"Shatter, Kyōka Suigetsu."
As the sound reached Crocodile and Nico Robin's ears, both of them found that the images in their vision suddenly shattered.
Space is like a cracked mirror, with shocking cracks extending outwards.
Just like the sky that was forcibly shattered by Edward Newgate using the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
The next second.
Click
After the sound of shattering glass rang out, both Crocodile and Nico Robin found that the broken space in front of them was like a mirror that had been smashed to the ground, shattering into pieces.
Then.
The stone tablet recording the location of Hades, frozen in ice; the underground burial temple frozen in ice; even King Cobra beside him—all of this vanished in the instant space shattered.
It was as if it had never existed.
Immediately afterwards.
A desolate, boundless desert came into view of Crocodile and Nico Robin.
Besides that.
Two more figures clad in coats of justice appeared together as the space shattered and the environment changed.
The distance is not far, less than ten meters apart.
Even though the two of them were right beside him the whole time, neither Crocodile nor Nico Robin noticed.
"How is that possible?"
Faced with a series of sudden changes, even someone as shrewd as Crocodile was terrified and turned pale.
Not to mention Nico Robin.
Underground burial and sacrificial hall.
A stone tablet that records the main text of history.
King Cobra.
All three vanished like a dream or a bubble.
What's this?
Is it an illusion?
What about Rosen and Kuzan?
Is it also an illusion?
These successive changes led both the president and vice president of Baroque Works to begin to doubt whether what they were seeing was real or an illusion.
"Rosen."
"Kuzan."
Nico Robin glanced at Rosen, then at Kuzan, her pretty face shifting between expressions. She involuntarily took a step back, as if she were frightened.
"Calm down."
"Don't panic."
"Robin."
Kuzan noticed Nico Robin's changing expression and quickly tried to comfort her.
Despite eating the coldest Devil Fruit, he was once hailed as the most compassionate Marine Admiral before Rosen.
For Nico Robin.
The world regarded her as the son of a devil, but as a naval officer and a high-ranking admiral, he treated her like a daughter.
One of the reasons they chose to suppress the first half of the Grand Line instead of the New World was that staying in Paradise would allow them to legitimately approach and even see Nico Robin.
"rest assured."
What you are seeing now is real.
"I am real, Rosen is real, and everything here is real, not an illusion."
Kuzan could understand how terrifying the psychological impact Nico Robin was going through.
Even as a mere bystander, standing beside Rosen and witnessing everything, he felt a chill run down his spine and his body was terrified.
Yes.
As a user of the Ice-Ice Fruit, Kuzan had no idea what it meant to be cold. He only saw Rosen use the Kyōka Suigetsu ability once to manipulate Nico Robin and Crocodile at will, and he felt a chill run from his spine all the way to the top of his head.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed that a pirate of Crocodile's caliber could fall into an illusion and be unable to extricate himself.
First, he stood in front of the gates of the Arabasta Royal Palace, and then used the Sand-Sand Fruit's power to unleash a barrage of attacks on the air.
It was like fighting a group of unseen royal guards.
Then.
He was talking to himself in the air.
It's like having a conversation with the unseen Cobra and Vivi.
Immediately afterwards.
Guided by a Cobra that never existed, Crocodile left the capital Alubarna and arrived in the desert outside the capital.
Finally, despite standing in the desert, it felt as if she had entered a non-existent underground burial temple, where Nico Robin was tasked with deciphering a non-existent stone tablet.
This process.
Kuzan had a complete view of everything from beginning to end.
If he hadn't intervened to save Nico Robin from a life-or-death crisis, neither Crocodile nor Nico Robin would have noticed his presence.
What chilled Kuzan even more was that after he intervened, Crocodile couldn't find him by sight alone, but even after using Observation Haki, he still couldn't sense his presence.
Of course, there was also the scent of Rosen.
What does this tell us?
The Zanpakutō in Rosen's hand, named Kyōka Suigetsu, can completely control the five senses of a Shichibukai of Crocodile's caliber.
Even Observation Haki couldn't see through the illusion.
It controlled Crocodile's five senses.
It has mastered Crocodile's Observation Haki.
The King of the Desert became a complete prisoner of the Kyōka Suigetsu Blade.
"..."
Nico Robin did not speak.
Although she was a person who had experienced many storms, and with Kuzan's comforting explanation, the horror, shock, and a trace of barely concealed fear on her pretty face still did not subside.
Seeing that Nico Robin was still in shock, Kuzan couldn't do anything about it.
He knew that now all he could do was wait and see.
Only when Nico Robin calms down can she break free from the fear that has gripped her by illusions.
"What is real?"
"What illusion?"
"Rosen, what exactly is going on?"
Crocodile seemed to understand something after hearing Kuzan's words, but it was precisely because he understood that he found it hard to accept.
The mighty king of the desert was manipulated like a puppet.
No.
It's not even as good as a marionette.
"Didn't you already know that?"
"This is your world."
Crocodile.
Facing Crocodile's excited and angry gaze, Rosen returned the King of the Desert's indifferent chuckle.
"illusion?"
Crocodile's expression changed repeatedly upon hearing this.
Even though Rosen said that, and reason told him that what he was seeing was real, after personally experiencing the power of the illusory world, he still couldn't help but doubt that what he was seeing was an illusion.
at the same time.
He was also on high alert, ready to dodge and counterattack at any moment.
no way.
What the eyes see is false.
What you smell is fake.
What you hear is false.
What you touch with your body is also fake.
Even what you taste is fake.
That's fine.
The real terror is that what you perceive with Observation Haki is still an illusion.
Faced with this situation, even the Desert King, who had traversed the New World and fought against Douglas Bullet and Edward Newgate, felt an unprecedented terror and tremor.
"Yes."
"This is your world."
"What I'm doing now is simply giving it back to you."
Rosen looked at Crocodile, whose nerves were taut, his face wary, and whose eyes held a mixture of unease and trepidation, and then spoke in a calm that was chilling.
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