breaks through to nine stars, this situation may be improved.

After taking out a wisp of the bear's shadow, Maude's mind moved.

however

I used this shadow as a medium to activate my abilities, but I didn't get any feedback.

"Eight and a half stars, still can't you......"

Maud sighed inwardly.

Activate the ability but there is no feedback.

This means that with his current ability, he still can't awaken the bear's personality.

"Is it necessary for the 'Nine Stars' to realize this idea?"

Maude's eyes condensed slightly, and with a clench of his palm, he put the bear's shadow back into the shadow box.

Since we can't do it now, we can only wait for the next opportunity.

The top priority at the moment is to get out of the battlefield.

Tom, tom—

The bear walked heavily and came to Maud and Law, and a red light flashed in his lens-like eyes.

"Death Surgeon, Trafalgar. Luo, the bounty is 228 million? Confirm the goal. ”

Sight behind the lenses? stared straight at Luo, who was panting.

Didi –

The bear opened its mouth, and from it gathered a light that was no different from the ability of the yellow ape.

Not far away.

The yellow ape who saw this scene? Touching his chin, he muttered to himself: "Hmm~~ Since it is cumbersome? Just be prepared to be left here~~ Bacardi. Maude~~"

This will, he has already determined that Luo has no spare strength to use the Surgical Fruit ability again? For Maude, nature is a burden that cannot be ignored.

Like now? A bear that has been completely transformed into a living weapon in the world? As soon as the enemy seeking mechanism is triggered, he immediately targets Luo.

Although Maude's act of breaking into the encirclement on his own initiative gave the yellow ape a lingering sense of weirdness.

But judging from the current situation, he didn't think that Maude, who had taken the initiative to abandon the identity of the Seven Martial Seas, would be able to retreat from this place.

Warring States, and even the elite of the surrounding navy? It's also a rough idea.

Whatever Maud wants to do next? Surrounded by their own mid-to-high-end combat power, it is enough to execute or capture Maud and Blackbeard Pirates on the spot.

Just when the surrounding navies felt that the big picture was over, they heard Maude say a strange word.

"Airplane ticket."

Maud spoke to the nearby bear, and said the key password that would trigger the action program.

Hearing Maude's words, the light that gathered in the bear's mouth? Suddenly, it melted away like spring snow.

Beep beep –

At the same time, the bear's lens eyes shimmer with red light? He slowly closed his mouth and slowly removed his gloves.

"Bear? The next time we meet, that's when I fulfill my 'promise'. ”

Maud watched the bear remove his gloves? Do you understand that the program implanted in the bear has been initiated? Immediately whispered to the bear.

What was promised? Maud will finish it anyway.

If you need to reach nine stars to awaken the bear's consciousness, then find a way to make the ability break through nine stars quickly.

At that point, it doesn't matter what happens to the bear in the future.

Up to heaven, down to earth, into the sea.

Maud also definitely wants to awaken the bear's consciousness.

Seeing the bear raise his right hand, Maude suddenly turned around and looked at the yellow ape and Sengoku.

The direction he was looking at was the lens of the image worm.

"Are you ready?"

Maude raised her right hand and clenched it into a fist.

Inexplicable words, inexplicable actions, made many navies such as the Warring States slightly stunned.

Maude smiled, and her gaze crossed over to the yellow ape and Sengoku and landed on the lens of the image worm.

Lafayette, you should be watching......

so

"Let's go to the top!!"

Modna's high-spirited voice spread throughout Marinfando in an instant, and also spread throughout the world through the radio function of the image worm.

At this moment,

The top powerhouses present such as Sengoku, Karp, Yellow Ape, Pheasant, Fuji Tiger, and Blackbeard all couldn't help but look at Maude, who was inexplicably full of convincing when he spoke.

"Thief haha......"

Blackbeard's laughter was rarely muffled.

Looking at Maude's gaze, he was dominated by killing intent.

Now or in the future.

He saw a huge obstacle that had to be overcome.

Sky.

The wind howled incessantly, and the black clouds rolled back and forth like a tidal wave.

A faint gaze fell straight down from the black clouds and looked at Maude, who was facing away from the bear and letting out a bold statement.

“D…… If it's yours, maybe you can do what you say......"

The whispering sound was so faint that it was inaudible, and it was instantly drowned out by the wind.

Whether it refers to going to the apex or rescuing the bear is unknown.

around the world.

The reporters who were staring intently at the screen looked at Maude in amazement.

"Go to the Apex ???"

"Why at such a time...... Say something like this......"

Countless eyes were fixed on Maude, who was about to be attacked by the bear, but turned around defenselessly.

Smack——!

And then

Then they heard a soft sound that was very meaningful.

Under the gaze of countless eyes,

As the bear's palm fell, Maude vanished into thin air.