Chapitre 223: 9th wave (part 4)

As the golden beam reached the heavens, piercing through the fog and clouds alike...

*CRUSH*

Mika's body smashed into the ground, causing an explosion and a crater five times larger than when Mary slapped her for hurting Blueberry.

...?

"What...? Why is she there...?!"

Shanks gasped looking at the dust settling from the crash site to his right.

Just a second ago Mika was right in the path of the beam, but now she was more than a few hundred feet away from the humongous titan-class monster shooting it...!

There was no logical explanation, even sophia has drawn blanks as for the reason of such occurrence.

"Arion, no!"

Still, the answer that the rat-faced man was looking for was right by him.

Just a few steps away, the brown-haired girl was embracing the swaying black wolf, that was getting skinnier and skinnier as the orange light was fading from his body.

"Skwee! (Brother Arion!)"