As Nitta Shinken finished speaking, Kuina instantly felt a chilling energy surge from his body. This energy was icy, piercing, eerie, and terrifying, as if it came from the deepest hell, making her shiver.
"It's ghost energy!". Kuina's face turned serious, her beautiful eyes fixed on Nitta Shinken in front of her.
Just before, during the fight between the Straw Hat Pirates and the Beasts Pirates, she had seen in the news that Zoro had used a mysterious power called ghost energy.
That strange and unpredictable energy, like a demon from hell appearing in the world, had greatly surprised and shocked her.
But now, Zoro's grandfather, Nitta Shinken, standing in front of her, was also releasing the same ghost energy. This surprising discovery made Kuina wonder: Could this ghost energy be a special skill unique to the Roronoa family?
Nitta Shinken's gaze was sharp like a knife, piercing straight into Kuina, as he said:
"My family... from eight hundred years ago until now, has had the sacred duty of guarding Pluto, always waiting for the moment Pluto appears. But now, the time is clearly not right. Girl, quickly tell me, where is Pluto?".
As he spoke, he suddenly swung his right hand, his samurai sword already drawn from its sheath, the cold light of the blade reflecting on his dignified face.
At this moment, Nitta Shinken was giving off an unmatched sense of pressure.
It was as if, if Kuina's answer did not satisfy him, in the next second, the sharp blade in his hand would mercilessly slash at Kuina!
Kuina was just about to speak when Nami gently patted her shoulder.
The next moment.
A portal suddenly opened in front of Kuina!
Seeing this, Nitta Shinken charged towards Kuina without hesitation, sword in hand, but Kuina had instantly entered the other dimension. The only sound in the Wano Country underground city was the crashing of seawater against the ancient city buildings.
"Damn it!".
Nitta Shinken was furious. He immediately turned and rushed towards the exit. He knew that Pluto must have been taken away by those two girls!
He had never thought.
That people from the Shimotsuki family would come to take Pluto.
This was against the ancestral teachings passed down in their Roronoa family for generations. Pluto must be found!
Otherwise, he could not explain it to the ancestors.
In the Ringo region, the calm air suddenly rippled, and then a mysterious portal appeared out of nowhere in mid-air.
With a slight energy surge, Kuina carefully carried Nami on her back and slowly walked out of the portal.
Originally, with Nami's powers, she could have opened the portal directly to a safe area outside Wano Country, but because she was now extremely weak, she could no longer support opening a portal over such a long distance.
At this moment, the ground beneath their feet was still shaking slightly, but compared to the intense shaking from before, the shaking now was much milder.
It seemed that this sudden earthquake-like shaking should soon completely stop.
"Nami, how are you feeling now?". Kuina turned her head to look at Nami on her back, her face full of worry, her voice full of concern and anxiety.
"I... I'm okay, Kuina, never mind me, let's go quickly! We absolutely can't let that scary old man catch up. If he finds us or attracts the attention of the other Beasts Pirates, then we'll have no way to escape!". Nami endured her physical discomfort and said in a weak but firm voice.
In fact, her condition was very bad.
Pluto's huge body was too big and heavy. When this super-giant warship entered her other dimension, every second it stayed, her strength was being used up at an unprecedented rate.
It felt like countless invisible hands were wildly drawing out the power within her, causing her great pain.
"Okay, I know!". Although Kuina was worried about Nami's safety, she knew that at this moment, they had to race against time to escape from the dangerous place of Wano Country as soon as possible.
So, she took a deep breath.
A cloud of fire instantly wrapped around them, and then quickly carried them into the high sky and flew towards the Calm Belt!
By the time Nitta Shinken came out of the underground city, he could no longer see any trace of Nami or Kuina.
"Could this... be the unexpected thing the word person spoke of? Well, the Roronoa family has done its best. Next, it depends on how these younger generations use the power of Pluto...". Nitta Shinken looked calm.
He seemed to have accepted his fate, and it made him feel a little better that Pluto was taken away by people from the Shimotsuki family.
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At this moment, the intensely shaking earth finally slowly calmed down, but the heart-stopping feeling of the tremor still seemed to remain in people's minds, lingering.
Until the last trace of the shaking completely disappeared, the people of Wano Country were still trembling involuntarily with horrified faces.
The sudden earthquake earlier was extremely terrifying, like the end of the world, making people feel that the entire Wano Country would be swallowed and completely destroyed by this violent force in the next second.
However, in this chaos and fear, a group of people quickly calmed down and noticed the abnormality of the situation.
Yamato, King, Queen, and the Flying Six, and other strong people, with their sharp observation skills, almost instantly realized that this earth-shattering earthquake was not a natural phenomenon, but originated from an unknown source deep underground.
Moreover, judging from the strong tremor, there must be a very large mysterious space hidden at the source.
Thinking of this, everyone's hearts tightened. If they could not find out the truth and control it as soon as possible, the consequences would be disastrous.
So, they made a decisive decision, immediately ordering all members of the Beasts Pirates to take action and search the entire Wano Country, especially around the Flower Capital, for possible passages leading underground.
For a time, a large number of pirates surged to all corners like a tide to conduct carpet-like searches.
Thanks to the advantage of using a lot of people, good news came soon - someone found a hidden passage at the foot of Mt. Fuji that seemed to lead to the underworld!
After receiving the news, Yamato and others did not dare to delay in the slightest, and quickly sped towards the target location...
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